Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.23rc1

25 April 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.23rc1.

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 5.0.23rc1. 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-5580	Added macros and fixed filesystem utilization triggers for Windows, Linux and some other templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7559	Updated smart.disk.discovery and smart.disk.get metrics for Zabbix agent 2 and updated S.M.A.R.T passive and active templates Agent Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20951	Fixed dependent item discovery validation in LLD Server
ZBX-20783	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not to fail when global regular expression is received with empty delimiter Agent
ZBX-20746	Fixed auto-suggest in graph widget configuration not showing discovered item names Frontend
ZBX-20844	Fixed external check becoming unsupported when Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy is stopped Proxy Server
ZBX-20299	Fixed not detecting user macros by "Test item" dialog if they are used in the calculated item formula Frontend
ZBX-20458	Fixed incorrect view of disabled range slider in Firefox Frontend
ZBX-20538	Changed PostgreSQL plugin to handle connection per user and not per database for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20567	Improved preprocessor queue performance with items taking long time to preprocess Proxy Server
ZBX-20398	Added mitigation for PID file not being created in time Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-20595	Fixed server discovering dependent item with prototype as master item if prototype discovery was disabled with LLD overrides Server
ZBX-19638	Fixed incorrect host name in graph prototype widget when graph have items from separate hosts Frontend
ZBX-18522	Updated Readme for RabbitMQ templates Templates

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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 5.0.23.

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