If you have already seen my earlier posts, you will know all about the R82 Early availability Program available here.

Keep reading to discover some of the planned new features on offer in R82:

Gaia Operating System

This release boosts Gaia OS with a new OS kernel and multiple new configuration options for better security, enhanced networking and a simpler experience.

Enhance Gaia OS with:

• Support for VSX mode in Gaia Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
• DHCPv6 server, DHCPv6 client, and DHCPv6 client for prefix-delegation.
• Ability to configure the order of the “AAA” authentication (TACACS, RADIUS, Local authentication) in Gaia Portal and Gaia Clish.
• DNS Proxy forwarding domains, which allows configuring specific DNS servers per DNS suffix.

New Gaia Clish and Gaia Portal configuration items:

• Two-Factor Authentication for Gaia OS login using time-based authenticator apps (Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator).
• NTP pools and a larger number of NTP servers.
• NFSv4 configuration.

Keyboard layout

• Support for storing a Gaia OS backup in and restoring it from Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure.
  Please note all of these product features are in their early stages and at the discretion of Check Point could be removed from the final release.