Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.5rc1

19 October 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.5rc1.

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 5.0.5rc1. 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-6245	Added locks section to diaginfo runtime command to log adresses of the mutexes and read write locks Documentation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6232	Added LTE monitoring in Template Net Mikrotik SNMP Templates
ZBXNEXT-6189	Added "Template Tel Asterisk by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6020	Added template "Template App Ceph by Zabbix Agent2" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6180	Added Squid template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6142	Added Ceph monitoring plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-6167, ZBXNEXT-6168	Implemented ability to dump the history cache contents API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6159	Added "Template App PHP-FPM by HTTP" and "Template App PHP-FPM by Zabbix agent" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6157	Reworked UI for setup to simplify db encryption configuration Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6118	Added template "Template DB Oracle by Zabbix Agent 2" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6258	Added system.swap.size metrics native support to Agent 2 Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18396	Fixed undefined offset in item test form Frontend
ZBX-18415	Fixed value caching for item test dialog when opened by 'Test all steps' button Frontend
ZBX-17975	Fixed Hostname and HostnameItem for Zabbix Agent 2 test and print execution Agent
ZBX-18464	Fixed javascript Uncaught TypeError when clicking on disabled multiselect item Frontend
ZBX-18411	Set maxQueryMetrics default values for vcenter depending on its version Server
ZBX-18443	Fixed undefined index in item prototype form when creating dependent item using wizard Frontend
ZBX-18438	Fixed missing asterisk mark for "timeout" field in item, item prototype and LLD rule edit forms Frontend
ZBX-18327	Fixed undefined index when invalid URL is given Frontend
ZBX-17178	Fixed multi-line value truncation in snmp lld Proxy Server
ZBX-18378	Fixed map context menu not opening for images with URLs Frontend
ZBX-18462	Fixed inconsistent auto-registration behaviour for hosts without metadata on Oracle DB compared to other databases when using Zabbix proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-18118	Sorted event tag macro selection Server
ZBX-18456	Fixed encryption field sent in form for non-supported encryption database Frontend
ZBX-18407	Fixed dependent items not working if it's master item is calculated and host is monitored by Zabbix proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-18364	Fixed inconsistency with autoregistration behaviour for hosts without metadata on Oracle compared to other databases Proxy Server
ZBX-18210	Fixed preprocessor crashing on Solaris due to incorrect byteorder Server
ZBX-18383	Fixed the value of the {$HAPROXY.FRONT_SUTIL.MAX.WARN} macro in Template App HAProxy by HTTP Templates
ZBX-18365	Added Fping 5.0 support to Zabbix Proxy Server
ZBX-18385	Fixed segmentation violation in oracle plugin Agent
ZBX-18193	Added logging for snmp_cache_reload Proxy Server
ZBX-18400	Fixed http(s) requests from JavaScript to use SourceIP parameter in connections Proxy Server
ZBX-17877	Fixed details not displayed on SNMP interfaces within select element Frontend
ZBX-17493	Added discarding of incoming values outside history/trends storage periods on server Server
ZBX-18417	Fixed unexpected tag errors while importing JSON-exported data API
ZBX-17916	Removed inserting of "wait" into "system.run[]" when executing frontend scripts Proxy Server
ZBX-18386	Fixed server crash after removing snmp host interface from parent host Server
ZBX-18199	Changed the default log filename for agent2 on windows Agent
ZBX-18366	Fixed agent reporting absence of 'Processor Information' counter on old Windows systems Agent
ZBX-18238	Fixed JavaScript error when "invalid URL" error is displayed Frontend
ZBX-18343	Fixed in screen "host issue" problem stay even after problem resolved Frontend

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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 5.0.5.

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