What is exactly "major" version?

[damianhlozano]

Hello team,

This time, a basic question.

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

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

[Toshi_Esumi · Accepted solution]

"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]

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/...

Thanks

[Toshi_Esumi]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[damianhlozano]

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]

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