Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.28rc1

12 September 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.28rc1.

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 5.0.28rc1. 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-7868	Backported support of OpenSSL 3.0 Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6666	Added listen socket security fix for Agent 2 on Windows Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-21558	Fixed possible crash in value cache when a new item is being added in low memory situation Server
ZBX-20943	Fixed long hostgroup names in LLD hostgroup prototypes fails 2nd and consequent runs Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-21519	Added note about php-fpm process name in documentation of PHP-FPM by Zabbix agent template Documentation Templates
ZBX-21332	Fixed runtime errors when linking items from two templates that populate same inventory field API
ZBX-21070	Fixed missing discovery rule for a discovered host group and updated links to host prototype API Frontend
ZBX-21304	Fixed ping item preprocessing regex in PHP-FPM templates to be compatible with Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-41474	Fixed shortened tag names with multibyte symbols Frontend
ZBX-21454	Added blocking of rtc signals during script execution Proxy Server
ZBX-21449	Fixed accessibility attributes Frontend
ZBX-18838	Removed non-existent value 'failed' in script.execute response property Frontend

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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 5.0.28.

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 5.0 Manual