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.
And upgraded one XG86 from same version without that prompt. 86 told me It's gonna upgrade just fine and it did.
Please read the release notes. MR3 is being released to MySophos first and then slow-rolled to the Up2Date servers and will then appear in the Webconsole. You have the choice of downloading and upgrading to MR3 from MySophos, or you can wait until it is released to you via the Up2Date process.
look in the sky the point is flying over your head mate - at the very least v18 should be the one the download points to. The whole point of the new ISO is I am try to see if they fixed the UEFI install mess. I imagine they didn't which would be par for the course and the workaround is install 17 and upgrade or install 18 and hack the EFI boot file with a 2 year old copy of Ubuntu.
The first phase is a Soft Release - As usual. You can download the .sig files. Those files are possible to upgrade. Without ISO. ISO´s are only for reimages / New installations.
Soft releases are quite usual to do. in fact Sophos did this in the past years.
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XG will not delete the user in this phase. It will simply authenticate this user in the next authentication phase. So if the user is removed from a group or inactive in AD, XG will try to talk to the AD. AD will tell XG the current status.
If the user is placed on XG, does not matter, as XG will not grant access without the matching group and the correct password.
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