Ubuntu Jammy icingadb-web Version frozen?

meuthak · November 24, 2025, 10:03am

Greetings,

It seems that the product version for the icingadb-web package for Ubuntu 22.04 is already frozen on the Debian Mirror.

https://packages.icinga.com/ubuntu/dists/icinga-jammy/main/binary-amd64/Packages

The newest version in the Repository is 1.1.4. I could not find any hint on why the newest icingadb-web is not pushed for a still supported Ubuntu version.

Will this be updated, or shall we already migrate OS?

Thanks

moreamazingnick · November 24, 2025, 10:19am

I’ve heard that Icinga no longer supports PHP versions below 8.2 for Icinga DB.

github.com/Icinga/icingadb-web

doc/02-Installation.md.d/From-Source.md

main

# Installing Icinga DB Web from Source

Please see the Icinga Web documentation on
[how to install modules](https://icinga.com/docs/icinga-web-2/latest/doc/08-Modules/#installation) from source.
Make sure you use `icingadb` as the module name. The following requirements must also be met.

### Requirements

* PHP (≥8.2)
* MySQL or PostgreSQL PDO PHP libraries
* The following PHP modules must be installed: `cURL`, `dom`, `json`, `libxml`
* [Icinga DB](https://github.com/Icinga/icingadb) (≥1.4)
* [Icinga Web 2](https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2) (≥2.12)
* [Icinga PHP Library (ipl)](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-php-library) (≥0.18)
* [Icinga PHP Thirdparty](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-php-thirdparty) (≥0.14)

<!-- {% include "02-Installation.md" %} -->

And sadly Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is shipped with 8.1.

meuthak · November 24, 2025, 10:29am

Okay thanks, yeah that seems to be the issue here. However PHP 8.4 can be installed from other sources, shouldn’t this be a package dependency issue, rather than just not pushing for this OS version?

moreamazingnick · November 24, 2025, 10:44am

You could also upgrade php and force install some debian packages
or build the packages from source with the dependency

I think the main problem here is the support

on the other hand here it says:

22.04 jammy

as a

Server

with

Official Modules Modules by Icinga

but there is a but:

Server components of the Icinga ecosystem are generally supported on the latest LTS version of the most common Linux distributions.

meuthak · November 24, 2025, 11:54am

Yes, i agree with you, that these possibilities exist and that the issue is seemingly the dropped support for Ubuntu 22.04 (only for icingadb-web, other official packages are still upgraded), which is linked to the missing upgrade for PHP.

So do you imply, that these forced upgrades are the way to go, if we want to keep using Ubuntu 22.04 until it’s official support end?

rivad · November 24, 2025, 2:16pm

Sadly Icinga as a company is quite bad at handling LTS scenarios - even with the enterprise subscription

I would pin the package (to keep the package stable and functionally disable package management), install the required PHP version and manually patch the files from the Icinga git repositories - I learned that one can just add .diff to GitHub URL.

https://github.com/Icinga/icingadb-web/compare/v1.1.4...v1.3.0.diff

Then use patch to update the files on your server.

Reading release notes, the install from source and upgrading documentation would be appropriate.

meuthak · November 24, 2025, 3:27pm

Okay, thank you for your help and information. In that case, we may look at a premature migration away from Ubuntu 22.04 and in the meantime install directly from source.

moreamazingnick · November 24, 2025, 4:20pm

you should upgrade ubuntu since icingadb consists of 2 parts.

icingadb go implementation (backend service)
- GitHub - Icinga/icingadb: Icinga configuration and state database supporting multiple environments
icingadb web implementation
- GitHub - Icinga/icingadb-web: Icinga DB Web – UI for Icinga DB – Provides a graphical interface to your Icinga monitoring

Since your OS support for icingadb backend service can be removed too, you would end up building that by yourself or upgrade anyway.

for the web part you also need to install icinga-php-library and icinga-php-thirdparty from source since updates for these packages are unavailable too.