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+title: Version 2.4.0 Released
+author: Jan Wagner
+date: 2024-07-25
+---
+
+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!
+<end-of-teaser>
+
+For the list of notable changes in this release, see below.
+
+You can get the tarball from our [download page][download].
+
+### Enhancements
+#### General
+* Use C99 booleans
+* Improve negate plugin helptext
+* Add new test function for percentage expressions
+#### Single Plugins
+* check_mailq: remove trailing whitespaces
+* check_mailq: unify tabs/spaces
+* check_oracle: Shellcheck fixes
+* check_ups: output ups.realpower if supported
+* check_disk: add -n short option for --ignore-missing
+* check_procs: Improve help text, mentioning excluded processes
+* check_procs: Generalise wording, remove mentioning of nrpe
+* check_curl: add haproxy protocol option
+* check_disk: increase alert precision
+* check_ircd: IPv6 support
+* check_nwstat: adds percentage used space
+* check_swap: Possibility to run check_swap without thresholds
+* check_ups: additional alarm conditions
+* check_http/check_curl: added a --regex-state option to change the state of a regex check
+
+### Fixes
+#### General
+* Fixes for -Wsign-compare
+* Fix logic in is_uint64_t to fix type-limit warning
+* Prevent -lcrypto from showing up in Makefile dependencies
+* Change irritating NULL assignment
+#### Single Plugins
+* check_dbi: Compiler warning for uninitialized variable
+* check_curl: Initialize pointer before usage
+* check_ntp: Initialize intermediate results in any case
+* check_tcp: Fixes an error with using the wrong type for a variable
+* check_mailq: exit on empty strings and exit early
+* check_users: Change option for sanity checking arguments to avoid segfault
+* check_users: Update help to properly show that thresholds are ranges
+* check_users: fix segfault
+* check_dbi: Fix compiler warning for uninitialized variable
+* check_curl: Initialize pointer before usage
+* check_ntp: Initialize intermediate results in any case
+* check_ntp_peer: Fixes for Wmaybe-unitialized and some restructuring
+* check_dns: Remove unused variable
+* check_ntp_peer: Fixes for Wmaybe-unitialized and some restructuring
+* check_dns: Remove unused variable
+* check_disk: fix ignore-missing in combination with includes
+* check_procs: ignore our own children
+* check_http: Remove self assignment of a variable and add some comments
+* check_snmp: Remove unused variable
+* check_dhcp: Make implicit conversion explicit to dismiss warning
+* check_http: Remove self assignment of a variable and add some comments
+* check_dhcp: Make implicit conversion explicit to dismiss warning
+* Ini Parser: Avoid freeing symbols from text section
+* check_icmp: keep performance data order in case of none-reachable hosts
+* check_swap: Change another fake boolean to a real one
+* check_swap: Rename type since *_t is reserved for C standard types
+* check_ssh: Fix a typo in "remote-protocol parameter
+* check_ssh: Handle non-alpha software versions
+* check_ssh: properly parse a delayed version control string
+* check_disk: Fail on missing arguments for --warning and --critical and fix a test case
+* check_disk: Use new test function for percentage expressions
+* check_load: remove unused code
+* check_curl/check_http: clarified format of POST data
+
+[download]: /download.html
+
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