Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.18

29 November 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.18.

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 5.0.18. 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-6593	Added support of persistent files for restoring log item state after agent restart
ZBXNEXT-6651	Added new item agent.variant for Agent and Agent2
ZBXNEXT-6677	Added cpu percent field to docker.container_stats key for docker plugin in Zabbix agent 2 and docker template
ZBXNEXT-7014	Updated README for a newer version of PagerDuty
ZBXNEXT-2475	Added handling of compressed content to web monitoring
ZBXNEXT-6782	Added new parameters for system.hostname
ZBXNEXT-6677	Added cpu percent field to docker.container_stats key for docker plugin in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6608	Added support for vmware key named 'vmware.hv.sensors.get'
ZBXNEXT-6644	Added support for vmware key named 'vmware.hv.maintenance'

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19514	Fixed disc utilization metric for windows discs discovery
ZBX-20177	Added acknowledgeid index for alerts table
ZBX-19587	Fixed Zabbix Java gateway error message when object or attribute is not found
ZBX-20176	Fixed trigger not being calculated for first value when item changes state to supported; fixed build failure when DES is disabled in Net-SNMP; fixed tests on big-endian systems
ZBX-20150	Fixed special characters escaping in markdown parsing of the Telegram media type
ZBX-19926	Fixed Zabbix agent crashing when reading event log on Windows Server 2022
ZBX-20080	Fixed error message
ZBX-20003	Fixed update and discard intervals in generic snmp and some other templates
ZBX-18787	Removed undefined macro
ZBX-20032	Fixed server crash when restarting monitored vmware vc
ZBX-19963	Fixed macro with regular expression for serial numbers discovery in cisco template
ZBX-19912	Fixed mysql.db.size, mysql.replication.get_slave_status and pgsql.custom.query items for Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-19958	Fixed macro with regular expression for interfaces discovery in OS linux templates
ZBX-18975	Fixed item value being truncated in item test form
ZBX-19958	Fixed macro with regular expression for interfaces discovery in OS linux template
ZBX-20065	Fixed count() function gt,ge,lt,le operations
ZBX-18611	Fixed division by zero error due to small graph size when using gradient lines
ZBX-20079	Fixed web scenarios import / export error when authentication method is kerberos
ZBX-18988	Added vm.vmemory.size metric to Zabbix agent 2 for Windows
ZBX-19569	Changed linked template "Zabbix agent" to "Zabbix agent active" in templates "Windows by Zabbix agent active" and "Linux by Zabbix agent active"
ZBX-18554	Fixed MSSQL by ODBC README
ZBX-19872	Removed redundant escaping in XML data of HTTP agent POST request
ZBX-19920	Changed setup instruction in README of the "IIS by Zabbix agent" template
ZBX-19237	Changed condition in SQL request of pgsql.connections.sum.waiting item in DB PostgreSQL template to exclude rows with idle state
ZBX-20019	Fixed README file in Oracle by Zabbix Agent 2 template
ZBX-19760	Fixed interface operstate valuemap in the linux templates
ZBXNEXT-6708	Fixed 3rd parameter for Zabbix agent 2 web.certificate.get plugin
ZBX-20017	Added new metrics, fixed update intervals in the "F5 Big-IP" template

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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