Firmware update

[patrickwilson82]

Hello All,

I am currently on version 5.4 for both my Fortigate and Fortimail. I assume it's recommended that I update to 6.0? If so, do I need to go to 5.6 first? Or can I go straight to 6.0? Or should I even bother at all? Thanks in advance for the input.

[rwpatterson]

Look in the release notes of the version you wish to upgrade to. It should have the upgrade path recommended so you don't lose your configuration or brick your devices.

[sw2090]

You could look the recommended upgrade path up in the support portal.

You need the model and the complete version of the firmware. 5.4.x in your case.

[patrickwilson82]

Thanks for the replies. Is there any reason why I necessarily should or shouldn't upgrade? I've been looking at the release notes and didn't see anything that jumped out at me as a must have on new features.

[sw2090 · Accepted solution]

I would only upgrade if I needed some feature that came with 6.0.

I still have all our FGT on 5.4.8 (and I think of upgrading to 5.4.10 maybe if I ever find the time to).

But I will not go to 6.x unless there is a need for me to do so.

Only our FortiManager is on 6.0 due to some bug that is in 5.4 but not in 5.6 or above.