question on replication fix in 7.1.7 release notes

In the release notes for 7.1.7, there's a replication fix that says:

In firmware versions prior to v7.1.7, a rare condition existed that caused iSCSI login failures to occur after performing the firmware update to v8.0. This timing issue caused synchronous replication volumes to lose read/write access.


Does this mean we should update to 7.1.7 before 8.0.x to be 100% safe? Has this been fixed in 8.0.3 so any 7.1.x to 8.0.3 is safe?