Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.1rc2

23 February 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.1rc2.

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 6.0.1rc2. Download here.

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-7408	Added native support for the net.dns and net.dns.record keys in Zabbix agent 2, fixed Zabbix agent 1 SOA response formatting Agent
ZBXNEXT-7467	Fixed strict types in bitwise operators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7487	Implemented discovery of disabled systemd units with Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6959	Implemented audit logging of host prototype API object API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5839	Added SNI in encrypted TCP connections Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6624	Added triggers, macros, changed filters and overrides in LLD rules Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20649	Fixed crash when server attempted to use trigger after it was removed from cache Server
ZBX-20617	Fixed default geomap provider on clean install Installation
ZBX-20530	Fixed compilation error on FreeBSD Server
ZBX-20443	Fixed requirement of admin rights for creating issues with custom fields and added option to close tasks in Redmine webhook Templates
ZBX-20570	Fixed --with-libevent option on FreeBSD Installation
ZBX-20564	Changed health state sensor item to lld in vmware hypervisor template Templates
ZBX-12852	Fixed redundant query of vmware hv sensors info Proxy Server
ZBX-20562	Fixed item names in rabbitmq and elasticsearch templates Templates
ZBX-20537	Fixed uptime oid for pfsense template Templates
ZBX-20005	Fixed main checkbox not being selected when all other checkboxes are selected Frontend
ZBX-20334	Fixed macro support in aggregate functions Server
ZBX-20519	Fixed overlay dialog look on trigger page when host name is short Frontend
ZBX-19796	Fixed macros tab indicator showing incorrect count when inherited option is selected and a new macro is added Frontend
ZBX-20430	Fixed stretching action log screen because of long messages without whitespace Frontend
ZBX-20290	Fixed missing HTTP metrics support for Windows Agent Agent Installation
ZBX-20030	Fixed system.cpu.num runtime cpu change in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20339	Fixed incorrect smart plugin device type in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20373	Fixed conf syncer appearing to be busy on proxy on network problem Proxy
ZBX-20544	Fixed wrong sql query for lld triggers Proxy Server
ZBX-20506	Improved performance of configuration syncer; increased default cache size to 32M Documentation Proxy Server
ZBX-20228	Improved error reporting when SSL_write() or SSL_read() functions fail, removed redundant code that resulted in timeout on windows Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-20517	Moved Brocade,Cisco,Linux,Windows module templates from readme.md files and yaml template to different files into the modules folder Templates
ZBX-20059	Fixed duplicate metric values being inserted when there is network issue between Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy Server
ZBX-20450	Fixed non ascii symbols being replaced by question marks when using MariaDB Proxy Server
ZBX-19637	Fixed trigger status change after template update and linking Server
ZBX-20502	Fixed host prototype discovery override in case LLD JSON contains duplicate hosts Server
ZBX-20253	Fixed incorrect usage of function "length" in zabbix server trigger creation Frontend
ZBX-20472	Fixed database lock crash in Zabbix Agent 2 using SQLite Agent
ZBX-19956	Fixed Proxy address and PSK field issues when cloning a proxy and fixed green indicator not showing in edit mode Frontend
ZBX-20426	Fixed maintenance icon with host name in latest data table Frontend
ZBX-20487	Fixed agent handling of invalid time intervals Agent
ZBX-19789	Added SourceIP support to ldap simple checks Server
ZBX-20680	Fixed reflected XSS issues Frontend

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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 6.0.1.

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 6.0 Manual