Installed UTM Update 9.709 manually in five differenet locations now, all sizes of networks and systems.
Running several days now and no problems so far.
Link: https://community.sophos.com/utm-firewall/b/blog/posts/utm-up2date-9-709-released
The problem with the pattern number incrementing has been identified and is being resolved.
This issue is completely cosmetic and has not had any impact on the continued download and updating of the various pattern sets.
The pattern number displayed on the WebAdmin screen is usually incremented each time we publish an update to any of the individual up2date pattern sets. It's part of the update, but it is only used for display. The version number of each pattern set is used to check whether any actual updates are required.
We have identified the cause and corrected it. It was related to some recent changes in the hosting infrastructure for our up2date publishing services.
You should see the pattern number start to increment again later today.
