FortiOS 3.0 MR5 for FG-50A & FG-60 (Release Candidate)

During last few weeks most of FG-50A and FG-60 owners were filling stressed and unhappy. There were even some rumors that Fortinet will not support current users of low-end models and they will be forced to upgrade to FG-50B or FG-60B. The reason for this was absence of new build for low-end FortiGate's, MR4 & MR5 were released without FortiGate-50A/60 builds.

Finally Fortinet revealed a release candidate of memory-optimized build of MR5 for low-end models:

• FortiGate-50A
• FortiGate-60/60M/60ADSL
• FortiWiFi-60/60A/60AM

Build is available for download from Support FTP. Please note that this build is still a Release Candidate 4/Beta build and it is not recommended for production systems. Build number is 0559.

We already downloaded and installed this build to one of our test boxes. Memory usage is slightly higher that with Memory-Optimized build of MR3 (66% against 57% in our configuration with several VDOM's), but it is still OK for most of SMB/SOHO applications.

For those who are still on MR3 these build brings features of both MR4 and MR5:

• New Dashboard with customizable layout
• Enhanced VDOM's: changed configuration and per-VDOM Protection Profiles
• Authentication now can be tuned per protocol and performed per single policy
• Packets/Bytes counters per policy
• PKI Authentication Enhancements
• Better VoIP support with SIP, SIMPLE and SCCP (Cisco Skinny)
• FortiGuard Management&Analysis Service Support
• Interface Aliases
• Support of any USB Flash Disk (Only FortiUSB branded disks were supported before)
• Many Routing Enhancements for NAT, Multicast, OSPF and BGP
• IPv6 IPSec support
• and many more!