Hello Sophos,
can we still expect the XG V18 MR 3 this week ?
[locked by: FloSupport at 4:35 PM (GMT -7) on 13 Oct 2020]
Hello Sophos,
can we still expect the XG V18 MR 3 this week ?
Update: SFOS v18 MR3 has been released
Please see - https://community.sophos.com/xg-firewall/b/blog/posts/xg-firewall-v18-mr3
Hi All,
Here's the latest update:
As with any release for XG Firewall, ensuring high quality and a great customer experience is our top priority with MR3. For this reason, we generally do not make timing commitments for Maintenance Releases and only publish them once they meet our high quality standards. MR3 is a substantial release, integrating a number of security and performance enhancements as well as a significant number of fixes. We know there is high anticipation amongst partners and customers for many of these enhancements and are working as fast as possible to get it into their hands. We expect to release it next week but as mentioned, quality is our top priority and that will determine the release timing.
Boots on UEFI but installed MBR so cannot boot Sophos on UEFI platform. Ghetto workaround us use Ubuntu to build he EFI boot files community.sophos.com/.../uefi-boot-xg-firewall-18-0-ga-build379
Same problem is on v18 MR-1-Build396, after fresh install is EFI partition empty.
I tried to install a new grub from Ubuntu Live 20.04, but ending with error "kernel doesn`t support EFI handover". The problem was a new grub on Ubuntu. After installing the EFI loader from Ubuntu18.04 it already works fine.
Solution:
1) Install SFOS
2) Boot from USB Flash Ubuntu Live 18.04
3) Open terminal and write:
sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64-bin
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /boot
sudo mkdir /boot/efi
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /boot/efi
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi/
That seems to be the Sophos MO, over-promise and under-deliver. I think they confused the two, but I've been watching this since v16 now and it is always the same.
Hi All,
As some of you may have seen, unfortunately the work-in-progress release post for MR3 was accidentally published in error. The post has since been removed. Note that the information contained in the post may be incorrect as the team is still actively working on the release.
SFOS v18 MR3 is still expected to be launched next week, so please stay tuned.
Reminds me of that old joke about the most common day diets are started being "tomorrow."