OP5 Monitor 9.x Release Notes

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OP5 Monitor release notes contain the list of enhancements of features, and a set of issues fixed in the 9.x release version of OP5 Monitor.

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For more information on versioning, including standard and rolling release, see OP5 Monitor 9.x Compatibility Matrix.

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OP5 Monitor 8.x.x is no longer supported as of April 2024.

While 8.x.x documentation remains available, we highly recommend accessing the OP5 Monitor 9.x release notes to get the latest resources and security updates.

OP5 Monitor 9.15 Copied

Released: 8 April 2025

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MON-13528 Plugins Fixed the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability associated with the My Account page.
MON-13539 Nagvis Nagvis has been updated to version 1.9.42 to stay in sync with the upstream project.
MON-13543 Ninja Fixed the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability associated with the SLA Report page.

OP5 Monitor 9.14 Copied

Released: 22 January 2025

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MON-13510 Plugins Addressed a cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerability.
MON-13521 Plugins Fixed the check-host-alive graphs display indexing on Services. Additionally, updated the indexing for check-ping to display warning and critical labels.

OP5 Monitor 9.13 Copied

Released: 30 October 2024

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MON-13296 Merlin, Naemon

The op5-naemon and monitor-livestatus have been upgraded to version 1.4.2, and Merlin has been updated for compatibility. The minimum required version of op5-naemon for Merlin is now 1.4.2.

Additionally, a patch has been implemented to address an issue with the comment list where subsequent service comment deletions failed to synchronize with peers due to an empty in-memory list.

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MON-12822 Merlin Fixed an issue that caused Merlin to crash with segfaults when an empty binlog meta file was encountered during Naemon startup.
MON-13431 Plugins Implemented a patch from monitoring-plugins 2.4.0 in check_icmp to resolve graph image issues for performance data when hosts are down.
MON-13440 Reports OP5 Monitor now handles multiple object selection and deselection more effectively. Previously, deselecting one or more objects could lead to all objects being unselected, causing an error in the Availability Report.
MON-13506 Plugins Updated Host Wizard and Plugins Search to address a cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerability.

OP5 Monitor 9.12 Copied

Released: 21 August 2024

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MON-13457 Magellan Updated Magellan libraries to address security issues.
MON-13458 Nachos Updated Nachos libraries to address security issues.
MON-13487 Agents Updated the monitor-self-monitoring/op5-self-monitoring.spec file to limit the maximum Infrastructure Agent version during non-root user updates. This prevents potential issues since OP5 Monitor is configured to run certain plugins as root or as monitor user. To perform a dnf update, run: 
# dnf update --exclude=infrastructure-agent
Or run this command: 
# dnf install 'dnf-command(versionlock)'
# dnf versionlock add infrastructure-agent-1.3.43440-1.el8.x86_64
# dnf update

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MON-13287 Plugins, check_snmpif Fixed an issue where the check_snmpif command fails to recognize the -p option, resulting in an error message Unknown argument: -p.
MON-13423 Autodiscovery Updated PyCryptodome libraries to address security issues.
MON-13459 Plugins, check_snmpif Fixed core dump issue when in traffic mode and using SNMP protocol version 1, if either interface name or description arguments are passed.
MON-13481 Config Fixed an issue in /usr/bin/mon check distribution where the tool incorrectly returned an error when encountering expired checks.

OP5 Monitor 9.11 Copied

Released: 13 June 2024

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MON-13242 Install/upgrade Docker images used to create offline installation tarballs for RHEL 8 have been updated to utilize the host system’s subscription. This eliminates the need for registration within the Docker container. See OP5 Monitor offline installation.
MON-13334 Business services, Geomap, Merlin, Nacoma, Ninja, pnp Updated the Nacoma hooks to Python 3.9. This ensures that hook scripts run successfully after performing config changes in Nacoma.
MON-13357 Livestatus, Merlin Updated the Merlin applications to Python 3.9.

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MON-13349 Ninja, Reports Fixed the display of the Trends graph in the PDF generated from Availability reports.

OP5 Monitor 9.10 Copied

Released: 3 April 2024

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MON-13354 Plugins The check_by_snmp_memory plugin now supports 64-bit counters for checking systems with large memory.
MON-13394 Plugins The check_aws plugin now uses the latest versions of its dependencies.

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MON-13399 Install/upgrade Fixed an issue that prevented dnf updates on OP5 Monitor systems due to an outdated GPG key for the Infrastructure Agent package. The repository key has been updated. To ensure successful future updates, users with existing installations should manually update the GPG key in the Infrastructure Agent repository.

OP5 Monitor 9.9 Copied

Released: 24 January 2024

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MON-13366 Plugins The Monitoring plugins have been updated to version 2.3.5. For more information, please see the following changelogs for version 2.3.4 and 2.3.5.

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MON-13223 Nacoma Fixed the issue of inconsistent results for service scans using auto-detection services on Windows hosts.
MON-13313 Nacoma Fixed an issue that caused multiple services to be incorrectly displayed when adding a Windows host with port 9999. With this fix, only the intended NSclient services are added when a Windows host with port 9999 is detected, ensuring accurate service configuration.
MON-13367 Plugins, check_aws Fixed an issue that prevented users from successfully using other users in their credentials file with the --profile parameter. This issue was causing the NoCredentialsError: Unable to locate credentials error.
MON-13368 Reports Set the initial date range for the Events Log listview to the last 7 days. Previously, a timeout error occurred when displaying the Event Log due to OP5 Monitor attempting to retrieve all archived events.
MON-13374 Nacoma Fixed the issue that caused an AttributeError when saving host configurations with custom variables in the template.
MON-13375 Backup Fixed an issue in the restore of Nacoma configuration caused by Python updates after addressing CVE-2007-4559. This was previously identified and fixed in CentOS Stream and is now applied to Rocky8 and RHEL8 users as well.
MON-13379 Backup Set uniform folder permissions for both monitor-nacoma and monitor-backup within the /var/www/html/backup/ directory to eliminate past issues where inconsistent permissions led to errors during backup deletions.
MON-13380 Plugins, management-packs The self-monitoring check commands have been updated to use version 2.0 of NRPE packets for check_nrpe for better compatibility with the Infrastructure Agent. To apply this update to existing setups, you must force activate the management packs and save the resulting service check changes.

OP5 Monitor 9.8 Copied

Released: 26 October 2023

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MON-13336 Config The Infrastructure Agent is now used instead of the SNMPv3 Agent to perform self-monitoring of the OP5 Monitor server for new installations of the OP5 Monitor server. If the OP5 Monitor server is updated from version 9.7 or upgraded from OP5 Monitor 8.x.x, the previous self-monitoring method will continue to be used.
MON-13353 LMD LMD has been updated to version 2.1.6 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more details, see LMD changes.
MON-13360 Nagvis Nagvis has been updated to version 1.9.37 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more information, see changelog.

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MON-13306 Nacoma Fixed the issue with disk scans that caused the application to display all service lists for NSClient service checks. The default list for Windows Client Services (NSClient) now displays correctly.
MON-13341 Widgets Fixed an issue on the dashboard widget for the Show critical option checkbox where it was always enabled.
MON-13345 Nacoma Fixed an issue where a custom variable could not be removed from a Nacoma object if it was the last one.
MON-13352 Nacoma The error message displayed for missing check commands when adding new services has been updated.

OP5 Monitor 9.7 Copied

Released: 29 August 2023

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MON-10404 Ninja Set the comment list view to descending order by default.
MON-13199 LMD, Ninja The error logging for LMD and Naemon has been improved when running external commands.
MON-13326 API, Ninja Any incorrect versions of the monitor-ninja and HTTP API packages installed on the OP5 Monitor host were removed and replaced with the latest available version from the OP5 Monitor repository.

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Issue key Component Release description
MON-12842 Nacoma, Ninja Fixed an issue where existing authentication modules were removed when a page was accessed with a random action value.
MON-12918 Ninja, Widgets Fixed an issue with the Merlin node status widget settings that prevented users from saving changes to the Checks and Latency details. Additionally, the initial values of display_checks and display_latency have been set to false.
MON-13251 NagVis Fixed an issue where users were unable to schedule downtime through NagVis.
MON-13271 NagVis Fixed an issue with the Javascript error prompt that was occurred on refresh upon modifying an object on the NagVis map.
MON-13277 NagVis Fixed an issue where the popup window would not close after editing a host or service in Nagvis.
MON-13280 Config Removed the extra socket configuration for rrdcached.socket.
MON-13282 Nacoma Fixed an issue where the dropdown list selection would get reset when the Tab key was pressed.
MON-13307 Widgets Fixed an issue that caused the Geomap widget to display an error message when it was added to a dashboard.
MON-13328 Trapper Fixed an issue where SNMP traps from unknown hosts displayed blank in the trapper UI. The SNMP traps now display the IP addresses of the unknown hosts as hostnames.
MON-13337 API Updated encoding conversion to avoid generating warning logs in the php-fpm file.
MON-13340 Backup Fixed an issue in the restore of Nacoma configuration that was introduced by updates to Python to address CVE-2007-4559.

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OP5 Monitor 9.6 Copied

Released: 14 June 2023

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MON-13268 LMD LMD has been updated to version 2.1.5 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more details, see LMD changes.
MON-13310 Nachos Nachos has been updated to fix the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2023-30861
  • CVE-2023-30608
  • CVE-2023-32681
MON-13322 Autodiscovery Magellan has been updated to fix the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2023-30608
  • CVE-2023-32681

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Issue key Component Release description
MON-13269 API Fixed an issue in the HTTP API to ensure that responses are encoded correctly.
MON-13286 Ninja Fixed an issue that prevented users from toggling the check boxes under general options in the Event Log.
MON-13298 Ninja Fixed an issue that caused widgets to stop working when filters were changed. Widgets will now continue to work properly even if filters are changed.
MON-13301 Naemon A default value was added for an unset comment upon submitting a scheduled downtime.
MON-13302 Nacoma Fixed an issue where NRPE checks were found instead of NSClient checks when performing Scan host for network services for Windows hosts.
MON-13305 Plugins, check_http Fixed issues in the check_http plugin with the handling of chunk-encoded data.
MON-13311 Nacoma Restored NRPE-style self-monitoring checks by enabling the NRPE group as a sudoer for asmonitor.

OP5 Monitor 9.5 Copied

Released: 19 April 2023

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Issue key Component Release description
MON-13021 Plugins, check_by_snmp Added support for modern SNMPv3 authentication and encryption protocols for all check_by_snmp_* plugins.
MON-13179 Ninja The performance data table now includes an additional UOM column that contains the current unit of measure. When there is no assigned value for the item, this column will be empty.
MON-13258 Livestatus, Naemon The naemon-core and naemon-livestatus have been upgraded to version 1.4.1.
MON-13259 Plugins The Monitoring plugins have been updated to version 2.3.3. For more information, see changelog.
MON-13261 Plugins, check_aws The check_aws plugin has been updated to use Python 3.9 to support the latest Boto3 module and other dependencies.
MON-13262 Nachos Updated Python dependencies for Nachos.
MON-13265 Nagvis Nagvis has been updated to version 1.9.34 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more information, see changelog.
MON-13276 Autodiscovery Updated Magellan dependencies due to security issues.

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Issue key Component Release description
MON-11199 API, Config, Nachos, Nacoma Removed the parallelize check settings from the UI, set them to 0 in the database, and deleted them from the service configuration file.
MON-11773 LMD LMD now supports the StatsNegate filter.
MON-13191 Nacoma Fixed empty checkboxes when applying a host template.
MON-13214 Nacoma Replaced remaining check_nt commands with check_nrpe for checking partitions.
MON-13235 Plugins, check_snmpif Removed the -C option in the check_snmpif check command configuration.
MON-13243 Reports Graphs are now rendered correctly in the Histogram Report.
MON-13281 Reports Changed the default report period on Alert History from Forever to Last 24 Hours to reduce the number of items to load on the UI.

OP5 Monitor 9.4 Copied

Released: 25 January 2023

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MON-11764 Generic Restricted the privileges to run commands as a monitor user to service users running OP5 Monitor. The /usr/bin/asmonitor script can now only be run by the intended internal service users and root.
MON-12997 Ninja Information on software licensing has been added to the About > License Software window.
MON-13186 Merlin, Ninja Added the Show logs from all node button to the Event Log page to display a consolidated list of event logs from all nodes. Each line in the log is appended with the node name where the log originated.
MON-13218 LMD LMD has been updated to version 2.1.2 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more details, see LMD changes.
MON-13225 Magellan Magellan has been updated to use Python 3.9 to resolve security vulnerabilities with dependencies.
MON-13226 Nachos Nachos has been updated to use Python 3.9 to resolve security vulnerabilities with dependencies.
MON-13228 Plugins The Monitoring plugins have been updated to version 2.3.2. For more information, see the changelog.
MON-13230 Install/upgrade The configuration of the installer script repository has been improved and is now more reliable.
MON-13233 Livestatus, Naemon The naemon-core and naemon-livestatus have been upgraded to version 1.4.0. This release contains updated versions of all Naemon event broker modules that OP5 Monitor uses.
MON-13234 Backup, plugins Self-monitoring check Monitor backup - Check backup files now returns an unknown state instead of critical when no backups have been created yet. This update also improved its plugin output text. The op5-backup now includes systemd service and timer units, which can be used to enable automatic backups by running systemctl enable --now op5-backup.timer. If an op5-backup scheduled job is configured in /etc/cron.d, it is advisable to remove that when the systemd timer is enabled
MON-13237 ModSecurity Newly updated URLs that were previously linked to 403 pages now point to official documentation instead of support pages.
MON-13238 Generic In OP5 Monitor 8.x and 9.x, broken links to documentation, knowledge base articles, and other external resources are fixed.
MON-13250 Generic You can now use a CLI tool that prints a list of installed OP5 Monitor software packages and their licenses.

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MON-9490 Nacoma Clicking the Complete reimport link now prompts the configuration files to be loaded into the database, regardless of the file’s timestamp. This change also improved the messaging by explaining how importing the configuration files into the database will affect the current settings.
MON-12194 Nacoma Updated the popup text for the Undo button to clarify that it reverts all the changes the logged-in user has made since the last save. Additionally, if you reimport configuration files into the database, this action reverses all user configurations since the last save.
MON-13132 GUI, Config Removed the complete reimport link from the GUI after restoring from backup. Reimport already happens during a backup restore, so performing it again is redundant.
MON-13144 GUI Decreased the time it takes for the business object tree to load in order to prevent coming across a blank page.
MON-13207 Plugins All VMware check timeouts caused by connection attempts to slow-responding vSphere servers have been resolved.
MON-13209 Ninja, Widgets A validation has been added when creating a quicklink to avoid cross-site scripting attacks.
MON-13215 Nacoma Fixed an issue where all services were removed when removing an item from a selected service group.
MON-13222 Ninja Added a default value for an unset comment upon submitting a problem acknowledgment.
MON-13240 GUI The OP5 Monitor binaries now contain the fonts required for offline installation.
MON-13253 Backup The issue with restoring migration backups from OP5 Monitor 8.4.x to version 9.x has been resolved.

OP5 Monitor 9.3 Copied

Released: 2 November 2022

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MON-13171 Ninja Updated the httpd directives to follow the Apache 2.4 standard.
MON-13206 LMD LMD has been updated to version 2.1.0 to stay in sync with the upstream project. For more information, see LMD changes.

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Issue key Component Release description
MON-13149 GUI Improved error messages for Test this check.
MON-13174 API The message output for invalid requests no longer displays server config on API error.
MON-13190 Trapper The compatibility issue with the traped script in the Lua 5.1.4 interpreter packaged in op5-trapper-luapack has been resolved.
MON-13205 Ninja, Reports Fixed an issue in Scheduled Downtimes that prevented editing the recipients of an existing scheduled report.
MON-13210 Trapper The MySQL user privileges for Trapper are now only allowed to access their own database.

OP5 Monitor 9.2 Copied

Released: 6 September 2022

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MON-12774 Nachos Updated logging so that the host name or template name is indicated in logs when an invalid host configuration is found by Nachos.
MON-13162 Plugins Added the new check_http_json plugin as a replacement for check_json which has been removed in OP5 Monitor 9.0.
MON-13168 Plugins, check_k8s Added the selector command-line option to the check_k8s plugin to enable resource queries using labels.
MON-13172 Plugins, NSClient Added a new plugin for checking the REST API of NSClient++. You can use this plugin instead of check_nrpe for gathering check results.

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MON-12701 Nacoma Removed the default value of stalking_options, n, when new hosts are created.
MON-12796 Merlin, Naemon Fixed an issue where the host notification suppressed events are not displayed in event log.
MON-13027 Nacoma Automatically detected Windows services when adding a new host now use check_nrpe instead of check_nt.
MON-13142 Nacoma Fixed an issue in the Host configuration page where the Advanced toggle button was not working.
MON-13160 Plugins, check_k8s Improved error handling.
MON-13180 Merlin Updated the rename tool to preserve file permissions when log files are updated.
MON-13185 Backup, Nacoma Fixed an issue in backup and restore that caused an error when restoring the management_pack table for the Nacoma database.
MON-13194 PNP The /opt/monitor/etc/pnp/npcd.cfg now has a root user and group ownership on fresh installs and updates.
MON-13197 Plugins Removed the debug log setting from /etc/op5/check_vmware/service.cfg. Debug logs are now enabled by setting loglevel = ‘debug’ in /etc/op5/check_vmare/gunicorn.cfg.
MON-13198 Install/Upgrade Fixed an issue where updating using the tarball installer always update OP5 Monitor to the latest version available in online OP5 RPM repositories, not the version supplied in the tarball.

OP5 Monitor 9.1 Copied

Released: 15 June 2022

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MON-13076 Plugins, check_k8s Added capability to check multiple namespaces.
MON-13083 Host-wizard Fixed UI issues in the Host Wizard.
MON-13089 Plugins, check_k8s The Succeeded phase is now counted as an OK state.
MON-13092 API The Secure and HttpOnly attributes are now set on the PHPSESSID cookie in the HTTP API.
MON-13106 Autodiscovery Updated to Bootstrap 5 in Autodiscovery which removes the dependency on jQuery.
MON-13108 Generic Improved security of HTTP response headers.
MON-13110 Generic Implemented a Content Security Policy (CSP) in the OP5 Monitor.
MON-13111 Ninja Improved security by disabling auto-complete on sensitive input fields.
MON-13131 Generic Security hardening has been improved to set the Apache policy to never include referrer URLs.
MON-13138 Nacoma Removed the automatic discovery of Sensatronic and NetWare devices since the required plugins are no longer shipped.
MON-13140 Plugins Removed the urlize plugin since it was vulnerable to remote code execution.
MON-13141 Plugins, negate Security hardening. The negate plugin has been updated to only accept commands and scripts to execute from the plugin path /opt/plugin/.
MON-13152 Plugins, check_k8s Added the --ignore command-line option to the check_k8s plugin to exclude specified resource names from the check result.
MON-13153 Plugins, check_k8s Added the --version command-line option.
MON-13161 Livestatus, Naemon Livestatus and Naemon have been updated to version 1.3.1 to stay in sync with upstream.
MON-13163 Geomap, NagVis Attributions, in Geomap and NagVis, to Map and Data have been updated in accordance with terms and conditions with providers.
MON-13166 Plugins, check_k8s The Kubernetes management pack now has fields for the namespace, while the namespace parameter for check_k8s_nodes check command has been removed.

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MON-13188 Ninja Fixed an issue where scheduled reports were sent every minute.
MON-6729 Plugins, check_radius Updated the check_radius check command to use the correct path to the config file.
MON-13014 Geomap The default map in Geomap now works correctly.
MON-13058 Ninja Improved jQuery compatibility.
MON-13091 API Mitigated XSS vulnerability in the API error messages.
MON-13093 API Removed ability to spoof the URLs generated in the API documentation by setting the host header to something malicious.
MON-13121 Reports Improved error messages in the UI.
MON-13125 Nacoma, WMIC Updated WMI network scanning to work with the latest version of check_wmi and made it compatible with DCOM security hardening.
MON-13126 Backup Fixed an issue where the wrong SNMP user would be recreated after restoring a backup.
MON-13129 Autodiscovery Fixed an issue in the Autodiscovery where having spaces around an ip-range would result in an error.
MON-13135 Ninja Improved UI in the date picker component.
MON-13139 Nacoma The Remove button for custom variable now works correctly.
MON-13146 Ninja, Reports Fixed manual sending of scheduled reports and saving of reports to system /tmp folder now works correctly.
MON-13147 Nachos The migration script now checks if configurations are correctly encoded in UTF-8.
MON-13148 Merlin Added the new accept_runcmd node setting. This node setting must be enabled in order to use test this check on that node. Note that this only affects the ssh-less test this check.
MON-13157 Ninja, Reports Fixed UI issues when editing reports.
MON-13159 Plugins, check_yum_update GPG keys are now imported for users when using the check_yum_update plugin.
MON-13169 Plugins, management-packs Updated all NSClient checks to use the check_nrpe version 4, and removed the check_nrpe version 2 from OP5 Monitor.

OP5 Monitor 9.0 Copied

Released: 5 April 2022

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MON-10355 Plugins Updated monitoring-plugins suite to version 2.3.1.
MON-11847 Nacoma The maximum size of configuration fields in the Nacoma database has been increased.
MON-12319 Nachos The character set used in the Nacoma database has been updated to UTF-8. This change does not have any functional impact on the product.
MON-12535 Mayi The Test this host and Test this service group rights have been removed from the limited_edit role.
MON-12574 Nachos Enabled change of root password for MySQL.
MON-12621 Notify Email templates have been updated with a newer and fresher look.
MON-12622 Portal OP5 Monitor Portal has been removed.
MON-12697 Plugins The default behavior of the check_aws shipped check_command has been changed to not include the unit argument.
MON-12700 Ninja Removed cookie usage banner from OP5 Monitor.
MON-12877 Ninja, Nacoma, Merlin Cron jobs have been replaced with systemd timers.
MON-12889 Nacoma, Ninja, Reports Multiple OP5 Monitor components have been updated to use the upgraded version of jQuery 3.6.x and jQuery-UI 1.13.x.
MON-12908 Nacoma The Help link in the configuration UI now points to the OP5 Monitor documentation instead of an internal help page.
MON-12935 Ninja Removed option to change themes in the UI.
MON-12946 Plugins Updated the check_wmi_plus plugin to work with Windows DCOM hardening.
MON-12965 Generic PHP version has been upgraded from 7.2 to 7.4.
MON-12999 Plugins All default NRPE checks, except for specific to Windows, now use check_nrpe4.
MON-13024 NagVis NagVis has been updated to 1.9.30 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2021-33178.
MON-13035 Autodiscovery Removed RabbitMQ dependency and switched worker model for Magellan Autodiscovery service.
MON-13045 Plugins The check_mssql plugin has been removed, and the recommended check_mssql_health plugin has been updated to 2.7.2.2.
MON-13061 Ninja Updated the About menu to include the OP5 Monitor version, and removed the Naemon version.
MON-13062 API Removed the deprecated Status API endpoints (/api/status and /api/help/status). Use the Filter API instead.
MON-13064 Plugins Updated the check_wmi_plus plugin to 1.66.
MON-13077 Ninja Successful login attempts are now logged on level notice.

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MON-13020 Ninja, pnp Clicking the Make default graph button on a PNP graphs page now works correctly. The default graph is displayed when hovering over the graph image in the list views.
MON-13039 Nacoma, Ninja Forced a complete reimport of the configuration files when restoring a backup to ensure the configuration database is in sync.
MON-13101 Plugins Added the missing -a option in the check_oracle_query and check_oracle_query_regex check commands.

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7.x Release Notes Released: March 2019 Last updated: October 2020

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