[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p18

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.4.0p18 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 21 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
4 changes for the Enterprise editions, 1 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

Checks & agents

  • 19060 Optimized details for clustered services…
  • 18552 check_httpv2: Add TLS compatibility mode option…
  • 18921 FIX: Check HTTP web service: Fix and improve text searches…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18969 FIX: Cleanup discovered host label files of abandoned hosts…
  • 18347 FIX: Clustered services: Fix for disabling services…
  • 18700 FIX: Ensure new lines before and after sql based sections in mk_oracle…
  • 18597 FIX: Fix various certificate verification errors for special agents…
  • 18947 FIX: Graylog agent configuration: Re-enable macro support for instance field…
  • 18732 FIX: Improve service summary for failover aggregated clustered services…
  • 18348 FIX: Removed services during bulk discovery…
  • 18318 FIX: Solaris agent issue when encryption enabled…
  • 18479 FIX: Use fractions of seconds for VSphere System Time Offset…
  • 18884 FIX: agent_kube: Abort querying OpenShift endpoint…
  • 18596 FIX: kernel_performance: Don’t record negative number of context switches on reboot…
  • 18885 FIX: kube: KeyError: ‘user’…

Linux distributions

  • 18937 FIX: Expanded System Command Wrappers for OpenSSL Compatibility…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Other components

  • 19035 SEC: NagVis: Updated to 1.9.48…

Setup

  • 19030 SEC: Remote alert handlers (Linux) exposes SSH keys in rule page…
  • 18542 FIX: Improve password store management…
  • 18910 FIX: Update action: Notification parameters with custom values can now be hashable…

User interface

  • 18325 FIX: Graphs: Fix position of indicator line

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 18544 FIX: TCP Fetcher returns error if the host IP can’t be resolved…
  • 18886 FIX: mk_oracle: Fix ‘chgrp: cannot access /etc/check_mk/sqlnet.ora: No such file’…

The Checkmk Micro Core

  • 19045 FIX: Do not send notifications for soft states…
  • 17759 FIX: Fixed removal of non-sticky acknowledgements…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 18703 FIX: Prevent aws_lambda_performance crash on missing metrics…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud (SaaS):

NO CHANGES

Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:

NO CHANGES

You can download Checkmk from our download page: Download Checkmk for free | Checkmk

List of all changes: Werks

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

Your Checkmk Team