Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.17

18 October 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.17.

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 5.0.17. 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-6809

Changed behavior of the vmware event log, the 'skip' option of the new item resets the VMware event cache Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19997	Fixed too long URL error when performing background page refresh Frontend
ZBX-20021	Fixed impossibility to import media types of type script with parameters from previous versions API
ZBX-20008	Removed curl and ldap linkage from agent2 Agent
ZBX-20001	Fixed crash and invalid bytecode error being generated on big-sendian systems when javascript is used; upgraded duktape to version 2.6 Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-19978	Fixed SQL errors when trying to get count of the interfaces API
ZBX-19774	Fixed README examples Templates
ZBX-19776	Fixed README file Templates
ZBX-19284	Added smart.disk.attr.raw item, removed unit for smart.disk.hours item in "SMART by Zabbix agent 2" template Templates
ZBX-19899	Fixed mass update not working across pages for problems monitoring Frontend
ZBX-19939	Fixed typo in Clickhouse Template README Templates
ZBX-19457	Fixed failed query when updating application names longer than 255 characters 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 5.0.17.

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