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R82.10 Public EA

Check Point has launched the Public R82.10 Public EA for the upcoming release R82.10. See also the full Release Notes. To join the Public EA you can register here. R82.10 delivers stronger threat prevention,...

What you need to know about Jumbo Hotfixes

As a rule of thumb please follow the advises below regarding installation of Jumbo Hotfixes: Below you’ll find important links for Jumbo Hotfix Accumulators of the current supported releases. Note that End-of-Support is announced...

R82 now recommended

A few weeks ago Check Point announced that R82 together with the latest recommend Jumbo Hotfix is now official the recommended release. For more information about R82 see our article or see sk181127 –...

R81.10 - AI Based Threat Prevention

Extended support R81.10

Check Point extended the support for R81.10 from June 2025 to March 2026. The extended support is mentioned on the Support Life Cycle Policy The recommended software version is still R81.20 with the latest...

CPX 2025

This week, the CPX2025 EMEA took place in Vienna. A great event to discover new features. Speak and listen to a lot of interesting people. A big thanks to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd....

Hello world!

After 9 months finally a new blog on checkpoint.engineer. Behind the screen there is a new person who’s gone try to restart the checkpoint.engineer blog posts. A lot of things happened in the past....

R82 EA Program now available

Check Point announced the R82 “Aurora” Early Availability program for production environments only. A date for the Public EA (for lab environments) has not been announced yet, but there are speculations that R82 will...

Introducing PWA and Push Notifications

Today, I am thrilled to announce the addition of two new (experimental) features to this site which are Progressive Web App (PWA) and Push Notifications. You can add this site to your device’s home...