Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.3

21 December 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.3.

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 5.2.3. 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-6319	Added systemd.unit.get item key to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6345	Added substitution of SID to account name and domain name in eventlog message
ZBXNEXT-6307	Added ability to read properties from a file
ZBXNEXT-6329	Added Template "GitLab by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6387	Changed method settings.getglobal work only from frontend
ZBXNEXT-6234	Added "Disk read/write request avg waiting time" items in Template Module Windows physical disks

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18086	Fixed missing data selection in data overview and trigger overview screens
ZBX-18418	Set trigger behavior of nodata() for proxy is the same as for server
ZBX-18761	Fixed possible heap overflow issues in IPC commonications when deserializing huge text values
ZBX-18736	Added missing idle statistics from lld manager process title
ZBX-18583	Changed system command execution to avoid parameter quoting issues
ZBX-17583	Fixed dashboard scroll to position where new widget is added
ZBX-18723	Fixed broken tab layout while sortable
ZBX-18148	Fixed inability to edit action operation when using special characters in custom message
ZBX-18116	Fixed identical tags in webhook
ZBX-18469	Changed label for max_period field on administration GUI page
ZBX-18706	Reworked Template "Ceph by Zabbix Agent2" OSD discovery
ZBX-18714	Fixed inability to copy widgets of templated dashboards
ZBX-18660	Fixed SNMP index returning as a number instead of string if there is a backslash
ZBX-18187	Fixed agent2 wmi.get returning the wrong result
ZBX-18543	Reworked ceph.osd.discovery metric
ZBX-18725	Fixed crash in event correlation with 'close new' operation
ZBX-18694	Fixed crash when PSK connection is configured but PSK or PSK identity is empty
ZBX-18662	Improved pollers, unreachable pollers, Java pollers and pingers to use less memory
ZBX-18553	Increased ssh.run[] item data limit to 512KB for pre-processing, data storage limit still remains at 64KB
ZBX-18423	Fixed inconsistent macro expansion with Oracle DB compared with other databases
ZBX-18658	Changed {$AMI.PORT} macro value to 5038, added handling the "Follows" response and situations with unloaded modules
ZBX-18219	Fixed custom multiplier preprocessing step validation to accept a string with macros
ZBX-18198	Fixed tags not being expanded automatically on configuration form open
ZBX-18511	Fixed error for non logged in user trying to access graphs page with time range arguments
ZBX-18711	Removed autofocus of selected tab on page initial load for Monitoring Problems and Monitoring Hosts pages
ZBX-18647	Fixed broken macro secret input
ZBX-18686	Fixed remember me checkbox in login
ZBX-18357	Fixed dashboard view_mode being reset to default on dashboard update
ZBX-18473	Fixed right align for numeric box
ZBX-18397	Fixed global macros clearing value on type change from secret to text when value is set and is the same as before
ZBX-18617	Fixed built-in macros support in script item test form
ZBX-18470	Fixed unusefull timezone formatting; replaced comboboxes by CSelect elements for timezone selection

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. 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 5.2 Manual