Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.6rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.6rc1.

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 5.2.6rc1. 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-6503 Added protection of Zabbix Server from overloading by proxy data Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6528,
ZBXNEXT-6565
Improved performance of host.create and template.create methods; improved performance of templates linking process; optimized DB::insert() method to send bulk SQL inserts API
ZBXNEXT-6408 Added mongoDB plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-5869 Added templates "MongoDB node by Zabbix Agent 2" and "MongoDB cluster by Zabbix Agent 2" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6507 Added Template Power APC UPS by SNMP Templates
ZBXNEXT-6462 Added Cisco Catalyst 3750 templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6450 Added template NetApp AFF A700 by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-6522 Added Brevis.one media Templates
ZBXNEXT-5924 Added Template Module SMART by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBXNEXT-6489 Added template for Huawei OceanStor 5300 V5 Templates
ZBXNEXT-6302 Added new metrics to VMWare template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6433 Added template "Microsoft SharePoint by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6442 Added ExportType server parameter for better configurability of real-time export Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-19149 Updated logback-core, logback-classic and slf4j-api jars to the latest stable versions: 1.2.3, 1.2.3 and 1.7.30 Java gateway
ZBX-19150 Added csrf check Frontend
ZBX-12867 Reworked problem event popup of problems widget to load data only on mouse hover and click Frontend
ZBX-17000 Changed translation of 'last' for week of month in japanese Frontend
ZBX-19117 Fixed host deletion, template deletion and maintenance update was not shown in audit log report when it was made via API request API
ZBX-18595 Fixed wrong filtering for nested groups in monitoring problems page Frontend
ZBX-19103 Fixed device sorting in Zabbix agent 2 smartctl plugin Agent
ZBX-18998 Rewrote API main object validation API Frontend
ZBX-19111 Improved performance of checking circular and double linkages of templates API
ZBX-18918 Updated deprecated items in "RabbitMQ" template Templates
ZBX-18894 Fixed session_key update for dynamic configid Frontend
ZBX-18634 Changed macro names according to the Guidelines, fixed context macros in Temperature Discovery triggers, added preprocessing into Fan Discovery and Temperature Discovery Templates
ZBX-18620 Added {#REPLICA_NAME} macro in items of Non-local database discovery Templates
ZBX-19046 Fixed agent build on solaris 10 Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-17772 Updated readme, described how to get Project ID Templates
ZBX-19023 Fixed inheritance of the permissions and tag filters for new host groups API
ZBX-19071 Fixed server crash after "Check for not supported value" preprocessing step Server
ZBX-18051 Fixed typos extra space after "(" Templates
ZBX-10370 Allowed Java Gateway to use ssl with remote registry Java gateway
ZBX-19031 Fixed build failure on HP-UX and AIX Agent
ZBX-17471, ZBX-18854 Added TSDB 2.0, fixed TSDB housekeeping with 0 history period Server
ZBX-18803 Fixed test item form ignoring empty status code input 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 5.2.6.

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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