Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.0alpha2

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.

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

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

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.

References

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