[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p12

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.5.0p12 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 39 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
3 changes for all commercial editions, 2 Ultimate specific,
0 Ultimate with multi-tenancy specific and 0 Cloud specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk editions:

Checks & agents

  • 20252 Gerrit: show cache age for version check…
  • 19745 New check plug-ins: F5 rSeries appliances (F5OS)…
  • 22103 FIX: Check_MK Discovery: do not crash on older periodic discovery rules…
  • 20234 FIX: Correct inline help of check_elasticsearch_query search pattern and field names…
  • 22178 FIX: Kubernetes: Fix missing CPU usage when the cluster collector returns unchanged data…
  • 20109 FIX: Qmail Queue: Fix failing parsing of the qmail_stats section…
  • 16929 FIX: Solaris memory monitoring: fix crash and incorrect swap values with top…
  • 20187 FIX: cpu_utilization_os: Fix bogus multi-year “under high load” duration for Docker/LXC containers…
  • 20195 FIX: infoblox: Fix crash on unknown NIOS service IDs…
  • 20254 FIX: innovaphone_licenses: fix division by zero error…
  • 20253 FIX: innovaphone_licenses: fix metric lower boundary…
  • 22105 FIX: job: don’t crash on jobs with a missing start time…
  • 22141 FIX: nimble_volumes: Fix crash on volumes without monitoring data…
  • 20184 FIX: proxmox_ve: Fix crash when monitoring an IPv6-only host via IP…
  • 19968 FIX: rds_licenses: stop error messages from corrupting other agent sections…

Notifications

  • 19603 FIX: Fix disabling notifications for a host or service…

REST API

  • 22104 FIX: REST API: reject rule values in an outdated format when creating or editing rules…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19886 FIX: Fix service discovery REST API permissions…

Setup

  • 22115 SEC: Fix missing authorization for viewing background jobs…
  • 20126 FIX: Agent files of shipped plugins are downloadable without a login again…

Site management

  • 22143 FIX: omd backup: Fix corrupted Event Console history in the archive…
  • 19719 FIX: omd restore: Prevent ‘KeyError: "linkname’…
  • 22142 FIX: omd update: Abort on a damaged skeleton hierarchy…
  • 22144 FIX: omd: Don’t report errors about uninitialized sites…

User interface

  • 22101 FIX: All hosts page requires the ‘view.allhosts’ permission…
  • 22130 FIX: Fix crash in custom attribute filter without a value…
  • 22128 FIX: Fix crash on User messages page with older messages…
  • 22176 FIX: Fix crash on the schedule downtime form…
  • 22175 FIX: Fix crash on the view properties page…
  • 22190 FIX: Fix crash scheduling host downtime…
  • 22174 FIX: Fix crash when linking to another view…
  • 22131 FIX: Fix crash when removing downtimes in some views…
  • 22129 FIX: Fix crash when saving a view with an empty joined column…
  • 22100 FIX: Global search: always show the host of a matching host address…
  • 22177 FIX: Report a malformed filter request…
  • 22133 FIX: Views and dashboards: fix crash on a malformed filter context…
  • 22132 FIX: Views: fix crash on single service views without a service context…
  • 22154 FIX: Views: fix crash on visuals without a context option…
  • 22173 FIX: Views: fix crash without permission for the Host view…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 20005 FIX: Agent updater: Show meaningful error when authentication to the central site fails…

Checks & agents

  • 20186 Synthetic Monitoring: Bypass option to allow root agent deployment on Linux in combination with RCC…

User interface

  • 22127 FIX: Fix crash in SLA views for services without availability data…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Checks & agents

  • 22074 FIX: Azure v2: Resource Health service no longer flaps when Azure reports no health status…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!

Telemetry

  • 18760 FIX: Deleted OpenTelemetry collector configurations no longer affect the update…

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=2.5.0p12

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

Your Checkmk Team