Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.0beta3

25 May 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.0beta3.

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 6.2.0beta3. Download it from download.

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-2578	Added support for vmware.rp.cpu.usage and vmware.rp.memory
ZBXNEXT-2837	Allowed {INVENTORY.*} macros for script type item and manual scripts
ZBXNEXT-6893	Implemented audit log filtering by multiple actions
ZBXNEXT-7553	Added user macro cache
ZBXNEXT-7453	Added templates HashiCorp Consul by HTTP
ZBXNEXT-7494	Removed deprecated CurlHttpRequest
ZBXNEXT-7693	Replaced filename-length-max=99 option with tar-pax in configure.ac
ZBXNEXT-7029	Added support of vmware.dvswitch.discovery and vmware.dvswitch.fetchports.get
ZBXNEXT-5088	Added active check availability icon
ZBXNEXT-5341	Added new VMware item vmware.vm.attribute
ZBXNEXT-2302	Added new VMware keys *.hv.connectionstate *.hv.hw.serialnumber *.hv.net.if.discovery *.hv.network.linkspeed *.hv.hw.sensors.get *.vm.state *.vm.tools and other improvements
ZBXNEXT-5771	Added digital clock feature to the clock widget
ZBX-20946	Enabled German and Vietnamese languages in the frontend
ZBXNEXT-7461	Implemented expandable subfilters at the Latest data page; fixed clickable tags
ZBXNEXT-7604	Modified functionality to ignore NaN in Prometheus preprocessing aggregate functions
ZBXNEXT-2591	Added resource pool path to vmware.vm.discovery
ZBXNEXT-2043	Added support for collecting vmware snapshot information and new items vmware.vm.snapshot.get and vmware.vm.consolidationneeded
ZBXNEXT-2012	Added additional NIC counters for VMware monitoring
ZBXNEXT-7607	Added template Envoy Proxy by HTTP
ZBXNEXT-7476	Disabled PHP 8 strict type validation
ZBXNEXT-2289	Implemented multiple LDAP sources for user authentication
ZBXNEXT-7526	Added number of items for Latest data column in Monitoring -> Hosts page
ZBXNEXT-7491	Fixed PHP 8.1 runtime warnings with PostgreSQL backend
ZBXNEXT-7547	Added CockroachDB template
ZBXNEXT-4768	Improved usability of "Execute now"
ZBXNEXT-3692	Refactored inline scripts for HTML onClick events to avoid potential XSS threats
ZBXNEXT-1711	Implemented OS processes discovery with new item proc.get
ZBXNEXT-7615	Added hmac function for JavaScript
ZBXNEXT-7611	Fixed silenced errors not silenced in zbx_err_handler running PHP 8
ZBXNEXT-7610	Refactored in PHP 8 deprecated function strtime()
ZBXNEXT-7506	Fixed uuids in proxmox template
ZBXNEXT-7562	Added en_GB locale
ZBXNEXT-7523	Added possibility to add custom templates to hosts created from host prototypes
ZBXNEXT-7627	Set minimal supported PHP version to 7.4
ZBXNEXT-1580	Implemented centralized refreshing of proxy configuration
ZBXNEXT-388	Added checking of new items and LLD rules within 60 seconds after creation
ZBXNEXT-7120	Added support of OpenSSL 3.0
ZBXNEXT-7402, ZBXNEXT-7413	Added support for CyberArk Vault
ZBXNEXT-7452	Added SNI support to TLS protocol for Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-7065	Added queries metrics to PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template
ZBXNEXT-7023	Updated regular expressions for services discovery in Windows templates
ZBXNEXT-7498	Moved internal item processing from history to regular pollers
ZBXNEXT-7420	Added documentation links to Zabbix frontend sections
ZBXNEXT-7397	Removed support for MD5 user passwords
ZBXNEXT-7488	Removed zabbix[history*] and zabbix[trends*] internal items
ZBXNEXT-7138	Added modal form for API tokens in User settings->API tokens and Administration->General->API tokens

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20859	Fixed incorrectly exported host groups in map elements
ZBX-20613	Returned the ability to edit the dependencies of inherited triggers; improved validation upon unlinking templates with triggers that have dependencies; improved performance of trigger dependency functionality; prevented the ability to fully replace trigger dependencies of inherited triggers if the new dependency was added to parent trigger; supplemented validation of trigger dependencies on templates to prevent linkage dead-ends; dropped support of trigger.addDependencies and trigger.deleteDependencies API methods
ZBX-20814	Fixed Map->Sharing user group shares table not showing saved user groups
ZBX-20898	Fixed duplicated UUID in the official template
ZBX-20911	Added process state check in PROC_NUM() for Oracle Solaris
ZBX-20752	Fixed saved properties of classic graphs being lost when reopening graph configuration
ZBX-21073	Added support of Int8Array(), Buffer() and also duktape plain buffers in md5, sha256 and hmac function parameters
ZBX-19381	Fixed resolving of macros in item key parameters when testing items in web interface
ZBX-21074	Fixed active check availability status update on Oracle
ZBX-20950	Updated regular expressions for services discovery in Windows templates and fixed new active agent check
ZBX-18520	Fixed showing of fields that do not belong to selected item type in item edit form
ZBX-20684	Fixed item value widget not showing trailing zeros
ZBX-20600	Fixed vmware hv.datastore.latency item when multiple datastores with duplicate name
ZBX-20861	Fixed incorrect naming of web scenario items after upgrade
ZBX-20823	Fixed inability to update hosts that were created by LLD on aarch64
ZBX-20945	Fixed broken trigger link in trigger mass update => dependencies
ZBX-20886	Fixed handle leak on Zabbix agent 2 in vfs.fs.get
ZBX-20356	Fixed perfomance counters not working when removed and added again on Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-21008	Fixed broken popup for SLA selection for User role
ZBX-20380	Fixed maintenance highlighting having priority over problem severity highlighting for map elements of map, host group and trigger types
ZBX-20982	Fixed API request by coordinates in the OpenWeatherMap template
ZBX-20918	Moved final history/trends cache sync in main process to be done before stopping HA
ZBX-20548	Fixed broken host link not opening in the Inventory
ZBXNEXT-7523	Removed unnecessary field validation for "link_type" in template.get "selectParentTemplates" option
ZBX-20773	Added documentation link for host create view in standalone mode
ZBX-20953	Fixed errors when changing status of a single host in list
ZBX-20947	Fixed hosts not being exported into file
ZBX-20951	Fixed dependent item discovery validation in LLD
ZBX-20783	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not to fail when global regular expression is received with empty delimiter
ZBX-20299	Fixed not detecting user macros by "Test item" dialog if they are used in the calculated item formula
ZBXNEXT-7616	Fixed JavaScript md5 and sha256 functions to support binary data (including terminating zero character)

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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 6.2.0.

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 6.2 Manual