We can't tell you, because we don't know yet. As posted previously, this is the very beginning of the beta process. How long it takes is fully dependent on what bugs are found and the developer time to fix them. Q2 2013 is what we have now. We'd rather have a vague release schedule, than to be beholden to some arbitrary release date, so that we can give it the time necessary to put out a quality release.
When we know more, we'll let everyone know.
__________________ ACE v8/SCA v9.3
...still have a v5 install disk in a box somewhere.
Sophos could be a little more transparent about dates and roadmaps releases!
to further elaborate what Scott already said: during the beta, we roughly plan to release an update every two or three weeks. As usual, if there's something severely broken in the beta, we can and will do either another quick 'bugfix-release' or provide RPM packages to fix those issues. Just like we always did in the betas ;-)
I apologize if this is a silly question but if one is running the BETA and has a general question about how a feature is suppose to work, is the General Chatter the best place to ask?
While it's possible that the problem I'm having is a bug, it's also possible that is a misconfiguration or misunderstanding on my part.
Is Sophos Patch going to be added to endpoint protection?
A little disappointing about the lack of/ plan of full disk encryption.
Thinks like patch management, disk encryption, an endpoint firewall are things that are a must, specially if you have laptops. I Thought the UTM was getting the full EndUser protection not a striped down version.
Web Filtering Antivirus/ Malware Allow Content Removal
Is it possible to get the developers to split up
ActiveX
Java
Flash
with their own check box to remove embedded/disable
because sometime you just want to disable java and not the others
IFRAMES
If its not to much trouble could
iFrames also be put on that list with a check box of its own to remove embedded/disable/strip
because Iframes are frequently used by malware authors to spread their malicious programs/viruses
