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paloalto panos numbering meaning

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Hello everyone, why is paloalto os 9.1 next is 10.0 not 9.2? 10.1 Next is 10.2, not 11.0? I wonder what it means. Thank you in advance.

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L6 Presenter

No particular meaning. All are major releases what means they bring new features. I guess if they decide there is a lot of new features they increment first number, otherwise they go only for 2nd number increment 🙂

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L6 Presenter

No particular meaning. All are major releases what means they bring new features. I guess if they decide there is a lot of new features they increment first number, otherwise they go only for 2nd number increment 🙂

Cyber Elite
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@WooJinJeon,

Honestly ... marketing. If an update is really large companies like to label it as a major new release with an easily distinguished version jump. PAN-OS 10.0 was warranted due to including TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2 support, the GlobalProtect logging changes, and functionally was a rather major change with the GUI modifications.

Jumping forward to 10.1 and 10.2, these were more iterative improvements introduced to PAN-OS. They have plenty of improvements and new features that are worth upgrading for, but nothing to really warrant advancement to PAN-OS 11 really. Obviously depending on your environment these could have been major upgrades that you were waiting for, but generally speaking they were more minor upgrades. 

Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

the first digit is always a major release while the second digit is an 'addon' of features based on the same code train, plus the extended support release of that code train

Tom Piens
PANgurus - Strata specialist; config reviews, policy optimization
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