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Nagios v4.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-08-01 // almost 8 years ago

  • 🔒 SECURITY FIXES

    • 🛠 Fixed vulnerability CVE-2008-4796 (John Frickson)
    • 🛠 Fixed vulnerability CVE-2013-4214 (John Frickson)
    • 🌐 web interface vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks (John Frickson)

    ✨ ENHANCEMENTS

    • Increase socket queue length for listen()
    • ➕ Added host name to the website page title (leres / John Frickson)
    • ➕ Added additional icons for NetBSD and SuSE (John Frickson)
    • The new Status Map will now use cgi.cfg options (John Frickson) default_statusmap_layout will default to "6" for the new map
    • The new Status Map will now show some valid values in the popup for "Nagios Process" (John Frickson)

    🛠 FIXES

    • Network outage view without access to all hosts (John Frickson)
    • 👷 Core workers looping (John Frickson)
    • service query returns duplicate host_name and description fields in the returned data (John Frickson)
    • 📜 HTML output of plug-ins is parsed in wrong way => webgui unusable (John Frickson)
    • 👷 Command worker fails to handle SIGPIPE
    • "View Status" links under "Map" broken in Nagios Core Version 4.1.1 (John Frickson)
    • 👀 Can't send big buffer - wproc: Core Worker seems to be choked (velripn / John Frickson)
    • 📊 Too big CPU load on FreeBSD and other systems using poll() interface (cejkar)
    • ⏱ Flexible downtime recorded as unscheduled downtime (John Frickson)
    • Service Flexible downtimes produce 1 notification before entering (John Frickson)
    • Once you "set flap_detection_enabled 0" it should remove flapping state from the host/services page (John Frickson)
    • 🆕 New map doesn't finish loading if a logo image is not found (John Frickson)
    • Extraneous Div end tag in map.html (Scott Wilkerson)
    • Issue with "Problems" section (John Frickson)
    • Status Map icons and online/offline status dots disappear in IE11 (John Frickson)
    • 🆕 New network map overlays the nagios process with objects (John Frickson)
    • ➕ Added Default-Start and Default-Stop to the init script (John Frickson)
    • 🌲 Compile / logging issues with BSD 6
    • Related to above, Fixed a lot of incorrectly handled time_t's in *printf's (John Frickson)
    • 🆕 New map not working for RU locale (actually, most locales) (John Frickson)
    • 🚦 Replaced all instances of signal() with sigaction() + blocking (John Frickson)
    • UTF-8 characters like german ä are not processed properly by function url_encode (John Frickson)
    • 👷 nagios worker processes can hog CPU (huxley / John Frickson)
    • custom time periods that include special characters were not being handled in reports (John Frickson)
    • 🛠 Fixed init script to wait up to 90 seconds then kill the nagios process (John Frickson)
    • No Host Groups results in wrong error message (John Frickson)
    • Setup Nagios users to view specific host is not working in the new network map (John Frickson)
    • statusjson.cgi fails glibc realloc truncate response output (John Frickson)
    • Report Time Period does not work if an @ character is in the timeperiod name (John Frickson)
    • 🔌 State History does not use actual plugin long_output (John Frickson)
    • Time period corruption (xoubih)
    • Tactical Overview - Disabled Flap Detection Link (John Frickson)