Dear friends of Checkmk,
the new stable release 1.6.0p9 of Checkmk is ready for download.
This maintenance release ships with 54 changes affecing all editions of Checkmk,
7 Enterprise Edition specific changes and 1 Managed Services Edition specific changes.
Unlike other patch releases, this version contains some new features. This is
the first feature pack we release for a stable version. Advantages: By default
the new features are not active. If you want, you can enable some of these
features. See werk #10861 (https://checkmk.de/check_mk-werks.php?werk_id=10861)
for more information.
Changes in all Checkmk Editions:
Checks & agents:
* 10861 Feature Pack 1: Azure AD, Graylog, Huawei switches, Jenkins, Jira, K8s, MongoDB, TP-Link switches
* 10743 Cisco UCS check plugins: add support for UCS C240 M5 devices
* 10685 Windows Agent custom installation folder is disabled by default
* 10687 Windows Agent may stop processes that interfere with plugin installation
* 10684 Windows agent updater, cmk-update-agent.exe, is obfuscated now
* 10806 df: addition of ignoring inodes levels option
* 10634 wmi.include: display the unit for levels in status detail of a service
* 10476 azure_agent_info: Add option to pin down monitored resources
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 10475 FIX: Azure Checkplugins: Go to stale state if info is missing
* 10771 FIX: Fix Service rediscovery for ucd_cpu_util
* 10787 FIX: Fix missing new line in ESX agent which may break various sections and services may go UNKNOWN
* 10765 FIX: Fixed listing of plugins in view Agents and Plugins
* 10740 FIX: Kubernetes: don't crash on invalid roles
* 10683 FIX: The plugin Windows tasks supports now new-line chars in task descrition
* 10678 FIX: Windows Agent fileinfo generates output entries for glob patterns in all cases
* 10680 FIX: Windows Agent section systemtime adds '\n\ at the end of the output
* 10688 FIX: Windows agent ps section now reports correct process uptime
* 10682 FIX: Windows: Inventory correctly reports IP addresses for more than one network card
* 10478 FIX: agent_azure: Do not warn about missing usage details for one hour
* 10474 FIX: agent_azure: No longer report missing metrics as warning
* 10477 FIX: agent_azure: recover from missing metrics
* 10812 FIX: agent_splunk: Make instance an optional parameter
* 10811 FIX: agent_splunk: Password store can now be used
* 10823 FIX: check_dns: Fixed query if multiple expected addresses are configured
* 10590 FIX: esx_vsphere_vm: Check age of oldest snapshot
* 10591 FIX: ewon: Unbreak check plugin
* 10592 FIX: ipmi: Go to CRIT if a sensor reports "In critical array"
* 10596 FIX: liebert_system_events: Still discover, if no events are present
* 10597 FIX: local: Local check services no longer get skipped for outdated data
* 10741 FIX: lparstat_aix.cpu_util: display the correct physical CPU consumption
* 10744 FIX: mssql_blocked_sessions: don't crash in clustered setup
* 10742 FIX: mssql_tablespaces: reintroduce missing performance data
* 10824 FIX: printer_supply: Fixed unit of performance data which is not measured in percent in general
* 10588 FIX: ps: Handling of non-ASCII characters during process discovery
* 10633 FIX: skype: fixed magnitude of latency value
* 10710 FIX: systemd: Do not mark the agent unit failed on single agent failure
* 10815 FIX: isc_dhcpd: Use alternative for pidof on Debian Buster
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
* 10579 FIX: logwatch: Invalid check parameter: Undefined key 'pre_comp_group_patterns'
Core & setup:
* 10560 Extension packages: Add informational "Valid until version" field
* 10564 Extension packages: Checkmk can now ship optional packages
* 10620 FIX: Fix parsing of invalid state history files
HW/SW inventory:
* 10825 FIX: k8s_daemon_pod_containers: Fixed TypeError while inventorizing kubernetes daemon pod containers
* 10827 FIX: oracle_instance, oracle_performance, oracle_recovery_area: Inventory tables are now sorted by SID
Notifications:
* 10763 FIX: Opsgenie: Fixed authentication error on european accounts
NOTE: Please refer to the migration notes!
Site management:
* 10709 FIX: Fix site certificate being overwritten during version update
User interface:
* 10703 SEC: Fix some reflected XSS issues
* 10760 FIX: Fix missing "Log Entries: Log: Output" column
* 10821 FIX: Fixed UnicodeDecodeError 'ascii codec can't decode byte' when opening log file if file name contains non-ASCII signs
* 10822 FIX: HW/SW Inventory tree: Show error message if HW/SW inventory tree cannot be loaded instead of breaking the whole page
* 10715 FIX: LDAP: Fix broken sync when a group contains itself
* 10738 FIX: Store the site settings of sidebar snapins
* 10860 FIX: Timerange selection: Fixed sorting of choices
WATO:
* 10528 FIX: Host changes from normal monitoring users were not always applied on the first save
* 10713 FIX: Fix additional rule analyzation issue on service object parameter page
Changes in the Checkmk Enterprise Edition:
Agent bakery:
* 10432 SEC: cmk-update-agent.exe: Fix security issue on Windows
* 10704 FIX: Agent bakery: Fix rules of non-main folder matching for GENERIC agent
* 10433 FIX: Correct plugin name for netstat
Notifications:
* 10619 FIX: Improve error-handling in poller
* 10739 FIX: send notifications chronologically
User interface:
* 10080 FIX: Fixed broken perfometer for memory usage with missing values
* 10814 FIX: Graph Tunings: Added temperature graph
Changes in the Checkmk Managed Services Edition:
WATO:
* 7279 Snapshot generation: Improved performance by using more cpus for the config computation
You can download Checkmk from our download page:
* https://checkmk.com/download.php
Please mail bug reports and qualified feedback to feedback(a)check-mk.org.
We greatly thank you for using Checkmk and wish you a successful monitoring,
Your Checkmk Team
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