Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.0beta2

10 May 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.0beta2.

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 6.2.0beta2. 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-7693	Replaced filename-length-max=99 option with tar-pax in configure.ac Installation
ZBXNEXT-7029	Added support of vmware.dvswitch.discovery and vmware.dvswitch.fetchports.get Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5088	Added active check availability icon API Frontend Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5341	Added new VMware item vmware.vm.attribute Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2302	Added new VMware keys *.hv.connectionstate *.hv.hw.serialnumber *.hv.net.if.discovery *.hv.network.linkspeed *.hv.hw.sensors.get *.vm.state *.vm.tools and other improvements Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5771	Added digital clock feature to the clock widget Frontend
ZBX-20946	Enabled German and Vietnamese languages in the frontend Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7461	Implemented expandable subfilters at the Latest data page; fixed clickable tags Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7604	Modified functionality to ignore NaN in Prometheus preprocessing aggregate functions Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2591	Added resource pool path to vmware.vm.discovery Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2043	Added support for collecting vmware snapshot information and new items vmware.vm.snapshot.get and vmware.vm.consolidationneeded Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2012	Added additional NIC counters for VMware monitoring Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7607	Added template Envoy Proxy by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-7476	Disabled PHP 8 strict type validation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2289	Implemented multiple LDAP sources for user authentication API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-7526	Added number of items for Latest data column in Monitoring -> Hosts page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7491	Fixed PHP 8.1 runtime warnings with PostgreSQL backend API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7547	Added CockroachDB template Templates
ZBXNEXT-4768	Improved usability of "Execute now" API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3692	Refactored inline scripts for HTML onClick events to avoid potential XSS threats Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1711	Implemented OS processes discovery with new item proc.get Agent
ZBXNEXT-7615	Added hmac function for JavaScript 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-7523	Added possibility to add custom templates to hosts created from host prototypes API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-7627	Set minimal supported PHP version to 7.4 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1580	Implemented centralized refreshing of proxy configuration API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-388	Added checking of new items and LLD rules within 60 seconds after creation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7120	Added support of OpenSSL 3.0 Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7402, ZBXNEXT-7413	Added support for CyberArk Vault API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7452	Added SNI support to TLS protocol for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-7065	Added queries metrics to PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-7023	Updated regular expressions for services discovery in Windows templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7498	Moved internal item processing from history to regular pollers Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7420	Added documentation links to Zabbix frontend sections Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7397	Removed support for MD5 user passwords Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-7488	Removed zabbix[history*] and zabbix[trends*] internal items Server
ZBXNEXT-7138	Added modal form for API tokens in User settings->API tokens and Administration->General->API tokens Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-21008	Fixed broken popup for SLA selection for User role Frontend
ZBX-20380	Fixed maintenance highlighting having priority over problem severity highlighting for map elements of map, host group and trigger types Frontend
ZBX-20982	Fixed API request by coordinates in the OpenWeatherMap template Templates
ZBX-20918	Moved final history/trends cache sync in main process to be done before stopping HA Server
ZBX-20548	Fixed broken host link not opening in the Inventory Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7523	Removed unnecessary field validation for "link_type" in template.get "selectParentTemplates" option API
ZBX-20773	Added documentation link for host create view in standalone mode Frontend
ZBX-20953	Fixed errors when changing status of a single host in list Frontend
ZBX-20947	Fixed hosts not being exported into file Frontend
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
ZBX-20299	Fixed not detecting user macros by "Test item" dialog if they are used in the calculated item formula Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7616	Fixed JavaScript md5 and sha256 functions to support binary data (including terminating zero character) 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 6.2.0.

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