New features in FortiOS 5.2 Patch 1

Chapter 1 What’s New for FortiOS 5.2.1 : New features in FortiOS 5.2 Patch 1

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the following features that were added to Patch 1 of FortiOS 5.2. See the release notes for a complete list of new features/resolved issues in this release.

• Include bandwidth and setup rate statistics in the event log

• Allow export of collected emails

• Ssl-ssh-profile is no longer mandatory when utm profiles are enabled

• Disallow multiple destination interfaces on an IPsec firewall policy

• Add a new diag test command for fnbamd

• Add deregister all option in diagnose endpoint control registration

• Redirect kernel messages to non-console terminals

• Add FortiExtender supported 3G/4G modem list

• Add a new option for STP forwarding

• Suppress probe response based on threshold in wireless controller vap

• Move global antivirus service settings into profile-protocol-options

• Add Ekahau Blink Protocol support and reorganization for station-locate

• Implement diagnose command to test flash SSD

• Online help improvements

• Add iprope check trace in flow trace

• Log id-fields reference improvements

• Add diagnose debug admin error-log command

• Improve hasync debug

• Improve interface list and switch mode

• Wizard improvement

• Allow VIP with port forwarding to permit ICMP

• Support captive portal for block notification page

• Add diagnose log clear-kernel-state command

• Apply new LDAP Tree Browser design to the User Wizard and User Group page

• New Join and try requests to FortiCloud for low-end models