Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.17rc1

10 July 2024

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.17rc1.

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 6.4.17rc1. 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-9143	Added index on auditlog recordsetid Server
ZBXNEXT-9081	Added Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) device type support to Zabbix agent 2 Smart plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-6445	Added recovery expression for fuzzytime triggers in Linux and Windows templates, removed fuzzytime triggers from active agent templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-9201	Updated max supported MySQL version to 8.4 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9225	Updated max supported TimescaleDB version to 2.15 Server
ZBXNEXT-9226	Updated max supported MariaDB version to 11.4 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8868	Added discovery and template for Azure VM Scale Sets Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-24514	Fixed standalone Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy not stopping when database is read-only Proxy Server
ZBX-23936	Fixed state and styling of readonly fields Frontend
ZBX-22920	Fixed undefined array key error in Problems widget when host is in maintenance Frontend
ZBX-24167	Fixed template linkage when item prototype collision is found Server
ZBX-24610	Fixed interface field appearance for discovered items without interface set Frontend
ZBX-23770	Improved monitoring user permissions documentation for Zabbix agent 2 Oracle plugin and Oracle by ODBC template Documentation
ZBX-24235	Fixed value misalignment in Item value widget Frontend
ZBX-24565	Removed redundant kernel header include, fixed musl compatibility issues (thanks to Alpine Linux maintainers for spotting this)
ZBX-23751	Fixed inability to pass an action filter condition without an "operator" property, implying a default value of "Equal" API
ZBX-24562	Fixed incorrect problem order in Problems by severity widget's hintbox Frontend
ZBX-24622	Fixed inability to inherit template with multiple items to multiple hosts when total amount of inherited items exceeds but is not a multiple of batch size API
ZBX-24682	Fixed SQLite database creation Proxy
ZBX-23886	Fixed inability to import items, LLD rules and item prototypes containing redundant conditional fields API
ZBX-21429	Prevented ability to disable all UI element access via role.update API API
ZBX-19271	Fixed inconsistent tag row rendering in different edit forms Frontend
ZBX-24671	Fixed problems not inheriting tags of templates linked to discovered hosts Server
ZBX-24539	Fixed incorrect threshold in trigger expression of Check Point Next Generation Firewall by SNMP template Templates
ZBX-24667	Fixed vm.memory.size[pused] item on Solaris Agent
ZBX-23781	Added storage volumes check in HPE iLO by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-24391	Fixed Zabbix agent to return net.tcp.socket.count result without error if IPv6 is disabled Agent
ZBX-24352	Fixed custom severity name usage in Geomap widget Frontend
ZBX-20993	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 MQTT plugin clientID to be generated by strict requirements Agent
ZBX-23426	Added dependent item with JavaScript preprocessing for edges SD-WAN in VMWare SD-WAN VeloCloud by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-24665	Fixed potential problem with deprecated GCE Integrity feature Templates
ZBX-24566	Fixed crash when expression macro is used in unsupported location Server
ZBX-24450	Fixed issue where graph could differ for data gathered from PostgreSQL and other databases Frontend
ZBX-24513	Fixed real-time export of rarely updated trends Server
ZBX-21702	Fixed selected row highlighting on page refresh Frontend
ZBX-23398	Fixed trigger expression constructor incorrectly showing '<' and '>' operators Frontend
ZBX-23584	Fixed error message being displayed when updating host after changing item status Frontend
ZBX-24635	Fixed datastore triggers in VMware templates Templates
ZBX-22623	Fixed unavailable dashboard failing to load widget-specific JS files 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 6.4.17.

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 6.4 Manual