Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.28rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.28rc1.

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 6.0.28rc1. 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-9063 Added metadata in JavaScript for AWS templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8958 Added AWS ELB Application Load Balancer by HTTP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8928 Added Check Point Next Generation Firewall by SNMP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8947 Added MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9012 Updated max supported TimescaleDB version to 2.14 Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-24093 Fixed JMX monitoring when using "remote+http" protocol Java gateway
ZBX-23567 Fixed PHP error during first time setup when no user is yet created Frontend
ZBX-24103 Improved configuration sync, history sync and pollers performance Proxy Server
ZBX-23488 Fixed severity checkbox area width issue when editing widgets and added an option to add title attribute to checkbox labels Frontend
ZBX-23852 Fixed template import failing with unexpected server error when trying to import template dashboards with items or graphs from unexisting hosts Frontend
ZBX-24043 Fixed extensive locking when retrieving Zabbix server statistics Server
ZBX-24143 Fixed swap space trigger prototype name in Proxmox VE by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-24110 Improved configuration sync performance by avoiding host join when syncing items Proxy Server
ZBX-24141 Fixed replication master host LLD macro in MySQL by Zabbix agent template Templates
ZBX-23667 Added VMware datastore UUID to *discovery items, added datastore selection by UUID to vmware.hv.datastore* items Proxy Server
ZBX-23888 Added setting items to unsupported state when invalid regexp is supplied Agent
ZBX-21703 Fixed possible mutual lock between exporter and collector in performance counters for Zabbix Agent 2 Agent
ZBX-22332 Fixed placeholder and default value for CSV to JSON preprocessing step parameters Frontend
ZBX-20765 Fixed empty PDF files in scheduled reports Frontend Server
ZBX-20725 Updated documentation for MySQL by Zabbix agent template, added the protocol option to the MySQL client configuration example Templates
ZBX-20788 Updated locale variable to force English locale in user parameter pgsql.ping.time[*] in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent template Templates
ZBX-24049 Fixed Zabbix server template linking logic so that it does not wrongfully update triggers on host when there is a corresponding trigger on template with same description but different expression Server
ZBX-23617 Fixed item test form not showing values for macros with a backslash character used in a string parameter of a calculated item formula function Frontend
ZBX-19918 Prevented redundant audit log entries of failed logins when visiting login page if guest account is disabled; removed automatic login as guest user when entering any page requiring authentication API Frontend
ZBX-24038 Fixed next token parameters in JavaScript for AWS templates; edited links in descriptions Templates
ZBX-22783 Added automatic detection of Oracle instant client installed from RPM Installation
ZBX-18859 Fixed error event 5858 with ResultCode = 0x80041032 after WMI queries Agent
ZBX-24095 Improved data fetch performance for PostgreSQL Proxy Server
ZBX-23818 Fixed clock, graph and graph prototype widget form reloading and field focus when changing values Frontend
ZBX-24505 Fixed possible injection when adding audit log entry of a global script execution Server

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 6.0.28.

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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