title: Version 3.0.0-rc2 Released
author: Lorenz Kästle
date: 2026-01-02
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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


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