Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.0alpha2

6 九月 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.0alpha2.

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 6.0.0alpha2. Download it from here.

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-6787	Added support of user permissions for service tree API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6824	Replaced simple macros with expression macros API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6870	Implemented support of additional HTTP methods for webhooks Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6866	Implemented audit logging of usergroup API object API
ZBXNEXT-6830	Implemented audit on server (processing discovered items) Server
ZBXNEXT-6817	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - items, items prototypes, discovery rules) Server
ZBXNEXT-6820	Added utf8mb3 when checking for supported mysql character sets and collations Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6859	Added logging of deleted tokens when deleting a user API
ZBXNEXT-6789	Added template for Travis CI Templates
ZBXNEXT-6800	Implemented complex service status calculation and propagation rules API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6775	Implemented new audit log; added new auditlog to user and token API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6810	Implemented audit on server (processing of LLD rules and discovered hosts) Server
ZBXNEXT-6802	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - host, host prototypes) Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6702	Added {#FSLABEL} macro in item names of the "Windows filesystems by Zabbix agent/agent active" templates, changed vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd] key to vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256] in Unix templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6813	Dropped support of British English as frontend language API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6688	Added new items for Agent and Agent2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6601	Added monoinc() and monodec() functions API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6768	Implemented audit for server (except for linking and LLD) Server
ZBXNEXT-6772	Added new prometheus label matching operators != and !~ Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6715	Made auditlog workable with new auditlog DB structure API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-4029	Implemented password policy support API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-6773	Added new aggregation functions count, exists_foreach and item_count Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6755	Added support of alerting in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3022	Improved scalability of services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6674	Added tag based mapping of problems in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6528, ZBXNEXT-6669	Moved auditlog calls from frontend sections Images, Proxies, Graphs and Graph prototypes, Services, and Maps to API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6679	Improved performance of template linking on Zabbix Server Server
ZBXNEXT-284	Added timeout parameter to zabbix_sender and zabbix_get Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19865	Fixed typos in "F5 Big-IP SNMP" template Templates
ZBX-19835	Fixed incorrect master item in template "Hikvision camera by HTTP" Templates
ZBX-19849	Fixed a trigger name typo in the "MSSQL by ODBC" template Templates
ZBX-19613	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 redis plugin to closer match redis-cli connection Agent
ZBX-19510	Fixed re-reading of old Windows events for various Windows event system synchronization problems Agent
ZBX-16803	Fixed ability to use Interface Guid in network interface LLD Agent
ZBX-19236	Fixed task manager constantly busy with close_problem task if trigger no longer exists but event still exist Server
ZBX-19581	Fixed untranslated and incorrectly translated strings Frontend
ZBX-18680	Fixed multi-channel notification issue in "Slack" media type Templates
ZBX-19822	Fixed Zabbix server not to populate housekeeper table with tasks that are never deleted when TimescaleDB partitioning is used API Server
ZBX-19623	Fixed Jira Service Desk URL in webhook Templates
ZBX-19857	Dropped support for the non-working option "with_gui_access" in the usergroup.get() method API
ZBX-19395	Changed version in links of the templates and the media Templates

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 6.0.0.

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 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 6.0 Manual