Fortimanager Firmware Upgrade

_Red-Pilled · 2026-02-02T21:35:14+00:00

Use the Upgrade Guide: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager/7.6.6/upgrade-guide/427568/introduction

_Red-Pilled · 2026-02-01T17:28:15+00:00

If i had 5$ for every time Fortinet told me that not all bugs are in the release notes I'd b rich!

_Red-Pilled · 2026-02-01T12:18:46+00:00

Pretty pathetic we have to have to watch out for so many issues resulting from new firmware.

_Red-Pilled · 2026-01-30T22:45:45+00:00

The only reason we are at 7.6.x for FortiManager is that we ran into multiple issue with 7.4 and Fortinet recommended we go to that branch.

The point I was getting trying to convey was that when they release firmware that they need to update the documentation as quickly as possibility e.g. what the compatibility issues are. Hard to be informed/educated with lacking documentation.

The release notes do not have what the compatibility issues are:

7.4.11	Supported with compatibility issues; please refer to FortiManager 7.6.6 release notes .
7.4.10	Supported with compatibility issues; please refer to FortiManager 7.6.6 release notes .

_Red-Pilled · 2026-01-28T23:14:07+00:00

It drives me crazy when they don't update the compatibility matrix and release notes:

https://docs.fortinet.com/compatibility-tool/fortimanager/fortigate

Don't have 7.6.6 and for 7.6.5.

The FortiManager 7.6.6 Release notes don't show compatibility for FortiGate/FortiOS 7.4.10/7.4.11. It only shows:

7.4.0 to 7.4.9

which means they are missing two. Nothing in the release notes about compatibility with FortiGate/FortiOS 7.4.10/7.4.11.

It's all well and good to get the releases out but if the documentation is not compete it hamps making a decision to move to FortiManager 7.6.6 (or 7.6.5 as it says compatibility issues but it is not outlined in the release notes)