Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 6.4.0beta4

29 November 2022

Das Zabbix Team freut sich, Ihnen Zabbix vorzustellen 6.4.0beta4.

Zabbix ist eine Open-Source-Lösung für das verteilte Monitoring und dabei für Unternehmen ausgelegt (Enterprise-Klasse). Zabbix wird unter der GPL veröffentlicht und ist daher zur Verwendung kostenlos, ob kommerziell oder nicht. Den vollständigen Text der Lizenz finden Sie unter http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

Dieses Dokument enthält die Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 6.4.0beta4. Sie finden es unter download.

Die folgenden Abschnitte beschreiben den Release im Detail und stellen später hinzugekommene oder sonstige Informationen bereit, um die hauptsächliche Dokumentation zu ergänzen.

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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-276	Added LDAP and SAML user provisioning API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-8058	Reduced locking between history syncers, trappers and proxy pollers Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8051	Added new authentications methods for API calls API
ZBXNEXT-4714	Implemented filters for Action log page; and widget and export to CSV file for Action log page Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-6844	Added a Cisco Meraki template Templates
ZBXNEXT-7903	Added templates for Azure PostgreSQL servers Templates
ZBXNEXT-7949	Added a suffix "by" in template names Templates
ZBXNEXT-7948	Optimized preprocessing manager cache refresh Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7469	Simplified creation of dashboard widgets; moved widgets to modules; updated modules framework Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6980	Implemented audit logging of item and item prototype API objects API Frontend Templates
ZBXNEXT-8040	Added object based JSON parsing and JSONPath optimizations Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7940	Added template OS processes by Zabbix agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-7953	Added VMware tags support for vSphere versions older than 7U2 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7122	Added detection of compressed chunks in history or trend tables, and warnings that suggest enabling housekeeping overrides accordingly Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-8018	Added token authentication in Template GitLab by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-7512	Implemented new context menu for host, item and trigger in the Monitoring section Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7972	Implemented name for trigger URL Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6401	Added new vmware keys vmware.datastore.perfcounter and vmware.hv.diskinfo.get Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8038	Improved layout for audit log report utilising two-column layout Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7816	Added support of PostgreSQL 15 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7970	Added support of TimescaleDB 2.8 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7902	Added templates for Azure MySQL servers Templates
ZBXNEXT-7920	Improved value cache not to drop items from cache when no new value has arrived in 24 hours Server
ZBXNEXT-8035	Added override for file system discovery trigger in f5 template Templates
ZBXNEXT-7912	Improved media type configuration API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3290	Added incremental proxy configuration sync API Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7971	Increased max length of the "URL (after login)" field API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-7931	Removed heartbeats support from Zabbix proxy Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2557	Added support of Zabbix proxies with legacy version API Frontend Installation Proxy Server Templates
ZBXNEXT-6797	Increased length of host metadata Agent Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3496	Added ability to add own links to Host and Event context menu API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6181	Added functionality to remove SQLite3 DB file on proxy version increase Proxy
ZBXNEXT-1616	Added monitoring of mount point options for Unix-like OSes Agent
ZBXNEXT-7661	Implemented thresholds for dynamic background color in item value widget Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7830	Implemented better menu structure Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7832	Renamed setting "Dynamic item" to "Enable host selection" for URL, Plain text, Graph prototype, Item value, Graph classic widgets Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7852	Added incremental active check refresh for active agents Documentation Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6406	Removed requirement of host interface for server-originated checks Frontend Proxy Server

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Bug-Fixes

ZBX-21929	Fixed widgets' field "type" Templates
ZBX-17419	Optimized API queries when searching through names in hosts and items tables API Server
ZBX-21631	Changed UUIDs of active Zabbix agent availability metrics in Windows and Linux templates Templates
ZBX-21818	Added escaping of macro values in script item parameters Server
ZBX-21830	Fixed syntax of a message identifier in the "In-Reply-To e-mail" header field Server
ZBX-21828	Fixed undefined index "suppress_until" in the "Problems by severity widget" Frontend
ZBX-21816	Fixed an incorrect "i" icon alignment in "Compact view" info column of the Problems section Frontend
ZBX-19813	Reworked interface updates in template linking and LLD Server
ZBX-20320	Fixed order of checkboxes in User role view; added vertical display to CCheckBoxList; removed CSeverityCheckBoxList Frontend
ZBX-21869	Fixed database upgrade from 5.0 on setups requiring primary keys for tables
ZBX-21620	Changed an update interval for a "passwd checksum" item in OS templates to 15m Templates
ZBX-21825	Improved history syncer performance Server
ZBX-21785	Updated "Actions checkboxes" in Audit log form filter for User directory and Autoregistration Frontend
ZBX-21765	Removed HTTP header "Accept-Encoding" from defaults in a web scenario step request Server
ZBX-21715	Fixed Zabbix JS (zabbix_js) crash when parsing short version of "timeout" option -t
ZBX-21616	Fixed error due to non-existent macros in custom expressions Server
ZBX-21786	Fixed "invalid timeout" error occurring after removal of script item parameters Proxy Server
ZBX-21823	Fixed "vfs.fs.inode" and "vfs.fs.get" to handle the file systems with zero total inodes count Agent
ZBX-22050	Fixed spoofing X-Forwarded-For request header so that it allows to access the frontend in maintenance mode Frontend
ZBX-21588	Optimized template k8s nodes by HTTP Templates
ZBX-20478	Fixed script for k8s cluster state Templates
ZBX-20296	Fixed swap trigger function for Windows and modules by Zabbix agent templates Templates
ZBX-20392	Added close/ack/unack of events for OPSgenie media Templates
ZBX-21000	Fixed possibility to update host interface on items from templates Frontend
ZBX-21227	Fixed Zabbix agent to log received service control commands Agent
ZBX-21456	Fixed net.tcp.socket.count and net.udp.socket.count problem on Zabbix agent 2 when ipv6 is disabled Agent
ZBX-21532	Fixed missing inherited tags for templated triggers in edit form, tag tab Frontend
ZBX-21655	Fixed VMware datastore discovery to not return the same datastore multiple times Proxy Server
ZBX-21677	Fixed checkbox resetting in Monitoring->Latest data and Monitoring->Problems Frontend
ZBX-21687	Fixed persistent preloader icons over dashboard widgets on Safari 16 Frontend
ZBX-21689	Fixed proc.num to not crash the Zabbix agent on Windows when 'user' parameter is set Agent
ZBX-21463	Fixed Zabbix server to not attach interface to script items during linking Server
ZBX-17300	Fixed handling of context menu in the Map builder Frontend
ZBX-21656	Fixed clone buttons on template editing form that were not working in Safari 16 Frontend
ZBX-20505	Fixed subfilter counters displaying incorrect values in Monitoring => Graph view Frontend
ZBX-21733	Improved performance of system information and queue calculation to reduce history syncer locking Server
ZBX-21452	Fixed wmi.get* crash of zabbix_agentd for Windows Agent
ZBX-21673	Fixed read operations per second during preprocessing in Ceph by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21724	Fixed updating of lastaccess for proxies in availman if active proxy is used Proxy Server
ZBX-21582	Optimized HPE Synergy template to spread load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21708	Fixed PHP TypeError when opening non-existing dashboard Frontend
ZBX-21606	Fixed "Allowed hosts" field in HTTP agent item Frontend
ZBX-19224	Added ability to unset headers in web scenario API
ZBX-21709	Fixed database upgrade patch to skip unexpected invalid service downtime instead of failing Server
ZBX-21562	Fixed maps not working with elements that contain disabled triggers Frontend
ZBX-21637	Fixed Zabbix server to rerun auto registration attempt in 120 seconds if host is deleted Agent
ZBX-21537	Fixed history syncers being stuck while waiting on system information being collected Server
ZBX-21025	Fixed the allowed argument range limits for char() trigger function Server
ZBX-21484	Updated documentation for SMART templates by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-21725	Fixed configuration cache shared memory leak when removing vault macros Proxy Server
ZBX-21510	Made NodeAddress use ListenIP and ListenPort if not explicitly specified Server
ZBX-21706	Fixed double precision update patch for TimescaleDb Server
ZBX-19512	Fixed debug info block content refresh after changing table content in Monitoring -> Problems page Frontend
ZBX-21682	Removed unnecessary horizontal separator from Host interface Frontend
ZBX-21610	Fixed problem with sysctl() kern.proc.args API bug on FreeBSD <= 8.2 Agent
ZBX-21672	Fixed event source in mediatypes Templates
ZBX-21693	Fixed repeated lines in templates Templates
ZBX-17060	Fixed unexpected interface connection mode change during autoregistration Server
ZBX-21388	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 plugin read error and updated plugin support dependency for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20864	Fixed format specifier definitions on AIX Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-21605	Fixed possible PHP runtime errors in several modal popup dialogs Frontend
ZBX-21097	Fixed filtering by "Resource ID" and "Recordset ID" fields for "Audit log" page API Frontend
ZBX-21580	Optimized HPE MSA 2060 Storage by HTTP template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBXNEXT-5535	Implemented preselected host pattern filter for autosuggest used in items pattern field in graph widget Frontend
ZBX-21579	Optimized HPE MSA 2040 Storage by HTTP template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21421	Fixed variable spelling in Kubernetes cluster state by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21544	Fixed value of query field being truncated to the first "=" sign when pressing parse button Frontend
ZBX-21581	Optimized HPE Primera template to spread the load across preprocessing workers Templates
ZBX-21456	Fixed net.tcp.socket.count problem on Zabbix agent 2 when ipv6 is disabled Agent
ZBX-21009	Fixed double escaping in trigger function upon host autoregistration Server
ZBX-21664	Fixed Zabbix server crashing during database upgrade when converting service times and there is downtime inside uptime Server
ZBX-21466	Fixed race condition in Zabbix agent 2 leading to permanently stuck mount reads Agent

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Installations- und Upgrade-Hinweise

Installation

Siehe das Zabbix Handbuch für alle Details.

Upgrade

Siehe das Upgrade-Verfahren for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 6.4.0.

Kommerzieller Support

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Referenzen

Zabbix 6.4 Manual