Learn about new VM-Series firewall features and capabilities that are delivered outside of the PAN-OS software release cycle.
2022 Releases
| Month | Release | Supported On | Description |
| March | Panorama Plugin for VMware vCenter | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for VMware vCenter 1.0.1 introduces fixes for known issues. |
| February | VM-Series Plugin 3.0.0 | VM-Series Firewall | The VM-Series plugin 3.0.0 is the minimum version for VM-Series firewall running PAN-OS 10.2.0. This release of the plugin introduces enhanced Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2) for securing EC2 instances. |
| February | Panorama Plugin for Azure 4.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Azure version 4.0.0 includes enhancements to increase reliability and robustness. |
| February | Panorama Plugin for AWS 4.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for AWS version 4.0.0 includes enhancements to increase reliability and robustness. |
| February | Panorama Plugin for Cisco TrustSec 1.0.3 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Cisco TrustSec 1.0.3 introduces bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| February | VM-Series Plugin 2.1.5 | VM-Series | VM-Series Plugin 2.1.5 introduces bug fixes. |
| January | Panorama Plugin for AWS 3.0.2 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for AWS version 3.0.2 includes one feature enhancement—Proxy support for the Panorama Plugin for AWS. |
| January | Panorama Plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.3 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.3 introduces bug fixes. |
2020 Releases
| Month | Release | Supported On | Description |
| September | VM-Series Plugin 1.0.13 | VM-Series Firewall | The VM-Series plugin 1.0.13 addresses known issues. |
| September | Panorama Plugin for VMware NSX 3.2.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for VMware NSX 3.2.0 introduces two feature—Device Certificate Support for the VM-Series firewall on VMware NSX and Security Policy Extension from NSX-V to NSX-T. |
| July | Panorama Plugin for Azure 2.0.3 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Azure 2.0.3 introduces bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| July | Panorama Plugin for AWS 2.0.2 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for AWS 2.0.2 introduces bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| July | ESXi 7.0 | VM-Series Firewall | Introduces support for the VM-Series firewall on VMware ESXi 7.0. |
| June | VM-Series Firewall Plugin 1.0.12 | VM-Series Firewall | The VM-Series Firewall Plugin 1.0.12 introduces two new features—Additional PAN-OS Metrics for AWS, Azure, and GCP and VM-Series Startup and Health Logs for AWS—as well as fixes for known issues. |
| June | Panorama Plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.0-h10 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.0-h10 introduces bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| May | Multi-Model PAYG License | VM-Series Firewall | PAYG License Bundle for the VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, and VM-700 in Azure. |
| May | New AWS Region | VM-Series on AWS | Added support for the Africa (Cape Town) region. |
| April | Multi-Model PAYG License | VM-Series Firewall | PAYG License Bundle for the VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, and VM-700 in AWS. |
| April | Panorama Plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI 2.0.0 introduces two additional monitored attributes and the Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI Dashboard. |
| April | Panorama Plugin for VMware NSX 2.0.6 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for VMware NSX 2.0.6 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| April | VM-Series Plugin 1.0.11 | VM-series Firewall | The VM-Series plugin 1.0.11 introduces deeper visibility with AWS Cloudwatch as well as bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| March | Panorama Plugin for GCP 2.0.0 | Panorama | For deploying the VM-Series firewall on GCP, Panorama plugin for GCP 2.0.0 intoduces VM Monitoring and Autoscaling on GCP. |
| March | VM-Series Plugin 1.0.10 | VM-Series Firewall | The VM-Series plugin 1.0.10 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| March | Panorama Plugin for Azure 2.0.2 | Panorama | For deploying the VM-Series Firewall on Microsoft Azure, Panorama plugin for Azure 2.0.2 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| March | Panorama Plugin for AWS 2.0.1 | Panorama | For deploying the VM-Series Firewall on AWS, Panorama plugin for AWS 2.0.1 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| March | Panorama Plugin for AWS 1.0.1 | Panorama | For deploying the VM-Series Firewall on AWS, Panorama plugin for AWS 1.0.1 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| February | VM-Series Plugin 1.0.9 | VM-Series Firewall | The VM-Series plugin 1.0.9 introduces marketplace support for the VM-Series firewall on OCI, HA support for the VM-Series firewall on OCI, and bug fixes. |
| January | Panorama Plugin for AWS 2.0.0 |
Panorama | The Panorama plugin for AWS 2.0.0 introduces VM monitoring, support for securing AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters, and bug fixes. |
| Janurary | Panorama Plugin for VMware NSX 3.1.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for VMware NSX 3.1.0 introduces support for the VM-Series firewall on VMware NSX-T to secure East-West traffic. |
2019 Releases
| Month | Release | Supported On | Description |
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| November | Panorama Plugin for Cisco TrustSec 1.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Cisco TrustSec allows Panorama to learn about changes to the endpoints in your environment and use the information to create dynamic address groups and consistently enforce security policy. |
| November | Panorama Plugin for Azure 2.0.1 | VM-Series on Microsoft Azure | For deploying the VM-Series firewall on Microsoft Azure, Panorama plugin for Azure version 2.0.1 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| November | Panorama Plugin for VMware NSX 3.0.1 | VM-Series on VMware NSX | For deploying the VM-Series firewall on VMware NSX, Panorama plugin for NSX version 3.0.1 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| October | VM-Series plugin 1.0.6 | VM-Series firewalls | Required for the VM-Series Firewall on NSX-T (North-South) |
| August | VM-Series Firewall on Ciena | Integrations | VM-Series firewalls interoperate with Ciena. |
| August | New AWS Regions | VM-Series on AWS |
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| August | Panorama plugin on Cisco ACI 1.0.1 | Panorama | Introduces support for multiple IP addresses per endpoint and Cisco ACI 4.0 and later. |
| August | VMware vCenter plugin 1.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for VMware vCenter allows Panorama to learn about changes to the VMs in your environment and use the information to create dynamic address groups and consistently enforce security policy. |
| July | VM-Series firewall on AWS China Marketplace | AWS | The VM-Series BYOL AMI for PAN-OS 9.0 is available on the AWS China Marketplace for AWS China (Beijing) Region and AWS China (Ningxia) regions. |
| July | Azure plugin 2.0.0 | Panorama | The Panorama plugin for Azure v2.0.0 adds support for securing your workloads—VMs and containers—deployed within your Azure VNets. To deploy an auto scaling tier of VM-Series firewalls, you need the templates that deploy the hub and spoke architecture that enable you to secure inbound and outbound traffic from VMs within your Azure environment. And to secure Kubernetes services running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Clusters within a Azure VNet, use these templates. Panorama and the Azure plugin enable you to communicate with the Azure environment and configure the firewalls to secure the VMs and container workloads. |
| July | VMware NSX plugin 3.0.0 | Panorama | Supports NSX-T. Attach the VM-Series firewall to Tier-0 and Tier-1 routers in your NSX-T data center and secure north-south traffic. |
| June | VMware NSX plugin 2.0.5 | Panorama | For deploying the VM-Series firewall on NSX, VMware NSX plugin version 2.0.5 has bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
| June | Support for VM-Series on Cisco Cloud Services Platform | Partner Integration | To secure your data center, regional hub, and colocation Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments where you have the Cisco CSP 2100 and 5400 models, use the KVM (qcow2) image of the VM-Series firewalls as a network virtual service. |
| June | Support for Cisco ENCS on PAN-OS 9.0.2 | Partner Integration on Cisco ENCS | VM-Series firewalls running PAN-OS 9.0.2 or later can be deployed as a VNF on the supported Cisco ENCS models. |
| May | AWS China Ningxia region for VM-Series on AWS | AWS | PAN-OS 9.0 is available as a shared AMI on AWS China Ningxia region. |
| May | Support for Nutanix 5.10 on Panorama 9.0 | Integrations | Panorama 9.0 is officially qualified to manage VM-Series firewalls running supported versions of AHV. |
| May | AWS | For auto scaling the VM-Series firewalls with the ELB service, version 2.1 adds support for more combinations for deploying the AWS ALB and NLB as external and internal load balancers. Panorama is required for managing the auto scaling firewalls, and your firewalls can run PAN-OS 8.1 or PAN-OS 9.0. The templates in this version extend support for brownfield (existing VPC and applications) use cases, in addition to greenfield (new VPC and applications) deployments. | |
| March | AWS Europe (Stockholm) region for VM-Series on AWS | AWS | VM-Series firewall is available for Sweden in the Europe (Stockholm) region. You can deploy the firewall with PAN-OS 9.0 on C5/M5 instance types. |
| March | Support for Nuage Networks | Integrations | VM-Series firewalls interoperate with Nuage Networks. |
| March | Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI | Panorama for the Cisco ACI integration | The Panorama plugin for Cisco ACI allows you to poll your Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) cluster and learn about changes to the endpoints in your Cisco ACI clusters so that you can dynamically enforce security policy for these endpoints using dynamic address groups. |
| March | Support for Alibaba Cloud | Alibaba Cloud | VM-Series firewall versions 8.1.3 and 9.0 are available on Alibaba cloud in the International and Mainland China regions. |
| March | Support for Azure DoD regions | Azure | VM-Series firewalls are now available on the Azure DoD marketplace. The Azure DoD regions meet the security requirements for DoD Impact Level 5 data and FedRAMP High standards. |
| February | VMware NSX plugin 2.0.4 | VMware NSX | Stability enhancements, and the ability to periodically synchronize objects in Dynamic Address Groups between Panorama and the NSX Manager. |
| January | Support for VMWare ESXi 6.7 | VMWare ESXi | VM-Series firewalls running PAN-OS 8.0 and 8.1 are supported on VMWare ESXi 6.7. |
| January | Support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | OCI | VM-Series firewalls are now available for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You can protect and segment your workloads, prevent threats and improve visibility into your applications as you move to OCI. |
| January | Suppport for OpenStack Newton | OpenStack | VM-Series firewalls running PAN-OS 8.0 and 8.1 are supported on OpenStack 10. |
2018 Releases
| Month | Release | Supported On | Description |
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| December | Support for Versa Networks | Integrations | VM-Series firewalls interoperate with Versa Networks. |
| December | Multi-Model VM-Series ELA | _ | VM-Series Enterprise License Agreenent (VM-Series ELA) is a 1 or 3 year licensing agreement for VM-Series firewalls. The multi-model VM-Series ELA provides simplified license management with a single contract that allows you to deploy any model of the VM-Series firewall. |
| November | Cisco ENCS | Cisco ENCS | The next generation firewall can safely enable applications and protect your branch or remote offices, users and network from threats when you deploy the VM-Series firewall to your Cisco ENCS deployment. |
| November | Support for CentOS 7.5 | KVM | CentOS 7.5 is supported on the VM-Series firewall on KVM running PAN-OS 8.1.3. |
| November | AWS Custom AMI and Encrypted EBS Volumes | AWS | A custom VM-Series AMI gives you the consistency and flexibility with the PAN-OS version you want instead of being restricted to the AMI deployed on AWS public or GovCloud marketplaces. |
| November | VMware NSX plugin version 2.0.3 | VMWare NSX | Stability improvements. |
| October | Secure Kubernetes Services in a Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster | GCP | The Panorama plugin for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables you to deploy and manage VM-Series firewalls that secure services running in your GKE cluster. |
| October | VM-Series on Azure Stack | Azure | The VM-Series firewall on Azure Stack enables you to secure inter-subnet traffic between applications and outbound traffic from your servers. |
| October | Support for Texas Region on Azure Government | Azure | With PAN-OS 8.1, the VM-Series firewall is supported on the Texas region on Azure Government. |
| September | VM Monitoring on Azure | Azure | VM Monitoring enables you to enforce Security policy across all assets on Azure using the Azure plug-in in Panorama or the community support script found on GitHub. |
| September | Azure Transit VNet with Autoscaling (community supported) | Azure | The Azure Transit VNet with the VM-Series deploys a hub and spoke architecture to centralize commonly used services such as security and secure connectivity. The Azure Transit VNet 1.1 introduces support for auto scaling VM-Series firewalls using Azure VM Scale Sets in the spoke, and bootstrapping the firewalls in the hub and the spoke. |
| September | PAYG License on Azure Government | Azure | Support for Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) licenses for VM-Series Firewalls on Azure Government. |
| September | VM Monitoring on AWS | AWS | The new Panorama plugin for AWS enables you to monitor the EC2 instances in your large-scale AWS deployment. This capability allows you to choose the Panorama plugin or already available VM Information Sources on the firewall to monitor your AWS workloads. |
| September | Support for VM-Series firewalls with Juniper, VeloCloud, and Nutanix | Integrations |
VM-Series firewalls interoperate with the following partners:
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