Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.8rc1

18 January 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.8rc1.

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 5.0.8rc1. 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

ZBXCTR-13	Added custom query support for PostgreSQL plugin and template, fixed unix-socket support
ZBXNEXT-5862	Added Rocket.Chat media
ZBXNEXT-6389	Added template for NetApp FAS3220
ZBXNEXT-6419	Added tablespace metrics to Oracle Templates
ZBXNEXT-6331	Updated plugins: ceph, docker, memcached, mysql, oracle, redis — unified functionality (parameters describing and parsing, URI parsing, using sessions, errors handling)
ZBXNEXT-6210	Added native support for proc.mem key in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6367	Added metrics to the official MySQL template
ZBXNEXT-6330	Added Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 template
ZBXNEXT-6231	Added Apache ActiveMQ template
ZBXNEXT-6358	Removed detailed information from Reports -> Notifications page
ZBXNEXT-6364	Removed long lists of cloned objects from host and template full clone forms

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18942	Fixed missing SID valiadion in authentication update route
ZBX-18893	Changed frontend config file permissions to 0600
ZBX-18884	Fixed crash in web monitoring and web.page.* keys when encoding non ASCII characters in URL
ZBX-18865	Fixed dbConditionInt (db.inc.php) returning wrong result in rare cases
ZBX-18853	Removed hardcoded teams_endpoint check
ZBX-18556	Fixed gaps in time labels of classic graphs related to DST transitions
ZBX-16216	Fixed semaphore not being cleaned up when stopping Zabbix agent
ZBX-18815	Fixed displaying incomplete list of inherited trigger tags under rare circumstances
ZBX-18468	Changed preprocessing for item "PHP-FPM: Ping" in PHP-FPM templates
ZBX-17369	Fixed retrieval of decimal values from WMI
ZBX-18410	Fixed retrieval of Nth most recent values in trigger function strlen
ZBX-18722	Fixed runtime error when creating user group without users
ZBX-18644	Replaced deprecated gethostbyname function with getaddrinfo
ZBX-18802	Fixed close problem task to be deleted when problem event is deleted
ZBX-17716	Fixed 'UserParameter' parsing and possible buffer overrun
ZBX-17865	Fixed displaying of long problem names on problems and event pages
ZBX-18796	Improved update performance of the preprocessing rules in item.update(), itemprototype.update() and discoveryrule.update() methods
ZBX-17169	Added locale forced to English in userparameter pgsql.ping.time [*] in agent configuration
ZBX-18623	Fixed the global search showing number of objects that user has no permissions
ZBX-18612	Added error message for when real-time data export file become inaccessible
ZBX-18784	Fixed memory leak when handling vmware events
ZBX-18625	Fixed host level tags were not inherited in Trigger -> Tags configuration form

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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 5.0.8.

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