FortiGate Firmware Choice

Today I break down my opinion on how to choose what FortiOS Firmware to run on your FortiGate.
We'll look at the Recommended Release Doc, Maturity Tags, Firmware Lifecycle, and what to keep in mind when you want to go against that advice.
Links:
🔷 Recommended Release for FortiOS: community.fort...
🔷 Firmware maturity levels: docs.fortinet....
🔷 Upgrade Path Tool: docs.fortinet....
🔷 Product Life Cycle: support.fortin...
🔷 Fortinet Product Life Cycle Policy: support.fortin...
🔷 Follow & Support Me! - gregabyte.io/l...
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[@johnthompson3522]

Thank you Greg. This was very helpful. I wish I would’ve had a few years ago. We now running into version differences. My 3700s are 7.4.2 and my 1500 is on 7.2.6

[@eltrem_th]

congratulations and thanks for your explanation for this knowlegend passed. hugges of brazil