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Introduction to R80.20 SMB Appliances

The next family of our Small and Medium Business appliances is based on R80 code.

Check Point's R80.20 release for Small and Medium Business Appliances is supported on the new 1500 Series Security Gateways. For more information about the 1500 Series, refer to sk157412 - 1500 Series Security Gateways.

Check Point is committed to providing the best and most up-to-date security for all deployments including small businesses, medium businesses, and branch offices. The existing 700, 900, 1200R, and 1400 appliance lines will continue to be supported with our R77.20.xx code base.

  R80 Code Alignment   More
  • SMB Next Generation Appliances are R80 code aligned, increasing performance and bringing cutting-edge enterprise grade security to your small and medium size business.

 Enhancements    More

Centrally and Locally Managed Enhancements
  • Application Control and Threat Prevention blades use security packages aligned to enterprise grade appliances to enable comprehensive security.
  • Automatic Device recognition and discovery.
  • Multicore VPN and VPN hardware enabled acceleration.
  • Additional ciphers support for HTTPS Inspection (see sk104562).
  • WatchTower application enhanced features.

Centrally managed enhancements

  • Policy layers and sub-policy support for centrally managed mode.
  • Unified access policy support for centrally managed mode (Firewall, Application Control, and URL Filtering).
  • Unified Threat Prevention policy (IPS, Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot, and Threat Emulation Software Blade policies).
  • Acceleration of Domain Objects, Dynamic Objects, and Time Objects for centrally managed mode.
  • Wildcard network object in Access Control that represents a series of IP addresses that are not sequential.

Locally Managed Enhancements

  • New Threat Prevention blade control: Unified Threat Prevention policy, easy and intuitive to set and control.
  • New SSL inspection enforcement: Simultaneously support light SSL and Full SSL inspection.
  • Improved High Availability mechanism.
  • WiFi Monitoring - wireless active devices: Track connected devices, signal strength, channel used, and more.
  • WiFi Monitoring - Access point: Monitor your WiFi environment to identify congested channels, frequency used, and signal strength.
  • Audit logs - Log Admin Activities was added to System logs.


Information per Release

(Refer to sk97766 for information regarding R77.20 releases.)
(Refer to sk159772 for Known Limitations.)
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R80.20.60

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Release Date 02 August 2022: First Release
Release Home page sk179922
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights Note - To obtain this version, please contact TAC.
  • Support for TACACS+ authentication server - Allows users not defined locally on the appliance to log in using an authentication server.
  • IPv6 prefix selection mode in IPv6 internet connections.
Management Server version


R80.20.50

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Release Date 02 August 2022: First Release
Release Home page sk179654
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights
  • Zero Touch - Added support for DMZ connection in Zero Touch and reduced fetch data time.
  • VoIP enhancements - Allows bidirectional traffic with the SIP service provider and extend SIP service timeout.
  • Flash Life span Notification. 
  • IPIP - Additional profile and HTTP updater support service.
  • One Touch - Support SFP-DMZ and VLAN in one touch flows.
  • Show routing configuration from Clish.
  • Improved Cluster stability in Locally Managed appliances.
Management Server version


R80.20.40

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Release Date 14 April 2022: First Release
19 July 2022: GA Replacement 
Release Home page sk176145
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights
  • SMP - Ability to send periodic Security Reports at a specific date/time.
  • IPIP internet connection.
  • Routing UI enhancement - Protocol and rank fields.
  • Support for Magic MAC on Centrally Managed clusters.
  • Allow setting the Expert Password Hash multiple times.
  • Adjusted AD-Query and Identity Logging solutions to work with Microsoft hardening changes. Refer to sk176148.
Management Server version


R80.20.35

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Release Date 10 February 2022
Release Home page sk174683
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights
  • ND (Neighbor Discovery) Proxy for delegating ISP SLAC prefix to Internal network.
  • IPv6 internet probing - Automatically detect loss of connectivity to default gateway when working in IPv6 mode.
  • Upgrade your 700/1400 device to the new 1600/1800 Appliance Series which includes all configurations, and Access policies.
  • Enhancements to the VoIP wizard which simplifies configuration of the most common VoIP topologies.
  • Support for SSL Exceptions and TP Exceptions.
  • MAC Address based filtering "Allow" list - for 1500/1600/1800 appliances.
  • MAC Address based filtering "Deny" list - Ability to add a deny list mode to MAC address filtering that can block access to any MAC address that exists in the MAC address filtering table - for 1500/1600/1800 appliances.
AND MORE
Management Server version


R80.20.30

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Release Date 12 July 2021
Release Home page sk173185
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights
  • Support for IPv6 local network and internet connections (and more IPv6-related support)
  • VoIP Wizard
  • MAC Based Filtering
  • LTE enhancements
  • SMP Access Policy enhancements
  • Support for Block page on bridged VLAN
  • Internet probing for long-term statistics
  • Reach My Device (RMD) on demand
  • Secure backup through FTP
Management Server version


R80.20.25

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Release Date 05 April 2021
Release Home page sk171824
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights
  • New Quantum Spark branding
  • Access policy enhancements
  • Wireless scheduling
  • SMP access policy for 1500/1600/1800 appliances
Management Server version


R80.20.20

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Release Date 07 January 2021
03 February 2021 (added 1600 and 1800 models)
Release Home page sk170534
Platform 1500 / 1600 / 1800
Release Highlights Introducing 1600 and 1800 Appliances for medium size business (up to 500 employees).
Management Server version


R80.20.15

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Release Date 29 October 2020
Release Home page sk168333
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights R80.20.15 includes significant improvements and new features in the following:
  • Hardware upgrade path: Upgrade your locally managed 700/1400 device to the new 1500 Appliance Series which includes all configurations.
  • LTE Firmware per Carrier/SIM
  • 1570/1590 WiFi + LTE Security Gateway – Official support for AT&T Carrier Certification
  • External USB cellular dongle* support for 1570 / 1590 vDSL (*selected models only)
  • MAC based filtering supporting WiFi
  • MAC based filtering on all LAN networks, including switch (As EA)
  • Option to save syslog to SD Card
  • Stability fixes
Management Server version


R80.20.10

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Release Date 16 July 2020
Release Home page sk167012
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights R80.20.10 includes significant improvements and new features in the following:
  • VPN Remote Two-Factor Authentication via SMS
  • Geo Protection
  • Default Firmware definition
  • POP3s Email Inspection Protocol
  • LTE APN Configuration
  • SNMP Traps for VPN Tunnels
  • Internet Link Quality Enhancements
Management Server version


R80.20.05

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Release Date 05 April 2020
Release Home page sk164912
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights R80.20.05 includes significant improvements and new features in the following:
  • Networking
  • Access Rulebase
  • Server Name Indications (SNI)
  • Embedded Gaia R77.20 train gap closure
  • Management and Logs
  • Features in EA Quality
Management Server version


R80.20.02

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Release Date 01 March 2020
Release Home page sk165454
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights
  • Support for the new 1570/1590 WiFi+LTE Appliance
  • Improved internet monitoring capabilities
  • Security fix for CVE-2020-8597 (pppd vulnerable to buffer overflow)
  • Stability fixes (resolved unexpected reboot and memory leak problems).
Management Server version


R80.20.01

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Release Date 31 December 2019
Release Home page sk163612
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights
  • Support for 1530 appliances
Management Server version


R80.20.00

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Release Date 17 Oct 2019
Release Home page sk159173
Platform 1500 Series
Release Highlights
  • Next family of Small and Medium Business appliances based on R80 code.
Management Server version

Revision History

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Date Description
06 December 2022 Added R80.20.60 (GA 21 September 2022)
02 August 2022 Added R80.20.50
14 April 2022 Added R80.20.40
10 February 2022 Added R80.20.35
12 July 2021 Added R80.20.30
05 April 2021 Added R80.20.25
03 February 2021 R80.20.20 now supports the 1600 and 1800 models
07 January 2021 Added R80.20.20
29 October 2020 Added R80.20.15
16 July 2020 Added R80.20.10
30 June 2020 First release of this document

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