Release Notes for Zabbix 6.2.8rc1

20 February 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.2.8rc1.

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 6.2.8rc1. 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-8012	Implemented API token authentication in user.checkAuthentication method API
ZBXNEXT-8204	Added support of PHP 8.2 API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22589	Added new limits for JS objects Proxy Server
ZBX-22588	Fixed unauthorised file system access when using cURL Proxy Server
ZBX-22587	Fixed JSON validation not detecting invalid unicode characters and out of bounds access with JSONPath on invalid unicode character Proxy Server
ZBX-22240	Fixed selects of history, trends blocking drop_chunks and housekeeping Server
ZBX-22320	Fixed success message when disabling hosts in host groups Frontend
ZBX-22078	Fixed the crash in calculated items when using tag filter on 32-bit systems Server
ZBX-21591	Optimized JSONPaths in the Nginx Plus template Templates
ZBX-21739	Fixed discover status not being updated for templated graph prototype API Frontend
ZBX-21764	Fixed misplaced error messages in the edit forms for host groups and template groups Frontend
ZBX-19202	Fixed template dashboard availability to users without permissions to the templates API
ZBX-22189	Fixed Zabbix server crash appearing when only item tags change between LLD runs Server
ZBX-21591	Optimized Nginx Plus by HTTP template to spread the load across worker porcesses Templates
ZBX-22032	Added the cookie engine to HTTP checks Proxy Server
ZBX-21597	Optimized Remote Zabbix server health template to spread the load across worker processes, updated descriptions Templates
ZBX-21602	Optimized Zabbix server health template to spread the load across worker processes, updated descriptions 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 6.2.8.

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 6.2 Manual