Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.13rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.13rc1.

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 6.0.13rc1. 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-8170 Added AWS cloud templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7923 Added templates for BMC Control-M integration Templates
ZBXNEXT-7775 Added Veeam backup and replication templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8054 Updated MariaDB maximum supported version to 10.10 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7951 Implemented configuration import improvements API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8112 Added Line media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-8197 Added TimescaleDB v2.9.x support Server
ZBXNEXT-7962 Fixed interfaces discovery rules in OPNsense, PFSense and TrueNAS templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7615 Added hmac function for JavaScript Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7977 Added Azure Microsoft SQL templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8076 Added prof_enable and prof_disable commands for profiling Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7963 Added a hint box to the "Enable HTTP authentication" field; added confirmation dialog box for enabling HTTP authentication Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7886 Added Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6119 Added the option to retrieve all JSON data from docker.container_info key in Zabbix agent 2 Docker plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-7834 Added templates for Microsoft Azure and Azure virtual machines Templates
ZBXNEXT-8058 Reduced locking between history syncers, trappers and proxy pollers Proxy Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-22149 Fixed wrong escaping in trigger expression during upgrade and escaping as a workaround for calculated items Server
ZBX-22061 Fixed custom query parameter read on an empty parameter for Oracle plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21227 Improved error logging during agent start as a Windows service Agent
ZBX-22178 Fixed action operations being executed on the current host only if a host group is selected Server
ZBX-22189 Fixed LLD Zabbix server crash Server
ZBX-21538 Fixed history.get API method blocking drop_chunks requests during housekeeping API
ZBX-21956 Fixed severity sign overlapping trigger name in the map element configuration Frontend
ZBX-22215 Fixed incorrectly quoted function parameter parsing Server
ZBX-22043 Fixed the crash when array index in JSONPath is negative or large Proxy Server
ZBX-22118 Fixed remote command execution sequence in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21556 Updated Etcd by HTTP template to comply with Etcd v3.5 Templates
ZBX-22133 Fixed closed pipe detection for communication with plugins in Windows Agent
ZBX-21936 Fixed actions not being displayed in the Action log widget Frontend
ZBX-22164 Fixed quote and unquote methods for trigger functions Frontend
ZBX-21254 Removed kernel.maxproc from the processes graph in Linux by Zabbix agent templates Templates
ZBX-21754 Improved value cache warmup when retrieving two last values with 1 day update interval Server
ZBX-22077 Fixed Sign out link not working consistently in Mozilla Firefox Frontend
ZBX-21862 Updated tablespaces query for Oracle plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21665 Fixed SMART plugin infinite loop for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-19138 Fixed Redis plugin configuration in Zabbix agent 2 configuration files Agent
ZBX-21592 Moved some static items under LLD rules to optimize Oracle by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-21069 Fixed SNMP max_vars not backing off when generr is received Proxy Server
ZBX-21889 Fixed warnings being displayed even after enabling overrides for trends or history tables with compressed chunks Frontend
ZBX-21563 Changed the order in which escalation steps and recovery operations are executed Frontend Server
ZBX-22017 Fixed map navigation tree widget inability to save the order when the depth levels get changed Frontend
ZBX-21961 Removed the unnecessary "Command:" label for message actions on the Event details page Frontend
ZBX-21783 Fixed Zabbix JS timeout validation
ZBX-21720 Fixed trends function cache size estimation and overallocation handling Server
ZBX-21713 Fixed retrieval of the numeric column width when Oracle DB is used Proxy Server
ZBX-22126 Fixed trends being deleted from cache and retrieved from the database when data older than 1 hour is received Server
ZBX-22075 Fixed crash when Elasticsearch is used Proxy Server
ZBX-21890 Fixed config.dbversion_status containing second empty object on PostgreSQL without TSDB Server
ZBX-22138 Fixed inability to delete a group from the host prototype API
ZBX-21950 Updated script item to not require host interface during template linkage Server
ZBX-21540 Moved some static items under LLD rules to improve performance in Oracle by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21073 Added support of Int8Array(), Buffer() and also duktape plain buffers in md5, sha256 and hmac function parameters Proxy Server
ZBX-22071 Extended description for OPSGenie media type Templates
ZBX-20845 Fixed SNMP interface availability in case of wrong credentials Proxy Server
ZBX-21587 Added metrics for optimizing dependent items preprocessing in Jenkins template Templates
ZBX-21441 Added an override to skip metadata collection on zfs and btrfs for Nix templates Templates
ZBX-22016 Fixed host.get API method not returning any results for hosts with no interfaces when filtering by "hostid" API
ZBX-21927 Fixed a crash on Oracle database when connection is lost Proxy Server
ZBX-21300 Fixed high CPU usage when using net.tcp.socket.count key on Windows Agent
ZBX-21793 Fixed error message for "diaginfo" runtime command Server
ZBX-22042 Fixed inability to get the existing group prototypes by hostprototype.get API method when using Oracle database API
ZBX-21221 Increased character limit of task_result.info Installation
ZBX-21696 Fixed Windows agent 2 Unicode path support for log* items Agent
ZBX-21903 Fixed agent 2 timeout behavior for net.tcp.port item Agent
ZBX-21039 Fixed Readme in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21922 Fixed expression macros to use corresponding item keys Server
ZBX-21806 Fixed fatal PHP error in case incorrect variable type for controller action is given Frontend
ZBX-21753 Fixed graphs not loading in kiosk mode Frontend
ZBX-20413 Fixed the behavior of paging when a filter or a sub-filter is applied Frontend
ZBX-21206 Updated plugin support dependency for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20356 Updated Zabbix agent 2 to remove and re-add performance counters on failed collection and to keep a query always open Agent
ZBX-21296 Updated Oracle plugin, Oracle ODBC and agent 2 template documentation grant select variables and added a new grant Agent Templates
ZBX-21595 Optimized RabbitMQ node templates Templates
ZBX-21884 Changed system.sw.packages[<package>,<manager>,<format>] to system.sw.packages[<regexp>,<manager>,<format>] Frontend
ZBX-21594 Optimized RabbitMQ cluster templates Templates
ZBX-20050 Fixed broken macro value and type input when changing to/from inherited macros Frontend
ZBX-21864 Fixed the fatal error in system warning page Frontend
ZBX-20110 Added single field search option to the archive.info, ts.stats, pdb.info, cdb.info and diskgroups.stats keys in Zabbix agent 2 Oracle plugin
ZBX-21373 Fixed the agent sometimes crashing when enumerating system processes on OpenBSD Agent

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 6.0.13.

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

Zabbix 6.0 Manual

Get started in 10 minutes - absolutely FREE

Download Zabbix

Zabbix is a professionally developed open-source software with no limits or hidden costs