Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.0alpha1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.0alpha1.

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 6.0.0alpha1. 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-6470,
ZBXNEXT-6775
Implemented new audit log; added new auditlog to user and token API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6810 Implemented audit on server (processing of LLD rules and discovered hosts) Server
ZBXNEXT-6802 Implemented audit for server (linking templates - host, host prototypes) Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6702 Added {#FSLABEL} macro in item names of the "Windows filesystems by Zabbix agent/agent active" templates, changed vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd] key to vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256] in Unix templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6813 Dropped support of British English as frontend language API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6688 Added new items for Agent and Agent2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6601 Added monoinc() and monodec() functions API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470,
ZBXNEXT-6768
Implemented audit for server (except for linking and LLD) Server
ZBXNEXT-6772 Added new prometheus label matching operators != and !~ Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470,
ZBXNEXT-6715
Made auditlog workable with new auditlog DB structure API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-4029 Implemented password policy support API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-6773 Added new aggregation functions count, exists_foreach and item_count Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6755 Added support of alerting in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3022 Improved scalability of services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6674 Added tag based mapping of problems in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6528,
ZBXNEXT-6669
Moved auditlog calls from frontend sections Images, Proxies, Graphs and Graph prototypes, Services, and Maps to API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6679 Improved performance of template linking on Zabbix Server Server
ZBXNEXT-284 Added timeout parameter to zabbix_sender and zabbix_get Agent

Bug Fixes

ZBX-19395 Changed version in links of the templates and the media Templates

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 6.0.0.

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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