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