May 2025 Spark User Summit: PAN-OS Release Versioning

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On Thursday, May 22, Fuel hosted a Spark User Summit featuring PAN-OS release versioning best practices. The speaker, Rohit Sawhney, went into an amazing level of detail around how the release numbers are assigned to the different PAN-OS versions, how Palo Alto Networks delivers fixes and updates, best practices for your upgrade process, and other resources that are available to everyone.

PAN-OS Release Versioning:  Part 1

PAN-OS Release Versioning: Part 2

Here is a list of useful links from Jeff Hardee related to PAN-OS upgrades, particularly for 10.2.x and 11.1.x, from code guidance to features to best practices to compatibility to videos:

Preferred Release Guidance

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/customer-resources/pan-os-globalprotect-amp-user-id-preferred-r...

PAN-OS 10.2.x Resources

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/features-introduced-in-pan-os

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-upgrade/upgrade-pan-os/upgradedowngrade-conside...

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-10-2-13-known-and-addresse...

PAN-OS 11.1.x Resources

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-1/pan-os-release-notes/features-introduced-in-pan-os

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-1/pan-os-release-notes/pan-os-11-1-6-known-and-addressed...

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-1/pan-os-upgrade

End-Of-Life (EOL) Guidance

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/support/end-of-life-announcements/end-of-life-policy

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/support/end-of-life-announcements/end-of-life-summary 

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/support/end-of-life-announcements/hardware-end-of-life-dat...

Upgrade-related Articles

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/support-faq/support-faq-upgrading-pan-os-and-upgrade-paths/ta-p...

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/ngfw-customer-success-webinars/pan-os-upgrade-demo-from-10-0-to...

Training Videos/Links

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/ngfw-cs-micro-trainings-pan-os/ct-p/Micro-Trainings

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/panos-micro-trainings-articles/tkb-p/Micro-trainings-PANOS

Misc. Hardware Articles

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/compatibility-matrix/reference/supported-os-releases-by-model/palo...

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/compatibility-matrix/reference/panorama/panorama-management-compat...

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/hardware

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/next-generation-firewall/ct-p/Firewall_Articles

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/network-security/ct-p/Network-Security-Products

Misc. Security Articles

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/legal-notices/trust-center/compliance

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/legal-notices/trust-center/fips-140

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/modules-in-process

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/validated-modules/search?Sear...

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