Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.0beta1

14 April 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.0beta1.

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 5.0.0beta1. Download 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-5851	Added ability to monitor versions of all other Zabbix servers and proxies with zabbix.stats and zabbix[version] internal items Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2297	Added user defined macros creation/edition for host prototypes API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5825, ZBXNEXT-5826	Fixed support of Elasticsearch version 7.x Server
ZBXNEXT-5325	Added Docker plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-5622	Added Zendesk media Templates
ZBXCTR-1	Added Telegram media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-5824	Added media "Redmine" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5861	Added {EVENT.DURATION} macro to subject of message templates Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-5848	Increased acknowledge message maximum size to 2048 characters API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-5702	Improved UI performance for large installations Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-5599	Added MS Teams media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-5715	Added Jira media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-5767	Added Memcached plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-5569	Updated main menu to vertical style for the saving space Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5691	Implemented IEEE754 compatible value range for Numeric (float) history data type API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4829	Changed web setup wizard to not create and drop tables for DB connectivity test purposes Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5369	Added EVENT.TAGSJSON macro Server
ZBXNEXT-1736	Increased float precision Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5734	Added base64 encode, decode functions to webhook Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5527	Added "Template Server Chassis by IPMI" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5685	Added "Template DB MySQL by Zabbix agent 2" Templates
ZBXCTR-3	Added SIGNL4 webhook integration Templates
ZBXNEXT-5821	Added "Template App Memcached" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5325	Added "Template App Docker" template Templates
ZBXNEXT-252	Added EVENT.DURATION macro Server
ZBXNEXT-5720	Implemented displaying latest data if filter is empty Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4712	Added new preprocessing type "Replace" for items, item prototypes and LLD rules API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5786	Updated the list of user agents Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5685	Added MySQL plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-5676	Added support for TimescaleDB compression API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-5829	Replaced uint64 hash function with faster one Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1169	Replaced problem acknowledge page with a modal popup window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2753, ZBXNEXT-5641	Added TLS for server, proxy and UI connection to database Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1961	Added support for connection string to db.odbc.* items Server
ZBXNEXT-3604	Added support of user configurable ciphers for communication between Zabbix components Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5649	Added name referencing support ('~' suffix) to jsonpath Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2727	Added support of JMX TabularData Java gateway
ZBXNEXT-5694	Implemented new page Monitoring->Hosts and added "Configuration" to Host context menu API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2957	Added ability to mask macros API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-617	Added mass update of macros on host / template Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2613	Moved SNMP connection-related attributes to host interface level API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5449	Added support of svg graph as image download Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5716	Removed mbedTLS support Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5781	Improved agent2 metric testing (-t) and printing (-p) by adding full plugin interface support and verbose testing option Agent
ZBXNEXT-3940	Added functionality to flush SNMP connections cache Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1561	Added nanoseconds option for zabbix_sender; thanks to Vladimir for the patch Documentation Agent
ZBXNEXT-5604	Added option to suppress logging of system.run[] if embedded in agent configuration file Agent
ZBXNEXT-4584	Implemented auditlog API API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-1797	Added HOST.ID macro support to notifications Server
ZBXNEXT-5725	Added ability to select specific severities in Monitoring->Problems Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5697	Removed support for Internet Explorer Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5698	Added filter by tags for widget "Problems by severity" and "Problem hosts" Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5287, ZBXNEXT-5288	Implemented functionality to test items Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5514	Added functionality for Zabbix frontend customization API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-5660	Added Discord media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-5603, ZBXNEXT-5626	Added database character set check Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5659	Added "Template DB MySQL by ODBC" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5690	Added support for libssh Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5646	Added support of configuration parameters HostInterface and HostInterfaceItem Agent
ZBXNEXT-5706	Replaced xml2-config to pkg-config when building with libxml2 Installation
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-17558	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 compilation on MS Windows Agent
ZBX-16959	Fixed return code check of curl_easy_setopt Server
ZBX-17423	Fixed "reset" button in history page Frontend
ZBX-17551	Fixed duktape crash on ppc64le architecture Agent
ZBX-16112	Fixed connection timeout issue with media type testing by increasing timeout to 65 seconds Frontend
ZBX-17377	Fixed HostInterfaceItem not being refreshed during active checks Agent
ZBX-17526	Fixed severity checkboxes in the firefox browser Frontend
ZBX-17395	Fixed deletion of templated applications that were linked to items when importing templates Frontend
ZBX-17359	Fixed "sortorder": "DESC" option with multiple sortfields API
ZBX-17541	Fixed Zabbix agent compilation on MS Windows Agent
ZBX-16772	Enabled zabbix_agent2 to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2 on Unix platforms Agent
ZBX-17500	Fixed errors in zabbix_agent2 man-page Documentation
ZBX-17336	Fixed wrong error message when fping fails Proxy Server
ZBX-17427	Fixed top busiest triggers filter Frontend
ZBX-17365	Fixed parameters order in Media types test form Frontend
ZBX-17428	Fixed skipping null cells in CSV file Frontend
ZBX-17461	Fixed length parameter for web.page.regexp item key Agent
ZBX-17475	Fixed the interface_snmp amount that was used to proxy configuration Proxy Server
ZBX-17442	Fixed web.page.get to time out when there is no response Agent
ZBX-17457	Fixed description in Template DB MySQL by Zabbix agent Templates
ZBX-17508	Fixed error in oracle database encoding check Frontend
ZBX-17429	Fixed trigger expression condition popup to display negative numbers upon opening existing expression Frontend
ZBX-17177	Removed "operationid" from lower level properties in Action API API
ZBX-17518	Fixed empty parameter handling in GET method of CurlHttpRequest Proxy Server
ZBX-17012	Fixed URL validator to also accept relative URLs API Frontend
ZBX-17514	Fixed db upgrade patch for Oracle Installation
ZBX-17368	Fixed HostMetadataItem and HostInterfaceItem handling in agent2 Agent
ZBX-17507	Fixed oracle query interpreted as a multistatement Frontend
ZBX-17275	Optimized database requests in maintenance update Server
ZBX-17502	Fixed possible hang in agent2 when executing some metrics that forked another process Agent
ZBX-17398	Fixed server crash when escalating internal events with OPDATA macro Server
ZBX-9387	Fixed incorrect maintenance calculations when DST changed to summer time Server
ZBX-17390	Fixed validation of the maximum selected period Frontend
ZBX-17469	Fixed kiosk button margin in history/graph view of the latest data Frontend
ZBX-17346	Fixed button label in item test dialog Frontend
ZBX-17439	Fixed macros detection in item test dialog Frontend
ZBX-17409	Fixed item mysql.dbsize in Template DB MySQL Templates
ZBX-17173	Improved windows agent build scripts Installation
ZBX-17344	Fixed PHP 7.4 errors in Latest data->History page for text and log items having an empty filter Frontend
ZBX-17288	Fixed undefined indexes in Administration->Regular expressions->Test tab Frontend
ZBX-17330	Fixed error reading vmware events with keys over 2^31 Proxy Server
ZBX-17272	Changed translation strings to yield order number in argument API Frontend
ZBX-17426	Fixed agen2 build with go 1.14 Agent
ZBX-16802	Added mtime-reread/mtime-noreread options parameter to log* keys Frontend Agent
ZBX-17350	Fixed displaying of multiple value types in Latest data->History page Frontend
ZBX-17284	Fixed macro {EVENT.VALUE} is not substituted properly in webhooks Server
ZBX-17027	Fixed broken layout in usergroup page Frontend
ZBX-17390	Fixed validation of the maximum selected period Frontend
ZBX-17205	Fixed inability to add more than one space in auto-expandable fields like macros and tags Frontend
ZBX-17347	Fixed order of setting the Severity in the columns in the filters to vertical Frontend
ZBX-17308	Fixed unreachable code notice in a generic popup Frontend
ZBX-17185	Fixed non-disappearing messages of failed login attempts Frontend
ZBX-17180	Fixed undefined index in maps for trigger elements with no permissions Frontend
ZBX-17322	Fixed deadlock between server and frontend when updating multiple hosts Server
ZBX-9057	Fixed duplicate entries being written into in profiles table Frontend Installation
ZBX-17159	Fixed overlay dialogue instantiation Frontend
ZBX-17108	Improved process utilization calculation Proxy Server
ZBX-17269	Fixed undefined indexes in history page Frontend
ZBX-17342	Dump memory statistics and items with most values when value cache is fully used Server
ZBX-16928	Upgraded Duktape version from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 Proxy Server
ZBX-16926	Fix INT_MAX error when compiling on SunOS/Joyent/Solaris Proxy Server
ZBX-17295	Fixed IPMI sensor LLD JSON output Proxy Server
ZBX-17222	Fixed unlimited data selection in Latest data view Frontend
ZBX-17213	Fixed Zabbix proxy not to execute remote commands on Zabbix agent with timeout and not to wait for execution result Proxy
ZBX-17201	Fixed snmp trapper processes exceeding 1000% Server
ZBX-17121	Improved proxy configuration synchronization performance on server when using Oracle database Server
ZBX-17174	Fixed sorting of Webhook parameters using natural sort order API Frontend
ZBX-17171	Fixed padding of dashboard controls while in edit mode Frontend
ZBX-17220	Fixed several PHP 7.4 compatibility issues API Frontend
ZBX-17050	Fixed allowed hosts parsing by agent2 Agent
ZBX-16827	Fixed applications being unlinked from items when both items and applications are not discovered anymore Server
ZBX-16697	Implemented preloader in popups Frontend
ZBX-17054	Fixed undefined index in discovery checks Frontend
ZBX-17035	Internal events are not created if there is no enabled internal actions Server
ZBX-16965	Fixed link/unlink template operation execution order Server
ZBX-17165	Fixed incorrect validation in XML conversion chain duo wrong XML type for tag tls_accept, added 5.0 XML schema API
ZBX-17170	Fixed saving of cloned actions when one of its operations was modified Frontend
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 documentation for full details.

Upgrade

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 Contact sales for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development services

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References

Zabbix 5.0 Manual