Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.20rc1

24 January 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.20rc1.

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 5.0.20rc1. 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-7409	Added native support for the vfs.dir.size and vfs.dir.count keys in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-7101	Implemented sleep function into JS engine Server
ZBXNEXT-6861	Updated Zabbix proxy templates according to the latest guidelines Templates
ZBXNEXT-7078	Added template for pfsense Templates
ZBXNEXT-6875	Added native support for the system.hw.chassis and system.hw.devices keys in Zabbix agent 2 Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20293	Fixed icmpping items group becomes not supported due to error in interval detection Proxy Server
ZBX-20387	Fixed default language of the setup routine for logged in superadmin users Frontend Installation
ZBX-20316	Added macro for password and changed conf file in postgresql by user parameters template Templates
ZBX-20303	Fixed trigger name in MSSQL template Templates
ZBX-19565	Fixed agent2 to return the same 255 code as agent1 when key service.info does not find service Agent
ZBX-20204	Fixed range check for perfcounter in agent2 on windows Agent
ZBX-20405	Improved timeouts in JS Proxy Server
ZBX-20258	Fixed tags processing for Zammad media type Templates
ZBX-20113	Fixed items value map for VMware template Templates
ZBX-19815	Fixed multiple data convertion issues in import between versions 1.8/2.0 and 5.0 API
ZBX-19669	Fixed success message not showing when no fields were changed in Administration->Authentication page Frontend
ZBX-20269	Added handling of performance counter with negative denominator value Agent
ZBX-20143	Fixed tcp timeout not working in net.dns.record Agent
ZBX-20292	Fixed LLD overrides for item for particular corner-case Server
ZBX-19351	Fixed event correlation query failure on Oracle Server
ZBX-20249	Fixed escalator query failure on Oracle Server
ZBX-20330	Added handling of nan/inf values in ipmi discovery Server
ZBX-19012	Fixed {HOST.NAME} macros substitution 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 5.0.20.

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