Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.3rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.3rc1.

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 5.2.3rc1. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.


New Features and Improvements

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

Bug Fixes

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

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 5.2.3.

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.

References

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