Removed option to deploy R80.20 and R80.10 versions (both BYOL and PAYG).
20191003
October 31, 2019
Added support for R80.30 PAYG images.
20190731
August 13, 2019
Added support for R80.30 BYOL image.
20190605
June 6, 2019
Minor fixes.
20190307
March 7, 2019
Minor fixes.
20190127
January 27, 2019
Minor fixes.
20190113
January 17, 2019
Removed support for R77.30 version of Gaia.
20181206
January 3, 2019
Added support for deploying R80.20 Gateway. Note: Only Standard deployment mode is available for R80.20.
20181107
November 09, 2018
Minor changes for Azure Marketplace integration.
20181017
October 18, 2018
Minor fixes.
For R80.10 Single Gateway deployments, "Blink" image with preinstalled Jumbo Hotfix take will be used when selecting "Single Gateway" mode (see the R80.10 Image section for more information).
20180417
May 13, 2018
Minor fixes.
20180325
March 27, 2018
The public IP is added as an alias to the primary interface.
Removed option to deploy R80.20 and R80.10 versions (both BYOL and PAYG).
20191003
October 31, 2019
Added support for R80.30 PAYG images.
20190814
August 23, 2019
Minor template UI fix.
20190731
August 13, 2019
Added support for R80.30 BYOL image.
20190701
July 4, 2019
Added support for VMSS upgrade procedure, as described in the admin guide under "Additional Information" section.
20190605
June 6, 2019
Added support for Availability Zones for UK South region.
20190320
March 22, 2019
Minor fixes.
20190307
March 7, 2019
Added support for VMSS to choose management NIC as eth1 private address.
Added support for Azure Availability Zones.
Removed limitations to use MDS, MGMT-HA, MDS-HA to manage VMSS.
Minor fixes.
20190127
January 27, 2019
Minor fixes.
20181206
January 3, 2019
Added support for deploying R80.20 instances.
Renamed "Check Point CloudGuard IaaS Scale Set" (previous name: "Check Point CloudGuard IaaS R80.10 Scale Set").
20181107
November 09, 2018
Minor changes for Azure Marketplace integration.
20181017
October 18, 2018
Added "Blink" image support (see the R80.10 Image section for more information).
20180815
August 17, 2018
Minor fixes.
20180711
July 17, 2018
Added default static routes according to RFC1918 on each gateway instance. This is in order to support E-W inspection when using address spaces outside of the VMSS VNET. For example, to support VNET peering.
Added Custom Azure tags creation during deployment.
Added Custom NSG attachment (Create new/Use existing NSG) during deployment.
Changed default hard disk type to SSD (for R81.20 and higher versions).
Updated Availability zones.
20221123
November 24, 2022
Added support for deploying R81.20 solutions.
20220130
February 1, 2022
Updated R81.10 to be the default version.
20220111
January 27, 2022
Added support to select different shells (clish is selected by default).
20211129
December 1, 2021
Added support for new Availability Zones.
Added link to admin guide.
Improved boot diagnostics security:
Deploy boot diagnostic storage account with “Private” access enabled by default.
Deploy boot diagnostic storage account with https-only access enabled by default.
Use TLS v1.2 for boot diagnostics storage.
20211101
November 2, 2021
First release of Public Preview CloudGuard Gateway Load Balancer solution template.
This solution is currently (November 2nd 2021) supported as a public preview, the purpose of this is to obtain feedback prior to the full commercial release of such product, solution or service. The following terms will apply in addition to the general terms and conditions. Any solution released under Public Preview:
Is excluded from the Service Level Agreement
May not be covered by customer support
May be changed or discontinued by Check Point Software Technologies at any time without notice.
Azure machines with SSD cannot grow the partitions- sk180381
R80.30-273.1108
September 30, 2022
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 254.
R80.30-273.978
January 25, 2022
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 237
The image is deployed with clish as default shell.
R80.30-273.950
December 1, 2021
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 237.
R80.30-273.907
July 22, 2021
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 236.
R80.30-273.819
February 21, 2021
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 228.
R80.30-273.801
January 27, 2021
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 227.
Image with updated driver due to firmware update of the Mellanox 5 as explained in sk171553.
R80.30-273.753
December 15, 2020
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF 226.
Update image to contain the updated Azure CA as explained in sk170660.
R80.30-273.645
July 23, 2020
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF take 196.
Aligned build number to be higher than previous images.
R80.30-273.030
July 5, 2020
Note: the build number of this image is lower than the previous published image.
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF take 196.
R80.30-273.614
May 5, 2020
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF take 155.
Fix for corrupted memory and/or user-mode code dumps when running on D2v2 VM size. See sk164838 for more information.
Fix for Azure Gateway freezes / crashes during Azure server maintenance as described in sk166674.
Updated Azure REST API versions used by High Availability daemon (azure_had.py).
R80.30-273.590
February 9, 2020
Updated Microsoft Azure Linux Agent (waagent) to version 2.2.45. See sk164880 for more information.
Image with integrated R80.30 JHF take 111.
Added support for Python 3 and migrated code to use Python 3 instead of Python 2.
Updated default fwkern.conf parameters for ClusterXL (changed the fwha_dead_timeout_multiplier parameter from 200 to 20), according to sk122218.
R80.30-273.562
November 15, 2019
Fixed issue introduced in R80.30-273.548 Pay-as-you-go images - gateway was provisioned with network interface names eth1 and eth2 instead of eth0 and eth1 causing provisioning errors.
Fixed error in azure-ha-conf (HA solution configuation utility) when executed on Pay-as-you-go R80.30-273.548 images.
R80.30-273.548
October 29, 2019
Added support for PAYG (Pay-As-You-Go) licenses.
NOTE - this image will only be used for PAYG deployments. For BYOL deployment, R80.30-273.525 is the latest available image.
R80.30-273.525
July 31, 2019
First release of R80.30 Gateway image with Gaia 3.10.
Image with both integrated Jumbo Hotfix take 19 and the accel_HOTFIX_R80_20_3_10_JHF_AZURE_T19_MAIN_GA hotfix from sk160992, fixing an issue with incorrect interface being removed from SIM table during Azure maintenance operations.
R80.20-005.558
November 7, 2019
Fixed failure in VM type identification in Jumbo Hotfix take 19 installation flow tha resulted in a missing file after deployment, affect fix from sk157353.
R80.20-005.521
September 22, 2019
Update integrated Jumbo Hotfix to take 19.
R80.20-005.492
June 29, 2019
Fixed issue with Gateway booting without network interfaces (see sk157353 for more information).
R80.20-005.469
June 17, 2019
Updated integrated Jumbo HF to Take 17.
R80.20-005.453
May 27, 2019
Image with integrated Jumbo HF (Take 13).
R80.20-005.436
April 29, 2019
Fixed issue with recognizing additional disk space as described in sk147072.
R80.20-005.419
March 7, 2019
Minor fixes.
R80.20-005.414
February 19, 2019
Minor fixes.
R80.20-005.378
January 3, 2019
First release of R80.20 Gateway image. See sk122485 for more information on R80.20 gateway.
This image supported by the following solution templates:
Single Gateway (only Standard deployment mode is supported)
High Availability
Scale Set
Main features:
Significant improvement in performance throughout
Upgraded Linux kernel (based on RHEL 7.x kernel 3.10)
Added support for Azure Accelerated Networking
For the entire list of R80.20 security features, see sk122485
Image with integrated Jumbo HF (Take 203) - On Security Gateway image only.
R80.10-034.436
May 02, 2019
Added support for MGMT-25 license.
R80.10-034.419
March 7, 2019
Minor fixes.
R80.10-034.414
February 19, 2019
For Gateway, Cluster, HA, VMSS only.
Updated integrated R80.10 Jumbo HF take to 169 - On Security Gateway image only.
R80.10-034.373
December 6, 2018
Minor fixes.
R80.10-034.357
November 12, 2018
Updated integrated R80.10 Jumbo HF take to 154 - On Security Gateway image only.
R80.10-033.352
October 17, 2018
Image is released as "Blink". VMSS, Cluster, HA, Single Gateway will be deployed with preinstalled R80.10 Jumbo HF take 142 - On Security Gateway image only.
Minor fixes
R80.10-032.332
August 22, 2018
Minor fixes
Support for a new "Check Point CloudGuard IaaS R80.10 HA" solution template.
R80.10-027.311
June 10, 2018
Added the ability to respond to load balancer health probes when using the R80.10 scale set solution.
Bug fixes.
R80.10-020.290
May 7, 2018
Updated the Azure high availability daemon to associate load balancer’s inbound NAT rules to the Active member’s IP configuration, as described in sk110194.
R80.10-020.289
March 27, 2018
Added support for the new cluster architecture (starting from solution template version 20180301).
R80.10-020.288
March 2, 2018
Aligned to R80.10 GA Replacement.
Azure cluster service principal credentials are hidden from the Azure cluster configuration file.
Calibrated ClusterXL parameters for Azure. See sk122218 for more information.
Bug fixes.
R80.10-013.233
September 10, 2017
Auto provisioning addon bug fixes.
R80.10-013.229
August 11, 2017
Bug fixes.
R80.10-013.226
January 8, 2017
Auto provisioning support for HTTPS proxy.
Bug fixes.
R80.10-010.223
July 10, 2017
Support for NGTX and MGMT5 PAYG licenses.
Support for initiating Azure cluster API calls via proxy.
Updated the Azure high availability daemon to associate load balancer’s inbound NAT rules to the Active member’s IP configuration, as described in sk110194.
R77.30-056.288
March 27, 2018
Added support for the new cluster architecture (starting from solution template version 20180301).
R77.30-056.287
March 1, 2018
Updated WALinuxAgent to version 2.2.11
Azure cluster service principal credentials are hidden from the Azure cluster configuration file.
Calibrated ClusterXL parameters for Azure. See sk122218 for more information.
Bug fixes.
R77.30-053.230
January 31, 2018
Fixed Management certificate issue as detailed in sk122612
R77.30-053.229
November 8, 2018
Bug fixes.
R77.30-053.227
August 2, 2017
Updated LIS to version 4.2.0
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
R77.30-048.205
April 19, 2017
Added the /etc/cloud-version file. The file contains information about the image and solution template versions deployed.
Added the $FWDIR/bin/azure-ha-conf utility to configure Azure cluster parameters.
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
R77.30-048.201
March 30, 2017
Bug fixes.
R77.30-041.161
December 21, 2016
Bug fixes and minor improvements.
R77.30-036.148
November 14, 2016
Added support for Azure cluster in Azure China, Azure USGov, Azure German Cloud
