topic Re: Software upgrades hotfixes in General Topics

Software upgrades hotfixes

daz12 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:09:43 GMT

1) I am planning to upgrade to 11.0.1 but I also see a 11.0.1-h2 - which one should I upgrade to (I'm on currently on 10.2.3) ?

2) On the support pages under software updates I'm filtered on 'PAN-OS for VM-Series'. Will this give me correct installation files for AWS EC2 ?

Re: Software upgrades hotfixes

S.Cantwell — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:33:18 GMT

Good Day

Please bookmark this article, which TAC uses for providing info about their recommended versions.
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/customer-resources/support-pan-os-software-release-guidance/ta-p/258304
For 11.x this is what it states:

11.0.1-h2
Preferred for Nova platforms (PA-415/445, PA-1410/1420 & PA-5440). Still monitoring for all other platforms.

As for the correct AWS version, you may not get incremental versions. I am suggesting you install AWS 11.0 and then upgrade to the appropriate minor version that you want.

Thanks.

Re: Software upgrades hotfixes

daz12 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:29:39 GMT

That makes it sound like I should stay on 10.2.3 because mine is running on AWS EC2 ?

'Still monitoring for other platforms' should that stop me from upgrading ? I assume 11.0.1-h2 fixes issues that were encountered with 11.0.1 ?

Re: Software upgrades hotfixes

S.Cantwell — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:55:52 GMT

Hello again

If you read the 11.x release notes and there are features that required for your company, then by all means, please upgrade.
Are you upgrading for a specific reason?

For me, I am also a ProServices engineer, and I have all my customers at 10.2.3, until we get closer to 11.0.5 software, and then I will have them upgrade.

It is completely a personal reason.

"If it's not broken, then don't try to fix it :P"