netdata · ilyam8 · Sep 11, 2026 · Sep 11, 2026
diff --git a/docs/Developer and Contributor Corner/Netdata Support Bundle.mdx b/docs/Developer and Contributor Corner/Netdata Support Bundle.mdx
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ The archive is organized into numbered directories so a person or an automated r
 - `05-logs/`, recent agent logs and relevant kernel messages, bounded by `--since`.
 - `06-state/`, persistent state such as the daemon status file used for crash analysis, database disk usage, and cloud claim state.
 - `07-runtime/`, live agent state read from the local API, collected only when the agent responds.
-- `08-network/`, local connectivity relevant to the agent.
+- `08-network/`, local connectivity relevant to the agent, including
+  `netdata-sockets.txt`: visible, platform-supported sockets owned by the
+  Netdata process tree and their native states.
 - `09-permissions/`, file modes, ownership, plugin capabilities, extended attributes, security contexts, and ACLs for the agent's directories and plugins.
 
 ## Include SNMP diagnostics

diff --git a/docs/Netdata Agent/Configuration/Daemon.mdx b/docs/Netdata Agent/Configuration/Daemon.mdx
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ A few of these settings can be individually configured in `netdata.conf`, like t
 |                 update every                  |              `1`               | The frequency in seconds, for data collection. For more information see the [performance guide](/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/performance-optimization). These metrics stored as _Tier 0_ data. Explore the tiering mechanism in the [dbengine's reference](/docs/developer-and-contributor-corner/database-engine#tiers).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
 | dbengine tier **`N`** update every iterations |              `60`              | The down sampling value of each tier from the previous one. For each Tier, the greater by one Tier has N (equal to 60 by default) less data points of any metric it collects. This setting can take values from `2` up to `255`. <br /> `N belongs to [1..4]`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 |            dbengine tier back fill            |             `new`              | Specifies the strategy of recreating missing data on higher database Tiers.<br /> `new`: Sees the latest point on each Tier and save new points to it only if the exact lower Tier has available points for it's observation window (`dbengine tier N update every iterations` window). <br /> `none`: No back filling is applied. <br /> `N belongs to [1..4]`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-|          memory deduplication (ksm)           |             `yes`              | When set to `yes`, Netdata will offer its in-memory round robin database and the dbengine page cache to kernel same page merging (KSM) for deduplication.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+|          memory deduplication (ksm)           |             `auto`             | Offers the in-memory round robin database and the dbengine page data to kernel same-page merging (KSM) for deduplication. <br />`auto`: offer them only when the kernel supports KSM (Netdata probes for it on first use and remembers the answer; an inconclusive probe, such as one that fails under memory pressure, is retried later). <br />`yes`: always offer them, even if the probe found no KSM support. <br />`no`: never offer them.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
 |         cleanup obsolete charts after         |              `1h`              | See [monitoring ephemeral containers](/docs/collecting-metrics/containers-and-cgroups#monitoring-ephemeral-containers), also sets the timeout for cleaning up obsolete dimensions                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
 |        gap when lost iterations above         |              `1`               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 |          cleanup orphan hosts after           |              `1h`              | How long to wait until automatically removing from the DB a remote Netdata host (child) that is no longer sending data.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

diff --git a/docs/Netdata Agent/Installation/Linux/Linux.mdx b/docs/Netdata Agent/Installation/Linux/Linux.mdx
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The user running the script needs write and execute permissions in the temporary
 Before running the installation script, you can verify its integrity using the following command:
 
 ```bash
-[ "0643708c33f613ea078ee711b25801ae" = "$(curl -Ss https://get.netdata.cloud/kickstart.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"
+[ "cf029d8366aa80ecaee907c40febcde6" = "$(curl -Ss https://get.netdata.cloud/kickstart.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"
 ```
 
 If the script is valid, this command will return `OK, VALID`. We recommend verifying script integrity before installation, especially in production environments.