Release Notes for Zabbix 7.0.6rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.0.6rc1.

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 7.0.6rc1. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-9404 Enabled usage of the mediatype.get method for users with the User role with a limited field scope API
ZBXNEXT-9249 Added new items and trigger for disk space usage in LXC containers for Proxmox VE by HTTP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9563 Increased the maximum number of lines for widgets displaying data in rows Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9405 Added pagination for collecting VMware events based on free shared memory Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9557 Added Website certificate by Zabbix agent 2 active template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9549 Added active agent templates for LAMP stack monitoring Templates
ZBXNEXT-9382 Added Nutanix template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9532 Updated maximum supported TimescaleDB version to 2.17 Server
ZBXNEXT-9238 Updated maximum supported PostgreSQL version to 17 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9058 Updated VMware Hypervisor template for ability to work as a standalone template Templates

Bug Fixes

ZBX-25322 Fixed action command sending to proxies assigned to proxy group Server
ZBX-25463 Fixed an endless loop in the report manager Server
ZBX-25479 Improved asynchronous pollers to count as busy when maximum capacity has been reached Proxy Server
ZBX-25050 Improved preprocessing manager memory consumption by starting 16 preprocessing workers by default and releasing reserved memory daily Proxy Server
ZBX-25477 Fixed the crash occurring when a calculated item contained large value Server
ZBX-21618 Fixed the layout of multiple list pages when displaying long entity names Frontend
ZBX-25444 Fixed missing maintenance data in maps for map-type elements Frontend
ZBX-24994 Removed UUIDs for host elements in the default data Installation Templates
ZBX-25397 Fixed events not being suppressed during maintenance if a deadlock occurred Server
ZBX-24614 Fixed unidirectional SSL shutdown being performed by both sides resulting in RST packets during communication between Zabbix components Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-25162 Optimized dependent item validation in LLD Server
ZBX-25096 Fixed performance counter query in MSSQL by ODBC template; updated documentation in MSSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-24410 Prevented occasional mismatch of preprocessing step order in inherited items when linking a template to a host API
ZBX-25455 Fixed reserving too much memory for preprocessing and tags in the configuration cache Proxy Server
ZBX-24954 Removed references to GnuTLS from the configuration file Agent
ZBX-25301 Removed redundant message size check on 32-bit platforms when sending TCP message Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-25208 Fixed merging of user macros in the `Inherited and host/template/host prototype macros` mode; fixed resolving of user macros with unquoted conteхt started with "regex:" Frontend
ZBX-24972 Fixed the inability to open links from host-type map elements in a new tab Frontend
ZBX-25305 Fixed the timeout not being applied to Zabbix agent passive checks Proxy Server
ZBX-25024 Updated Zabbix proxy to use history write time instead of the value timestamp when discarding old values Proxy
ZBX-25465 Fixed action notifications with Convert to cause option selected being mixed with other actions Server
ZBX-20767 Removed the unnecessary Discard with heartbeat preprocessing step from discovery rules in Linux and Nextcloud templates Templates
ZBX-23949 Fixed processing of the `host` parameter for trigger prototypes API
ZBX-25273 Fixed the incorrect vertical scale for s-units in graphs Frontend
ZBX-25320 Improved the error message for errors related to dashboard formatting as PDF Server
ZBX-25324 Fixed FreeTDS ODBC login with special characters in the password field Server
ZBX-25034 Fixed discovery rule export issue where host prototypes with template override defined used template’s visible name API
ZBX-20848 Fixed multiselect not suggesting a just-removed record Frontend
ZBX-24528 Prevented SQL errors from being displayed to non-authorized users API Frontend
ZBX-21503 Prevented creation of audit logs for Media type objects on updates without actual changes API Frontend
ZBX-24633 Fixed code error when viewing graph and trigger lists with discovered objects set to expire Frontend
ZBX-25139 Prevented sending of empty query_fields, headers or parameters for item testing Frontend
ZBX-24846 Fixed checking for orphaned maintenances when deleting a host or host group API
ZBX-23676 Fixed incorrect displaying of rebranded sidebar logotypes Frontend
ZBX-25091 Fixed colors of the selected read-only radio buttons Frontend
ZBX-25392 Fixed description of Microsoft 365 reports by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-24698 Fixed loading of SSL certificate and key in the poller process for HTTP agent checks Proxy Server
ZBX-24582 Truncated the error message for testing items with a value type mismatch Server
ZBX-25393 Fixed unwanted page scrolling when editing text in multiline text fields Frontend

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 7.0.6.

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.

References

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