[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b3

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.5.0b3 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 41 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
3 changes for all commercial editions, 3 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

  • 19547 Mainline core features from Cisco Meraki MKP…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19562 Added New RA3S SNMP Check Plugins…
  • 19564 FIX: Fixed Macro Processing for HTTP Headers in HTTPv2 Check Plugin…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 16913 FIX: Generic Printer: Default output tray levels interpreted as ‘filled’ rather than ‘remaining’…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19549 FIX: Cisco Meraki: fix title for “API response codes” rule…
  • 19551 FIX: Fix Cisco Meraki agent cache implementation…
  • 19550 FIX: Fix Gerrit special agent cache implementation…
  • 19556 FIX: Fix Redfish agent error on BMCs that omit Systems from service root…
  • 19563 FIX: Improved Text of Unified Oracle Plugin ruleset…
  • 19193 FIX: Windows agent now opens firewall port before starting the agent controller…

Core & setup

  • 19415 FIX: Fix piggybacked host not handled correctly when source identifies it by IP address…

HW/SW Inventory

  • 19361 FIX: Fix crash when sorting by Native VLAN in CDP inventory…
  • 19586 FIX: Fix crash when sorting by Prefix length in IP addresses inventory…

Linux distributions

  • 18941 FIX: Fix installation failure on AlmaLinux 9 due to GLIBC_2.35 symbol mismatch…

Livestatus

  • 19585 FIX: Fixed various edge cases of the availability calculation…

Other components

  • 19529 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.49…

REST API

  • 18582 FIX: Fix negation in REST API Livestatus queries…

Setup

  • 19605 Add opt-in product usage analytics…
  • 19174 Debounce backend-provided dropdown suggestions…
  • 19033 SEC: Cross-site scripting in dashlet title…
  • 19509 FIX: Fix Windows agent download command…
  • 19468 FIX: Fix blank subscription entries and validate IDs in Azure v2 Quick Setup…
  • 19172 FIX: Fix crash when editing backup jobs with hypenated target IDs…
  • 19173 FIX: Fix dropdown width in global settings page on Firefox…
  • 19496 FIX: Fix wording in agent slideout registration instructions…

Site management

  • 18891 SEC: omd: Local privilege escalation when executing omd commands as root…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18890 FIX: omd: Permission denied: ‘/omd/sites/xxx/var/omd/tmpfs-dump.tar’…
  • 19469 FIX: Fix cmk-monitor-broker hanging CheckMk agent runs due to proxy misconfiguration…
  • 18894 FIX: omd restore: Fix error upon encountering empty site directory…
  • 18896 FIX: omd restore: Restoring from stdin raises exception…
  • 18893 FIX: omd: OPENSSL not found when trying to reload Apache…
  • 18892 FIX: omd: The site ‘piggyback-hub’ does not exist…

User interface

  • 18583 Allow single-row static text widgets in responsive dashboard grid…
  • 19615 Downtimes: include the author’s username in the comment…
  • 18581 FIX: Dashboard: config file format changed…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19518 FIX: CTRL+click on menu items breaks current tab…
  • 18585 FIX: Dashboards: Fix migration of view widgets with missing optional fields…
  • 19555 FIX: Fix missing “Inventory history of host” menu entry when site parameter is lost…
  • 19595 FIX: Fix page menu dropdowns hidden behind sticky table headers…
  • 18991 FIX: Fix status codes on ajax calls…
  • 19596 FIX: Fix unwanted border around numbers in availability table state columns…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Checks & agents

  • 19458 mk_podman: Add connection method configuration (API vs CLI)…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Metrics system

  • 19554 FIX: Fix perf-o-meter bar rendering in top list widgets…

User interface

  • 19553 FIX: Fix notification and alert timeline widgets ignoring time range setting…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Checks & agents

  • 19128 OTel: RED signal checks add 24-hour aggregation window…
  • 19127 FIX: OTel metrics: rate computation no longer applies to histogram types…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19125 FIX: OTel: Add data point limit to handle high cardinality metrics…

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=2.5.0b3

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

Your Checkmk Team