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Anyone heard any scuttlebutt about Sophos moving UTM to a newer kernel?

Pheckphul

I am wondering if anyone has heard anything about UTM moving to a newer kernel? The 3.12.x kernel series is EOL and it's support for modern hardware is a bit lacking. For proper support of Kaby Lake processors 4.10 (which is now EOL) or newer is required. Unless Sophos moves to a whole new distribution (Yes! Please!), I would expect them to soon be shipping an openSUSE Leap-based UTM, and I haven't seen anything pointing to openSUSE Leap's kernel being patched for Kaby Lake support.

 I wish the UTM 9.5 info on the website included details on the kernel being used.

Just wondering if anyone has any concrete info. I'm considering upgrading my firewall and I'd like to know where the hardware support is going with UTM.

 

Cheers!



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  • Unknown said:

    I wish the UTM 9.5 info on the website included details on the kernel being used.

     

    Well, I can answer this question. I installed a 9.5 VM and the kernel is very, very disappointingly 3.12.71. Not even the newest 3.12.x kernel.    :-(

     

    So much for Kaby Lake support....

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  • Unknown said:

    I wish the UTM 9.5 info on the website included details on the kernel being used.

     

    Well, I can answer this question. I installed a 9.5 VM and the kernel is very, very disappointingly 3.12.71. Not even the newest 3.12.x kernel.    :-(

     

    So much for Kaby Lake support....

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  • in reply to Pheckphul

    Sean, that's not how the developers do things.  In order to vet a new release, an enormous amount of testing and "hardening" would have to be done.  In general, new drivers go through the same processes and are added to the "old" version.  Are Kaby Lake processors supported yet?  I don't know.  For the same reason, concerns about vulnerabilities in older versions are not valid.

    Cheers - Bob