topic Re: R80.20 is now GA? in General Topics

R80.20 is now GA?

HeikoAnkenbrand — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:19:26 GMT

Is this the GA version?

Check Point R80.20

Dameon or Valeri can you please say something about this?

Did I miss an announcement?

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:24:59 GMT

Yes you did miss it: https://community.checkpoint.com/message/28644-check-point-r8020-now-ga

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:52:35 GMT

Once more, the second question is also answered in the link I gave you above: Check Point R80.20 Now GA. Yes, it is GA. No it does not have the new kernel for the GW, hence two separate. upgrade packages.

Heiko Ankenbrand, may I ask, why did you create a document and not a discussion or question?

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

Danny — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:53:33 GMT

LOL!

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:55:43 GMT

Oh yes, we are having fun already. Now, wait till you guys come to Israel....

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:05:30 GMT

I have to laugh at myself. Whoever can read wins.

I did not read article Check Point R80.20 Now GA from Dameon .

Sorry - I spend a round of beer for us in Israel for that!

But it would have been nice if we had received a mail in advance as a Partner.

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:12:05 GMT

There is a reason you did not receive the mail. We want slow adoption till GW version with the new kernel is out as well.

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:22:33 GMT

A customer called me this morning and asked if he could upgrade to R80.20. I was confused until I read it in the KB.

So it would be nice if you would inform us partners before.

Now I've caused confusion for everyone and now I call the customer.

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:27:52 GMT

You are asking the wrong people, sir. From CheckMates perspective, we were all over the place with the announcement: CM, FB, LinkedIn and Twitter.

By the way, the answer for your customer is, it depends...

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

Ali_Korkmaz — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:08:51 GMT

I have to say, it was a surprise for me. I did not see any info on linkedin. But since I've been constantly browsing the support site, I've been aware before of the client.

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:23:36 GMT

I just gave it a try, but there are some obstacles:

- for CPUSE upgrade, you will need deployment agent 1567 (i have downloaded it from CPUSE page, unstuffed the .rpm and installed it by CLI)

- CPUSE upgrade worked very well, but i have two issues now:

- i can log in to both SMS and GW 80.20 usinf winscp/ssh

- i can login GAiA WebGUI on SMS

- i can not login to GW GAiA WebGUI

- the R80.20 dashboard first presents the fingerprint, tries to connect and stops with "Authentication to server failed."

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

PhoneBoy — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:48:56 GMT

Much beer will be had in Israel

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

_Val_ — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:53:55 GMT

it's a pity there is no option "correct answer" here. I blame Heiko Ankenbrand‌ for starting this as a document and not a discussion

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:01:41 GMT

I hope I can take a keg of beer on the plane.

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:06:09 GMT

Doesn't sound good.

I will also test the R80.20 GA in the LAB tonight. Günther I'll report tomorrow.

Regards,

Heiko

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

G_W_Albrecht — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:26:48 GMT

I will install fresh SMS tomorrow and migrate import the database, maybe that will be successfull...

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

Daniel_Collins — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:59:20 GMT

So this concerns me, as I'm confused about where we are in terms of support.

So we have a GA release of R80.20.. but with a different kernel version for the GW component;

- Is a standalone deployment supported at the moment?
- What kernel version will be used if so?

- How will Check Point bring the kernel version of the GW/All In One's in line with the manager?

- Will this be delivered through a jumbo hotfix like it has been in R77.30?

Apologies if I seem abrubt, we're still a bit frustrated we weren't notified about this as a partner - we have customer's waiting for the management features of R80.20, pure luck we noticed it.

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

PhoneBoy — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:37:29 GMT

A different installation ISO is provided for installing gateways, which also supports standalone installation.

This is done using the same (older) kernel we've had in past releases.

We are in EA testing of R80.20 Gateway with the newer kernel, which will support Standalone installs.

We are looking for sites willing to test this in production: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon‌

I assume we will provide this as something that can be installed with CPUSE (whether a jumbo hotfix, new version, etc).

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

Iain_King — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:08:17 GMT

yuck.

Re: R80.20 is now GA?

PhoneBoy — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 00:47:57 GMT

Version 1573 or later of the Deployment Agent should be used for a CPUSE upgrade, FYI.