Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.18rc1

22 May 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.18rc1.

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 6.0.18rc1. 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-8199	Added Google cloud platform monitoring template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8330	Updated plugin support with defaults support for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-8357	Improved proxy history housekeeping when data older than ProxyOfflineBuffer is being constantly received Proxy
ZBXNEXT-8142	Added ability to import configuration files with a UTF-8 Byte order mark API
ZBXNEXT-8209	Added Azure CosmosDB for MongoDB template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8078	Removed unnecessary new line for each element in an array when exporting YAML templates Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8273	Implemented support for relative Include paths in the config file, based on its current directory Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8391	Added container healthcheck metric in Docker by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8354	Added pids_stats to docker.container_stats key in Zabbix agent 2 Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22989	Silenced null-dereference warnings for duktape Proxy Server
ZBX-22720	Dropped support for custom geomap HTML attribution text Frontend
ZBX-22604	Added new replica mismatch metrics to Kubernetes cluster state template, updated triggers Templates
ZBX-22475	Fixed regex in preprocessing parameter for Jenkins template Templates
ZBX-21910	Fixed JavaScript in Kubernetes nodes template Templates
ZBX-22773	Made NodeAddress use ListenIP and ListenPort if not specified Server
ZBX-21613	Fixed broken database upgrade if more than one Zabbix server at the same time on one database is started Proxy Server
ZBX-22688	Fixed AlertScriptPath not allowing links Server
ZBX-22029	Fixed preprocessing step in Pods discovery for Kubernetes kubelet template Templates
ZBX-22234	Fixed incorrect SNMPINDEX offset retrieval in SNMP discovery Server
ZBX-22141	Fixed attaching multiple templates with proc.get item key to one host and fixed spelling in description Templates
ZBX-22285	Fixed honoring of the excludeSearch parameter in API API
ZBX-20604	Fixed UserParameterDir behavior for UserParameter calls Agent
ZBX-22732	Fixed description of ATAN2 mathematical function Frontend
ZBX-22664	Fixed user macros with regex context being resynced without any changes Proxy Server
ZBX-22661	Fixed templated dashboard display in Monitoring Hosts Dashboards Frontend
ZBX-21599	Optimised preprocessing steps and added dashboard in the TiDB TiKV by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21598	Optimised preprocessing steps and added dashboard in the TiDB PD by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21600	Optimised preprocessing steps and added dashboard in the TiDB by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-22386	Fixed encoding of HTML entities in the user interface Frontend
ZBX-22714	Fixed signature for mqtt.get key in Standard items popup Frontend
ZBX-21397	Fixed preprocessing step in discovery for Kubernetes kubelet template Templates
ZBX-20202	Improved tablespace handling to support Oracle multitenant architecture in Oracle by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-22713	Fixed Zabbix server compilation problem for NetBSD Server
ZBX-21795	Fixed unhandled timeout in Telnet Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-21801	Fixed helper positioning when sorting Header and Query fields in item configuration form Frontend
ZBX-22238	Fixed non-writable hostgroup appearance in template, host and host prototype clone forms Frontend
ZBX-22192	Fixed valid widget name being reset when other widget fields are invalid Frontend
ZBX-21871	Switched for the changes in users of user group API object to be audit logged as updates in groups of user API objects API
ZBX-22461	Fixed incorrect sortable item positioning in Safari Frontend
ZBX-22469	Fixed SLI calculation for services having multiple alarms per second API
ZBX-22859	Fixed validation of input parameters in action configuration form 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 6.0.18.

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 6.0 Manual