Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.0alpha1

23 May 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.0.0alpha1.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. Zabbix is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. More about Zabbix license.

This document contains the release notes for Zabbix 7.0.0alpha1. 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-2732	Improved network discovery by implementing concurrent checks within single discovery rule API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8425	Increased the maximum length for username and password fields used in HTTP authentication from 64 to 255 characters Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-8402	Implemented support of non-numeric vectors in aggregated calculations Server
ZBXNEXT-8245	Converted advanced configuration from checkbox to collapsible block Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-8323	Added preprocessing cache support for Prometheus to JSON step Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8387	Changed Alerts->Scripts configuration form to modal window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7640	Updated widget help icon link to documentation link of a specific widget Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8386	Changed Data collection->Discovery configuration form to modal window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8211	Added support for new binary item value type API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8390	Added state filter for items in monitoring latest data Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8355	Added various improvements for aggregation functions Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-8270	Added support of non-blocking sockets and thread-safe connect, accept, read, write operation timeouts based on poll Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8086	Implemented ability to use all widgets in dashboard templates Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8079	Added an option to choose whether redirected ICMP ping response is treated as host up or host down API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8235	Implemented simplified cloning in the UI by leaving only one Clone button for Hosts, Templates and Maps Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8326	Added Zabbix server and Zabbix frontend version to system information report Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-8324	Dropped support for floats of limited range API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7569	Added support for Portage in system.sw.packages{,.get} items Agent
ZBXNEXT-8237	Changed module details view to a modal (popup) and updated module details Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7132	Added option of getting fully qualified domain name in system.hostname key to Zabbix agent and Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-8226	Fixed the problem of insufficient length of URL fields Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-8256	Renamed action operation types related to template linkage Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22793	Fixed LogSlowQueries not taken into account by server Server
ZBX-22314	Fixed OpenSSL, yaml, cmocka compiling in a non-standard location Proxy Server
ZBX-14557	Expanded the range of possible forecast return values to double precision Server
ZBX-22598	Fixed singular and plural forms in success and error messages and in confirmation messages Frontend
ZBX-22343	Removed use of deprecated cURL setopt options Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-22147	Updated default buffer size to 1000 in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-22587	Fixed JSON validation not detecting invalid unicode characters and out-of-bounds access with JSONPath on invalid unicode character Proxy Server
ZBX-21976	Added support of OneLogin and Azure SCIM, fixed some issues with provisioning API 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 7.0.0.

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 7.0 Manual