Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.0beta1

3 May 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.0beta1.

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 6.2.0beta1. Download it from download.

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-2289	Implemented multiple LDAP sources for user authentication
ZBXNEXT-7526	Added number of items for Latest data column in Monitoring -> Hosts page
ZBXNEXT-7491	Fixed PHP 8.1 runtime warnings with PostgreSQL backend
ZBXNEXT-7547	Added CockroachDB template
ZBXNEXT-4768	Improved usability of "Execute now"
ZBXNEXT-3692	Refactored inline scripts for HTML onClick events to avoid potential XSS threats
ZBXNEXT-1711	Implemented OS processes discovery with new item proc.get
ZBXNEXT-7615	Added hmac function for JavaScript
ZBXNEXT-7611	Fixed silenced errors not silenced in zbx_err_handler running PHP 8
ZBXNEXT-7610	Refactored in PHP 8 deprecated function strtime()
ZBXNEXT-7506	Fixed uuids in proxmox template
ZBXNEXT-7562	Added en_GB locale
ZBXNEXT-7523	Added possibility to add custom templates to hosts created from host prototypes
ZBXNEXT-7627	Set minimal supported PHP version to 7.4
ZBXNEXT-1580	Implemented centralized refreshing of proxy configuration
ZBXNEXT-388	Added checking of new items and LLD rules within 60 seconds after creation
ZBXNEXT-7120	Added support of OpenSSL 3.0
ZBXNEXT-7402, ZBXNEXT-7413	Added support for CyberArk Vault
ZBXNEXT-7452	Added SNI support to TLS protocol for Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-7065	Added queries metrics to PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template
ZBXNEXT-7023	Updated regular expressions for services discovery in Windows templates
ZBXNEXT-7498	Moved internal item processing from history to regular pollers
ZBXNEXT-7420	Added documentation links to Zabbix frontend sections
ZBXNEXT-7397	Removed support for MD5 user passwords
ZBXNEXT-7488	Removed zabbix[history*] and zabbix[trends*] internal items
ZBXNEXT-7138	Added modal form for API tokens in User settings->API tokens and Administration->General->API tokens

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Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-7523	Removed unnecessary field validation for "link_type" in template.get "selectParentTemplates" option
ZBX-20773	Added documentation link for host create view in standalone mode
ZBX-20953	Fixed errors when changing status of a single host in list
ZBX-20947	Fixed hosts not being exported into file
ZBX-20951	Fixed dependent item discovery validation in LLD
ZBX-20783	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not to fail when global regular expression is received with empty delimiter
ZBX-20299	Fixed not detecting user macros by "Test item" dialog if they are used in the calculated item formula
ZBXNEXT-7616	Fixed JavaScript md5 and sha256 functions to support binary data (including terminating zero character)

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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 6.2.0.

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 6.2 Manual