Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.0alpha2

31 八月 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.0alpha2.

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 5.2.0alpha2. Download it from 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-6139	Added GetHeaders method to CurlHttpRequest javascript object Server
ZBXNEXT-6116	Added SysAid media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-6167	Added diaginfo runtime command to log internal diagnostic information Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6106	Added Host context menu to hosts listed on 'Web monitoring' page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6065	Added SolarWinds Service Desk webhook Templates
ZBXNEXT-6117	Added media "TOPdesk" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5540	Added LLD rules for stand-alone and CAPsMAN APs Templates
ZBXCTR-10	Added iLert media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-5898	Added user macro expanding in item description Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6085	Added host prototype tag support API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2603	Increased user macros values maximum size from 255 to 2048 Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-5965	Added support for load balancing by change user session storage driver from file based to encrypted cookies API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6073	Added item log macros support in trigger names, operational data, descriptions, event tags, event values and trigger URL Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-82	Reworked part of parameters from definitions file to configurable parameters using frontend; added new API for settings, authentication, housekeepeing API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-2156	Implemented ability to create hosts without interfaces API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2754	Added YAML as default import/export format API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-250	Added support of global and per-user time zones for frontend, notifications and for time limit when notifications are sent API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3362	Added ability to set the default system language API Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18230	Fixed import data normalizer to convert strings recursively and process some of the custom extended rules and validations API
ZBX-18322	Enabled Memcached and MySQL plugins for Windows Agent
ZBX-17982	Added non-trigger event types support to webhooks Templates
ZBX-18190	Removed triggers for items Log growths, Log shrinks for MSSQL ODBC template Templates
ZBX-18122	Fixed russian character in setup section and templates for Oracle ODBC and PostgreSQL agent2 Templates
ZBX-18074	Fixed unresolved macros in item names in data overview table Frontend
ZBX-18195	Changed log level increase command for Agent 2 to match Agent 1 Agent
ZBX-17984	Added support of ipv6 and unix sockets for memcached plugin Agent
ZBX-18189	Fixed crash when performing housekeeping with disabled value cache Server
ZBX-18267	Fixed {ITEM.NAME<1-9>} and {ITEM.KEY<1-9>} macro expansion when host is configured without any interfaces Server
ZBX-18181	Fixed undefined index when importing host with non-existing interface and host interfaces not being deleted if interfaces are not present in import file API
ZBX-14503	Updated JMX template to follow guidelines Templates
ZBX-18196	Added overriding of triggers for IPMI Threshold sensors discovery Templates
ZBX-18021	Changed Opsgenie media to handle extra options Tags and Teams Templates
ZBX-18050	Removed proxy name from host breadcrumbs Frontend
ZBX-18202	Added new default item keys for item type "Zabbix aggregate" Frontend
ZBX-18124	Fixed discovered host group prototype saving during import Frontend
ZBX-17692	Fixed column sizes and paddings for items in graph edit form Frontend
ZBX-17812	Fixed incorrect copying of severeties in Problem widgets Frontend
ZBX-17886	Fixed SNMP type item test form not sending and resolving interface macros Frontend
ZBX-18183	Fixed displaying negative time in convertUnitsS() function Frontend
ZBX-18103	Fixed host connection macro in Slack media type Templates
ZBX-18072	Fixed Discord API version in Discord media type Templates
ZBX-17952	Fixed compression availability not being checked when deleting history API
ZBX-17981	Fixed Discord endpoint validation Templates
ZBXNEXT-6052	Fixed "Shared" tag being displayed for users that are not the dashboard owners Frontend
ZBX-18249	Fixed Oracle ODBC Template issues Templates
ZBXNEXT-6052	Added filter and showing additional details in the list of dashboards Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6054	Moved Configuration -> Applications to MVC Frontend
ZBX-17955	Fixed "medias" parameter named inconsistency in user.create and user.update API methods API
ZBX-17548	Don't store text items with history 0 in proxy history Proxy Server

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 5.2.0.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 5.2 Manual