Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.12rc1

17 May 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.12rc1.

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 5.0.12rc1. 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-4910	Added severity in problem real-time export protocol Server
ZBXNEXT-6613	Added Express.ms media Templates
ZBXNEXT-6592	Added ManageEngine ServiceDesk media Templates
ZBXNEXT-6505	Added "WildFly Domain by JMX "and "WildFly Server by JMX" templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6589	Added Job discovery, backup process items in Database discovery, macros, and value map in Template DB MSSQL by ODBC Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19065	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 logging if the file is moved or removed Agent
ZBX-19334	Removed redundant ListenIP parameter in server's configuration file Installation
ZBX-19307	Improved performance of history syncers by reducing time spent in locks when syncing history and receiving new history from proxy Server
ZBX-19038	Fixed lld manager not to process lld rules on same host in parallel to avoid duplicated item keys being discovered; fixed crash when duplicated item key on same host exists Proxy Server
ZBX-19324	Fixed possible deadlocks between configuration and history syncers on proxy Proxy
ZBX-19209	Fixed panic in proc plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-19241	Stopped proxy from overwriting local lastlogsize and mtime Proxy
ZBX-19321	Fixed missing event tags in case of multiple problems Server
ZBX-19063	Fixed logging for unsupported windows service command in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-19099	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 windows services plugin second parameter Agent
ZBX-18883	Fixed logrt[] monitoring with copytruncate rotation Agent
ZBX-19102	Fixed conversion of EVENT.NAME to EVENT.RECOVERY.NAME in recovery opmessage Installation
ZBX-19159	Added postponing of recovery operation when problem operation still executes, fixed memory leak while saving tags returned by webhook Server
ZBX-19274	Fixed semaphore not being cleaned up on Solaris when terminating Zabbix sender Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-19233	Fixed potential loss of original error when reading vmware events Proxy Server
ZBX-18701	Fixed syntax mistakes in Template DB MySQL, renamed LLD rule to Database discovery Templates

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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 5.0.12.

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