Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 2.5.0p18 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This stable release ships with 79 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
8 changes for all commercial editions, 6 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:
BI
- 16936 FIX: BI now rejects invalid regular expressions…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 16934 FIX: BI aggregations rule: accept aggregation groups unknown to the local site…
- 16935 FIX: BI availability now respects “See all hosts and services”…
Checks & agents
- 22245 mk-oracle: New experimental agent plug-in for Oracle databases…
- 22392 netapp_ontap_snapvault: Configurable monitoring state for the transfer state…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 22191 Network interfaces: service details reveal index, description and alias…
- 19231 SEC: Fix privilege escalation via unprotected Windows agent data folder…
- 22169 SEC: check_httpv2: Remove untrusted eMudhra (emSign) root CA certificates…
- 19230 FIX: mk-sql: fix slow connections query…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 19226 FIX: Windows agent now accepts connections right after a fresh installation…
- 22282 FIX: Apply individual Checkmk service states to special agents…
- 22763 FIX: DB2 Connections: DB2 error in output…
- 22761 FIX: FAST LTA capacity: empty used value…
- 22772 FIX: HP MSA: component with empty location…
- 22762 FIX: HR MIB processes: empty service name…
- 22777 FIX: Huawei switches: detect OID tree 56813…
- 22760 FIX: Interface groups: no interfaces reported…
- 22285 FIX: Jenkins: Report failed requests…
- 22181 FIX: Kubernetes 1.35 is now officially supported…
- 22774 FIX: Memory (Linux): missing memory values…
- 22781 FIX: Meraki licenses: per-device licensing…
- 22756 FIX: MySQL Connections: incomplete agent data…
- 22513 FIX: NTNX special agent: no crash for hosts with an IPv6 address…
- 22764 FIX: Number of threads: maximum reported as 0…
- 22778 FIX: OMD broker: survive HTML error pages…
- 22757 FIX: Process discovery: empty service name…
- 22644 FIX: Process discovery: reject replacements without regular expression groups…
- 22284 FIX: Pure Storage FlashArray: Failed sections showed data of other sections…
- 22492 FIX: Redfish: skip empty temperature entries in discovery…
- 22755 FIX: Silverpeak: alarms without alarm details…
- 22386 FIX: Splunk: Report failed requests…
- 22759 FIX: TP-Link POE Power: empty SNMP answer…
- 19261 FIX: Windows agent MSI: Ship signed PowerShell scripts…
- 22287 FIX: apc_symmetra: Report exceeded battery lifetime of battery pack cartridges…
- 22786 FIX: ceph_status: handle empty agent section…
- 22639 FIX: citrix_state_hosting_server: Don’t crash on machines without hosting server…
- 22780 FIX: db2_bp_hitratios: show DB2 errors…
- 22740 FIX: db2_connections: don’t crash if the port is missing…
- 22744 FIX: fireeye_bypass: don’t crash on an empty SNMP reply…
- 22642 FIX: hr_cpu: Don’t crash on empty processor load…
- 22776 FIX: keepalived: unparsable virtual address…
- 22742 FIX: logwatch: don’t crash if the worst message is an empty line…
- 22684 FIX: lvm_vgs: ignore foreign lines in agent output…
- 22193 FIX: multipath: update no longer fails with “non-empty params vanished”…
- 22783 FIX: nfsiostat: support one line per mount…
- 22697 FIX: oracle_performance: report non-integer file I/O counters…
- 22563 FIX: palo_alto_sessions: Show configured session levels in the graph…
- 22741 FIX: postgres_bloat: report agent output without column header…
- 22161 FIX: smart_posix: Handle ‘Pending defect count’ in smartctl output…
- 22743 FIX: veeam_client: don’t crash on a negative backup age…
Core & setup
- 22810 FIX: Predictive levels: recreate broken files…
Event console
- 19593 Make Event Console GUI filters for regexes negatable…
- 19594 FIX: Event simulator: Fix “Match site” for remote sites…
HW/SW Inventory
- 22398 FIX: Docker: Node name of containers missing in HW/SW Inventory…
- 22804 FIX: ip_addresses: skip invalid address rows…
- 22785 FIX: win_os: survive duplicate OS rows…
- 22787 FIX: win_wmi_software: read dotted dates…
Other components
- 22623 SEC: Update certifi to remove untrusted eMudhra (emSign) root CA certificates…
REST API
- 22710 FIX: REST API: permission denials now return 403 on the remaining endpoints…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 22665 FIX: Fix wrong REST API value of LDAP host/service visibility sync…
- 19889 FIX: REST API: Comment creation endpoints hidden from the interactive GUI…
Setup
- 22816 FIX: Activation: Broker connection errors…
- 22210 FIX: Fix check parameter errors for ASM disk groups and other rulesets…
- 22808 FIX: Forms: no crash on file upload fields…
- 22817 FIX: Password fields after a session change…
- 22813 FIX: Quick Setup: Sites with keyword IDs…
- 16938 FIX: Tag usage: Show ‘one of’/‘none of’ rules…
Site management
- 22268 omd: Set X-Forwarded-Proto/-Ssl headers for sites automatically…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 22622 FIX: Fix file upload restriction loosened to 1GB…
- 19260 FIX: Show correct “installed size” during debian installation…
User interface
- 19888 Dashboard sharing indicator now says “Public sharing”…
- 22814 FIX: Dashboards: Open despite unknown widgets…
- 22688 FIX: Global search: keep special characters on Enter…
- 22693 FIX: Global search: no blank page on Enter with empty query…
- 22806 FIX: Graphs: accept empty title format…
- 22797 FIX: Unit lookup: handle missing metric…
- 22448 FIX: Views: “Docker node” column showed a wrong node for containers with errors…
- 22387 FIX: Views: Grouping by “Docker node” put every container in its own group…
- 22811 FIX: Views: perf data with unbalanced quotes…
Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:
Agent Bakery
- 22168 FIX: mk-job: Fix job folder access in single-directory deployment…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 22167 FIX: Agent bakery: Keep all scriptlets of a plug-in for one package step…
Dynamic host configuration
- 19229 FIX: Site update no longer aborts on dynamic host management connection names…
Reporting & availability
- 22346 FIX: Report scheduler: Restore subdirectories in “Store in sub directory”…
The Checkmk Micro Core
- 22288 FIX: Passive Checkmk services no longer change state outside their check period…
- 22246 FIX: Passive Checkmk services no longer turn stale outside their check period…
User interface
- 19729 FIX: Allow view widgets with a height of two rows in responsive dashboards…
- 19376 FIX: Custom graphs: Nested calculations restored incorrectly in the graph editor…
Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:
Agent Bakery
- 22244 FIX: Agent Controller auto-registration: Baking agents failed after renaming or copying a site…
Checks & agents
- 22220 Azure recovery services vault backup: new option “Alerts for items scheduled for deletion”…
Core & setup
- 22192 SEC: Relays could submit monitoring data for hosts they do not monitor…
Relay
- 20175 Run active checks on relays…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 19545 FIX: Relay hosts: rescheduled active checks no longer time out too early…
- 22818 FIX: Relay: Empty fetch results…
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=2.5.0p18
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team