[Release] Checkmk stable release 2.5.0p8

Dear friends of Checkmk,

the new stable release 2.5.0p8 of Checkmk is ready for download.

This stable release ships with 54 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
5 changes for all commercial editions, 9 Ultimate specific,
0 Ultimate with multi-tenancy specific and 1 Cloud specific changes.

Support periods can be found here: Checkmk versions

Changes in all Checkmk editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 19965 FIX: Update Windows agent Python runtime to 3.13.14…

Checks & agents

  • 19211 Deploy signed PowerShell plugins with Windows agent…
  • 19284 NetApp ONTAP: Monitor S3 bucket usage…
  • 20030 automations: Write to logs…
  • 19215 mk-sql: Command line switch to list active local SQL Server instances on Windows…
  • 19214 mk-sql: Ignore inactive SQL Server instances on Windows…
  • 19827 FIX: Fix Event Console self-monitoring with syslog or SNMP trap enabled…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 19289 FIX: Kubernetes: Respect namespace filtering for CronJobs…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 18752 FIX: STULZ Clima Units: discover all units on multi-bus controllers…
    NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
  • 20118 FIX: Agent vSphere crashes with “‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘reveal’”…
  • 19464 FIX: Fix Proxmox VE Node Info subscription status rule corrupted on migration…
  • 19962 FIX: Fix UCS Bladecenter special agent crash on Cisco Business Edition rack servers…
  • 20091 FIX: IPMI Sensors: Fix crash when levels were previously configured…
  • 19868 FIX: Kubernetes: Fix crash when parsing Kubelet metric labels containing a null byte…
  • 19957 FIX: NetApp ONTAP: aggregate monitoring now works on ASA r2 systems…
  • 16919 FIX: Parsing of section inv_lldp_cache failed…
  • 19988 FIX: Redfish: allow connection timeout above 20 seconds…
  • 19983 FIX: Stop redfish agent from dropping monitoring data on partial fetch failure…
  • 19903 FIX: alcatel_cpu: adjustment of manpage…
  • 20107 FIX: apc_symmetra: Fix time remaining shown 60 times too large in graph…
  • 18560 FIX: apc_symmetra: Fix vanished temperature sensor services…
  • 19869 FIX: ceph: Fix agent crash when MK_CONFDIR is not set…
  • 19978 FIX: checkpoint_powersupply: Recognize “No Redundancy” as valid power supply status…
  • 19979 FIX: checkpoint_tunnels: don’t crash on unexpected tunnel status…
  • 19212 FIX: cmk-agent-ctl: Fix reported version…
  • 19710 FIX: kube_pod_uptime: Fix ValueError(“Cannot render negative timespan”)…
  • 19213 FIX: mk-sql: Fix reported version…
  • 20098 FIX: mk_sap: Fix ValueError when reading the state file…
  • 19709 FIX: nimble_latency: Fix KeyError[‘total’]…
  • 20034 FIX: service discovery: Limit execution of active checks during/after discovery…
  • 19904 FIX: vSphere special agent: fix crash on empty stored timestamp…
  • 20100 FIX: veritas_vcs: Do not report misleading state on cluster nodes without state data…
  • 20099 FIX: veritas_vcs: Fix crash when a service group reports no state…

Core & setup

  • 20033 Add AES-256-C privacy protocol for SNMPv3 pull monitoring…
  • 20069 FIX: Check_MK service: Show cluster node name in agent status…

REST API

  • 19882 FIX: Fix REST API rule move to bottom of folder placing rule at top instead…
  • 19883 FIX: Swagger UI: Fix yaml download…

Setup

  • 19824 Highlight keyboard focus visually…
  • 19823 Limit host and service label autocompleter to host and service labels…
  • 19980 New “Release flags” section in Global settings…
  • 20097 FIX: Fix “Unknown password type.” when configuring AWS S3 or Azure backup targets…
  • 19466 FIX: Podman: fix migration of existing rules missing the new “keep non-zero exit containers” option…
  • 20095 FIX: Speed up Activate Changes in large distributed setups…
  • 20090 FIX: Support “Use new service names” setting in distributed setups with mixed versions…

Site management

  • 19575 FIX: GUI/REST API failed to start on distributions whose system OpenSSL lacks bundled algorithms…
  • 19609 FIX: Analytics collection schedule not persisted correctly…
  • 19707 FIX: omd: Ensure only one backup runs at a time…

User interface

  • 19985 FIX: Dashboard widgets: reject disallowed title URLs on save…
  • 19987 FIX: Fixed clipped graph legend in dashboard widgets…
  • 19990 FIX: Fixed crash from invalid custom icon configuration…
  • 19977 FIX: Network topology: Hide menu entry without permission…
  • 20050 FIX: Quick search: missing page menu entries (e.g. Inventory) when confirming a host with Enter…
  • 20132 FIX: Unified search: Open edit links in the main content frame…
  • 19989 FIX: dashboards: Enforce publishing permissions when sharing…

Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:

Agent Bakery

  • 19826 FIX: mk_logwatch: Accept subnets for cluster node IPs in bakery rule…

Metrics system

  • 19354 FIX: Forecast graphs: hide non-functional “Add to …” option…

REST API

  • 18494 FIX: Grafana endpoint accidentally triggered configuration update…

Setup

  • 18604 FIX: Agent bakery: Changed passwords now always trigger a rebake…

The Checkmk Micro Core

  • 19964 FIX: InfluxDB metric forwarding: fixed handling of one-sided or unbounded thresholds…

Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:

Metrics system

  • 20101 Custom graph editor: metric name autocomplete shows the metric type…
  • 19355 FIX: Metric backend: fix stale configuration after site rename or copy…
  • 19911 FIX: metric-backend: Recover database schema after site restore…

Setup

  • 20102 Metric backend: replace three attribute lists with a single filter editor…
  • 19420 FIX: OTel: Fix crash when OpenTelemetry Collector receiver configuration is opened…
  • 20092 FIX: Reverting changes now reverts OpenTelemetry collector config…
  • 20093 FIX: Reverting changes now reverts metric backend config…

relay

  • 19539 FIX: Relay update flow no longer trips the systemd start rate limit…
  • 19538 FIX: Monitored on relay: “No relay” override was ignored for hosts in a relay folder…

Changes in Checkmk Cloud:

Setup

  • 19733 FIX: Fix logwatch setup rules and pattern analyzer in Cloud edition…

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=2.5.0p8

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

Your Checkmk Team