topic Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019 in General Topics

R77.30 - Support until May 2019

HeikoAnkenbrand — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:20:59 GMT

Just a few more months and R77.30 is a thing of the past.

You can find more here:

Support Life Cycle Policy | Check Point Software

Here the vote from Danny Jung to support extention:

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Maik — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:42:11 GMT

I am still kind of curious when R80 will be released for the scaleable platform devices - seems R76.50 is supported until April 2021 for these appliances.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

aner_sagi — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:15:54 GMT

Checkpoint should consider extending the support to another year. My impression is that r80.10 gateway is not implemented for majority of customers and many bugs not yet discovered.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

HeikoAnkenbrand — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:36:20 GMT

I've already had a few migrations to R80.10. I actually don't find that problematic. If there are new hotfixes Take_121 or ongoing takeTake_142 on it, it works very well.

Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for R80.10 (R80_10_jumbo_hf)

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Yuri_Slobodyany — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:40:11 GMT

I'll agree with aner sagi in that Checkpoint should be more flexible with their EOS/EOL schedule to reflect the situation in the field.

Some versions were so problematic (R75 which was understandable for the painful transition to Gaia), that they should have been retired much sooner than the set period. Yet other versions, like R77.30, should have a chance of longer support period because the situation in the Enterprises currently is such :

80-90% of the firewalls in Ent LANs/perimeter are non R80 (mostly R77.30) with no immediate plans to upgrade
Major (only?) driving force to upgrade I see is purchasing the new UTMs which come pre-installed with R80
"Problem" of the R77.30 is that it is exceptionally good and stable firewall, and firewalls are not upgraded on 'Windows Tuesdays', therefore even if R80 is all good and fancy, it is not enough of a reason for clients to upgrade otherwise fully functioning firewall.
The bottom line is that R77.30 is going for sure outlive the set support end date, including large account clients which will not take for an answer "Sorry, not supported anymore, go upgrade" and extending support officially would make life of Checkpoint Support and R&D/Partners/VARs easier in my opinion.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Kaspars_Zibarts — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:59:12 GMT

I can agree that R77.30 was a solid and reliable release. For one reason or another we upgraded whole network to R80.10 nearly a year ago. That includes multi domain management, regular firewalls and VSX and I would not look back. R80.10 has been equally solid for such a major change and brought some gems with it - API support, 64 bit VS support, FQDN objects, much more consistent GUI. I really can't wait to upgrade chassis too to get away from the "old" R76 code. As Heiko mentioned, with the latest ongoing jumbo it's as good as R77.30!

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

AlekseiShelepov — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:03:36 GMT

What do you plan to do when R80.20 will be released? As I understand, the only way to have new file system (xfs) is a clean install. This mostly applies for management servers.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

zsh — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:50:55 GMT

I've been hearing "soon, any month not, before Q4" etc and that was since CPX in Nice 2.5 years ago...........:s

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Kaspars_Zibarts — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:27:08 GMT

Ah, R80.20 we will wait for a while as this year we have no pressure to rush into it last year upgrades were partially driven to deliver extra capacity on VSX / 64bit VS, more concurrent connections

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

JozkoMrkvicka — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:07:52 GMT

Waiting till R80.30 ....

... or till API can finally support cluster manipulation.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Dorit_Dor — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 06:22:53 GMT

We do support advanced upgrade.

A large customer is doing it now as we speak – migrating to 3.10 XFS.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Danny — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 06:45:12 GMT

This is great news. Thanks Dorit.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:05:42 GMT

Hi Dorit,

will it be a new installation where the GAIA config is taken over or are you working with a new partition with XFS? When changing from ext to XFS it is only possible to create a new partition and copy the files. I'm just thinking about the disk space! Could cause problems if the customer has a no free partitions space for XFS.

Can you give us more detailed information here yet?

Regards

Heiko

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Ole_Jakobsen — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:00:25 GMT

I have also upgraded to R80.10 the majority of places I work. For me we have had fewer problems than with R77.30. The upgrades include gateways, VSX, CloudGuard Iaas, management server, MDM and MLM.

I'm looking forward to R80.20 where all controller hotfixes and EndPoint mgmt is intergrated.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:22:32 GMT

I am waiting for the following version

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Gera_Dorfman — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:12:05 GMT

Hi Heiko,

It will be a completely new installation with new partition table and all partitions formatted with XFS. It's not possible to create a new partition only since we're also using GPT now instead of MBR.

Gera

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:52:10 GMT

Hi Gera,

THX, for this information.

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Jason_Dance — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:19:00 GMT

Will R80.20 be released and enough takes available for stable operation before May 2019? We're running R77.30.03 for endpoint management, and deprecating R77.30 kinda pulls the support rug out from under this configuration.

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Sal_Previtera — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:46:07 GMT

R77.30 is stable enough, why mess up with a good thing....are you guys taken lesson from Ms.

What about small appliances running R77.20.xx before forcing everyone to R80.xx.....

Someone, Please explain changes ( if any) in Licensing schemes from R77.30 to R80.xx...

Re: R77.30 - Support until May 2019

Dorit_Dor — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:50:14 GMT

R80.20 first take (m1) was released. Soon comes r80.20 ga (already in release candidate, so if you want to join latest build, last chance to join the EA program and enjoy r&d escorted deployment)... from that point we will start Jumbo hot fixes like we have on R80.10...

Management wise, R80.20 is minor release to begin with, so it should be good immediately. Given that we have over 6 months to May, you shouldnt have any challenges.

Dorit