Quantum Spark R81.10.08 new build 996001608 is available

[Zachi_Schnieder]

Hi All,

Quantum Spark R81.10.08 new build ,996001608, was just released.

This build includes RMD access time improvements.

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk181079

Please LMK if you have any questions

Thanks,

Zachi Schnieder

Zachis@checkpoint.com

[G_W_Albrecht]

The "admin logged in" notification issue still has to be fixed ?

[G_W_Albrecht]

A new Watch Tower app is available, now showing all notification settings correctly !

Push notifications to mobile phone now do not work anymore. SMS and email still work for Security Alerts.

[starmen2000]

Is this recommended version? On sk179615 I can see that recommended version still R81.10.05 Build 130

[G_W_Albrecht]

This is the latest version with valuable fixes, see e.g.

sk181427: Check Point response to CVE-2022-4450 and CVE-2022-4304

[Tom_Hinoue]

It looks like the SK was updated with an important notice regarding a limitation of firmware upgrade path.
Note for gateways are running R80.20.35 or lower, a direct upgrade to R81.10.08 is unsupported.

• To upgrade the firmware R80.20.35 (or lower) to R81.10.08, you must follow the two-step upgrade:

  1. Upgrade from R80.20.35 (or lower) to one of the higher versions - R80.20.40 or R80.20.50 or R80.20.60 (see sk165734)

  2. Upgrade to R81.10.08

[Amir_Ayalon]

Hi All

only when manually upgrading via the WebUI

SMP upgrades works as expected, as well as centrally managed upgrade.

[Tom_Hinoue]

Thanks for making it clear 🙂

[BorisL]

Since we updated this past week, we were unable to connect to Checkpoint services. Our Harmony endpoints lost connection and we could not log in to portal.checkpoint.com. All other internet access seemed completely normal. Debugging web page access we saw that some checkpoint sites were reachable and others timed out. We thought it was the internet provider and performed all kinds of tests. Also, we were not able to connect to FW using watchtower. Opened a service request with Checkpoint and they told us "it is your internet provider, not our problem". As usual, Checkpoint pride over humility and desire to help.
We reverted the 1500 to 996000575. Problem solved. 
Our connection to internet is fiber PPoE with Telefonica. Only particular about this connection (bad but it has been there for a long time) is that first  ip address in traceroute, the fiber default router, is 192.168.x.x

It has always worked and now works again with 996000575