Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.0alpha3

20 September 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.0alpha3.

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 6.0.0alpha3. 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-6470, ZBXNEXT-6887	Implemented audit logging of report API object API
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6718	Restored audit logging of user login and logout actions; implemented logging of failed login attempts by non-existing users; added new API method user.unblock API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-6871	Implemented audit for server (processing Web scenarios) Server
ZBXNEXT-6898	Added restriction that prevents server and proxy from working with old unsupported databases Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6889	Implemented audit logging of proxy API object API
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6909	Implemented audit logging of authentication, autoregistration, housekeeping and settings API objects API
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6901	Implemented audit logging of module API object API
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6717	Added RegExp API object API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6840	Improved protocol to support Zabbix proxy configuration of size up to 16 GB; improved performance and memory usage by freeing uncompressed data as fast as possible and compressing before connection Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6784	Removed item being unsupported when swap is not configured Agent
ZBXNEXT-6856	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - graphs, graph prototypes) Server
ZBXNEXT-6855	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - triggers, trigger prototypes) Server
ZBXNEXT-6852	Updated localization for Zabbix Support URL; replaced Zabbix Share link with link to Zabbix Integrations Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6787	Added support of user permissions for service tree API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6824	Replaced simple macros with expression macros API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6870	Implemented support of additional HTTP methods for webhooks Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6866	Implemented audit logging of usergroup API object API
ZBXNEXT-6830	Implemented audit on server (processing discovered items) Server
ZBXNEXT-6817	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - items, items prototypes, discovery rules) Server
ZBXNEXT-6820	Added utf8mb3 when checking for supported mysql character sets and collations Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6859	Added logging of deleted tokens when deleting a user API
ZBXNEXT-6789	Added template for Travis CI Templates
ZBXNEXT-6800	Implemented complex service status calculation and propagation rules API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6775	Implemented new audit log; added new auditlog to user and token API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6810	Implemented audit on server (processing of LLD rules and discovered hosts) Server
ZBXNEXT-6802	Implemented audit for server (linking templates - host, host prototypes) Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6702	Added {#FSLABEL} macro in item names of the "Windows filesystems by Zabbix agent/agent active" templates, changed vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd] key to vfs.file.cksum[/etc/passwd,sha256] in Unix templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6813	Dropped support of British English as frontend language API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6688	Added new items for Agent and Agent2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6601	Added monoinc() and monodec() functions API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6768	Implemented audit for server (except for linking and LLD) Server
ZBXNEXT-6772	Added new prometheus label matching operators != and !~ Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6470, ZBXNEXT-6715	Made auditlog workable with new auditlog DB structure API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-4029	Implemented password policy support API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-6773	Added new aggregation functions count, exists_foreach and item_count Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-6755	Added support of alerting in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3022	Improved scalability of services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6674	Added tag based mapping of problems in services API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-6528, ZBXNEXT-6669	Moved auditlog calls from frontend sections Images, Proxies, Graphs and Graph prototypes, Services, and Maps to API API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6679	Improved performance of template linking on Zabbix Server Server
ZBXNEXT-284	Added timeout parameter to zabbix_sender and zabbix_get Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19954	Fixed updating of the "subject" and "message" parameters in scheduled reports API
ZBX-19923	Fixed incorrect audit after context name change in host prototype Server
ZBX-19814	Added ignoring final result in case if fping quits on a signal Server
ZBX-19952	Removed libmodbus linkage from server and proxy Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-19914	Fixed Web scenarios fields update during template linking Server
ZBX-19931	Fixed crash on big-endian systems when processing history Proxy Server
ZBX-19440	Added utf-8 support to zbx_set_json_strerror Server
ZBX-19864	Fixed preprocessing of "Checkpoint sync time" item, fixed the regex in preprocessing in the "Ping time" item, fixed SQL request in the "Get transactions" item in "DB PostgreSQL" template Templates
ZBX-19614	Fixed proc.num,proc.cpu.utilization,proc.mem metrics not working properly when compiled with unsupported Go version and improved performance by using functions introduced in Go 1.16 Agent
ZBX-19120	Fixed escaping values in resolved macros in item test form for HTTP items when Request body type is JSON or XML Frontend
ZBX-19850	Fixed unnecessary updates of database records in the report.update() method API
ZBX-19712	Fixed unavailable interface to affect only Zabbix agent checks,SNMP agent checks, IPMI checks and JMX monitoring Proxy Server
ZBX-19635	Fixed build failure when DES is disabled in Net-SNMP or when LTO is used Installation
ZBX-19817	Fixed module config not being stored in database when module is discovered Frontend
ZBX-19675	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 -R windows service crash Agent
ZBX-19865	Fixed typos in "F5 Big-IP SNMP" template Templates
ZBX-19835	Fixed incorrect master item in template "Hikvision camera by HTTP" Templates
ZBX-19849	Fixed a trigger name typo in the "MSSQL by ODBC" template Templates
ZBX-19613	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 redis plugin to closer match redis-cli connection Agent
ZBX-19510	Fixed re-reading of old Windows events for various Windows event system synchronization problems Agent
ZBX-16803	Fixed ability to use Interface Guid in network interface LLD Agent
ZBX-19236	Fixed task manager constantly busy with close_problem task if trigger no longer exists but event still exist Server
ZBX-19581	Fixed untranslated and incorrectly translated strings Frontend
ZBX-18680	Fixed multi-channel notification issue in "Slack" media type Templates
ZBX-19822	Fixed Zabbix server not to populate housekeeper table with tasks that are never deleted when TimescaleDB partitioning is used API Server
ZBX-19623	Fixed Jira Service Desk URL in webhook Templates
ZBX-19857	Dropped support for the non-working option "with_gui_access" in the usergroup.get() method API
ZBX-19395	Changed version in links of the templates and the media 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 6.0.0.

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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development services

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References

Zabbix 6.0 Manual