It’s been almost six months since the R81.20 (Titan) release. On April 30th Check Point finally released its first Jumbo Hot Fix. Seemed like a really long time to see a first Jumbo as ‘Recommended’ in CPUSE, but hey it’s here now.
A lot of interesting news features tucked in here including 90 day extensions on some of the software blades:
Security Management
NEW: Added ability to run the “verify-policy” Management API command on a private session with unpublished changes.
NEW: Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades in SmartConsole will now support clusters of Centrally Managed Quantum Spark Appliances that run R81.10.XX firmware versions.
CPView
NEW: Integrated Skyline, a solution that provides an OpenTelemetry CPView Agent service to monitor your Check Point Servers and export health metrics from the CPView tool to an external location. Refer to sk178566.
Security Gateway
NEW: We have extended the grace period of Compliance blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.
Application Control
NEW: We have extended the grace period of Application Control and URL Filtering blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.
SmartEvent
NEW: We have extended the grace period of SmartEvent blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.
Threat Extraction
NEW: We have extended the grace period of Threat Extraction blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.
IPS
NEW: Added ability to block “HTTP 206 partial content” responses from resources with malicious content.