Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.9rc2

18 February 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.9rc2.

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 5.0.9rc2. 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-6385	Added template "Apache Ignite by JMX"
ZBXNEXT-6339	Added smart plugin to support S.M.A.R.T monitoring in Zabbix Agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6437	Added native support for system.sw.packages plugin in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6306	Added native linux support for key vm.memory.size in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6443	Added sha256() function to JavaScript preprocessing
ZBXNEXT-5809	Added VictorOps media
ZBXNEXT-6386	Raised javascript heap limit from 10 megabytes to 64 megabytes; fixed memory leak when heap limit is reached
ZBXNEXT-6441	Added function to configure HTTP authentication for embedded scripts
ZBXNEXT-6183	Added md5 checksum computation to preprocessing

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19029	Fixed Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy not remembering last log size when preprocessing is used
ZBX-18966	Fixed interface related errors when changing proxy type from passive to active
ZBX-18377	Fixed expression in "Memory usage is too high" trigger of "Template DB Redis"
ZBX-18886	Implemented proper resource cleanup when sender terminates by signal
ZBX-18963	Fixed preprocessing for archivelog items in Oracle Templates
ZBX-17543	Fixed error in case if wmi.getall returned no items
ZBX-18825	Fixed last year period calculation in service availability report daily mode
ZBX-18638	Removed triggers of the "Temperature" items, added the "Temperature sensor condition" items with triggers, removed unnecessary macros
ZBX-18449	Reworked trigger API validation
ZBX-18887	Fixed user session expiration when notification checks are performed in background
ZBX-18209	Fixed RegEx delimiter not being escaped in macro resolver
ZBX-18237	Fixed problem description icon in Monitoring->Problems in compact view mode being displayed above problem name
ZBX-18945	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 build Raspbian 10
ZBX-18309	Fixed reading log files with NULL character in log line
ZBX-18872	Fixed system.sw.os[name] for cases without quotation mark in /etc/os-release
ZBX-18885	Fixed SNMP agent item not accepting values that are bigger than 2KB
ZBX-18874	Fixed incorrect links in templates and webhooks documentation

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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 5.0.9.

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