Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.15

30 August 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.15.

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 5.0.15. 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-6751	Added Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6754	Added template Website certificate by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBXNEXT-6606	Add encrypted tls connection to mysql postgresql plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6708	Added TLS/SSL website certificates validation plugin to Zabbix agent 2 Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19743	Fixed proxy crash when data sending has failed Proxy
ZBX-16822	Fixed performance issues for installations with a lot of historical alerts API Frontend
ZBX-19658	Added query batching when reading event data during maintenance processing Server
ZBX-19562	Removed the "Oracle by ODBC" and "Asterisk by HTTP" from templates.tmpl file Templates
ZBX-19686	Changed 1-st parameter {#IFNAME} in net.if.* items to {#IFGUID} in Windows templates Templates
ZBX-19805	Added initial comment with alert content to the incident message Templates
ZBX-19482	Fixed block device discovery of cd-roms and linked devices Agent
ZBX-19032	Fixed percpu param in Zabbix agent 2 system.cpu.load plugin for Windows Agent
ZBX-19762	Removed unsupported items in Zabbix server templates Templates
ZBX-19749	Changed the value type for .rate items to FLOAT, the value type of Status items to CHAR, changed trigger expression for Status items, removed 3 LLD rules, created new master item for LLD rules with update interval 1h, changed LLD rule names spelling to lower case, added new helpful items in HAProxy templates Templates
ZBX-18135	Fixed warning message close button Frontend
ZBX-19341	Fixed template export missing inventory mode for Host prototype API
ZBX-19439	Fixed Action log dashboard widget missing Remote command entries Frontend
ZBX-19612	Changed host name to visible name for consistency with UI Templates
ZBX-19737	Fixed prometheus preprocessing bug Server
ZBX-19703	Added fix for json path preprocessing crash Server
ZBX-19752	Fixed multiple types of media type creation having message templates in one API call API
ZBX-18271	Fixed incorrect ordering for tags and overrides in widgets, operations overrides in host prototype form and interface order in item and discovery prototypes forms Frontend
ZBX-18523	Added documentation for Hostname parameter in sender Documentation
ZBX-19670	Resolving config file symlink in CConfigFile.php Frontend
ZBX-19116	Fixed system.cpu.util for agent2 not working in non-English Windows Agent
ZBX-19589	Fixed trailing and leading white-space not getting trimmed in widget configuration form inputs Frontend
ZBX-19342	Fixed web scenario items not being cloned for graph prototypes API
ZBX-19732	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not starting when ListenIP is set to 0.0.0.0 Agent
ZBX-7933	Added configurable parameter for TCP queue maximum size Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-19692	Fixed issues with Zyxel templates Templates
ZBX-19124	Fixed PHP runtime errors when passed incorrect value for "output" option API
ZBX-19539	Fixed undefined offset error in host prototype API API
ZBX-19715	Fixed high memory usage in trappers and proxy pollers when sending configuration to Zabbix proxy Server

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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 5.0.15.

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