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