Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.31rc1

23 January 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.31rc1.

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 5.0.31rc1. 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-7962	Fixed the discovery rules for interfaces in OPNsense and PFSense templates
ZBXNEXT-6119	Added an option to retrieve all JSON data from the container info key in Zabbix agent 2 docker plugin
ZBXNEXT-8058	Reduced locking between the history syncers, trappers and proxy pollers

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-21227	Improved error logging during the agent start for Windows service
ZBX-21538	Fixed the `history.get` API method blocking `drop_chunks` requests during housekeeping
ZBX-21956	Fixed the severity sign overlapping a trigger name in the map element configuration
ZBX-22215	Fixed incorrectly quoted parsing of the function parameter
ZBX-21936	Fixed actions not being displayed in an *Action log* widget
ZBX-21254	Removed `kernel.maxproc` from the processes graph in Linux by Zabbix agent templates
ZBX-21754	Improved value cache warmup when retrieving the two last values with one day update interval
ZBX-21862	Updated tablespaces query for the Oracle plugin in Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-21665	Fixed an infinite loop of the SMART plugin for Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-19138	Fixed the configuration of Redis plugin in Zabbix agent 2 configuration files
ZBX-21563	Changed the order in which the escalation steps and recovery operations are executed
ZBX-21783	Fixed Zabbix JS timeout validation
ZBX-22126	Fixed trends being deleted from cache and retrieved from a database when data is older than one hour after receiving
ZBX-17419	Optimized API queries when searching by names in the hosts and items tables
ZBX-21540	Moved some static items under LLD rules to improve the performance in Oracle by Zabbix agent 2 template
ZBX-22071	Extended the description for an OPSGenie media type
ZBX-20845	Fixed the availability of an SNMP interface in the case of wrong credentials
ZBX-21441	Added the overriding to skip metadata collection on ZFS and BTRFS for Nix templates
ZBX-21927	Fixed crash on the Oracle database when connection is lost
ZBX-21696	Fixed Windows agent 2 unicode path support for log* items
ZBX-21903	Fixed the agent 2 timeout behavior for the `net.tcp.port` item
ZBX-21039	Fixed README for PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template
ZBX-21806	Fixed fatal PHP error in case incorrect variable type for controller action is given
ZBX-21799	Fixed an undefined offset error during the host import process
ZBX-21206	Reverted the PostgreSQL connection to be per database for Zabbix agent 2 PostgreSQL plugin
ZBX-20397	Fixed the alignment of a draggable object
ZBX-20356	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 to remove and re-add the performance counters on failed collection and to keep query always open
ZBX-21296	Updated the Oracle plugin and Oracle agent 2 template documentation grant select variables and added new grant
ZBX-21884	Changed `system.sw.packages[<package>,<manager>,<format>]` to `system.sw.packages[<regexp>,<manager>,<format>]`

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. 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