WatchGuard Cloud Platform Release Notes

These release notes are for the WatchGuard Cloud platform. WatchGuard Cloud enables you to see and manage all your products in one place. From WatchGuard Cloud you can configure and manage products such as AuthPoint, Endpoint Security, FireCloud, and CloudDR, and review related metrics and reports.

For more information about new features, download the What's New in WatchGuard Cloud PowerPoint. For a full description of WatchGuard Cloud features and functionality, go to WatchGuard Cloud Help.

Release Information Date
Latest WatchGuard Cloud Update 22 October 2026
Release Notes Revision Date 22 October 2026

Release notes include customer-reported issues that were resolved in this release. Routine internal maintenance, localization updates, and other low-impact changes are not individually documented.

Latest Release

Release Date: 22 October 2026

New Features

New Notification Rule

You can now configure the DNSWatch Temporary Block notification rule in WatchGuard Cloud for Fireboxes. This rule generates an alert when DNSWatch temporarily blocks DNS traffic due to a high rate of DNS ANY queries or NXDOMAIN (non-existent domain) errors. For more information, go to Configure Firebox Notification Rules in Help Center.

Resolved Issues

  • This release includes a fix to make sure that when users are imported into the WatchGuard Cloud Directory (Configure > Directories and Domain Services > WatchGuard Cloud Directory > Users > Import CSV), user attributes that include accented characters such as é, ç, and è are not corrupted and shown as Unicode escape sequences. [WCD-55505]
  • Minor updates and bug fixes.

Previous Releases