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

Each day over the coming weeks we will 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.
• 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:
  • NTP pools and a larger number of NTP servers.
  • NFSv4 configuration.
  • Support for storing a Gaia OS backup in and restoring it from Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure.

Dynamic Routing

• Added support for new Dynamic Routing capabilities.
• BGP Extended Communities (RFC 4360).
• BGP Conditional Route Advertisement and Injection.
• Routing Table Monitor for Event Triggers.
• IPv4 and IPv6 Router Discovery on cluster members.
• Router Preference and Route Information option.
• IPv4 PIM-SSM with non-default prefixes.
• IPv4 PIM with BFD.
• IPv4 PIM neighbor filtering.
• IPv6 Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD).
• REST API calls for BGP, PIM, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD).
• REST API calls for Route Redistribution, Inbound Route Filters, and NAT Pools.
• REST API calls for IGMP.

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.