Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 2.5.0p9 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This stable release ships with 48 changes affecting all editions of Checkmk,
6 changes for all commercial editions, 6 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
- 19216 FIX: Windows agent: Fix excessive restarts of the agent updater plugin…
BI
- 20152 BI aggregations now support removing scheduled downtimes…
- 16918 SEC: Fix Business Intelligence API Pack permission not respected in API requests…
Checks & agents
- 19218 mk-oracle: Migrate legacy Oracle plugin configuration to new format…
- 18753 UPS / PDU phases and nominal frequencies: configure upper voltage and frequency levels…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 16922 Detect ifAlias on Nera Evolution XPAND IP devices…
- 18496 extend hp_hh3c_ext_* to also detect HPE 5130 48G PoE+ 4SFP+ EI
- 20104 SEC: mk_sap_hana: Privilege escalation via crafted sapstartsrv process name…
- 20143 FIX: Azure VM and database CPU utilization: configured thresholds now take effect…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 19250 FIX: Oracle scheduler jobs: handle job class SCHED$_LOG_ON_ERRORS_CLASS…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 19327 FIX: systemd unit: emit one host label per discovered unit…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 19328 FIX: systemd unit: only create host labels for matching units…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 20134 FIX: Aruba switches: keep device type label after firmware upgrade…
- 20145 FIX: Azure: Fix shifted timestamps and possible crash on non-UTC sites…
- 19220 FIX: Exchange DAG: crash on empty agent section…
- 19540 FIX: Fix crash in GCP Quick Setup connection test…
- 20155 FIX: Fix wrong bandwidth usage for Cisco Meraki appliance uplinks…
- 20154 FIX: Fix wrong ethernet port speed for Cisco Meraki wireless APs…
- 19982 FIX: Infoblox DNS statistics: Fix crash on empty counter values…
- 16923 FIX: Parsing of section inv_lldp_cache failed…
- 19251 FIX: PostgreSQL monitoring broken by util-linux 2.42…
- 19991 FIX: Redfish: fix discovery crash for power supplies without a name…
- 19986 FIX: Redfish: retry transient Systems failures and keep previous data instead of dropping services…
- 20142 FIX: Rename the “CPU utilization for appliances” ruleset…
- 20035 FIX: Service discovery: Fix timeout when enabling/disabling a service on hosts with many disabled services…
- 20015 FIX: check_cert: Remove duplicated error details on connection failure…
- 20153 FIX: df: Fix crash when a filesystem’s usable capacity is 0…
- 18756 FIX: ups_bat_temp: Fix crash when UPS reports an empty battery temperature…
Core & setup
- 20078 Enforce CSRF token verification on global settings toggle buttons…
- 20144 FIX: Distributed monitoring: fix message broker connection breaking on remote sites…
- 19589 FIX: Fixed crash in RRD creation for service names containing a null byte…
- 20037 FIX: No superfluous DNS lookups for hosts without an IP address…
HW/SW Inventory
- 19833 FIX: Checkmk sites view: Fix numeric sorting of #Hosts and #Services columns…
Metrics system
- 20106 FIX: Cisco CPU memory: show the growth and trend graphs…
- 20105 FIX: Growth graphs displayed values in a far too small unit…
Notifications
- 20052 FIX: HTML email notifications: show address and site only when configured…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes! - 20058 FIX: HTTP proxy ignored for custom notification plug-ins configured via the REST API…
Other components
- 20013 FIX: NagVis: Updated to 1.10.5…
REST API
- 19884 FIX: Fix crash in REST API host endpoints when inventory data is JSON-encoded…
Setup
- 19931 Clarify purpose of the Microsoft Entra ID connections page…
- 19828 FIX: Fix crash when saving “Read only mode for configuration” form…
- 19590 FIX: Fixed cloning of time periods…
- 20057 FIX: Install Checkmk agent slideout registered agent on wrong site…
- 20094 FIX: Reverting changes now reverts settings that require a site restart…
Site management
- 19712 FIX: omd restore: Fix inverted vulnerability warning for Werk #18891…
User interface
- 20051 FIX: Custom snap-ins in the default sidebar no longer crash the user interface…
- 20135 FIX: Display custom metric names without altered capitalization…
- 20193 FIX: Fix table column headers being overlapped by rows in scrollable grouped views…
Changes in Checkmk commercial editions:
Agent Bakery
- 20071 FIX: Agent Bakery: Rework signature key expiry notifications…
Checks & agents
- 19217 Windows Updates: Override and remove monitoring state, rename reboot notification option…
- 20070 FIX: Windows agent: Ensure Python is ready before starting agent updater…
Dynamic host configuration
- 19219 FIX: DCD: cmk-dcd error handler crashes on args.debug, masking real DCD error…
Metrics system
- 20194 FIX: Restore presentation option for combined graph dashboard widgets…
REST API
- 19734 FIX: Fix wrong response fields for SLA outage-count and state-percentage computations…
Changes in Checkmk Ultimate:
Checks & agents
- 20146 Azure dashboards: navigable drill-down breadcrumb…
Relay
- 19541 Relay installer: refresh systemd units without re-registering…
Setup
- 20103 Metric backend: configure metric consolidation inline…
- 18755 Guided Quick Setup for OpenTelemetry and Prometheus…
- 19465 FIX: Fix managed robot replacement failing with Windows path error…
Telemetry
- 19912 FIX: Metric Backend: samples now contribute to all covered grid points…
Changes in Checkmk Cloud:
Setup
- 20172 FIX: Cloud edition: parent scan is no longer available…
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
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=2.5.0p9
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a suultimatessful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team