Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.21rc1

15 August 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.21rc1.

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 6.0.21rc1. 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-8581	Added support for HTTP proxy in Azure templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8558	Added MantisBT webhook Templates
ZBXNEXT-8589	Updated documentation, unified metric names and descriptions in PostgreSQL templates, removed unused macros, user parameters and queries in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-8528	Added AWS Cost Explorer template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8190	Increased MariaDB maximum supported version to 11.0 Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8582	Increased MySQL maximum supported version to 8.1 Frontend Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22771	Fixed handling of large unsigned integers in jsonpath Server
ZBX-22871	Fixed regular expression crash with invalid utf-8 sequences when pcre2 is used Agent
ZBX-23141	Fixed crash when maintenance is enabled and unexpected event exists for trigger prototype Proxy Server
ZBX-21255	Added support of the fmtnum() function for {ITEM.VALUE}, {ITEM.LASTVALUE} and expression macros Frontend
ZBX-21695	Fixed {TIME} macro not being resolved during scheduled report test Server
ZBX-23221	Fixed memory leaks when using certificate-based encryption in Zabbix Agent 1 and Agent 2; thanks to Masato Hirahata for the patch Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-22864	Fixed calculation of max_repetitions sent out to device in SNMP PDUs Proxy Server
ZBX-21574	Optimized Asterisk by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-18168	Added regexp runtime error logging for log*[] items Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-22677	Adjusted font colors for placeholders, disabled and readonly fields Frontend
ZBX-22972	Fixed displaying of dashboard pages when scrolling is enabled Frontend
ZBX-22528	Fixed draggable element position Frontend
ZBX-23067	Enhanced audit logging with reason of switching of HA node to active mode Server
ZBX-22613	Fixed script execution with API token as authentication API
ZBX-23060	Removed unused endpoints in JavaScript for Veeam Backup and Replication template Templates
ZBX-22772	Added trends cleanup for non-numeric value types Server
ZBX-23389	Fixed leading and trailing C0 control and space characters not being trimmed before parsing URLs Frontend
ZBX-23390	Fixed stack-buffer overflow in library module zbxjson
ZBX-23391	Changed hidden JS properties to be read only Proxy Server

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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 6.0.21.

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