Release 3.0.0

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diff --git a/web/input/news/release-3-0-0.md b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0.md
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+title: Version 3.0.0 (Johann Georg Elser) released
+author: Lorenz Kästle
+date: 2026-06-16
+---
+
+The Monitoring Plugins Development Team finally announces version 3.0.0
+of the Monitoring Plugins.
+<end-of-teaser>
+
+This is a rather big release as the C part of the project received a huge
+amount of changes, some of them only internally, but also to the user facing
+side of things.
+Most notably is the change in the output of many plugins, which is now
+mostly multi line by default and hopefully improves the readability.
+Altough we were careful to avoid breaking anything, it can not completely
+ruled out, that in some scenarios there are new bugs.
+Please report (and fix) them :-)
+
+This is also the first release with a code name (because those are cool, right?),
+which is Johann Georg Elser for this release.
+You can find more on this Person on [Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Elser).
+
+We have to thank a lot of people for reporting problems or contributing fixes and enhancements.
+Especially the OpenBSD crew was very helpful with testing the release candidates and
+reporting problems promptly (mostly with patches attached).
+It is a joy to have such wonderful people on the project.
+
+Some special thanks go to [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl/) and the french goverment
+for granting us the Blue Hat Prize which made a lot of the work possible.
+
+Last, but not least, we, of course, thank everyone who reported a problem,
+posted a patch or tested the release candidates to find most of the new bugs.
+We do appreciate it.
+
+You can get the tarball from our [download page][download].
+
+### General changes
+* In the C part of the project
+  * Heavy refactoring to simplify and unify the code base
+  * Introduction of a generalized output mechanism for most plugins
+  * Standardized code formatting via `clang-format`
+
+### Specific changes 
+#### check_curl
+`check_curl` received a lot of changes which improve the documentation and
+fix several bugs.
+It is also not considered experimental anymore.
+
+Additionaly `check_curl` can now be configured to handle cookies internally
+without saving cookies to the filesystem.
+
+A new `--proxy` flag allows setting the proxy similar to the `curl` tool itself.
+
+#### check_http
+`check_http` is now considered deprecated and will not receive attention any
+more. It is replaced by `check_curl`
+
+#### check_snmp
+`check_snmp` does not execute `snmpget` or `snmpgetnext` anymore but executes
+the net-snmp calls natively now.
+
+#### check_nwstat
+`check_nwstat` was removed, due to its perceived insignificance in the current
+IT world. This reduces the maintenance load and ressource consumption in
+general.
+
+#### check_ntp
+`check_ntp` was removed. It was faulty by design and marked as deprecated for
+a long time. The replacements are `check_ntp_time` and `check_ntp_peer`.
+
+#### check_nt
+`check_nt`was removed. It is no longer useful in current setups and hasn't been for some time.
+
+#### check_by_ssh
+`check_by_ssh` ignores output on `stderr` by default now. This should
+avoid false positives for warnings by the OpenSSH client (especially
+about the server missing Post-Quantum cryptography.
+
+#### check_dns
+`check_dns` now ignores CNAMES in reverse DNS mode.
+
+#### check_fping
+If during compilation `fping` 5.2, 5.3 or higher are present, `check_fping` 
+will be able to use new options which were introduced with these versions.
+These options are (equivalent to the ones with the same name in `fping`)
+`--fwmark`, `--icmp-timestamp` and `--check-source`.
+The older flags `--dontfrag` and `--random` were also added.
+
+Also the `-4` and `-6` flags may not have worked as intented and should be
+fixed now.
+
+#### check_mysql
+`check_mysql` should now be able to correctly detect whether a replica is
+attached and working correctly.
+Changes were necessary here to adapt to changes in the naming convention in
+MySQL.
+
+[download]: /download.html
+
+<!--% # vim:set filetype=markdown textwidth=78 joinspaces expandtab: # %-->
diff --git a/web/macros.py b/web/macros.py
index 54a092c..3967223 100644
--- a/web/macros.py
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import math
 import os.path
 import time
 
-plugins_release = '3.0.0-rc4'
+plugins_release = '3.0.0'
 mib_release = '1.0.1'
 release_notes = 'news/release-%s.html' % plugins_release.replace('.', '-')
 site_url = 'https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/'