Sophos Firewall OS v19 Early Access Program 2 Intercept X: Enhanced Performance and Protection Updates Enhanced Email Protection Now Ready to Sell Sophos Firewall OS v18.0 (SFOS)<\/span> Sophos XG Series hardware appliances Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) Old IPsec VPN Client<\/span> PureMessage for Exchange<\/strong> PureMessage for Unix<\/strong> Sophos Email Appliance\u202f<\/strong> Endpoint Protection, Server Protection and Enterprise Console products<\/strong>\u00a0(standalone or managed on premises) Sophos Mobile (managed on premises)<\/strong> SafeGuard\u202fEnterprise<\/strong> <\/p>\n Abbreviation index: EoS = End of Sale, EoL = End of Life<\/p>\n Additionally, check out our\u00a0Sophos Product Lifecycle page<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Upcoming Training Courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find out what\u2019s new, what\u2019s coming, and what\u2019s going in our latest product life cycle report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":300000397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,43,149,22],"coauthors":[64],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-intercept-x","tag-sophos-email","tag-sophos-firewall","tag-sophos-product-lifecycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/featured-image-product-lifecycle.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>This latest v19 build includes Xstream FastPath Acceleration of IPsec VPN traffic. This new enhancement adds to the Xstream SD-WAN capabilities by providing a huge performance boost!\u00a0Join the Early Access Program<\/b><\/a><\/p>\nWhat\u2019s New<\/h2>\n
\n<\/b>Intercept X and Intercept X for Server customers will soon see significant performance and protection enhancements. This functionality rewrite includes reduced footprint, AI-first protection and more.\u00a0See Updates<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sophos Email has taken a major leap forward, adding the ability to directly integrate with Microsoft 365 via Mailflow Rules, plus S\/MIME encryption and sender authentication to protect customers from man-in-the-middle attacks. See Updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nGoing Soon<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>SFOS v18.0 is scheduled to become end-of life at the end of July 2022. This early announcement is intended to give you sufficient time to plan your upgrade to a newer version. Devices must be updated to a more recent firmware release before the EOL date.<\/span>\u00a0Discover more<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The end-of-sale date for any available XG Series appliances has been extended until March 31, 2022. Model availability will vary by region.\u00a0<\/span>All lifecycle milestones for the XG Series and related subscriptions have been extended by one quarter. <\/span>From April 1, 2022 you will still be able to order XG Series hardware for as long as stocks last, however, 3-year subscription SKUs will no longer be orderable.\u00a0Read more in this article<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The distribution of the Sophos UTM Manager (SUM) has been stopped and the End-of-Life date for this product is on December 31, 2022.\u00a0<\/span>All existing licenses have been extended to December 31, 2025<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and the extended license can be obtained via the\u00a0myUTM\u00a0Licensing Portal.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>How to get an extended license (EN)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>We are announcing the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the old Sophos IPsec VPN client for Windows.\u00a0<\/span>Discover more<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 there is no migration path.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Email.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be June 30,\u202f2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Email.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023 \u2013 the migration path is Intercept X Advanced or Intercept X Advanced for Server<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Mobile managed in Sophos Central.<\/p>\n
\nThe EOL will be July 20, 2023\u202f\u2013 the migration path is Sophos Central Device Encryption.<\/p>\n