Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.4rc1

25 April 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.4rc1.

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 6.0.4rc1. 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-7120	Added support of OpenSSL 3.0 Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7611	Fixed silenced errors not silenced in zbx_err_handler running PHP 8 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7610	Refactored in PHP 8 deprecated function strtime() Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7506	Fixed uuids in proxmox template Templates
ZBXNEXT-7562	Added en_GB locale Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-7582	Moved threshold information from trigger name to the event name Templates
ZBXNEXT-7525	Fixed inconsistent trigger links in Configuration -> Items Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7564	Fixed media type importing in PHP 8 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5580	Added macros and fixed filesystem utilization triggers for Windows, Linux and some other templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7477	Updated MySQL database error handling for PHP 8 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7506	Added Proxmox Virtual Environment template Templates
ZBXNEXT-7472	Added support of text data for top hosts widget Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7505	Added new GLPi media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-7559	Updated smart.disk.discovery and smart.disk.get metrics for Zabbix agent 2 and updated S.M.A.R.T passive and active templates Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-7507	Added TrueNAS template Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20951	Fixed dependent item discovery validation in LLD Server
ZBX-20783	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not to fail when global regular expression is received with empty delimiter API Agent
ZBXNEXT-7616	Fixed javascript md5 and sha256 functions to support binary data (including terminating zero character) Proxy Server
ZBX-20299	Fixed not detecting user macros by "Test item" dialog if they are used in the calculated item formula Frontend
ZBX-20678	Fixed focusing and keyboard functionality for host in Geomap widget Frontend
ZBX-20782	Fixed non unique ids browser console errors when executing Mass update action Frontend
ZBX-20458	Fixed incorrect view of disabled range slider in Firefox Frontend
ZBX-20545	Fixed trend storage period field wrong appearance when item type of information is character/text/log Frontend
ZBX-20844	Fixed external check becoming unsupported when Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy is stopped Proxy Server
ZBX-20658	Fixed missing CR (carriage return) characters in line endings, in popup forms Frontend
ZBX-20821	Fixed required PHP version in setup wizard Frontend
ZBX-20754	Fixed Zabbix sender and Zabbix JS not releasing semaphores upon exit Agent
ZBX-20538	Changed PostgreSQL plugin to handle connection per user and not per database for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20567	Improved preprocessor queue performance with items taking long time to preprocess Proxy Server
ZBX-20398	Added mitigation for PID file not being created on time Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-19638	Fixed incorrect host name in graph prototype widget when graph have items from separate hosts Frontend
ZBX-20595	Fixed server discovering dependent item with prototype as master item if prototype discovery was disabled with LLD overrides Server
ZBX-18522	Updated Readme for RabbitMQ templates Templates
ZBX-20794	Fixed unavailable node status update at server startup 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 6.0.4.

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