Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.6rc1

23 November 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.6rc1.

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 5.0.6rc1. 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-6353	Added Morningstar devices monitoring templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6316	Added iTop media Templates
ZBXNEXT-6281	Added template "Hadoop by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6275	Added Template "Zookeeper by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-2480	Removed autocomplete from fields having sensitive data Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6253	Added native system.users.num support to Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6129	Added UnitFileState to systemd.unit.discovery for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6236	Added template "Apache Kafka by JMX" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6247	Improved LLD rule processing after reconnecting to proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6201	Added "Template DB Apache Cassandra by JMX" Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18517	Updated Apache Tomcat by JMX template Templates
ZBX-18155	Removed positional macros from item names on 'Web monitoring' page API
ZBX-18655	Fixed insert of duplicate key value in interface_snmp for lld host discovery Server
ZBX-18551	Fixed item mapping for LLD overrides Server
ZBX-18650	Fixed logic for processing LLD rule duplicates after reconnecting to proxy Server
ZBX-18588	Fixed screen item field "max_columns" being overwritten during import Frontend
ZBX-17705	Fixed fatal error raised in event notifications when a large amount of notifications is shown Frontend
ZBX-5842	Fixed ability to detect username existence from unsuccessful login message API Frontend
ZBX-18518	Fixed characters counter which were removed in script modal window Frontend
ZBX-18414	Fixed override be saved with custom expression even when all rows are removed Frontend
ZBX-18497	Fixed macro resolving in http basic authentication username and macros fields Frontend
ZBX-18143	Fixed ability to download image of non-existent graph Frontend
ZBX-18359	Fixed long data row formatting for OracleDB Installation
ZBX-18581	Fixed ORA-40478 exception in queries Agent
ZBX-18564	Moved taskid calculation to transaction when creating remote command task Server
ZBX-18487	Increased trapper verbosity for DebugLevel=4 when rejecting sender data Proxy Server
ZBX-18185	Fixed compilation error on Solaris 10 Agent
ZBX-18317	Fixed fatal error when updating only discovered triggers and their properties API
ZBX-18163	Fixed deletion of one last remaining main host interface to show error instead of silently deleting the interface API
ZBX-18505	Fixed build failing to compile for Zabbix agent 2 on ARM/v7 and ARM/v6 Agent
ZBX-18380	Changed trigger of the net.if.speed item in the Windows network module template Templates
ZBX-18494	Removed recovery mode NONE in trigger "Operating system description has changed" Templates
ZBX-18531	Fixed "Template App Ceph by Zabbix Agent2" pool discovery Templates
ZBX-18058	Updated the list of item keys and their descriptions Frontend
ZBX-18476	Changed Fan, Temperature, Voltage LLD rules in Template Net Arista Templates
ZBX-16155	Fixed "Template Net TP-LINK" readme Templates

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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 5.0.6.

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 5.0 Manual