Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the latest Zabbix major version - Zabbix 6.4. The release delivers many long-awaited improvements, such as Just-in-time LDAP and SAML user provisioning; support of older Zabbix proxy versions for simplified proxy management and zero-downtime Zabbix upgrades; near-instant configuration sync across Zabbix agents and proxies, and much more!
Zabbix 6.4 adds features such as:
Find out more about Zabbix 6.4 by visiting our What's new in Zabbix 6.4 webinar, covering the newly introduced features and improvements.
Official Zabbix packages and images are available for:
You can find the download instructions and download the new version on the download page: https://www.zabbix.com/download
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 6.4 you need to upgrade your repository package and download and install the new Zabbix component packages (Zabbix server, proxy, frontend, and other Zabbix components). When you start the Zabbix server, an automatic database schema upgrade will be performed. Zabbix agents are backward compatible, therefore, it is not required to install the new agent versions. You can perform the agent upgrade at a later time.
You can find detailed step-by-step upgrade instructions on our Upgrade procedure page.
An overview of the new features and changes can be found on our What's new in Zabbix 6.4 page:
https://www.zabbix.com/whats_new_6_4
What's new in Zabbix 6.4.0 documentation section:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/introduction/whatsnew640
Take a look at the release notes to see the full list of new features and improvements:
https://www.zabbix.com/rn/rn6.4.0
Zabbix 6.4 adds features such as:
- Just-in-time (JIT) user provisioning
- Map LDAP and SAML user groups to Zabbix user groups
- Automatically assign user groups and user roles to LDAP and SAML users
- Automatically assign media types to Zabbix users based on their LDAP/SAML attributes
- SAML authentication supports both JIT and SCIM user provisioning
- Cause and symptom events
- Events can be marked as cause or symptom events
- A single or multiple symptom events can be linked to a cause event
- Multiple new macros and API calls have been introduced to collect and present cause/symptom event information
- Instant propagation of configuration changes
- Instantly synchronize configuration changes across your Zabbix proxies and agents running in active or passive modes
- Zabbix proxies now receive only the configuration delta – configuration changes performed during the configuration update interval
- Zabbix active agents now receive a full configuration copy only when configuration changes have been made between configuration synchronization intervals
- Support of older versions of Zabbix proxies for zero-downtime Zabbix upgrades
- Older Zabbix proxy versions can still perform data collection with Zabbix servers not older than previous LTS release
- Proxy is fully supported if it has the same major version as the Zabbix server
- For non-LTS versions (e.g.: Zabbix server 6.4), proxy is marked as outdated if its major version is older than the Zabbix server, but within the same LTS release (e.g.: Zabbix proxy 6.0/6.2)
- For LTS versions (e.g.: Zabbix server 7.0), proxy is marked as outdated if its major version is older than the Zabbix server, but not older than the previous LTS release (e.g.: Zabbix proxy 6.0)
- Outdated proxies still support data collection and remote command execution
- In other scenarios, the proxy becomes not supported
- New SNMP walk item for bulk collection and discovery of SNMP metrics
- New SNMP preprocessing steps used to extract SNMP values and convert the bulk data to JSON to use in low-level discovery
- New menu layout
- The goal of the new menu layout is to provide logical and consistent access to main Zabbix feature
- Dashboards have been moved to a top-level menu entry
- New Alerts, Users, Data collection sections
- The Data collection menu replaces the Configuration menu and contains submenus related to configuring data collection
- Real-time streaming of metrics and events over HTTP
- Stream Zabbix metrics and events to external systems over HTTP
- Streaming is done over HTTP via REST API
- Select between streaming item values or trigger events
- Filter data for streaming by specifying the required tags
- Template versioning
- Official templates now come with template version and vendor
- The version and vendor fields are visible in Zabbix frontend
- Version and vendor can also be added to custom templates
- Development framework for Zabbix widget creation
- Widgets have been converted to frontend modules
- Introducing a public development documentation containing guidelines and detailed overview of the widget creation framework
- Optional interfaces for server-originated checks
- Simple check, External check, SSH agent, Telnet agent item types now do not require an interface to be present on the host
- Pre-configured email media type settings for Gmail and O365 email providers
- Microsoft Azure MySQL servers
- Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL servers
- Microsoft Azure virtual machines
- Low-level discovery improvements in AWS by HTTP template
- Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Veeam Backup and Replication
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
- BMC Control-M
- Cisco Meraki dashboard
- OS processes by Zabbix agent
- Improvements to filesystem discovery in official Zabbix OS templates
Find out more about Zabbix 6.4 by visiting our What's new in Zabbix 6.4 webinar, covering the newly introduced features and improvements.
Official Zabbix packages and images are available for:
- Linux distributions for different hardware platforms on RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian
- Virtualization platforms based on VMWare, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, XEN
- Docker
- Packages and pre-compiled agents for the most popular platforms, including macOS and MSI packages for Microsoft Windows
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean
You can find the download instructions and download the new version on the download page: https://www.zabbix.com/download
In order to upgrade to Zabbix 6.4 you need to upgrade your repository package and download and install the new Zabbix component packages (Zabbix server, proxy, frontend, and other Zabbix components). When you start the Zabbix server, an automatic database schema upgrade will be performed. Zabbix agents are backward compatible, therefore, it is not required to install the new agent versions. You can perform the agent upgrade at a later time.
You can find detailed step-by-step upgrade instructions on our Upgrade procedure page.
An overview of the new features and changes can be found on our What's new in Zabbix 6.4 page:
https://www.zabbix.com/whats_new_6_4
What's new in Zabbix 6.4.0 documentation section:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/introduction/whatsnew640
Take a look at the release notes to see the full list of new features and improvements:
https://www.zabbix.com/rn/rn6.4.0