New features in FortiOS 5.0 Patch 5

Chapter 1 What’s New for FortiOS 5.0 : New features in FortiOS 5.0 Patch 5

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the following features that were added to Patch 5 of FortiOS 5.0. See the release notes for a complete list of new features in this release.

• Improvements to Endpoint Control

• FortiAP LAN port support

• Automatically allowing basic applications

• Pre-authorizing a FortiAP unit

• Preventing IP fragmentation of packets in CAPWAP tunnels

• Limiting access for unauthenticated users

• LDAP browser to import users into a user group

• Dedicated management CPU

• Improvements to the Traffic History and Threat History widgets

• Assigning an IP address to a dynamic IPsec VPN interface

• SSL VPN History widget

• Port Block Allocation (PBA) for CGN to reduce logs

• Neighbor cache table for IPv6

• Improved HA diagnose commands

• Secure disk erasing

• Anonymize user names in logs

• VLAN interface traffic statistics

• Preserving the Class of Service bit

• Front panel illustration

• USB entropy token support

• Station locate for FortiWiFi units

• Switch Controller added models 200D, 240D, 600C, 800C, and 1000C

• Diagnose command for 5000 series FortiGate units

• New platforms for FortiGate-VM

• Supported RFCs