Information about Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1

The latest version is R75, introducing the Application Control Software Blade, Identity Awareness, the Integrated DLP Software Blade and Mobile Access blade. In parallel, Endpoint Security R80 has been released at the very end of 2010. 
Before, R71 has been published in May 2010. New Software Blades for DLP and SmartEvent have been published with it. It's based on the latest major release, published in March 2009: R70. This version introduced Software Blades, making the licensing very modular. Because R7x is a new major release, a new license is needed to get access to all new features. Please contact your reseller to obtain it.
Please be aware that Check Point has changed the licensing for RAS - today, you need an Endpoint Security Container with Service Blades for the use of e.g. VPN, Full Disk Encryption or Endpoint Security Secure Access. 

Licenses for NGX and earlier will only work with R70. Since R71 the new licensing scheme using Software Blades is strictly enforced. If you haven't updated yet, please do it. In most cases you can do it for free in your UserCenter account.

Other versions (NGX R65, NGX R62, NGX R61, and NGX R60) were officially supported until March 2011 and May 2009, respectively. If you cannot upgrade, please contact your reseller to obtain (restricted) support. A quarterly fee per system is due. If you still have NG AI (e.g. R54/R55) in production, please upgrade as soon as possible!

R75:
The latest software is R75.30, delivering corrections and bugfixes, but no new features. R75.20 is available since August 2011. This version offers many improvements regarding URL filtering combined with many improvements regarding DLP as well as SSL inspection. The earlier published R75.10 delivers some improvements like e.g. better performance for the GUI, support of Edge Firmware 8.2 and SecuRemote R75.10.

R71:
In July 2011, version R71.40 has been published, delivering more functionality and compatibility. When using the SSL VPN Software Blade (i.e. Mobile Access Blade), please use at least version R71.10, since there is a security problem when using SSL VPN in R71 without patch. 

R70:
The latest version of R70 is R70.40, but please be informed that currently there is no upgrade path to R71 (but for R75). So using R70.30 might still be useful if an upgrade to R71 is planned. Some important improvements as well as more features (to be licensed) have been introduced with Version R70.20. It's available for all users of R70. At least this version should be used in productive environments. As usual, please regard that the GUI needs to be of the same version as the Security Management, e.g. SmartConsole 70.30 for the latest versions of R70.

NGX R65:
When using this (outdated and no more supported) version, you should use HFA_70 for NGX R65. Since December 2007 the corresponding GUI für Microsoft Windows is SmartConsole NGX R65 HFA_01. 

Older versions are no more supported.