Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.3

21 December 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.3.

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 5.2.3. 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-6319	Added systemd.unit.get item key to Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6345	Added substitution of SID to account name and domain name in eventlog message Agent
ZBXNEXT-6307	Added ability to read properties from a file Java gateway
ZBXNEXT-6329	Added Template "GitLab by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6387	Changed method settings.getglobal work only from frontend API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6234	Added "Disk read/write request avg waiting time" items in Template Module Windows physical disks Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18086	Fixed missing data selection in data overview and trigger overview screens Frontend
ZBX-18418	Set trigger behavior of nodata() for proxy is the same as for server Proxy Server
ZBX-18761	Fixed possible heap overflow issues in IPC commonications when deserializing huge text values Proxy Server
ZBX-18736	Added missing idle statistics from lld manager process title Server
ZBX-18583	Changed system command execution to avoid parameter quoting issues Agent
ZBX-17583	Fixed dashboard scroll to position where new widget is added Frontend
ZBX-18723	Fixed broken tab layout while sortable Frontend
ZBX-18148	Fixed inability to edit action operation when using special characters in custom message Frontend
ZBX-18116	Fixed identical tags in webhook Server
ZBX-18469	Changed label for max_period field on administration GUI page Frontend
ZBX-18706	Reworked Template "Ceph by Zabbix Agent2" OSD discovery Templates
ZBX-18714	Fixed inability to copy widgets of templated dashboards Frontend
ZBX-18660	Fixed SNMP index returning as a number instead of string if there is a backslash Server
ZBX-18187	Fixed agent2 wmi.get returning the wrong result Agent
ZBX-18543	Reworked ceph.osd.discovery metric Agent
ZBX-18725	Fixed crash in event correlation with 'close new' operation Server
ZBX-18694	Fixed crash when PSK connection is configured but PSK or PSK identity is empty Proxy Server
ZBX-18662	Improved pollers, unreachable pollers, Java pollers and pingers to use less memory Proxy Server
ZBX-18553	Increased ssh.run[] item data limit to 512KB for pre-processing, data storage limit still remains at 64KB Proxy Server
ZBX-18423	Fixed inconsistent macro expansion with Oracle DB compared with other databases Server
ZBX-18658	Changed {$AMI.PORT} macro value to 5038, added handling the "Follows" response and situations with unloaded modules Templates
ZBX-18219	Fixed custom multiplier preprocessing step validation to accept a string with macros API
ZBX-18198	Fixed tags not being expanded automatically on configuration form open Frontend
ZBX-18511	Fixed error for non logged in user trying to access graphs page with time range arguments Frontend
ZBX-18711	Removed autofocus of selected tab on page initial load for Monitoring Problems and Monitoring Hosts pages Frontend
ZBX-18647	Fixed broken macro secret input Frontend
ZBX-18686	Fixed remember me checkbox in login Frontend
ZBX-18357	Fixed dashboard view_mode being reset to default on dashboard update API
ZBX-18473	Fixed right align for numeric box Frontend
ZBX-18397	Fixed global macros clearing value on type change from secret to text when value is set and is the same as before API Frontend
ZBX-18617	Fixed built-in macros support in script item test form Frontend
ZBX-18470	Fixed unusefull timezone formatting; replaced comboboxes by CSelect elements for timezone selection API Frontend

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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 5.2.3.

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 5.2 Manual