Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.3rc1

12 八月 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.3rc1.

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 5.0.3rc1. 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-6080	Add telnet support for net.tcp.service/.perf key and enable it on linux/darwin
ZBXNEXT-6101	Add native linux vfs.fs.inode[fs,<mode>] metric support to agent2
ZBXNEXT-6102	Add native linux vfs.fs.get metric support to agent2
ZBXNEXT-6103	Add native linux vfs.fs.discovery metric support to agent2
ZBXNEXT-6100	Add native linux vfs.fs.size[fs,<mode>] metric support to agent2
ZBXNEXT-6010	Added template "Template DB Oracle by ODBC"
ZBXCTR-12	SiGNL4 update to close alerts in SIGNL4 when closed in Zabbix
ZBXNEXT-6004	Added host info to vmware event message log
ZBXNEXT-5903	Added vmware datacenters discovery
ZBXNEXT-6042	Optimized trigger, calculated item processing by resolving user macros during configuration cache synchronization

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-17785	Fixed dbstat query for postgresql v12
ZBX-18204	Fixed lost password in ssh remote command operation form data
ZBX-18046	Improved error message generation performance of user macro and item key parser
ZBX-18105	Fixed use on uninitialised variable
ZBX-18014	Added ODBC empty query check
ZBX-18160	Fixed fatal error in items.php and host_discovery.php
ZBX-13383	Improved performance of the trigger and trigger prototype inheritance
ZBX-18092	Reimplemented item folding based on application names and improved summary for each application in latest data view
ZBX-13789	Improved performance of "Problems" widget with MySQL backend by removing DISTINCT modifier from SQL statements with tables joined by primary keys
ZBX-18214	Added collecting of physical CPU utilization data on IBM AIX and modified system.cpu.util[]
ZBX-17974	Implement timeouts for WMI queries
ZBX-18149	Fixed discovered hosts showing links to host prototypes which should not possible
ZBX-18132	Added OpenSSL extension check in frontend setup and SAML authentication form
ZBX-18169	Fixed housekeeper not deleting history and trends for deleted items if storage period is not overridden
ZBX-17468	Fixed excess audit log record being added on host status update
ZBX-16998	Improved agent binary compatibility by removing __thread attribute when not building agent2
ZBX-17815	Fixed connection timeout when persistent buffer enabled
ZBX-18106	Fixed map navigation tree widget copying
ZBX-18012	Fixed undefined index error in history manager and added error message in charts when Elasticsearch requests fails
ZBX-18076	Fixed PHP notice in hostinterface API
ZBX-18000	Added red label for disabled media types in user profile
ZBX-17996	Fixed ip/dns field width in host interface
ZBX-18075	Fixed runtime error when creating a host via API
ZBX-17814	Fixed memory leaks in the agent persistent buffer
ZBX-17973	Fixed saving widget refresh rate in user profile
ZBX-15927	Removed problem calculation for dependent triggers when master trigger is in problem state
ZBX-17933	Fixed runtime error in maps
ZBX-18063	Fixed usage of unsupported parameter in API call
ZBX-18126	Fixed incorrect labels in action operations dialog
ZBX-18060	Fixed inaccessible user be displayed as accessible in slide show properties screen
ZBX-18147	Fixed wrong character set detection logic for Oracle DB
ZBX-18115	Added {$MSSQL.INSTANCE} macro and changed queries and item preprocessing for support MS SQL instance name
ZBX-17653	Fixed new widget placeholder behavior and dashboard height calculation in edit mode
ZBX-16819	Added link to hosts linked to each template in templates list
ZBX-18023	Fixed format of agent2 version number
ZBX-18071	Fixed slow SQL query when filtering items with latest data available
ZBX-17898	Fixed JavaScript errors on pasting widgets
ZBX-17569	Fixed calculating items not allowing negative values be corrected in the preprocessing
ZBX-18036	Fixed endpoint URL for Elasticsearch API requests
ZBX-18068	Fixed incorrect function call and redundant code
ZBX-8081	Fixed 'cmdline' parameter truncation on Solaris 11.3 and later
ZBX-18014	Fixed memory leak when action message does not have to be sent
ZBX-15117	Fixed graph configuration with large amount of items
ZBX-18069	Fixed server exit when trying to execute IPMI script without IPMI pollers
ZBX-17820	Fixed classic graph widget default header
ZBX-18025	Fixed availability report link
ZBX-17977	Fixed port filter not preserved in Monitoring -> Hosts across refresh
ZBX-17960	Fixed undefined index in trends API
ZBX-18032	Fixed host address and port values are not preserved in item test form
ZBX-18031	Fixed missing "loading" state in Monitoring → Latest data and Monitoring → Hosts
ZBX-17925	Fixed graph image flicker during update in screens
ZBX-17825	Fixed dynamic item switching for graph prototype widget
ZBX-18054	Changed preprocessing for nginx.version
ZBX-17903	Fixed the trigger condition for net.if.status in "Template Module Windows network", changed the wmi query in the master item, filters and preprocessing of LLD rule
ZBX-17994	Fixed the configuration example in documentation of Template App Nginx
ZBX-17682	Fixed button disable state in template item list and discovery list
ZBX-17821	Fixed default header for inaccessible iterator widget content
ZBX-17858	Fixed host group filter in templates general popup
ZBX-18001	Fixed graph prototype widget paging
ZBX-17924	Fixed php errors in "System information" window for MySQL
ZBX-17997	Fixed user media passwords appearing in plain text in audit log
ZBX-17968	Fixed z-index issue in floating widget header
ZBX-17827	Fixed broken layout of the notification popup window
ZBX-18009	Fixed non-masked secret macros in audit log
ZBX-17908	Fixed too wide popup error messages
ZBX-17782	Fixed PHP errors occurring during history search using Elasticsearch
ZBX-17917	Changed vm.memory.size keys on Solaris to get memory usage statistics from kstat
ZBX-18029	Fixed cpu counter wraparound handling on Solaris

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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