Release Notes for Zabbix 7.2.1rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.2.1rc1.

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 7.2.1rc1. 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-9545 Added Nvidia by Zabbix agent 2 templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-9572 Added Juniper MX by SNMP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9622 Added top.peak in diaginfo to identify items with highest task queue Proxy Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-25677 Removed failure when encountering mismatched OID in SNMP async poller Proxy Server
ZBX-25722 Fixed Zabbix proxy throwing errors when removing/creating SQLite database Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-25089 Fixed auto registration loop with proxy group Proxy Server
ZBX-25671 Fixed compilation with libevent version below 2.1.6 Server
ZBX-25391 Fixed error in the log file when retrieving VMware tags from an ESXi host Proxy Server
ZBX-25517 Reduced shared memory usage for item tags by storing links in heap Proxy Server
ZBX-25732 Fixed inability to make cross-origin requests to API when passing authentication token using Authorization HTTP header; fixed inability to make cross-origin HTTP OPTIONS request to API endpoint API
ZBX-24895 Changed double quotes to single quotes for string in SQL statement Frontend
ZBX-25363 Fixed connector error spam to log Server
ZBX-24970 Fixed forgotten places for macro functions support Server
ZBX-25515 Improved LLD error messages when being unable to create or update an entity Proxy Server
ZBX-25010 Fixed trigger being displayed in its own dependency list Frontend
ZBX-25321 Dropped relying on pre-2.x libevent API and headers Installation
ZBX-25497 Added support for VMware perfCounter measured in gigabytes Proxy Server
ZBX-25267 Fixed Zabbix agent 2 refusing PSK connections when using PSK and certs Agent
ZBX-23103 Fixed parsing of JSONPath containing dollar sign Server
ZBX-21857 Fixed inconsistencies in auditlog between Zabbix server and Zabbix frontend Server
ZBX-25390 Fixed vfs.fs.get item for Digital Audio CD disks on Windows Agent
ZBX-25022 Fixed copying of master and dependent items to multiple destinations Frontend
ZBX-25136 Fixed item testing preprocessing not being performed on Zabbix proxy when the item itself is being tested on Zabbix proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-25590 Fixed failures to convert double to uint64 in preprocessing Proxy Server
ZBX-25183 Fixed the selected items color of collapsed main menu for high contrast themes Frontend
ZBX-24916 Fixed date/time calculation for numeric (unsigned) item values with unixtime units after the year 2038 Frontend Server
ZBX-25596 Fixed handling of preprocessing history when value type of an item is changed Proxy Server
ZBX-25269 Fixed widget iterator readiness Frontend
ZBX-25350 Prohibited deleting user groups which are used in userdirectory user group mappings API
ZBX-25550 Fixed crash in Zabbix agent when Zabbix server is restarted in the middle of connection Agent
ZBX-25548 Fixed SNMP agent walk and get keys returning non printable ascii as string if hints are missing Proxy Server
ZBX-25551 Fixed preprocessing being skipped during history push if host is monitored by Zabbix proxy Server
ZBX-25377 Fixed crash when executing vfs.fs.size or other metrics and forked metric is terminated abnormally Agent
ZBX-25525 Fixed parent template changes affecting linked template overrides in trigger and trigger prototype forms 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 7.2.1.

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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