🌈 Introducing Skyline - R82.20 🚀

[Elad_Chomsky]

Hey Skyline Community!

At Check Point, we’re committed to delivering a more stable, resilient, and future-ready experience.
To support that goal, Skyline future versions are now tied to specific Management Take (MT) releases—helping ensure consistency and reducing disruption from frequent independent updates.

We’re excited to announce Skyline R82.20.

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What’s New in Skyline R82.20?

Simplified Management
Skyline management is now centralized through the new sklnctl tool, making daily operations easier and more consistent.

• One unified interface for key Skyline operations
• Reduced dependency on scripts and external tools
• Integrated with GAiA API and clish (including basic export commands)

Increased Reliability
Skyline R82.20 introduces major architecture and service improvements for greater stability.

• Robust systemd-based service management
• Configuration based on unified GAiA configuration (replacing legacy confd)
• Improved infrastructure/services layer for help with data collection and custom scripts

Future-Ready Platform
Skyline is built to support next-generation operations and observability.

• Advanced metrics support
• AIOps integration for smarter monitoring and faster troubleshooting
• On MDS - New support for per-Domain metrics ( The I/S to enable so ). Similar to VSX. 

Migration

• From R82.20 onward, upgrades are part of the unified configuration model

If you are curios, and have questions - Contact [email protected]

 

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Why Upgrade to the new Skyline in R82.20?

• Unified control and simplified troubleshooting
• Prepared for upcoming innovations such as AIOps and MDS enhancements

What’s Next?

For a future release, we are evaluating/working toward a transition to a different OTLP based I/S to improve resource efficiency.

[Sven_Glock]

Hi Elad,

thanks for the update. It is good to know that there will come significant improvements!

For most production environments R82.20 is still a long way to go. Are there additionally any plans to improve stability of Skyline in older versions like R82 or R82.10 (which is still recommened major release)?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Sven

[Elad_Chomsky]

Hi @Sven_Glock ,

Thank you for your feedback.

Our roadmap is shaped by real-world input from customers like you. We continuously improve quality while minimizing disruption to your day-to-day operations. Most importantly, we understand that updates must never interrupt your workflow—especially during critical overnight hours.

To ensure stability, we evaluate each change individually:

• Major features that may impact daily operations are released in new major/minor train (MT) versions and go through an extended validation cycle.
• Smaller enhancements and bug fixes may be backported to earlier versions as part of AutoUpdater, when appropriate, so customers can benefit from improvements without waiting for a full upgrade cycle.

This approach helps us deliver innovation with the reliability and predictability your teams depend on.

Thanks, Elad