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

Bump

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 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

So ?

Paul Jr

There is currently no news on the release of Sophos XG 17.5.3.

Last info from Sophos was 10th February 2019.

Maybe someone at Sophos could give some news on it.

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,

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,

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

But it did finish in the end?

Mmh... I better not test and wait for additional feedback from others who have test appliances.

Hi,

yes, it did finish and is back online. Also the wifi upgraded. I cannot see any additional tabs in the wifi to go along with the added APX features. Possibly because I don't have an APX device.

Ian

Thanks Ian.

Can anybody tell if the update also addresses the slow WiFi performance? I know there is a workaround through CLI but I'd like to see this addressed by an update.

Hello

upgrade tested and ok on a xg105 and virtual.

Major issue since 17.5 about the impossiblitie to restore a backup is still not resolved...

This is a shame to release a product without being able to backup/restore a configuration !

For what it’s worth, I too have installed it on 210 and 105 hardware appliances.

Flawlessly.

Backups before and after, both local and via emails were also done flawlessly. In minutes.  

But I believe this update was that quick because it did not have to play much with local database and had not much conversion to perform from 17.5.x

Paul Jr

It took forever to upgrade on my XG home setup, but did eventually complete and come back up on its own.  I'd say it took between 10-15 minutes which is very unusual, but it does seem to be working ok so far. 

Hi Bill,

I was thinking about this after I restarted and posted my result that I might not have waited long enough.

Tank you for the explanation.

Ian