Release Notes for Zabbix 7.2.6rc1

14 April 2025

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.2.6rc1.

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 7.2.6rc1. 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-9877	Added zabbix[preprocessing] internal item Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9646	Added Juniper MX by NETCONF template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9718	Added additional log message to assist in finding which item causes exhaustion of value cache Server
ZBXNEXT-9782	Added Pure Storage FlashArray by HTTP templates for REST API v1 and v2 Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18703	Fixed incorrect values returned by vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size item Proxy Server
ZBX-24850	Fixed rejected incoming connection from link-local addresses on Windows Agent Server
ZBX-25210	Added Server parameter configuration validation for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-25521	ListenPort value won't be included in "/status" endpoint report if passive mode is off in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-26275	Fixed new item preprocessing steps being saved with "Custom on fail" enabled Frontend
ZBX-23085	Fixed vmware.datastore.perfcounter and vmware.cl.perfcounter items for custom instances Proxy Server
ZBX-26056	Fixed undefined behavior when linking template with LLD macro Server
ZBX-24383	Fixed PHP fatal error when importing configuration from Zabbix 2.0 API
ZBX-24969	Fixed vfs.file.regmatch item in Zabbix agent 2 to stop searching after first match Agent
ZBX-24388	Fixed trigger expression in Check Point Next Generation Firewall by SNMP template Templates
ZBX-25495	Reverted escalator query fix for Oracle to optimize MySQL query; removed redundant "distinct" from original query Server
ZBX-26197	Fixed max repetition count not being inherited by host created by LLD Proxy Server
ZBX-26074	Fixed authentication settings in README.md Templates
ZBX-25603	Fixed "Tag for matching" field visibility when "OK event generation" is set to "None" in trigger and trigger prototype configuration forms Frontend
ZBX-25928	Fixed error handling for invalid parameters in item and trigger popup URLs Frontend
ZBX-25683	Fixed Ctrl+Arrow shortcuts not working in preprocessing form Frontend
ZBX-26080	Fixed old file descriptors being held when external log rotation is used Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-25146	Removed concurrency when using net-snmp library for network discovery Proxy Server
ZBX-26121	Added default flags to net.dns.get arguments when none are specified Agent
ZBX-22654	Fixed item units not resolving when value mapping is applied Frontend
ZBX-25975	Optimized temperature sensor discovery in MikroTik templates Templates
ZBX-26026	Updated "get last backup" query in MSSQL by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-26208	Fixed buffer pool efficiency formula for family of MySQL templates Templates
ZBX-26093	Fixed Geomap widget displaced host popup Frontend
ZBX-26038	Added 10-second reconnect timeout for PostgreSQL read-only database Server
ZBX-26061	Fixed vertical text rotation for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages Frontend
ZBX-25306	Updated Zabbix web service chromdp and cdproto dependency Server
ZBX-26055	Fixed failure to refresh active checks when next refresh was faster than 60 seconds Agent
ZBX-26042	Fixed agent redirection if host encryption settings are wrong Proxy Server
ZBX-25749	Removed theming from QR code Frontend
ZBX-23750	Updated documentation for SMART by Zabbix agent 2 templates Templates
ZBX-25612	Updated documentation for both Oracle DB templates and Oracle DB Zabbix agent 2 plugin Documentation
ZBX-25439	Added note about replication privilege requirements for MariaDB in MySQL templates Templates
ZBX-21876	Corrected getPluginCapacity to avoid false warnings when default capacity exceeds maximum capacity Agent
ZBX-22900	Fixed Zabbix agent crash on Windows while executing runaway regular expression Agent
ZBX-26006	Made PSK comparison case-insensitive during autoregistration Proxy Server

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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 7.2.6.

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 7.2 Manual