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Version 3.0.0-rc2 Released
Lorenz Kästle, January 2, 2026
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team announces version 3.0.0-rc2 of the Monitoring Plugins!
This is the second release candidate for version 3.0.0.
It contains mostly fixes to the 3.0.0-rc1 version and is also not a full release, but serves as a basis for test until we are mostly sure not to break production setups.
Changes
- check_nt was removed check_nt is no long useful in current setups and hasn't been for some time. Therefore it was removed without a replacement.
- check_ntp was removed check_ntp was marked as deprecated for a long time due to systematic problems. It should not be in use anywhere and gets now removed to reduce code size and avoid misleading users. The replacements are check_ntp_time and check_ntp_peer
- Bugfix for check_ntp_time An errournous change in check_ntp_time made it fail in almost all use cases. This has been fixed
- Properly separate perfdata from different subchecks A missing separator caused errors in perfdata strings (from C plugins) where two different data points where not properly separated and showed up as a single invalid data point
- check_curl: append the query string from parsed uri
When using the old style follow method (
-f follow) with check_curl the query string was not appended to the new target after redirect. This was fixed. (Thanks Ahmet Oeztuerk) - Fixing different problems on OpenBSD A few different things did prevent proper compilation and usage on OpenBSD, partly due to different naming conventions there. These are hopefully fixed now. Thanks to Alvar Penning and Stuart Henderson.
- Gnulib update to stable-202507
Version 3.0.0-rc1 Released
Lorenz Kästle, December 3, 2025
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team announces version 3.0.0-rc1 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release is different in several regards to previous releases. Due the a significant refactoring and the unintented side effect this may have, the "real" release will be following release candidates which are intented to for early adapters and testing. Read more »
Monitoring Plugins Wins BlueHats Prize
Holger Weiß, December 30, 2024
As announced by the NLnet Foundation, the Monitoring Plugins team is the winner of the fourth 2024 BlueHats prize! Read more »
Version 2.4.0 Released
Jan Wagner, July 25, 2024
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.4.0 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more than 12 contributors. Many thanks to all of you! Read more »
Version 2.3.5 Released
Jan Wagner, October 18, 2023
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.5 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes just with a small fix preventing the tarball from being built. Sorry for this. Read more »
Version 2.3.4 Released
Jan Wagner, October 18, 2023
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.4 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more than 30 contributors. Many thanks to all of you! Read more »
Version 2.3.3 Released
Jan Wagner, February 2, 2023
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.3 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more than 16 contributors. Many thanks to all of you! Read more »
Version 2.3.2 Released
Sven Nierlein, October 20, 2022
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.2 of the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more than 40 contributors. Many thanks to all of you! Read more »
Version 2.3.1 Released
Jan Wagner, April 11, 2021
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3.1 of
the Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various fixes provided by more
than ten contributors, mostly for check_curl. Many thanks to all of you!
Read more »
Version 2.3 Released
Jan Wagner, December 10, 2020
The Monitoring Plugins Development Team is proud to announce version 2.3 of the
Monitoring Plugins! This release comes with various enhancements and fixes
provided by more than thirty contributors, a highlight might be the inclusion of
check_curl. Many thanks to all of you!
Read more »