Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.5rc1

21 November 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.5rc1.

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 6.2.5rc1. 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-8040	Added object-based JSON parsing and JSONPath optimizations Proxy Server
ZBX-21588	Optimized the template Kubernetes nodes by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-7903	Added templates for Azure PostgreSQL servers Templates
ZBXNEXT-7949	Added a preposition "by" to template names Templates
ZBX-20478	Fixed the script Kubernetes cluster state Templates
ZBXNEXT-6844	Added Cisco Meraki template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8009	Added JSONPath optimizations Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7940	Added the template OS processes by Zabbix agent Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-17419	Optimized API queries when searching through names in hosts and items tables API Server
ZBX-21534	Reverted fix for parsing of backslashes in quoted function parameters API
ZBX-21536	Reverted fix for backslash escape in the trigger expression constructor Frontend
ZBX-21631	Changed UUIDs of active agent availability metrics in Windows and Linux templates Templates
ZBX-21818	Added escaping of macro values in script item parameters Server
ZBX-21830	Fixed syntax of a message identifier in the In-Reply-To e-mail header field Server
ZBX-21828	Fixed undefined index "suppress_until" in the Problems by severity widget Frontend
ZBX-21816	Fixed the "i" icon alignment in the Info column in Problems section with compact view Frontend
ZBX-19813	Reworked inteface updates in template linking and LLD Server
ZBX-20320	Fixed order of checkboxes in user role view; added vertical display to CCheckBoxList; removed CSeverityCheckBoxList Frontend
ZBX-21869	Fixed database upgrade from 5.0 on setups requiring primary keys for tables
ZBX-21620	Changed an update interval for the passwd checksum item in OS templates to 15m Templates
ZBX-21825	Improved history syncer performance Server
ZBX-21616	Fixed an error due to non-existent macros in custom expressions Server
ZBX-21786	Fixed the 'invalid timeout' error occurring after script item parameters removal Proxy Server
ZBX-21823	Fixed vfs.fs.inode and vfs.fs.get to handle file systems with zero total inodes count Agent
ZBX-21785	Updated Actions checkboxes in the Audit log form filter for User directory and Autoregistration Frontend
ZBX-21765	Removed HTTP header "Accept-Encoding" from defaults in a web scenario step request Server
ZBX-21715	Fixed Zabbix JS (zabbix_js) crash when parsing short version of "timeout" option -t
ZBX-21655	Updated VMware datastore discovery to prevent returning the same datastore multiple times Proxy Server
ZBX-21468	Fixed synchronization of the "hstgrp" configuration table Proxy
ZBX-21677	Fixed checkbox resetting in Monitoring->Latest data and Monitoring->Problems Frontend
ZBX-21687	Fixed persistent preloader icons over dashboard widgets on Safari 16 Frontend
ZBX-21689	Modified proc.num item to prevent agent crash on Windows when 'user' parameter is set Agent
ZBX-22050	Fixed spoofing X-Forwarded-For request header allows to access Frontend in maintenace mode Frontend

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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 6.2.5.

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