Software Update: Sophos XG Firewall 17.5 MR11

Sophos has released a new version of its XG Firewall with 17.5 MR11 as the version number. This software runs on physical hardware as well as in a soft appliance for VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM delivered. In addition to the paid variants for businesses, Sophos offers this firewall for home use at no cost, such as on this page can be read. For the various image and update files you can visit the MySophos Portal. The announcement of this release looks like this:

SFOS 17.5 MR11 Released

Hi XG Community!

We’ve released SFOS v17.5.11 MR11 for the Sophos XG Firewall. Initially, the firmware will be available by manual download from the Licensing Portal. We then make the firmware available via auto-update to a number of customers, which will increase over time.

Note: The upgrade from this version SF 17.5 MR11 to v18.0 will follow soon.

news

• Sophos Connect (IPSec VPN) lease now supports more than 255 IP addresses in address range
• Supports new SD-RED 20 and SD-RED 60 devices. SD-RED 20 and SD-RED 60 hardware is currently planned to be released in the week of April 6th

Issues Resolved

• NC-48116 [Authentication] Importing users via csv file with special character in password fails
• NC-54642 [Authentication] Authentication not working due to high CPU utilization of access_server
• NC-55265 [Authentication] Not able to see entire IP address details for Live users on XG GUI
• NC-49765 [Clientless Access] Clientless SMB Bookmark – Unable to upload files in a folder or share with a comma
• NC-52709 [IPS Engine] IPS signature shown as detect with rule association 0 when set as DROP
• NC-57067 [IPsec] Sophos Connect lease is not supporting more than 255 IP addresses in address range
• NC-51862 [Logging Framework] Incorrect value received in gateway graph for PPPoE interface
• NC-50796 [RED] All RED site to site tunnel restart when configuring one RED interface
• NC-57800 [Reporting] Application summary in reports does not show any records
• NC-46009 [SecurityHeartbeat] Spontaneous reconnects of many endpoints
• NC-51562 [SecurityHeartbeat] Heartbeat service not started after HA failover