anyone notice this PAN-OS 7.1.2

[SajidAliSajid]

Anyone notice this "PAN-OS 7.1.2"

Determine the upgrade path.You cannot skip installation of any major releases in the path to your target PAN-OS version. Therefore, if you intend to upgrade to a version that is more than one major release away, you must still download, install, and reboot the firewall for each intermediate major release along the upgrade path.For example, if you want to upgrade from PAN-OS 6.0.13 to PAN-OS 7.1.2, you must: Download and install PAN-OS 6.1.0 and reboot. Download and install PAN-OS 7.0.1 and reboot (7.0.1 is the base image for the 7.0 release, not 7.0.0). Download PAN-OS 7.1.0 (you do not need to install it). Download and install PAN-OS 7.1.2 and reboot.

Reference:

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/71/pan-os/newfeaturesguide/upgrade-to-pan-os-7-1/upgr...

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/framemaker/71/pan-os/NewFeaturesGu... (pag 13)

[pulukas]

This general process has been the case at least since PanOS 4 when I started working with PA.  

It is unfortunate, but I suppose they do this to simplify the packaging of the upgrade code for the install and upgrade process.

[googol]

Just how it is, I have seen a similar setup from other vendors as well, not just firewalls, but software too. sometimes just gotta do the major releases, then get to where you are going.

I don't see 7.1.2 released? 7.1.0 was recently released, no 7.1.1 yet but probably soon.

[reaper]

Hi

I think that version was used to emphasize how the upgrade process is intended to be performed, at his point in time 7.1.2 is still several weeks out

please take a look at this article, it follows similar recommendations: How to Upgrade PAN-OS and Panorama

if you do need to install an intermediate build (like needing to install 6.1 when going from 6.0 to 7.0), make sure to install the latest maintenance release in the intermediate build to prevent any issues during the upgrade process (just in case there is a bug that could affect your environment)

[lmelvin]

We had put 7.1.2 in the guide just as an example to show what you would need to do to upgrade to a release that is not the .0 release. However, since it is causing some confusion, we've changed the example to 7.1.1 (which is now posted).

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!