End of Support of FortiOs 4.0 for appliances that can upgrade to 5.0 ?

[Holy]

Hello,

i have heard that appliances that can upgrade to 5.0 for example FG 110C and are now running fortiOS 4.0 , will soon not be supported anymore.

can someone confirm this?

[emnoc · Accepted solution]

Yes a FGT110C can be upgraded to  5.0.x and even to 5.2.x.( just follow the upgrade migration path )

Typically  FTNT has a 3 year lifecyle for any train of code, & will provide maintenance support for 4 years after advertising the LOD & will support  the devices for 5 years after the LOD. Devices can be EoL based on FTNT decisions and choices or based on new features and hardware that they develop.

A FGT110C for example has  LOD of  8/20-13,  but is supported to 8/20/18. So this will cover major/minor upgrades and bug fixes that are security related. FTNT has also provided a great migration suggestion for devices that are in the EoL cycle.

http://socpuppet.blogspot...ortinet-lifecycle.html

[Holy]

Thank you emnoc!

emnoc wrote:

Yes a FGT110C can be upgraded to  5.0.x and even to 5.2.x.( just follow the upgrade migration path )

Typically  FTNT has a 3 year lifecyle for any train of code, & will provide maintenance support for 4 years after advertising the LOD & will support  the devices for 5 years after the LOD. Devices can be EoL based on FTNT decisions and choices or based on new features and hardware that they develop.

A FGT110C for example has  LOD of  8/20-13,  but is supported to 8/20/18. So this will cover major/minor upgrades and bug fixes that are security related. FTNT has also provided a great migration suggestion for devices that are in the EoL cycle.

http://socpuppet.blogspot...ortinet-lifecycle.html

[emnoc]

btw the FortiOS 5.0.x is support till Nov 2015,  and FortiOS 5.2 will be support till June 2017.