[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.4.0p5

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.4.0p5 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 33 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
6 changes for the Enterprise editions, 7 Cloud Edition specific and
0 Managed Services Edition specific changes.

Changes in all Checkmk Editions:

BI

  • 18110 FIX: BI: Improve performance when fetching BI data…

Checks & agents

  • 18045 ESX VM memory: Add perfometer which shows the consumed host memory
  • 17774 jolokia_jvm_threading_pool: Improved handling of unlimited max threads and extended ruleset…
  • 18003 netapp ontap: addition of options to select resources to fetch…
  • 17775 FIX: netscaler_vserver: Exclude “loadbalancing group” entity type from discovery and check state…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17965 FIX: Discovery on remote sites did not respect newly synced MKPs…
  • 18201 FIX: Disk IO discovery correctly saves values when separate checks are not enabled…
  • 18018 FIX: Unbreak rendering of scalars in the lower part of a bidirectional graph…
  • 18239 FIX: Update GCP region and multi-region mapping from latest source…
  • 17101 FIX: Use OpenSSL’s default cipher suites for TLS…
  • 18224 FIX: bdtms_tape_module: Unbreak “TypeError (‘state’ must be a checkmk State constant, got …)”…
  • 17976 FIX: check-httpv2: show error source on reqwest errors in check output…
  • 18059 FIX: f5_bigip_pool: Implement one more up state…
  • 18107 FIX: local: Allow multiple spaces as separators…
  • 18109 FIX: logwatch_ec: Avoid freezing if event console is unresponsive…
  • 17623 FIX: netapp_ontap_cpu: Update cpu utilization calculation method…
  • 18143 FIX: unix agents: Print valid agent sections if DISABLE_CACHING is enabled…

Event console

  • 17754 FIX: Do not open an unlimited amount of file descriptors in the EC…
  • 17753 FIX: Fixed error handling for EC bulk commands…

Notifications

  • 18192 FIX: Bulk notifications display wrong status in summary…
  • 17974 FIX: notification_rules: add update action to ensure rules have rule IDs…

Other components

  • 18211 FIX: Deinstallation of MKP causes GUI to crash…

REST API

  • 18202 FIX: Fix REST API saving unmigrated rule values if migrated values pass validation…

Setup

  • 17986 Add message broker certificates to certificate overview page…
  • 18120 Offer folder cleanup option for distributed monitoring deletion…
  • 17953 Permission matrix includes internal names…
  • 18191 FIX: Fix saving of Network interfaces and switch ports rule…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18119 FIX: Fix tag drop-down with a single choice…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18189 FIX: Host name validation on “Add host” page…
  • 18230 FIX: Tags: redirect to tag list on save…
  • 17975 FIX: rule_search: allow none_of & one_of when searching for tags…

User interface

  • 18244 FIX: Host tag values showing N/A…
  • 14250 FIX: Parent/Child topology: Improved performance when processing more than 500 hosts…

Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:

Agent Bakery

  • 17102 FIX: Agent Signature Key Expiry and Notifications…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 17545 FIX: Linux agent installer uses correct paths for remote alert handler…

Checks & agents

  • 18125 FIX: Rename alert/event handler option in “Checkmk site performance and settings” rule…

Setup

  • 18072 FIX: Agent signature keys: Add expire date and time…

The Checkmk Micro Core

  • 17755 FIX: Ignore empty CMC state files…

User interface

  • 18190 FIX: Deduplication of entries in top list dashlet…

Changes in the Checkmk Cloud Edition:

Checks & agents

  • 18108 OTel: Include unit in metric name…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18105 OTel: Default hostname computation for Prometheus hosts…
  • 18165 Open Telemetry: Allow mutiple metrics to be monitored per rule…
  • 18161 otel-collector: Add autocomplete field for hostname computation…
  • 18104 FIX: OTel: Fix hostname computation when using different rules…
  • 18106 FIX: OTel: Improve tmpfs usage…
  • 18094 FIX: agent_prism: Avoid calling /ha endpoint on non OVH exclusive cluster…

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

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:star_struck: for 17102 FIX: Agent Signature Key Expiry and Notifications…

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Gerd, thanks for catching this in the first place

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