Yes, you are right. Ill be using the UTM for a long time and XG since v15. The last 5 years was an hell ride for both products, this means instability with business impact and production loss multiple times. Sophos also speaks about releasing new features like lets encrypt and so on for XG. They also said "We will improve the stability of our beloved XG". The support is also an nightmare, when you have trouble with the devices. So you can feel the ice breath of the investor Thoma Bravo over the Sophos company and their products. And i am not alone with my opinion.
This all in sum makes me really sad.
In 2021 we have to renew our 13 XG and UTM clusters, but not with new Sophos Hardware and Licenses. We are switching over to better solutions with enterprise grade quality and support like Palo Alto, Fortigate and so on. XG is an good firewall for home use, because the home version is for free of charge.
Basically this discussion should continue after MR-3 is released, so having it in the MR-3 release thread will probably cause the thread to loose its focus. Please keep up the discussion and provide Sophos management errors where the XG is seen to fail for any level business.
Probably the worst failure from my point of view is the QA area, fixes in one version fail in the next version. How the DPI engine got past QA has to be a serious question for the QA manager?
QA in Sophos, really? I don't think anyone like that has ever existed for XG. Yes, for UTM v9 when it was still astaro and a few years later, yes the QA department did exist. But then I think it was canceled without compensation. It's just my feeling, but the quality of this "security product" would match that. And if I may have one more little observation. As long as the development of XG was driven by AlanT, v17.5 is at a significantly higher level than v18 in terms of quality, stability and reliability. However, if you look at the v18, whose development is driven by PMParth, then the quality in all the above areas is at a significantly worse level. Only a blind person would not notice the change ....
Hi, even with the help of Sophos engineers i am not able to upgrade from MR14 to MR14-1. MR14-1 ignores the current config and only takes the admin password to the new MR14-1 upgrade. All other settings (rules, NIC settings) are set to default values.
Will i be able to "try" a XG18 MR3 Upgrade from MR14 ?
To confirm, yes - the release for v18 MR3 has been unfortunately delayed and will not be released this week. Please stay tuned next week, as we'll continue to follow up with the development teams to share updates for the Community.
