Future of v17 and v18

Hey tom greene 

Make sure to keep an eye out on our Release Notes & News and Sub-groups for new updates and upcoming betas for future releases.

I'll also tag AlanT and talex in case they wanted to chime in with any further information.

Regards,

FloSupport | Sophos Community Engineer

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It's just my opinion, but i think once they release v18 the development of new features will be quicker. But of course they first need to release v18. I hope it will be really soon... 

Hello TheBalmasque,

what's up to you, really soon, this autumn?

Regards

alda

The game may balanced with UTM in 2020 (I'm forced now to doubt it).  But Sophos is loosing ground compared to the competition.

The "Unified" principle is being catch-up by everyone in the industry.  On-Premise "Unified" is being killed by everyone in the industry and will soon mean "in the cloud" almost most certainly. Hybrid or not ... May we like it or not.

Just look at Symantec Endpoint Protection in the cloud ...

2020 will be too little too late.

PJR.

Hi,

in another thread i read it is currently scheduled for H2 2019: 

community.sophos.com/.../sluggish-ui-performance

The cloud is fantastic if you have large bandwidth and big budget, just think of all the small businesses with low speed links. You still need some protection for your link to the cloud from your office/home.

Ian

Hello TheBalmasque,

I think it corresponds to what I wrote, I think the autumn of this year is H2 2019, or am I wrong? I think we all have an experience with the published (predicted) terms that Sophos publishes. In my opinion autumn this year a very optimistic term. If I remember well, the v17.5 MR1 that should allow APX access points was scheduled for mid-December last year. And now is the end of January and support for APX in XG still is not available, right? It is planned for next week, but maybe could be delayed for a week ...

At the latest in two months we will know who was right. The first milestone is planned at the end of March, so we will see ....

Regards

alda

MR-1 was not supposed to be released, it was an in-house fix, we were to get MR-2 with APX. I have no idea what has gone wrong?

Ian

FloSupport mentioned MR1 to be released in december as far as I can remember.

But MR1 seems to have an issue with HA so I have to wait for MR3 where it is supposed to be fixed. So nothing has changed at all - one fix, one new issue.

The issue with HA is only affecting Sophos XG Management through Sophos Central.
This issue is also present in Sophos XG 17.5 GA.

The problem is, that with this issue a Sophos XG 17.5 GA or 17.5 MR-1 can't be managed through Sophos Central.
It isn't affecting anything else in HA Setup.

Also Sophos XG 17.5 MR-3 is scheduled for 10th Feburary 2019.
So you might want to wait for that. :)

Hi Ian,

My apologies regarding this delay.

Our team has recently published this KBA to provide more information regarding APX and Sophos XG Firewall compatibility.

• Note: The functionality for APX wireless access point on XG is available from XG Firewall (SFOS) version 17.5 MR3.

Hope that helps! Please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly if you had any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Hi Ian,

My apologies regarding this delay.

Our team has recently published this KBA to provide more information regarding APX and Sophos XG Firewall compatibility.

• Note: The functionality for APX wireless access point on XG is available from XG Firewall (SFOS) version 17.5 MR3.

Hope that helps! Please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly if you had any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Hi Flo,

I hope you had a good weekend off all fired and ready to join the fray again?

MR-3 has it been released?

Ian

Unless one runs APX access point, that particular update is next to useless.

I would not certainly not rush to get APX wireless with Sophos XG either.

Paul Jr

I like the sense of excitement, I might find a hidden jewel. LOL

Ian

At the pace things goes, I will most probably get "exited".  I have a year left on subscription and as usual, in 6 month I will take a decision.  V18 won't be there.  I am not enthusiast at moving things on another platform, considering moving into XG was the most painful in my life, but what I see here just don't work.

When they engaged into wrapping many open source products and integrate them into an interface package called XG, the idea was nothing short of excitements.  "All-in-One" dream like we say.

However, the implementation that was once first and unique is being was doubled by other actors in the industry.  Seriously.  Much like the story featuring actors like a turtles and rabbits.

Don't get me wrong, APX is a welcome addition, but I welcomed that addition in written here more than a year ago.

XG is trailing behind just too much.  The level of knowledge required to make XG work properly is such that one might wrap all those package himself.  XG being just a GUI in fact.  

It is only my opinion however.  Everybody else is welcome to be more optimist.

Paul Jr

Hey Ian,

MR-3 hasn't been released yet, I've reached out to our product team to request for another update.

Thanks for everyone's patience regarding this highly anticipated release.

Regards,

Also, as a reminder:

MR1 – Was for Central Management EAP Fixes.

MR3 – APX and Airgap Support – February 10. Well it's delayed for now.

MR4 – Backup Features.  Encrypted Backups and Backup Management from Sophos Central - March  That is two weeks from now.  That was no priority.

My list, which is pretty basic requirements :

Logs are still helpless. 

Would be nice we had something that compares to Checkpoint ...

Some shy improvements in v17.5.

The best would be a direct link with WireShark while logs becomes acceptable in a future version.

STAS needs a complete remelting. 

Why not having A SINGLE CLIENT FOR ALL SOPHOS PRODUCTS AND APPLIANCES ?

Instead of going tru all those ports, registry keys, et.c. non-sense setups ?

XG as an NTP is a basic requirement.  Should have been done long ago.

Full features DHCP.

At least we could point desktops to 2 or 3 trustable NTPs.

Pooled NTP web sites is such a non sens to me.

2017 and 2018 were dedicated to bug fixes and stability almost exclusively.  Seems to me the real improvement this year was the MTA.

None of this is on Sophos' radar.

Paul Jr

Thank you for the reminder, I just broke my NTP setup and need to fixit.

Ian

It's been released - check the licensing portal, I've just downloaded and installed on a test environment.

Not found in the XG update process.

I will check the portal.

Thank you

Ian

I know I did say I liked excitement, but not that much. The upgrade caused my machine to go off line and not complete the upgrade. Required a restart and long time over 5 minutes to finish.

Ian