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What is exactly "major" version?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 19, 2024
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Hello team,

This time, a basic question.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.6.0/administration-guide/369092/enabling-automatic-firmware-upgrades

This article says "updates within the same major release", so I am wondering, what is this "major release".

For example, if we want to schedulle an automatic update to afterhours, I will need to know to which version will be updated

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Damián

FortiGate

Best answer by Toshi_Esumi

"same major release" means inside of 7.2, 7.4, or 7.6. For example, the current latest 7.2 is 7.2.10, and the latest 7.4 is 7.4.5. If you're running 7.2.10 now on your FGT and auto-firmware-upgrade is set, it would upgrade automatically when 7.2.11 is released, but won't upgrade to 7.4.6 when it's released.

Toshi

Toshi_EsumiAnswer

SuperUser

"same major release" means inside of 7.2, 7.4, or 7.6. For example, the current latest 7.2 is 7.2.10, and the latest 7.4 is 7.4.5. If you're running 7.2.10 now on your FGT and auto-firmware-upgrade is set, it would upgrade automatically when 7.2.11 is released, but won't upgrade to 7.4.6 when it's released.

Toshi

ametkola

Staff

Hello @damianhlozano

In the article below you can find the difference between the FortiOS version terminology >>

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiOS-firmware-version-terminology/ta-p/349628

Thanks

Toshi_Esumi

SuperUser

wait a minute @ametkola so my interpretation above was wrong then? If I'm running, 7.2.10 and auto-firmware-upgrade is enabled, it would automatically upgrade even to 7.6.1 when it's released?
That sounds quite dangerous to me.

Toshi

dingjerry_FTNT

Staff

Not really, @Toshi_Esumi . We also call 7.2 a Major release (Although the KB is absolutely correct).

That means, your words in your first reply were correct.

ametkola

Staff

Hello,

No, it will be automatically upgraded until the latest firmware of that branch. If you are running in v7.2.x it will go until v7.2.10 till the 7.2.11 is released. Also in the documentation is mentioned that ' FortiGates use the FortiGuard upgrade path to check FortiGuard for firmware updates within the same major release'.

Toshi_Esumi

SuperUser

Ok, sounds better. But are you implying "same major version", which is like V6, V7, based on the KB is different from "same major release" (implying like 7.2 or 7.4) in the admin guide for automatic firmware upgrade?
That's confusing people like me.

Toshi

dingjerry_FTNT

Staff

I believe that it means 7.2/7.4. something like that, in the Admin Guide.

damianhlozanoAuthor

Explorer II

Thank you guys!

This is little confused, according to the article, the first number in the version number is the same major level, but it is clear now that the auto update will update only the 3º part in the version number.

So, I can not use automatic updates to go from 7.4.4 to 7.6.0

Thank you all

Regards,

Damián

Toshi_Esumi

SuperUser

I never recommend automatically upgrading 7.4.x to 7.6.x even if it's possible. That's too dangerous. Also it would take many steps to get there and you should check if anything unexpected happened at intermediate versions before jumping to the final target version.

Toshi

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