Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.0alpha3

17 三月 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.0alpha3.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. Zabbix is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. A complete text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

This document contains the release notes for Zabbix 5.0.0alpha3. Download it from download.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-3604	Added support of user configurable ciphers for communication between Zabbix components
ZBXNEXT-5649	Added name referencing support ('~' suffix) to jsonpath
ZBXNEXT-2727	Added support of JMX TabularData
ZBXNEXT-5694	Implemented new page Monitoring->Hosts and added "Configuration" to Host context menu
ZBXNEXT-2957	Added ability to mask macros
ZBXNEXT-617	Added mass update of macros on host / template
ZBXNEXT-2613	Moved SNMP connection-related attributes to host interface level
ZBXNEXT-5449	Added support of svg graph as image download
ZBXNEXT-5716	Removed mbedTLS support
ZBXNEXT-5781	Improved agent2 metric testing (-t) and printing (-p) by adding full plugin interface support and verbose testing option
ZBXNEXT-3940	Added functionality to flush SNMP connections cache
ZBXNEXT-1561	Added nanoseconds option for zabbix_sender; thanks to Vladimir for the patch
ZBXNEXT-5604	Added option to suppress logging of system.run[] if embedded in agent configuration file
ZBXNEXT-4584	Implemented auditlog API
ZBXNEXT-1797	Added HOST.ID macro support to notifications
ZBXNEXT-5725	Added ability to select specific severities in Monitoring->Problems
ZBXNEXT-5697	Removed support for Internet Explorer
ZBXNEXT-5698	Added filter by tags for widget "Problems by severity" and "Problem hosts"
ZBXNEXT-5287, ZBXNEXT-5288	Implemented functionality to test items
ZBXNEXT-5514	Added functionality for Zabbix frontend customization
ZBXNEXT-5660	Added Discord media type
ZBXNEXT-5603, ZBXNEXT-5626	Added database character set check
ZBXNEXT-5659	Added "Template DB MySQL by ODBC"
ZBXNEXT-5690	Added support for libssh
ZBXNEXT-5646	Added support of configuration parameters HostInterface and HostInterfaceItem
ZBXNEXT-5706	Replaced xml2-config to pkg-config when building with libxml2
ZBXNEXT-1423	Added ipmi.get item for IPMI sensor LLD
ZBXNEXT-5546, ZBXNEXT-5548	Added support of default message templates for each media type
ZBXNEXT-5639	Added available agent 2 check restriction parameters
ZBXNEXT-5693	Reset page number when applying new filter, changing sort order or re-opening the page
ZBXNEXT-5554	Added webhook through proxy
ZBXNEXT-1898	Implemented strong cryptography for encoding frontend passwords
ZBXNEXT-5592	Dropped IBM DB2 database support for Zabbix server
ZBXNEXT-1085	Added available agent check restriction parameters
ZBXNEXT-4700	Reworked new action operation form as popup
ZBXNEXT-5412	Reworked new condition forms as popup
ZBXNEXT-1989	Increased maximum item key length to 2048 chars
ZBXNEXT-5414	Moved maintenance period configuration settings to modal window to decrease page refresh count
ZBXNEXT-5538	Moved Administration->User groups pages to MVC framework
ZBX-11991	Reworked event correlation operations page
ZBXNEXT-5413	Reworked discovery checks form as popup
ZBXNEXT-170	Implemented possibility to "unlink" specific templates in hosts and templates massupdate
ZBXNEXT-3322	Implemented popup submenus on page headings instead of select controls

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-17409	Fixed item mysql.dbsize in Template DB MySQL
ZBX-17173	Improved windows agent build scripts
ZBX-17344	Fixed PHP 7.4 errors in Latest data->History page for text and log items having an empty filter
ZBX-17288	Fixed undefined indexes in Administration->Regular expressions->Test tab
ZBX-17330	Fixed error reading vmware events with keys over 2^31
ZBX-17272	Changed translation strings to yield order number in argument
ZBX-17426	Fixed agen2 build with go 1.14
ZBX-16802	Added mtime-reread/mtime-noreread options parameter to log* keys
ZBX-17350	Fixed displaying of multiple value types in Latest data->History page
ZBX-17284	Fixed macro {EVENT.VALUE} is not substituted properly in webhooks
ZBX-17027	Fixed broken layout in usergroup page
ZBX-17390	Fixed validation of the maximum selected period
ZBX-17205	Fixed inability to add more than one space in auto-expandable fields like macros and tags
ZBX-17347	Fixed order of setting the Severity in the columns in the filters to vertical
ZBX-17308	Fixed unreachable code notice in a generic popup
ZBX-17185	Fixed non-disappearing messages of failed login attempts
ZBX-17180	Fixed undefined index in maps for trigger elements with no permissions
ZBX-17322	Fixed deadlock between server and frontend when updating multiple hosts
ZBX-9057	Fixed duplicate entries being written into in profiles table
ZBX-17159	Fixed overlay dialogue instantiation
ZBX-17108	Improved process utilization calculation
ZBX-17269	Fixed undefined indexes in history page
ZBX-17342	Dump memory statistics and items with most values when value cache is fully used
ZBX-16928	Upgraded Duktape version from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0
ZBX-16926	Fix INT_MAX error when compiling on SunOS/Joyent/Solaris
ZBX-17295	Fixed IPMI sensor LLD JSON output
ZBX-17222	Fixed unlimited data selection in Latest data view
ZBX-17213	Fixed Zabbix proxy not to execute remote commands on Zabbix agent with timeout and not to wait for execution result
ZBX-17201	Fixed snmp trapper processes exceeding 1000%
ZBX-17121	Improved proxy configuration synchronization performance on server when using Oracle database
ZBX-17174	Fixed sorting of Webhook parameters using natural sort order
ZBX-17171	Fixed padding of dashboard controls while in edit mode
ZBX-17220	Fixed several PHP 7.4 compatibility issues
ZBX-17050	Fixed allowed hosts parsing by agent2
ZBX-16827	Fixed applications being unlinked from items when both items and applications are not discovered anymore
ZBX-16697	Implemented preloader in popups
ZBX-17054	Fixed undefined index in discovery checks
ZBX-17035	Internal events are not created if there is no enabled internal actions
ZBX-16965	Fixed link/unlink template operation execution order
ZBX-17165	Fixed incorrect validation in XML conversion chain duo wrong XML type for tag tls_accept, added 5.0 XML schema
ZBX-17170	Fixed saving of cloned actions when one of its operations was modified
ZBX-12899	Fixed check for circular dependencies of navigation tree items
ZBX-17049	Fixed non well formed numeric value in maintenance.create and maintenance.update; fixed undefined index in maintenance create and update popup
ZBX-17066	Fixed wrongly positioned context menu when launched by keyboard
ZBX-402	Fixed latest data reloading to updating asynchronously
ZBX-16695	Changed default width of various screen elements in Zabbix templates from 500 to 750 pixels
ZBX-11764	Fixed automake scripts; thanks to Tomasz Kłoczko for the patch

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix 手册。 for full details.

版本升级

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 5.0 Manual