FortiOS 5.4.1 Release Notes

Only WAN Optimization           No change. enabled
Both Logging & WAN Disk is reserved for logging. If WAN Optimization Optimization enabled is configured, the WAN Optimization cache is lost.
Two Disk Platforms (First disk reserved for Logging; second reserved for WAN Optimization)
                                                   Only Logging enabled on     No change.

the first disk

Only Logging enabled on        Logging is changed to the first disk. Logging data the second disk    is lost on the second disk.
Only WAN Optimization WAN Optimization is changed to the second disk. enabled on the first disk WAN Optimization cache is lost on the first disk.
Only WAN Optimization Second disk reserved for WAN Optimization. First enabled on the second disk reserved for logging even when the log disk disk status CLI command is disabled: log-disk-

status=disable.

Both Logging & WAN First disk reserved for logging. Second disk Optimization enabled reserved for WAN Optimization.

FortiGate-VM 5.4 for VMware ESXi

Upon upgrading to FortiOS 5.4.1, FortiGate-VM v5.4 for VMware ESXi (all models), no longer supports the VMXNET2 vNIC driver.

Downgrading to previous firmware versions

Downgrading to previous firmware versions results in configuration loss on all models. Only the following settings are retained:

l operation mode l interface IP/management IP l static route table l DNS settings l VDOM parameters/settings l admin user account l session helpers l system access profiles.

When downgrading from 5.4 to 5.2, users will need to reformat the log disk.


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3 thoughts on “FortiOS 5.4.1 Release Notes

  1. David

    FYI. I ran into a terrible problem using a Fortigate VM00. 5.4.1 will not run because the virtual appliance only has 1GB of memory available. Fortinet was nice enough to diagnose the problem, but really does not have an easy way of upgrading to the 2GB virtual appliance.

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  2. Pablo

    Problems of download speed, I have a fortigate 30e and I have problems in the download speed 4.2 mbps, instead in upload speed is correct 89.55 mbps, I do not know where the problem may come from. I have version 5.4.1 build1064. You can help me.

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