Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.29rc2

28 October 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.29rc2.

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 5.0.29rc2. 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-7122

Added detection of compressed chunks in history or trend tables, and warnings that suggest enabling housekeeping overrides accordingly Frontend Server

---

Bug Fixes

ZBX-17300	Fixed handling of context menu in Map builder Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8035	Added override for file system discovery trigger in f5 template Templates
ZBX-21452	Fixed wmi.get* crash of zabbix_agentd for windows Agent
ZBX-21673	Fixed read operations per second preprocessing in Ceph by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-18478	Fixed LDAP test button visibility in user authentication form Frontend
ZBX-21708	Fixed PHP TypeError when opening non-existing dashboard Frontend
ZBX-19224	Added ability to unset headers in web scenario API
ZBX-21562	Fixed maps not working with elements having disabled triggers Frontend
ZBX-21484	Updated documentation for templates SMART by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-21537	Fixed history syncers being stuck waiting on system information being collected Server
ZBX-20296	Fixed swap and available memory trigger functions for os templates Templates
ZBX-20392	Added close/ack/unack of events for OPSgenie media Templates
ZBX-21227	Fixed Zabbix agent to log received service control commands Agent
ZBX-21532	Fixed missing inherited tags for templated triggers in edit form, tag tab Frontend
ZBX-19512	Fixed debug info block content refresh after changing table content in Monitoring -> Problems page Frontend
ZBX-21610	Fixed problem with sysctl() kern.proc.args API bug on FreeBSD <= 8.2 Agent
ZBX-17060	Fixed unexpected interface connection mode change during autoregistration Server
ZBX-21605	Fixed possible PHP runtime errors in several modal popup dialogs Frontend
ZBX-21466	Fixed race condition in Zabbix agent 2 leading to permanently stuck mount reads Agent

---

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 5.0.29.

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

---

References

Zabbix 5.0 Manual