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Welcome to "This Week in CheckMates," your weekly highlight reel for all things CheckMates!
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Community Highlights
As I was on vacation the previous week, there was no "This Week in CheckMates" last week.
This week's threads to watch come from the last two weeks:
R80.40 Early Availability
We are starting the R80.40 Production EA program in the near future!
Participants in the Production EA get to work directly with R&D as part of this process.
A public EA of R80.40 will be made available later on.
A few relevant threads:
- R80.40 EA Program
- R80.40 Automatically Changes the Number of CoreXL/SNDs Firewall
- add simple-cluster API (finally!!!)
- Management of UTM-1 EDGE Devices in R80.30 and R80.40
New Software Releases
- Endpoint Security R81.30
- R80.10 Jumbo Hotfix GA Take 225
- R80.20 SmartConsole GA Build 67
- R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix Ongoing Take 50
Upgrade to R80.x
- R80.20 Management Performance explains some differences between R80.x and earlier releases that may account for performance differences.
- Migration MDS from R77.30 to R80.30 failed explains what you should do before upgrading to ensure a successful one.
- Is R80.20 More Stable than R80.10?
- Skip R80.10 on Gateways? Yes, go to R80.30.
- R55/R65 Bug Tracker If you're still on these releases, upgrading is definitely recommended.
Other Topics
- Change Match for Any Default Value in Services
- Policy Revision Installation History: Does the Compiled Policy Include the Database?
- Manual NAT with Proxy ARP Fails Randomly
- SD-WAN Security Techtalk Video and Slides
- How to Block Hashes of Malware by IPS Signature
Upcoming Events
We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar.
You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar
Here's where you can find @Valeri_Loukine and I over the next few weeks
- 12th September 2019: CheckMates Live Munich with @Valeri_Loukine
- 17th September 2019:
- 19th September 2019:
- 23rd September 2019:
- 25th September 2019:
- 26th September 2019: CheckMates Live Denmark (Copenhagen)
- 16th October 2019: Using the Check Point API to Automate Operations TechTalk
If you would like a CheckMates Live event in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com
