Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.8

31 October 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.8.

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 6.4.8. 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-8552	Added FortiGate by SNMP and FortiGate by HTTP templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8727	Added additional metrics in Cisco Meraki organization by HTTP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-7097	Added item and trigger for monitoring PostgreSQL version into PostgreSQL by ODBC and PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8283	Implemented role-based authentication for AWS monitoring Templates
ZBXNEXT-8575	Added Nextcloud template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8469	Increased PostgreSQL maximum supported version to 16 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8714	Increased MariaDB maximum supported version to 11.1 Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-23576	Fixed group condition in calculated item in case when there is template group with same name as host group Server
ZBX-23173	Fixed memory leak in agent 2 for Windows Events processing on MS Windows Agent
ZBX-23563	Fixed JSONPath for rowshare locks metric in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-22907	Removed unused LLD macro in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent template Templates
ZBX-23539	Fixed missing filesystem label macro in Windows by Zabbix agent templates, added discard to filesystems discovery Templates
ZBX-23377	Added support for VMware perfCounter with nanosecond type Proxy Server
ZBX-23012	Possible optimization of the SQL queries when updating LLD items Server
ZBX-23325	Fixed ability to add duplicate ICMP ping checks to discovery rule configuration form via popup Frontend
ZBX-23270	Renamed trigger name condition to event name condition API Frontend Server
ZBX-23340	Fixed TLS parameter handling in MySQL plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-23528	Fixed inability to resize trigger expression field horizontally Frontend
ZBX-23259	Fixed field focus on label click in user group mapping form for user authentication Frontend
ZBX-22977	Fixed positioning of hidden checkbox inputs and fixed autofocus in template/host mass update Frontend
ZBX-23475	Fixed memory leak when SNMP walk to JSON preprocessing step fails due to parsing error Proxy Server
ZBX-23494	Added SNMP fallback item to TrueNAS by SNMP template, updated uptime item and template descriptions, added preprocessing to free swap percentage calculation Templates
ZBX-23101	Added asterisk to description field label in Item value widget Frontend
ZBX-23404	Fixed Zabbix agent crashes on HP-UX 11.23 Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-22666	Disabled severity filter for Geomap widget in dashboard edit mode Frontend
ZBX-23200	Fixed parsing NULL values, multiline strings and quoted strings in SNMP walk output Proxy Server
ZBX-22735	Fixed confusing error message on user parameter reload in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-23393	Fixed unquoted macro parsing in trigger function parameters Server
ZBX-23064	Simplified trend synchronization queries to improve performance Server
ZBX-23373	Fixed result for script.get API call with selectActions option API
ZBX-23014	Fixed Zabbix agent build on HP-UX Agent
ZBX-23164	Added timespan parameter in JavaScript Cisco Meraki template Templates
ZBX-23455	Fixed inconsistency in button naming, confirmation messages, success and error messages in item and web scenario list pages Frontend
ZBX-20038	Fixed master host parameter for MySQL replication.get_slave_status key in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-23301	Removed checks for PostgreSQL-TimescaleDB versions combination Frontend Server
ZBX-23454	Fixed runtime errors while resolving macros in the trigger URL name Frontend
ZBX-23211	Fixed host dashboard view for multi-page dashboard where the first page is empty Frontend
ZBX-23427	Fixed trends not being calculated Server
ZBX-23857	Remove group/all access flags when creating fping input file for testing fping features 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 6.4.8.

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 6.4 Manual