[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b2

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.5.0b2 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 64 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
3 changes for all commercial editions, 5 Ultimate specific and
0 Ultimate with multi-tenancy specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk editions:

Checks & agents

  • 19552 Redfish: add PDU, power consumption, and power redundancy monitoring…
  • 19192 Windows agent: disable WinDbg logging by default…
  • 19467 Azure special agent v2: enhanced performance and improved monitoring structure designed for multi-subscription monitoring…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19297 FIX: NetApp ONTAP special agent: section failures no longer abort all monitoring…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19445 FIX: kube_node_count: Fix control-plane node detection with default role name…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18971 FIX: netapp_ontap_{volumes,snapshots}: Allow continued use of old netapp_api_{volumes,snapshots} service name…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19457 FIX: Docker container disk IO: service goes UNKNOWN when all counters are zero…
  • 19528 FIX: Fix HyperV Checkpoints crash on negative checkpoint age…
  • 19360 FIX: Fix LLDP cache crash on IPv4 address reported as IPv6…
  • 19428 FIX: Fix POP3-based email active checks crashing with AssertionError…
  • 19101 FIX: Fix aruba_sw_temp to skip absent temperature sensors…
  • 19444 FIX: Kubernetes: handle missing creationTimestamp gracefully…
  • 19184 FIX: Only parse required keys for Bazel plugins…
  • 19498 FIX: cisco_temperature: Sensors with empty description are no longer skipped…
  • 19283 FIX: corosync latency: prevent links from disappearing when no latency samples are present…
  • 16912 FIX: host_labels_if: don’t filter IPv4 APIPA (link-local) addresses…
  • 18975 FIX: ibm_mq_queues: Support additional QStatus informations from CSQM format…

Core & setup

  • 19067 FIX: cleanup_old_configs: Keep the two latest serials…

Notifications

  • 19425 Add button to just save notification on edit…
  • 19424 FIX: Fix notifications search query disappearing…
  • 19099 FIX: Improve notification statistics livestatus query performance…
  • 19504 FIX: Preserve search query after editing notification rule…

REST API

  • 18989 SEC: Enforce permission checks on Quick Setup endpoints…
  • 19493 FIX: downtimes: deleting downtimes by hostgroup should match on the exact hostgroup…

Setup

  • 19171 Show “no results found” in new form autocompleter…
  • 19524 Update time-specific parameters button rendering…
  • 19526 SEC: Fix XSS in pending changes popup…
  • 19411 FIX: “Use new service names” global setting now uses titled sections per plugin…
  • 19490 FIX: Activate changes slideout: increase the timeout and update pending changes on activation failure…
  • 19487 FIX: Activate changes slideout: modify ui when there are no pending changes…
  • 19488 FIX: Activate changes slideout: show success together with warning/error messages…
  • 19502 FIX: Add focus ring to Welcome Page buttons…
  • 19512 FIX: Agent connection test: Token generation only shown for tabs that need it…
  • 18485 FIX: Changelog (Werks): Only show applicable Editions
  • 19510 FIX: Clarify that agent registration token is for one-time use…
  • 19043 FIX: Crash when displaying rules with wildcard host name conditions…
  • 19503 FIX: Display host name under service name when displaying global search results…
  • 19505 FIX: Fix Windows agent command compatibility issues…
  • 19494 FIX: Fix audit log showing wrong role name after cloning a user role…
  • 19523 FIX: Fix crash when saving a configuration bundle that no longer exists…
  • 19522 FIX: Fix crash when viewing parameters for services of third-party check plugins…
  • 19506 FIX: Fix dialog background color in light theme…
  • 19508 FIX: Fix icons contrast in dark theme…
  • 19527 FIX: Fix topology data files deleted on remote sites during activation…
  • 18980 FIX: Fix widget preview growing unbounded in width…
  • 19582 FIX: LDAP fetch plugin attributes for login…
  • 19477 FIX: LDAP: User Synchronize for Active Directory can unlock users…
  • 18376 FIX: Setup: Fixed missing service labels conditions for most service rulesets…
  • 19507 FIX: Simplify page menu search reset process…
  • 19489 FIX: activate changes slideout: keep number of pending changes call running on site restarts…
  • 19491 FIX: activate changes: on activate changes failures, request latest changes…
  • 19492 FIX: activate changes: remove tooltips from status bar in the slideout…

Site management

  • 18377 FIX: Global setting ‘Apache process tuning’: Fixed warning for invalid configuration…

User interface

  • 19525 SEC: Fix XSS in Unified Search via unescaped host/service names…
  • 19517 FIX: Fix service state filter not shown in filter sidebar…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17866 FIX: Dashboard: Validation of hex color codes after version update…
  • 19516 FIX: Fix accordion animation jump and bottom padding on welcome page…
  • 18981 FIX: Fix dashboard widget edit controls hidden by missing filter warning…
  • 19519 FIX: Fix empty host/service group columns in CSV and JSON export…
  • 19511 FIX: Fix unified search input width…
  • 19322 FIX: Graphs: Fix overlapping of title and time information
  • 19299 FIX: Restrict RabbitMQ inter-site broker to TLS 1.3 only…
  • 19514 FIX: Tabs and toggle buttons overflow at narrow browser widths…
  • 19320 FIX: Views: Fix grouping by HW/SW inventory attributes…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Ntopng integration

  • 19044 FIX: Fix inaccurate alert counts, loading spinners, and unstable interface selection in ntop dashlets…

Setup, site management

  • 19497 FIX: SAML: Users with no matching role mapping now receive default roles instead of empty roles…

User interface

  • 19323 FIX: Custom graph: The timeframe adjustment is only retained during the editing session or when switching from the related graph view…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Agent Bakery

  • 19427 FIX: Agent Controller auto-registration: Re-bake agents when automation secret changes…

Checks & agents

  • 19282 Deprecation of Azure VM instances and Azure storage accounts dashboards…
  • 18743 FIX: OTel: Disabled collector configurations are still applied…
  • 18744 FIX: OTel: Hosts monitored only via OpenTelemetry are incorrectly treated as ping hosts…

Setup

  • 19343 FIX: Enforce “Query metric backend from custom graph editor” permission on graph view, edit and AJAX endpoints…

Changes in Checkmk Cloud:

NO CHANGES

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate with multi-tenancy:

NO CHANGES

You can download Checkmk from our download page: https://checkmk.com/download

List of all changes: https://checkmk.com/werks?product=cmk&version=2.5.0b2

We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a suultimatessful monitoring,

Your Checkmk Team