What's New in R80.30 EA - 3.10 Kernel

HeikoAnkenbrand — Sun, 05 May 2019 19:37:25 GMT

Improved firewall resiliency.
Support for IPv6 (Resolving a R80.20 3.10 http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk141173 limitation).
Clustering and VSX capabilities:
- Unicast support for Cluster Control Protocol eliminating the need for CCP using Broadcast or Multicast modes).
- MAC magic configuration is no longer needed.
New kernel capabilities:
- Upgraded Linux kernel
- New partitioning system (gpt):
  - Supports more than 2TB physical/logical drives
- Faster file system (xfs)
- Supporting larger system storage (up to 48TB tested)
- I/O related performance improvements
- Multi-Queue:
  - Full Gaia Clish support for Multi-Queue commands
  - Automatic "on by default" configuration
- SMB v2/3 mount support in Mobile Access blade
- Added NFSv4 (client) support (NFS v4.2 is the default NFS version used)
- Support of new system tools for debugging, monitoring and configuring the system:
  - iotop (provides I/O runtime stats)
  - lshw (provides detailed information about all HW)
  - lsusb (provides information about all devices connected to USB)
  - lsscsi (provides information about storage)
  - ps (new version, more counters)
  - psmisc (new version, more counters)
  - top (new version, more counters)
  - iostat (new version, more counters
- New glibc: glibc-2.17-157
- New ethtool: ethtool-4.8-7
- New Bash: bash-4.2.46-29
- lbzip2 support (free, multi-threaded compression utility)
- xz support•rsync support

R80.30 EA - 3.10 kernel release supports only these open servers and 23900 appliance:

Release notes for this R80.30 - 3.10 kernel EA program are available here: readme

Re: What's New in R80.30 EA - 3.10 Kernel

Richard_Quignon — Sun, 05 May 2019 20:11:03 GMT

is ClusterXL CCP encryption also included?

Samuel_Rufai — Sun, 05 May 2019 20:18:54 GMT

Nice, now are HP DL 360/380 G9 server supported!