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Steve_Fuller
Steve_Fuller
Visitor III
March 22, 2018
Question

Accidental Upgrades

  • March 22, 2018
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If upgrade paths are so important (and I believe they are), why does the upgrade screen default to the latest version and not the next step in the path?  Or if they can't do that, just add an "Are you sure?" prompt?

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    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    March 22, 2018

    I can only guess that they believe (read 'hope') that you are always on the latest stable version so the option would be correct.

    Kenundrum
    Kenundrum
    New Member
    March 22, 2018

    Also- the need to step through various firmware levels is a relatively new thing. In general, on older versions of FortiOS you could simply go straight to the latest patch from anywhere on the same release. It seems to have started somewhere during the 5.2 or 5.4 releases.

    It's probably one of those things that are still left over from older builds that no one decided to update like some of the screens with an old style UI.

    seadave
    seadave
    New Member
    March 22, 2018

    Force yourself to read release notes.  They always specify what the most recent version to version path that is supported.  Will save you a lot of trouble.  Always good to look at "Known Issues" also.  There have been many times in the past that I held back on an update because a known issue would cause more problems than the update resolved.

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