Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.0alpha1

27 January 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.0alpha1.

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 5.0.0alpha1. 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-1423	Added ipmi.get item for IPMI sensor LLD API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5546, ZBXNEXT-5548	Added support of default message templates for each media type API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-5639	Added available agent 2 check restriction parameters Agent
ZBXNEXT-5693	Reset page number when applying new filter, changing sort order or re-opening the page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5554	Added webhook through proxy Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1898	Implemented strong cryptography for encoding frontend passwords API
ZBXNEXT-5592	Dropped IBM DB2 database support for Zabbix server API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1085	Added available agent check restriction parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-4700	Reworked new action operation form as popup Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5412	Reworked new condition forms as popup API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1989	Increased maximum item key length to 2048 chars API Frontend Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5414	Moved maintenance period configuration settings to modal window to decrease page refresh count Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5538	Moved Administration->User groups pages to MVC framework API Frontend Installation
ZBX-11991	Reworked event correlation operations page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5413	Reworked discovery checks form as popup Frontend
ZBXNEXT-170	Implemented possibility to "unlink" specific templates in hosts and templates massupdate Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3322	Implemented popup submenus on page headings instead of select controls Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-12899	Fixed check for circular dependencies of navigation tree items Frontend Installation
ZBX-17049	Fixed non well formed numeric value in maintenance.create and maintenance.update; fixed undefined index in maintenance create and update popup API Frontend
ZBX-17066	Fixed wrongly positioned context menu when launched by keyboard Frontend
ZBX-402	Fixed latest data reloading to updating asynchronously Frontend
ZBX-16695	Changed default width of various screen elements in Zabbix templates from 500 to 750 pixels Templates
ZBX-11764	Fixed automake scripts; thanks to Tomasz Kłoczko for the patch Installation

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 5.0.0.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free Upgrade Service for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 5.0 Manual