Before You Get Started

• What's the difference between a Patch, an Upgrade, and a Recovery Image? show/hide>

  The key difference is that patches and upgrades are designed to preserve your settings. Recovery images erase all software modules, all data, and all settings, and then restore the appliance to factory settings.

  Patches include minor corrections to one or more modules. They preserve your client information, filtering policies, customized configuration settings, and data. Patches update the software modules, while retaining your custom filtering information. Patches typically do not require an update to components that are running off the appliance (such as the Manager and Log Server).

  Upgrades move your software modules to a new major or minor version that includes enhancements. An Upgrade preserves your client and policy information, as does a Patch. However, an Upgrade requires that all components running off the appliance (such as the Manager and Log Server) be upgraded to a compatible version.

  Recovery Images erase all software modules, all data, and all settings, and then restore the appliance to factory settings. Each appliance model has recovery images designed for that model.

• Determine the version of your V-Series Appliance. show/hide>

  To display version information on the V-Series, open the appliance console.

  To see the Appliance Version and Hardware Platform model, go to Configuration > General > System Information

  To see the version information for each software module, go to Configuration > General > Module Information

• Keep all components running off the appliance at a compatible version, to ensure that filtering can occur. When software module versions are not compatible throughout the network, software behavior is unpredictable. Various error messages may appear. Filtering may not occur or may be compromised.
• Back up your data and policies, and make note of your configuration settings, before applying any new version.

To view older release versions on the V-Series Appliances Models, please visit Older V-Series Certified Matrix

V-Series Release History by Version and Model

• The table indicates releases supported by each V-Series model.

• The data cell indicates the introduction of the model.

• Dual mode is supported unless otherwise indicated.

• Before upgrading, always read the Release Notes.

Version	Appliance Model
	V10000 G4	V10000 G3 R2	V10000 G3	V10000 G2 R2	V10000 G2	V10000 G1	V5000 G3	V5000 G2 R2	V5000 G2
8.2.0	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
8.1.0	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
8.0.1	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
8.0.0	✔	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔
7.8.4	✔f	✔	✔	✔	✔*		✔f	✔	✔*
7.8.3	✔f	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔f	✔	✔
7.8.2	✔f	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔f	✔	✔
7.8.1	✔f July 2015	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔ April, 2015	✔	✔
7.7.3			✔f	✔	✔	✔* s		✔	✔
7.7.0			✔f Feb. 2013	✔f Aug. 2011	✔	✔s		✔	✔
* Last release | w Web mode only | s Single mode only | f Factory image only; no upgrade patch available

Patches and Upgrades (latest version at top)