Technical Tip: FortiWLC and the FortiAP firmware versions do not match the new v8.6-7 release

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Description	This article describes why the FortiWLC and the FortiAP firmware versions do not match the new v8.6-7 release and the steps to upgrade the FortiAP firmware to match it with the FortiWLC firmware.
Scope	FortiWLC-500D; FortiAP-U433F; v8.6-7.
Solution	Although 'Automatic AP Upgrade' is enabled on the FortiWLC, the FortiAPs running on v8.6-6 firmware would show 'Enabled/Online' on the FortiWLC that is on the new v8.6-7 firmware as shown below: This is the expected behavior on the new FortiWLC v8.6-7 version because v8.6-7 was released as a minor upgrade to v8.6-6, and due to that, 'Automatic AP Upgrade' will not upgrade the FortiAP from v8.6-6 to v8.6-7 version and FortiAPs running on v8.6.6 will be up and functional on FortiWLC v8.6.7, showing up as Enabled/Online. To match FortiAP firmware with FortiWLC, manually upgrade FortiAPs to the v8.6-7 version using the following command: upgrade ap same <ID> or <AP ID range> For example: upgrade ap same 2619 upgrade ap same 2619-2620 Here 2619 is the AP ID. To get the AP ID, execute the 'show ap' command on the FortiWLC CLI.