Future of v17 and v18

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,

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

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