Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.13rc1

21 June 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.13rc1.

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 5.0.13rc1. 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-6671	Added templates DELL PowerEdge R720 SNMP, R720 by HTTP, R740 SNMP, R740 by HTTP, R820 SNMP, R820 by HTTP, R840 SNMP, R840 by HTTP
ZBXNEXT-6596	Added native linux proc.num support plugin to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6582	Increased "Attempts" to 100 and "Attempt interval" to 1h in media types
ZBXNEXT-6643	Added templates HPE ProLiant DL360 SNMP, HPE ProLiant DL380 SNMP, HPE ProLiant BL460 SNMP, HPE ProLiant BL920 SNMP
ZBXNEXT-6595	Added Nginx Plus template
ZBXNEXT-6587	Added template for Cisco UCS Manager
ZBXNEXT-6626	Updated Zabbix Server according to the latest template guidelines
ZBXNEXT-6662	Increased field size to 2000 characters in web scenario variables and web scenario step variables and post fields
ZBXNEXT-6590	Added templates ZYXEL ISP switches and DSLAM

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19431	Changed defaults of widgets in "Zabbix server health" dashboard to show problems for selected items only
ZBX-19362	Removed the multiplier of "Cache swap current size" item in Template App Squid
ZBX-19200	Fixed host, template, item, trigger and graph APIs returning unnecessary fields
ZBX-19349	Fixed parameters of some keys in "Template DB PostgreSQL agent 2"
ZBX-19219	Added Cisco image usage policy note and fixed directory structure for Cisco templates
ZBX-18695	Fixed file_put_contents() runtime error if web server has no write permissions for zabbix.conf.php
ZBX-19424	Fixed trigger handling failing if host name looks like a number
ZBX-18265	Changed "Monitoring > Hosts > Latest data" to show Items without data by default
ZBX-19318	Added sorting by itemids for trends flush to avoid deadlock
ZBX-19203	Fixed filter values to be unset when switching between pages and resetting filter in latest data history screen
ZBX-18879	Fixed update vmware info about vCenter fullname and version
ZBX-18914	Fixed timeout issue with vfs.fs plugin for Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-19123	Fixed sorting by name or status on action page
ZBX-18941	Improved error messages on "Execute now" by adding item and host names
ZBX-19447	Implemented item type validation by API
ZBX-18863	Fixed error when overviews skipped entries with numeric host/item/trigger names
ZBX-19388	Fixed inherited graph and graph prototype update if user has no permissions to child host or template
ZBX-18699	Fixed selected value appearance in popup host group filter
ZBX-19084	Fixed removal of inherited tags in "Tags" tab
ZBX-18788	Fixed webhook parameters not being reset on media type change
ZBX-19358	Fixed memory leak in case of duplicate vmware hv uuid
ZBX-19299	Added more precise epsilon for float64
ZBX-19208	Fixed imprecise logfile timestamps in Agent2 on Windows
ZBX-19248	Fixed retrieving of all data from separate database tables inside of API methods when empty value for filter is passed
ZBX-19320	Fixed SAML advanced configuration ignores "baseurl" option; added custom option "use_proxy_headers"
ZBX-19017	Fixed massupdate form of discovered hosts with enabled inventory mode
ZBX-19300	Updated jquery version
ZBX-19344	Changed regular expression for trunk active channels counting in template Asterisk by HTTP
ZBX-19139	Fixed memory errors in cmdline parsing on freebsd
ZBX-19359	Fixed error in logsource function due to empty source
ZBX-19340	Optimized history cache to reduce storage of metadata-only records
ZBX-19373	Fixed security vulnerability for links having target="_blank"
ZBX-19354	Fixed typo and added override for MongoDB templates
ZBX-18524	Improved preprocessing diagnostic information to include oldest values in queue and totals to include done, queued, processing and pending
ZBX-8999	Fixed exporting of images separately from other objects

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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 5.0.13.

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