Product Announcements

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New Features

• Support for Macs with M1 chip.
  • Rosetta 2 translator must be installed.
  • Media Encryption blade internally uses FUSE, which is a 3rd party kernel extension. Apple is gradually introducing new alternatives to kernel extensions but in macOS BigSur, Apple recognizes FUSE as a supported kernel extension type. On Apple M1, to allow FUSE (just like any other 3rd party kernel extensions), the Security Policy needs to be “Reduced Security”. A Managed Mac purchased via Apple business or school manager programs, does not require “Reduced Security”. See Change Startup Disk Security Settings and Deployment Reference in macOS.
• Firefox on MAC extension now supports the URL-Filtering capabilities. The admin can define URL categories to block and the users are blocked when they try to access URLs that belong to these categories.
• Anti-Malware now reduces the performance impact on the machine when the Mac is actively in use. As soon as the user touches the keyboard, mouse or trackpad, any scheduled scan runs at a reduced speed. 
• The Self-Protection feature prevents the deletion of Check Point files and the termination of Check Point processes by end-users. In this release, the self-protection feature is disabled by default. See sk171012 for more details.

Enhancements

• This release includes stability, quality and performance fixes.

Hi All

A new GA SmartConsole (Build #186) for R80.10 was released today (Replacing build #185) and is available for download.

For more info please refer to sk119612

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Release Operation Group

Hi All

A new Ongoing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take for R80.10 (take 290) was released today,  and is available for download. Please refer to sk116380

Please note the following:

•        The new release is mentioned in  sk116380
•        The new releases will be published via CPUSE as a recommended version once it will be published as GA.
•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via sk116380

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 issue in this take can be found in sk116380

Important Note!

R80 and R80.10 versions will reach their End Of Support on January 2022 (originally was May 2021). If you are using these versions (or lower), we strongly recommend you start planning your environment's upgrade. Please refer to the R80.40 Home page - our default version widely recommended for all deployments.

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Release Operation Group

Hi All

A new Ongoing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take for R81 (take 27) was released today, updating take 25, and is available for download. Please refer to sk170114

 Please note the following:

•        The new release is mentioned in  sk170114
•        The new releases will be published via CPUSE as a recommended version once it will be published as GA.
•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via sk170114

o   Available for download via CPUSE by using package identifier.

o   Can be provided by customer support

Content included in this take:

  PRJ-24974  - In environments that use Data Type Group objects, the Management server may fail to start after installing Jumbo Hotfix Take 23.

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Release Operation Group

Hi All

A new Ongoing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take for R80.30 (take 235) was released today,  and is available for download. Please refer to sk153152

Please note the following:

•        The new release is mentioned in  sk153152
•        The new releases will be published via CPUSE as a recommended version once it will be published as GA.
•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via sk153152

o   Available for download via CPUSE by using package identifier.

• Can be provided by customer support

Release highlight Fix:

In some scenarios, a Security gateway may crash after Take 232 installation due to Identity Awareness specific flow

Content included in this take:

• List of resolved issue in this take can be found in sk153152

Thanks ,

Release Operation Group

Hi All,

A new GA SmartConsole (Build #101) for R80.30 was released today  (Replacing build #100) and is available for download.

For more info please refer to sk153153.

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Release  Operation group

Hi All,

A new GA SmartConsole (Build #423) for R80.40 was released today (Replacing build #422) and is available for download.

For more info please refer to sk165473.

Thanks,

Release Operation group

Hi All

R80.40 Jumbo HF Take #102 is now our GA take (replacing take 94) and is available for download to all via CPUSE (as recommended) and via sk165456.

List of resolved issue in this take can be found in sk165456 .

Thanks,

Release Operation group

Hi All,

A new Ongoing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take for R80.40 (take 102) was released today,  and is available for download. Please refer to sk165456

 Please note the following:

•        The new release is mentioned in  sk165456
•        The new releases will be published via CPUSE as a recommended version once it will be published as GA.
•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via sk165456

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 issue in this take can be found in sk165456

Thanks ,

Release Management Group

Hi All,

R80.20 Jumbo HF Take #190 is now our GA take (replacing take 188) and is available for download to all via CPUSE (as recommended) and via sk137592.

Full list of resolved issues can be found in sk137592.

Thanks,

Release Management groups

Hi All

A new Ongoing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator take for R81 (take 25) was released today,  and is available for download. Please refer to sk170114

Please note the following:

•        The new release is mentioned in  sk170114
•        The new releases will be published via CPUSE as a recommended version once it will be published as GA.
•        Availability:

o   Available to download the via sk170114

o   Available for download via CPUSE by using package identifier.

o   Can be provided by customer support

Content included in this take:

• Important content/Fixes  in this take:
  • Added support for Smart-1 6000-L/XL appliances. 
  • Web SmartConsole is not available for customers who install Take 23 without having installed a Jumbo Hotfix before. The fix is included in Take 25. More details will be shared in this sk article soon.

• List of resolved issue in this take can be found in sk170114

Thanks ,

Release Operation Group

A new GA SmartConsole (Build #550) for R81 was released today  (Replacing build #549) and is available for download.

For more info please refer to sk170116.

Thanks,

Release  Management groups

Hi All

R81 Jumbo HF Take #23 is now our GA take and is available for download to all via CPUSE (as recommended) and via sk170114.

Release Highlight:

New! Starting from Take #23 , Blink image is supported for:

• Security Management upgrade
• Primary Multi-Domain Management (clean install)

**Blink image for the secondary Multi-Domain Management  and Multi-Domain Log Module (MLM) will be added in one of the upcoming Jumbo Takes

Full list of resolved issues can be found in sk170114.