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HeikoAnkenbrand
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R77.30 - Support until May 2019

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

➜ CCSM Elite, CCME, CCTE
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Leandro_Nicolet
Contributor

I also agree it should be extended a little. I've worked with Checkpoint deployments since 99 and have found R77.30 one of the most stable. I work for a well known bank and after the fiasco we had with R75 causing major outages several years back, R77.30 was a breath of fresh air. We have recently moved our management to R80.10, but all our core VSX gateways are still running R77.30. We will be upgrading them over the coming months, but I have say we are doing this reluctantly after having several years of stability.

Kaspars_Zibarts
Employee Employee
Employee

Leandro Nicoletti   then considering VSX you will love the CPUSE upgrades that run like a dream and 64bit VSes Smiley Happy we've been running it for over a year now. As good as R77.30 and better - less restrictions with SXL regarding domain objects, time objects etc.:) 

Leandro_Nicolet
Contributor

Glad you've had a good experience with it. Its makes me feel better especially as our whole infrastructure is based on VSX.

Jason_Dance
Collaborator

In general I agree with you.  Sometimes the development cycle takes time to catch up with fixing a bug, and having the bug in a production network is not very tolerable by the users affected.`

Vladimir
Champion
Champion

There is an issue with hardware requirements vs. deployed fleet of appliances.

I know of quite a few instances when my clients were quoted and sold (not by me), management units in a year prior to R80 release that are not capable of running it, but are fine with R77.30.

So long as there are Smart-1s not powerful enough to handle all the blades sold with them on R80.XX, R77.30 EOS/EOL should have corresponding horizons.

PhoneBoy
Admin
Admin

One way you can get access to R80.x code on Scalable Platforms sooner is be part of the Production EA program for R80.20.

We are still looking for sites.

If you're interested, let me know.

Timothy_Hall
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Champion

Considering how much Check Point was "biting off" feature wise, R80.10 was nothing short of an astounding release and I wholeheartedly recommend it.  I was initially worried that with the large amount of new R80.10 gateway kernel code there could be stability issues, but those fears turned out to be completely unfounded.  But even for sites that have transitioned to R80.10 management, there is still a quite sizable contingent of R77.30 gateways out there in production.

Perhaps a compromise is in order: Support for R77.30 SMS Management (with its numerous single-threaded performance limitations) ends in May 2019 as scheduled, but support for R77.30 gateway continues for 12 more months beyond that date, but only under R80.10+ (not R80) management.  This would give organizations a chance to migrate management first which does entail a large increase in system requirements as far as cores and memory for the SMS, and will probably involve a new SMS purchase. Once organizations have completed that SMS transition by May 2019, they can start upgrading their gateways to R80.10+.   Thoughts?

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aner_sagi
Contributor

I agree with Tim .

Jason_Dance
Collaborator

Agree.

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PhoneBoy
Admin
Admin

We have, in the past anyway, done support extensions on a case-by-case basis.

I recommend working with your local Check Point office sooner rather than later.

Benny_Shlesinge
Employee Alumnus
Employee Alumnus

Glad to say this is aligned with feedback we are getting from other customers: R80.10 is solid and mature (we are almost 1.5 years since release),

We are evaluating the option to extend support for R77.30 in order to allow more time for migration to R80.10.

It is an interesting approach to extend it only for GW side. Thanks!

Benny.

HeikoAnkenbrand
Champion Champion
Champion

May 2019 comes nearerSmiley Happy.

Regards,

Heiko

➜ CCSM Elite, CCME, CCTE
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Ofir_Shikolski
Employee
Employee

CDT accelerates the upgrade process  

Iain_Keir1
Contributor

It should be noted that the EOS date for R77.30 is now September 2019 Smiley Happy

Support Life Cycle Policy | Check Point Software 

Iain
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JozkoMrkvicka
Mentor
Mentor

Was already mentioned in linked vote:

 

Kind regards,
Jozko Mrkvicka

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