Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.0rc1

9 June 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.0rc1.

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 6.2.0rc1. 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-721	Added temporary suppress problem functionality Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-7591	Added possibility to add custom tags to hosts created from host prototypes API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6940	Added new features in graph widget: dataset with item list; stacked graphs type; show simple triggers and working time; last known for missing data; percentile lines; configurable approximation; better legend; clone data set API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7554	Added incremental configuration sync for hosts, host tags, items, item tags, item preprocessing, triggers, trigger tags, functions API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7596	Updated templates and templates.tmpl for 6.2 version (template_groups and host_groups properties) Installation Templates
ZBXNEXT-5517	Added ability to modify macros of hosts created from host prototypes API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-7669	Implemented new design for Global view dashboard Installation
ZBXNEXT-6891	Removed MongoDB implementation, updated template to work with new plugin Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-2592	Split host groups functionality into host groups and template groups API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-7632	Added template for HPE Primera Templates
ZBXNEXT-7567	Implemented saving the state of the default filters in monitoring sections Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7630	Added templates for HPE MSA 2060 and MSA 2040 Templates
ZBXNEXT-7732	Added metrics for Windows Registry monitoring Frontend Agent
ZBXNEXT-2578	Added support for vmware.rp.cpu.usage and vmware.rp.memory Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2837	Allowed {INVENTORY.*} macros for script type item and manual scripts Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6893	Implemented audit log filtering by multiple actions Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7553	Added user macro cache Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7453	Added templates HashiCorp Consul by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-7494	Removed deprecated CurlHttpRequest Proxy Server
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-20914	Fixed wrong calculation of calculated item formulas Server
ZBX-20565	Fixed visibility of placeholder text in host prototype edit form Frontend
ZBX-20875	Fixed filter condition for job discovery rule in MSSQL by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-21146	Fixed item key in NTP service template Templates
ZBX-21137	Fixed VMware collector crash related to datastore state disconnected from all HVs Proxy Server
ZBX-20985	Fixed notifications summary for MS Teams media type Templates
ZBX-20628	Removed system metrics from PFSense template Templates
ZBX-21136	Fixed value type for checksum of /etc/passwd item in FreeBSD template Templates
ZBX-20903	Removed duplicate in Windows services discovery filter regexp Templates
ZBX-18652	Fixed data overview discrepancy between host location top and left Frontend
ZBX-21111	Fixed HA manager stopping Server
ZBX-21306	Fixed xss in discovery rules Frontend
ZBX-21305	Fixed xss in graph Frontend
ZBX-20859	Fixed incorrectly exported host groups in map elements API
ZBX-20613	Returned the ability to edit the dependencies of inherited triggers; improved validation upon unlinking templates with triggers that have dependencies; improved performance of trigger dependency functionality; prevented the ability to fully replace trigger dependencies of inherited triggers if the new dependency was added to parent trigger; supplemented validation of trigger dependencies on templates to prevent linkage dead-ends; dropped support of trigger.addDependencies and trigger.deleteDependencies API methods API Frontend Installation
ZBX-20814	Fixed Map->Sharing user group shares table not showing saved user groups Frontend
ZBX-20898	Fixed duplicated UUID in the official template Templates
ZBX-20911	Added process state check in PROC_NUM() for Oracle Solaris Agent
ZBX-20752	Fixed saved properties of classic graphs being lost when reopening graph configuration Frontend
ZBX-21073	Added support of Int8Array(), Buffer() and also duktape plain buffers in md5, sha256 and hmac function parameters Proxy Server
ZBX-19381	Fixed resolving of macros in item key parameters when testing items in web interface Frontend
ZBX-21074	Fixed active check availability status update on Oracle Server
ZBX-20950	Updated regular expressions for services discovery in Windows templates and fixed new active agent check Templates
ZBX-18520	Fixed showing of fields that do not belong to selected item type in item edit form Frontend
ZBX-20684	Fixed item value widget not showing trailing zeros Frontend
ZBX-20600	Fixed vmware hv.datastore.latency item when multiple datastores with duplicate name Proxy Server
ZBX-20861	Fixed incorrect naming of web scenario items after upgrade Installation
ZBX-20823	Fixed inability to update hosts that were created by LLD on aarch64 Server
ZBX-20945	Fixed broken trigger link in trigger mass update => dependencies Frontend
ZBX-20886	Fixed handle leak on Zabbix agent 2 in vfs.fs.get Agent
ZBX-20356	Fixed perfomance counters not working when removed and added again on Zabbix agent 2 Agent
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