[Release] Checkmk beta release 2.5.0b4

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new beta release 2.5.0b4 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This beta release ships with 25 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
4 changes for all commercial editions, 2 Ultimate specific and
0 Ultimate with multi-tenancy specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 19194 FIX: Windows MySQL plugin: fix mysql.exe binary detection for non-default installations…

Checks & agents

  • 19675 FIX: Cisco Meraki: handle non-integer switch port ids…
  • 19068 FIX: Fix Dell Compellent disk health state: not healthy reported as UNKNOWN…
  • 19472 FIX: Fix false CRIT for NetApp temperature sensors without transceivers…
  • 19470 FIX: NetApp ONTAP: fix crash for interfaces with no broadcast domain…
  • 19416 FIX: f5_bigip_pool: Fix services showing as changed after update…
  • 16915 FIX: inventory_win_networkadapter: dropped parsed data leads to empty HW/SW inventory…
  • 16916 FIX: ip_addresses_snmp: dropped parsed data leads to empty HW/SW inventory…
  • 18488 FIX: mk_oracle: fix unwanted output in oracle_asm_diskgroup section…

Core & setup

  • 17988 SEC: Livestatus injection in monitoring quicksearch…

Linux distributions

  • 19572 FIX: Fix installation on SLES 16.0: add missing libexslt0 dependency…

Livestatus

  • 18956 FIX: Fix crash if remote site is not alive…

Notifications

  • 17989 SEC: Potential livestatus injection in notification test mode…

Other components

  • 19530 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.10.0…

REST API

  • 19559 FIX: Fix widget titles not shown for non-admin dashboard viewers…

Setup

  • 16914 FIX: ‘Changes’ dialog: user setting regarding slideout and full page not being respected…
  • 19531 FIX: Fix access to Email check related ruleset without OAuth2 connections permission…
  • 19520 FIX: Fix missing Welcome snapin on fresh installations…
  • 19521 FIX: Fix wrong command shown in agent registration troubleshooting section…

Site management

  • 18900 FIX: Re-login required after updating from 2.4 to 2.5…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18899 FIX: Fix missing environment variables for special agents and active checks…
  • 18897 FIX: omd cleanup: Don’t try to purge dpkg-query…

User interface

  • 18584 Filters: Service filters renamed…
  • 17990 SEC: Potential livestatus injection in prediction graph page…
  • 18996 FIX: Fix ‘find on this page’…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Checks & agents

  • 19447 FIX: Kubernetes (OpenShift): Fix absence of Prometheus metrics data coming from newer Thanos versions…

Setup

  • 18599 Warn when editing MKP without version change…

Site management

  • 19008 FIX: Fix license enforcement aborting site update and leaving site broken…

User interface

  • 19558 FIX: Widget settings lost when re-editing a dashboard widget…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Checks & agents

  • 19471 FIX: Azure overview dashboard: fix empty Tenants “Azure agent info” column…

Site management

  • 19129 Increase OpenTelemetry Collector resilience towards metric backend outages…

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=2.5.0b4

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

Your Checkmk Team