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Sophos UTM version 9.100 was made Generally Available to all customers last week and thousands of customers have already successfully upgraded and begun to benefit from all the new features. For those of you who have yet to upgrade please find the latest information on support issues encountered by a small number of customers when upgrading along with the status of fixes for these issues. Updates to this information will be posted on the User Bulletin Board at www.astaro.org.
Update: Soft-release is available, read on for details.

Up2Date 9.006 is now available. In this update we have included a number of fixes and improvements. The two main areas of focus are around increasing the quality and strength of the wireless signal on AP10 access points for our global install base, while we have also addressed memory consumption and optimized memory usage in the system overall. Particular effort has been focused on WebAdmin usage when the UTM dashboard is open/viewed for extended periods (hours+) and around Web Protection performance. For best performance and stabilty of your UTM 9 installation you should install this Up2Date at your earliest convenience. The release details are found by reading on...enjoy!

We have just launched our new Remote Ethernet Device, the Sophos RED 50.

Sophos RED 50 is the new flagship of the Sophos Remote Ethernet Device product line. The difference is in the performance, connectivity and operation – which makes the RED 50 ideal for those customers who need to protect larger branch offices with demand for load balancing or failover connections.

Performance

Up2Date 8.309 of ASG has been released. Mainly a bugfix release, it also allows qualified clustered and HA appliances to one-touch upgrade to Sophos UTM 9. In order to perform that, you must first install ASG 8.309 or you won't be able to upgrade. We will shortly release new ISO & Smart Installer images as well.

For more information, read on!

Today we have released ASG 7.513 for those customers still using this old version. This Up2Date is designed to provide an announcement that only a few days is left before ASG 7 sunsets as part of the End-of-Life Announcement (http://www.astaro.com/en-uk/blog/up2date/ASGV7EOL). Package details are found by reading on.

An Up2Date has been released for ASG 8.307 that optimizes the one-touch update to UTM 9 for supported official appliances, and contains some security patches for the Astaro Security Gateway platform. Supported ASG appliances are unlocked and ready for upgrading you to UTM 9 (if you don't see the upgrade option in your Up2Date section, be patient - it will take some hours to fully spread.

Note that if you have already downloaded the one-touch upgrade on your appliance, you will need to re-download it so it can use the updated process and bring you to 9.004+ directly. For more information, read on for the rest of the details.

Today we have officially released Sophos UTM Manager 4. The next evolution of the product formerly known as Astaro Command Center (ACC), Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) 4 lets you centrally monitor, configure, and report on multiple Sophos UTM installations. Like ACC, SUM is offered completely free of charge, simply download it and run it on your own hardware, almost any virtualization platform (Eg. VMware) or inside the Amazon Cloud using our pre-built AMI. If you have not yet had the chance, I'd invite you to try this product today!

SUM 4 introduces a sleek new look with the same DNA as Sophos UTM 9, a brand new import mechanic for bringing in existing objects from your UTMs so they can be re-deployed using our object management system, the ability to manage your UTM Endpoint policies, and a focus on improved performance and reduced bandwidth consumption when managing large amounts of UTMs. You do not need dozens of installations to benefit from the information gathering and time savings of Sophos UTM Manager. Many administrators use it to easy their logins, since once authenticated to SUM, the WebAdmin of any connected UTM device with a single click. 

 A summary of what is new in Sophos UTM Manager 4, how to download it, and other information follows. For those on our existing Astaro Command Center V3 platform, you will need to install SUM 4 and install a backup from your ACC 3 installation. Read on for extended release information.