R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take #53 has been released today

[gadt]

Hi All

R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take #53 has been released today, and is available for download.

Please note the following:

•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via Jumbo documentation R81.20 

o   Available for download via CPUSE by using package identifier.

o   Can be provided by customer support

Content included in this take:

• List of resolved issues in this take can be found in the Jumbo documentation R81.20 

Note:

• Central Deployment allows you to perform a batch deployment of Hotfixes on your Security Gateways and clusters from SmartConsole!! For more information, see sk168597.

Thanks,

Release Operations Group

[the_rock]

Just installed it in my Azure lab, will report tomorrow if any issues.

Best,

Andy

[D_TK]

Any ETA as to when a JHA is going to be blessed as "recommended" - it's been four months since 41 was released and three months since it was blessed as recommended.

thanks

[MatanYanay]

Hi @D_TK 

We are aware it has been a long time since our last recommended jumbo, unfortunately, we had some stability issues with Take 43 and 45 that prevented us from moving one of these takes to be recommended.   

The new take we released today (53) contains several critical fixes that we hope will solve the stability issues  ( the known critical issues can be found in our jumbo important note section) 

We will track this take closely (as we are doing with each take we released)  to make sure it meets our criteria to be recommended.

I hope in the next 2-3 weeks if all is ok with the take, we will be able to declare it as recommended 

Thanks 

Matan.

[the_rock]

Thats great news @MatanYanay 

[the_rock]

Just checked, all still fine after jumbo install in the lab yesterday.

Best,

Andy

[majkel]

Hi,

Is take 53 still stable and with no other known issues ?

[MatanYanay]

Hi @majkel 

Take 53 looks good until now, we hope the take will be recommended soon

Thanks 

Matan.

[the_rock]

I installed it in the lab the day it came out and so far, no issues.

Andy

[majkel]

Alright, any info how many customers are running take 53 ? 
I wouldnt trust it based on running ok in cloud, compared to appliance.

[the_rock]

I dont know any that does, but maybe someone else can chime in and confirm.

Andy

[MatanYanay]

Hi @majkel 

Please note we have KPIs to measure if the take can be recommended or not, one of them is the install base (and we have a very good install base on take 53  )

As I wrote, take 53 targets to be recommended in the next few days 🙂

Thanks 

Matan.

[majkel]

@MatanYanay 

Thanks a lot for the info!

[Arskazv]

Seems already to be recommended.

Maybe it's time to upgrade to version R81.20 now (?)

[the_rock]

It is, right. I really like this jumbo so far, seems super stable.

Andy

[majkel]

Take 53

Released on 17 March 2024 and moved to Recommended on 3 April 2024

[the_rock]

I will just quickly share experience from lab cluster update to jumbo 53, though Im 99.99% sure this was NOT due to jumbo at all.

fw01 - master

fw02- backup

Updated jumbo on fw02, rebooted, did same on master-rebooted. All fine, tried policy install, failing on master due to below, though Internet connectivity worked and SIC was fine

Checked  monitor tool, shows ips error, ended up rebooting that fw, all fine now.

Best,

Andy

[EY]

Quite disappointing that this is still a recommeded Take with sk182112 still looming out there.

[the_rock]

Lots of fixes in take 54.