Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.0alpha2

20 June 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.0.0alpha2.

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 7.0.0alpha2. 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-8515	Switched Zabbix frontend SVG icons to fonts Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8413	Moved Alerts -> Media types configuration form to modal window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8497	Removed unnecessary JavaScript preprocessing in discovery rules in Kubernetes templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8445	Changed Data collection -> Event correlation form to modal window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8465	Updated JavaScript scripts in Kubernetes templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-297	Added remote command execution via active checks Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8447	Added new discovery manager, worker and queue metrics to Zabbix server and proxy health templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7072	Fixed hintbox to be automatically closed when target element disappears Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8294	Added filters of node labels and annotations for Kubelet discovery in Kubernetes cluster state template Templates
ZBXNEXT-2299	Implemented problem/event filtering by performed update actions and user; reworked problem filter to support filtering by acknowledgement status and current user API Frontend Installation
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-22987	Fixed inefficient URL schema validation Frontend
ZBX-21892	Fixed wrong fs type returned by vfs.fs.get for file systems with identical mount point Agent
ZBX-21859	Fixed active checks occasionally not being executed on Zabbix agent 2 if checks for a plugin have long and short update intervals Agent
ZBX-22941	Prevented clearing of the user macro secret values on inherited host prototypes as the result of user macros modifications on the parent host prototype of a template API
ZBX-22889	Fixed performance problems by creating problem.cause_eventid index Installation
ZBX-22695	Fixed eventlog duplicate timestamps Agent
ZBX-22903	Fixed scale calculation for Graph and Graph (classic) widgets Frontend
ZBX-22838	Fixed Zabbix proxy reporting JSON error instead of TCP Proxy
ZBX-22904	Fixed streaming of metrics with large float numbers Server
ZBX-22148	Fixed the crash when updating a webhook to JavaScript that cannot be compiled Proxy Server
ZBX-22868	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 plugin Defaults when hardcoded value is provided Agent
ZBX-22399	Added TLS and Default parameters support to MQTT plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20280	Fixed page selection in a dashboard after refresh Frontend
ZBX-22883	Fixed occasional crash of user parameters on Windows when using Zabbix agent 2 with UserParameterDir defined Agent
ZBX-22953	Fixed metric names in the Top hosts widget in global view dashboard, added missing connector queue metric to graph in Zabbix server health dashboard Installation
ZBXNEXT-8392	Added a documentation link for each standard item key Frontend
ZBX-22243	Fixed navigation away from edited dashboard without user confirmation Frontend
ZBX-22844	Fixed compilation of Zabbix on OpenBSD when linking with libevent Proxy Server
ZBX-22798	Fixed incorrect output of vfs.file.contents when reading frequently modified file Agent
ZBX-22805	Increased memory allocation limit for JavaScript execution from 64M to 512M Proxy Server
ZBX-21877	Fixed unnecessary proxy name wrapping into multiple lines in proxy list Frontend
ZBX-22264	Added optional empty state for dynamic rows library Frontend
ZBX-22697	Fixed VMware tags update error related to curl communication problems Proxy Server
ZBX-21573	Optimized preprocessing steps in the AWS EC2 by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-16326	Fixed displaying of the first and last data points on the graphs Frontend
ZBX-22467	Fixed missing bracket in a trigger event name in Windows templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8467	Updated max supported TimescaleDB version to 2.11 Server
ZBX-22738	Fixed flickering debug info while editing empty dashboards Frontend
ZBX-22231	Removed host and interface macros resolution from HTTP proxy fields in items, item prototype and discovery rule test dialogues Frontend
ZBX-22681	Fixed wrongly displayed Revert button for text macros in host, template and host prototype clone forms Frontend
ZBX-21194	Fixed filter form submission upon pressing Enter key in Safari Frontend
ZBX-22348	Added user role requirement for creating a user or updating a user with role already set to the frontend Frontend
ZBX-21804	Removed requirement for write permissions on hosts, host groups, triggers, discovery rules, discovery checks and proxies when creating or updating actions API Frontend
ZBX-22743	Fixed user list filtering with user roles specified Frontend
ZBX-22418	Fixed popup form fields overlapping labels when textarea width is resized Frontend
ZBX-19590	Changed count_foreach to add 0 when no data are in the requested period Server
ZBX-22594	Fixed fatal error when a request contains invalid authentication parameters Frontend
ZBX-22397	Fixed disabled input field text color in Safari Frontend
ZBX-22691	Fixed action operations edit form opening wrong operation details popup window Frontend
ZBX-21593	Optimized preprocessing steps in the templates PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent and PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-22470	Fixed hang on logging when establishing an encrypted connection in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20263	Prevented the ability to link two or more templates with matching item keys to a host or template; improved the check for double template linkage and related error messages API
ZBX-22254	Fixed support of special characters in LDAP group pattern API Frontend
ZBX-22571	Fixed "service not equal" action condition not working as expected Server
ZBX-22644	Fixed Graph widget not showing all problems for multiple items with dataset aggregation enabled Frontend
ZBX-22698	Fixed spelling mistakes in the templates Templates
ZBX-21883	Changed Select map field of the Map widget to multiselect Frontend
ZBX-22762	Fixed race condition in Zabbix agent 2 when reading filesystem Agent
ZBX-22593	Changed representation of boolean item values in wmi.get, wmi.getall items in Zabbix agent 2 to match the format in classic Zabbix agent Agent
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