Product Announcements

R80.30, part of the Check Point Infinity architecture, delivers the most innovative and effective security that keeps our customers protected against large scale, fifth generation cyber threats.

The release contains innovations and significant improvements such as:

• Practical Prevention against Advanced Threats: The Industry’s 1st Threat Extraction for Web.
• State-of-the-Art HTTPS Inspection: New SSL Inspection Patent Pending Technologies.
• Superior Management & Visibility: New Performance & Operational Techniques.

And much more

This release is initially recommended for customers who are interested in implementing the new features. We will make it the default version after significant adoption. It will then be available in the 'Showing Recommended Packages' section in the CPUSE tab in Gaia portal. Until then the Check Point's default version is R80.20.

For “What’s New”, Release Notes and more information, please refer to R80.30 Homepage [sk144293].

*Check Point also offers an Early Availability program for the new 3.10 kernel based on the R80.30 release, which offers support for additional Security Gateways and appliances. For more details, contact ea_support@checkpoint.com.

• For public EA path login to https://usercenter.checkpoint.com and go to Try Our Products -> Early Availability Programs. Then register to CPEA-EVAL-R80.30-3.10 public EA program.
• Release notes for this EA program are available here

R80.30 3.10 for Security Gateway and VSX, part of the Check Point Infinity architecture, delivers the most innovative and effective security that keeps our customers protected against large scale, fifth generation cyber threats. 

What's New:

• Improved firewall resiliency.
• Support for IPv6 (Resolving a R80.20 3.10 limitation).
• Clustering and VSX capabilities:
  • Unicast support for Cluster Control Protocol eliminating the need for CCP using Broadcast or Multicast modes).
  • MAC magic configuration is no longer needed.
• New kernel capabilities:
  • Upgraded Linux kernel
  • New partitioning system (gpt):
    • Supports more than 2TB physical/logical drives
  • Faster file system (xfs)
  • Supporting larger system storage (up to 48TB tested)
  • I/O related performance improvements
  • Multi-Queue:
    • Full Gaia Clish support for Multi-Queue commands
    • Automatic "on by default" configuration
  • SMB v2/3 mount support in Mobile Access blade
  • Added NFSv4 (client) support (NFS v4.2 is the default NFS version used)
  • Support of new system tools for debugging, monitoring and configuring the system:
    • iotop (provides I/O runtime stats)
    • lshw (provides detailed information about all HW)
    • lsusb (provides information about all devices connected to USB)
    • lsscsi (provides information about storage)
    • ps (new version, more counters)
    • psmisc (new version, more counters)
    • top (new version, more counters)
    • iostat (new version, more counters
  • New glibc: glibc-2.17-157
  • New ethtool: ethtool-4.8-7
  • New Bash: bash-4.2.46-29
  • lbzip2 support (free, multi-threaded compression utility)
  • xz support
  • rsync support

Not Supported in Public EA

• Netflow
• DCHP Relay

Supported Platforms

• 23900 Security Gateway
• HP DL380 Gen10
• HP DL360 Gen10
• Dell PowerEdge R740/R740 XD
• Dell PowerEdge R640
• HP DL380 Gen9
• HP DL360 Gen9

Production EA

• We are looking for Production environment and customers that would like to work directly with R&D
• Existing working environments in R80.30 / R80.20 3.10 / R80.20 / R80.10 / R77.30
• Contact us: EA_SUPPORT@checkpoint.com

Public EA Registration

For lab/non-production use, you are welcome to register via UserCenter/PartnerMap. 

UserCenter:

• Register to the Public EA release via - usercenter.checkpoint.com -> TRY OUR PRODUCTS -> Early Availability Programs -> CPEA-EVAL-R80.30-3.10

PartnerMAP:

• Register to the Public EA release via - usercenter.checkpoint.com -> LEARN -> Early Availability Programs -> CPEA-EVAL-R80.30-3.10

Contact us: public_ea@checkpoint.com

We are glad to announce that a GCP High Availability solution is now generally available via the GCP marketplace: