Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.4rc1

26 October 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.4rc1.

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 6.2.4rc1. 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-7953	Added VMware tags support for vSphere versions older than 7U2 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7122	Added detection of compressed chunks in history or trend tables, and warnings that suggest enabling housekeeping overrides accordingly Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-8018	Added token authentication in Template GitLab by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-6401	Added new vmware keys vmware.datastore.perfcounter and vmware.hv.diskinfo.get Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7816	Added support of PostgreSQL 15 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7970	Added support of TimescaleDB 2.8 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7902	Added templates for Azure MySQL servers Templates
ZBXNEXT-7971	Increased max length of the "URL (after login)" field API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-8035	Added override for file system discovery trigger in f5 template Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-17300	Fixed handling of context menu in Map builder Frontend
ZBX-21656	Fixed clone buttons not working in Safari 16 on template editing form Frontend
ZBX-20505	Fixed subfilter counters displaying incorrect values in Monitoring => Graph view Frontend
ZBX-21452	Fixed wmi.get* crash of zabbix_agentd for windows Agent
ZBX-21673	Fixed read operations per second preprocessing in Ceph by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21724	Fixed updating of lastaccess for proxies in availman if active proxy is used Proxy Server
ZBX-21582	Optimized HPE Synergy template to spread load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21708	Fixed PHP TypeError when opening non-existing dashboard Frontend
ZBX-21606	Fixed "Allowed hosts" field in HTTP agent item Frontend
ZBX-19224	Added ability to unset headers in web scenario API
ZBX-21709	Fixed database upgrade patch to skip unexpected invalid service downtime instead of failing Server
ZBX-21562	Fixed maps not working with elements having disabled triggers Frontend
ZBX-21537	Fixed history syncers being stuck waiting on system information being collected Server
ZBX-21484	Updated documentation for templates SMART by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-21725	Fixed configuration cache shared memory leak when removing vault macros Proxy Server
ZBX-20296	Fixed swap trigger function for windows os and modules by Zabbix agent templates Templates
ZBX-20392	Added close/ack/unack of events for OPSgenie media Templates
ZBX-21227	Fixed Zabbix agent to log received service control commands Agent
ZBX-21456	Fixed net.tcp.socket.count and net.udp.socket.count problem on Zabbix agent 2 when ipv6 is disabled Agent
ZBX-21532	Fixed missing inherited tags for templated triggers in edit form, tag tab Frontend
ZBX-21000	Fixed possibility to update host interface on items from templates Frontend
ZBX-21706	Fixed double precision update patch for TimescaleDb Server
ZBX-19512	Fixed debug info block content refresh after changing table content in Monitoring -> Problems page Frontend
ZBX-21682	Removed unnecessary horizontal separator from Host interface Frontend
ZBX-21610	Fixed problem with sysctl() kern.proc.args API bug on FreeBSD <= 8.2 Agent
ZBX-17060	Fixed unexpected interface connection mode change during autoregistration Server
ZBX-21510	Made NodeAddress use ListenIP and ListenPort if not explicitly specified Server
ZBX-21388	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 plugin read error and updated plugin support dependency for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20864	Fixed format specifier definitions on AIX Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-21605	Fixed possible PHP runtime errors in several modal popup dialogs Frontend
ZBX-21097	Fixed filtering by "Resource ID" and "Recordset ID" fields for "Audit log" page API Frontend
ZBX-21580	Optimized HPE MSA 2060 Storage by HTTP template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21579	Optimized HPE MSA 2040 Storage by HTTP template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21421	Fixed variable spelling in Kubernetes cluster state by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21466	Fixed race condition in Zabbix agent 2 leading to permanently stuck mount reads Agent
ZBX-21544	Fixed value of query field being truncated to the first "=" sign when pressing parse button Frontend
ZBX-21581	Optimized HPE Primera template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21009	Fixed double escaping in trigger function upon host autoregistration Server
ZBX-21672	Fixed event source in mediatypes Templates
ZBX-21693	Fixed repeated lines in templates Templates

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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 6.2.4.

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 6.2 Manual