We are happy to announce the release of Icinga Director version 1.11.6. This release addresses several important bug fixes and introduces improvements that enhance the overall stability of Icinga Director.
Database Schema Upgrade
- Columns storing large strings for example custom variables are upgraded to MEDIUMTEXT in MYSQL
- Changes are made to support Dependency Redundancy Groups
UI Enhancements
This update resolves the below issues in UI:
- The applied groups displayed for hosts that was not in the restriction
- Incorrect displayed associated templates for the Host Choices
- Inherited “disabled” services not crossed out
- Cyclic inheritance causes UI to crash
- Clicking Groups repeatedly (x2) leads to “Page not found”
- Users with Director restrictions unable to create hosts unless you manually specify the host group
- Indexing of the stripped filter chain
And provides the below improvements in UI:
- Support for ‘Dependency Redundancy Groups’
- Show an indicator if there is an active deployment is running
Kickstart Improvements
With this release, the Icinga Director can now correctly remove the zones and endpoints while running Kickstart.
CLI Improvements
It is now possible to check the health of individual sync rules, import sources, and director jobs by name. Moreover, you could also delete individual sync rule or import source based on their IDs using CLI command.
Rest API
This release sets the default version of the Self Service API to latest and fixes a possible timing attack in Self Service API.
Integrations
It is not possible to modify any Service objects from Icinga DB or monitoring module when service modification permissions are removed in Director. And the user-friendly custom variable rendering in Icinga DB and the monitoring module is now available to users with restrictions.
Internal Fixes and Enhancements
The scheduled downtimes in the activity logs now points to the correct URLs. Also, the issue with restoring of the host template and host template choice baskets is now fixed. The issue with the indexing of the stripped filter chain has been fixed. Icinga Director now also provides wild card support for contains assign filter.
Upgrade to version 1.11.6 to take advantage of these improvements.






