3 files changed, 134 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc1.md b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..85c7982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+title: Version 3.0.0-rc1 Released
+author: Lorenz Kästle
+date: 2025-12-03
+---
+
+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.
+<end-of-teaser>
+
+The core parts of this release are significant changes to the C part of this
+project, which should be mostly internal and not change the results in a
+significant way (meaning the input parameters mostly stay as they are and the
+exit code should remain the same if the parameters are the same in the old
+version and context did not change).
+The reality is, that big changes have
+unintented consequences which are not covered in the test cases or some
+consequences were not in our scope at all.
+For the list of notable changes in this release, see below.
+
+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.
+
+#### 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_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/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc2.md b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc2.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79746bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/input/news/release-3-0-0-rc2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+title: Version 3.0.0-rc2 Released
+author: Lorenz Kästle
+date: 2026-01-02
+---
+
+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
+
+
+[download]: /download.html
+
+<!--% # vim:set filetype=markdown textwidth=78 joinspaces expandtab: # %-->
diff --git a/web/macros.py b/web/macros.py
index 5536f3f..eab21bc 100644
--- a/web/macros.py
+++ b/web/macros.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import math
 import os.path
 import time
 
-plugins_release = '2.4.0'
+plugins_release = '3.0.0-rc2'
 mib_release = '1.0.1'
 release_notes = 'news/release-%s.html' % plugins_release.replace('.', '-')
 site_url = 'https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/'
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ _RSS_ITEM = """
     </item>
 """
 
+
 def hook_postconvert_rss():
     items = []
     posts = [p for p in pages if 'date' in p]
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ def hook_postconvert_rss():
 # News
 #
 
+
 def hook_preconvert_news():
     posts_per_page = 10
     posts = [p for p in pages if 'date' in p]
@@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ def hook_preconvert_news():
                      parent='News')
         pages.append(p)
 
+
 def make_news_page(posts, current_index):
     marker = '<end-of-teaser>'
     if current_index == 0:
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ def make_news_page(posts, current_index):
         p['parent'] = title
     return '\n'.join(teaser) + '\n\n'
 
+
 def make_news_footer(n_news_pages, current_index):
     if n_news_pages == 1:
         return ''
@@ -142,6 +146,7 @@ def make_news_footer(n_news_pages, current_index):
         footer.append('[Last](news/%d.html)' % n_news_pages)
     return '&emsp;'.join(footer) + '\n{: #news-footer }\n'
 
+
 def next_news_chunk(posts, posts_per_page):
     index = 0
     while len(posts[index:]) > 0:
@@ -152,6 +157,7 @@ def next_news_chunk(posts, posts_per_page):
 # Menu and Breadcrumb Navigation
 #
 
+
 def menu():
     menu_pages = [p for p in pages if 'menu' in p]
     menu_pages.sort(key=lambda p: int(p['menu']))
@@ -161,9 +167,10 @@ def menu():
         else:
             print('<span><a href="%s">%s</a></span>' % (p.url, hx(p.title)))
 
+
 def breadcrumb():
     stable = '<span id="release">Stable release: <a href="%s">%s</a></span>' \
-           % (release_notes, plugins_release)
+        % (release_notes, plugins_release)
     parents = {p.title: (p.url, p.get('parent')) for p in pages}
     title = page.title
     crumbs = hx(title)
@@ -179,11 +186,13 @@ def breadcrumb():
 # Miscellaneous
 #
 
+
 def list_kids():
     kids = [(p.url, p.title) for p in pages if p.get('parent') == page.title]
     for kid in sorted(kids):
         print('* [%s](%s)' % (kid[1], kid[0]))
 
+
 def copyright_years(since=None):
     this_year = time.gmtime().tm_year
     if since is not None and int(since) != this_year: