Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new beta release 2.1.0b2 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This test release ships with 64 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
8 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
This release will be in active maintenance until 2022-04-15.
The passive maintenance will be until 2022-05-15. For details take
a look at the Checkmk versions chapter of the Checkmk handbook.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
- 13604 The agent controller featuring transport encryption and compression now supports Windows 7 as well
- 13605 win-agent creates allow-legacy-pull on upgrade from 2.0(or earlier) version
- 13772 Add Google Cloud Platform support
- 13807 KUBE kube_cluster_info addition of Cluster Info agent plugin and labels for Kubernetes cluster
- 13343 KUBE: kube_pod_info addition of the controller name
- 13699 Move ruleset āCheck for correct version of Checkmk agentā
- 13763 Restructure and extend monitoring of agent plugins and local checks
- 13769 kubernetes: addition of cluster name label to all k8s objects
- 13697 āCheck_MK Agentā service: Combine with new plugin service
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13698 Deprecate configuration variable āagent_min_versionā
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13344 KUBE: kube_pod_status updated rule set
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13703 FIX: āRemove all and find newā not working in 2.1.0b1
- 13761 FIX: cmk_site_statistics: Fix crash for pre-1.6 CRE sites
- 13759 FIX: logwatch: Fix reclassification and persistance
- 13694 FIX: Agent deployment: Donāt try to activate incompatible units
- 13696 FIX: Checkmk Agent FreeBSD: Empty statgrab sections
- 13411 FIX: Cisco Prime: Add host options
- 13578 FIX: Do not ignore debian sec updates in apt
- 13579 FIX: Expand discovery of FAST LTA checks
- 13773 FIX: Fix aarch64 cpu detection
- 13770 FIX: KUBE agent_kube handling of exception case when no cluster collector data is processed
- 13809 FIX: KUBE kube_collector_info fix url representation
- 13812 FIX: KUBE kube_cpu use latest cpu usage value when no new data is available
- 13808 FIX: KUBE kube_replicas change replicas desired count from status to spec
- 13410 FIX: KUBE: Adapt kubernetes labels to Checkmkās labelling requirements
- 13341 FIX: KUBE: Conversion of timestamps
- 13787 FIX: KUBE: agent_kube handling of unscheduled pods
- 13345 FIX: KUBE: kube_node_conditions handling of missing node conditions
- 13786 FIX: KUBE: kube_pod_restarts handling of missing restart rates
- 13342 FIX: KUBE: remove unnecessary labels from inventory
- 13700 FIX: Move configuration options for some undesired agent properties
- 13831 FIX: NFS and CIFS mounts: show default parameters in GUI
- 13757 FIX: Ps check on Linux: Handle processes with deleted cgroups
- 13577 FIX: Service creation when pinging all IPv4/v6
- 13774 FIX: Update list of available Infoblox services
- 13740 FIX: Veeam: Make veeam_cdp_jobs section optional
- 13775 FIX: Windows license localisation
- 13704 FIX: apc_symmetra: Transformation of old rulesets failed
- 13413 FIX: cisco_cpu_multiitem: remove unsupported CPUs
- 13565 FIX: cmciii_lcp_water: crashed when water flow measurements are missing
- 13776 FIX: cmciii_lcp_waterflow: sensor discovered regardless of whether there are measurements
- 13816 FIX: fix chrony and systemd-timesynced interaction
- 13758 FIX: ipmi_sensors: Fix crash due to incomplete IPMI data
- 13739 FIX: jenkins_nodes: Allow negative timespan for Clock difference
- 13563 FIX: kube_replicas: alert when replicas are not ready/not updated
- 13778 FIX: liebert_system_events: show OK state when there are inactive events
- 13539 FIX: lnx_thermal: Fix wrong temperature scaling and flapping vanished/new services
- 13564 FIX: oracle_processes: crashed when used with 1.6 agent plugin for solaris
- 13695 FIX: Adapt commandline interface of agent controller
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13702 FIX: Agent controller: rename register-surrogate-pull to proxy-register
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13540 FIX: Do not forward data from management board to host specific services if no host data is available
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13705 FIX: Special agents should not produce a check_mk section
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Core & setup:
- 13084 FIX: Reintroduce housekeeping job before activation runs
Linux distributions:
- 13315 Add support for Checkmk Appliance 1.5+
REST API:
- 13638 FIX: REST API: Two-factor protected accounts may not access API
Setup:
- 13640 Deprecation of Web API
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 13414 FIX: Fix copying of views into dashboard
- 13672 FIX: Fix possible KeyError on ruleset page with predifined conditions
- 13764 FIX: Make āDiscard all pending changesā available
- 13762 FIX: Ruleset āCisco quality of serviceā: Add missing title to suboption
User interface:
- 13392 GUI: Improve the two-factor authentication (2FA) page
- 13390 FIX: Export rule representation for API: New page, styling and navigation
- 13639 FIX: Fix displaying agent output on crash report page
- 13674 FIX: Fix usage of system wide CAs after update
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
- 13693 FIX: Dedecated agent updater systemd units
- 12703 FIX: Drop experimental PySNMP backend
Core & setup:
- 13295 Microcore config generation: made exceptions from worker processes more clear
- 12704 FIX: Do not create Carbon data if no connection is configured
- 12702 FIX: Improve performance of recurring downtimes
Reporting & availability:
- 13723 SEC: Fix permission check when editing a report
The Checkmk Micro Core:
- 13618 FIX: Checkmk free edition ships with same amount of fetcher helpers as enterprise
User interface:
- 13760 FIX: Alert Statistics Dashlet: Fix crash (internal error)
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
You can download Checkmk from our download page:
Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback@checkmk.com.
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team
