Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.18rc1

22 November 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.18rc1.

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 5.0.18rc1. 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-6593	Added support of persistent files for restoring log item state after agent restart Frontend Agent
ZBXNEXT-6651	Added new item agent.variant for Agent and Agent2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6677	Added cpu percent field to docker.container_stats key for docker plugin in Zabbix agent 2 and docker template Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-7014	Updated README for a newer version of PagerDuty Templates
ZBXNEXT-2475	Added handling of compressed content to web monitoring Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6782	Added new parameters for system.hostname Agent
ZBXNEXT-6677	Added cpu percent field to docker.container_stats key for docker plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6608	Added support for vmware key named 'vmware.hv.sensors.get' Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6644	Added support for vmware key named 'vmware.hv.maintenance' Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19514	Fixed disc utilization metric for windows discs discovery Templates
ZBX-20177	Added acknowledgeid index for alerts table Server
ZBX-19587	Fixed Zabbix Java gateway error message when object or attribute is not found Java gateway
ZBX-20176	Fixed trigger not being calculated for first value when item changes state to supported; fixed build failure when DES is disabled in Net-SNMP; fixed tests on big-endian systems Installation Server
ZBX-20150	Fixed special characters escaping in markdown parsing of the Telegram media type Templates
ZBX-19926	Fixed Zabbix agent crashing when reading event log on Windows Server 2022 Agent
ZBX-20080	Fixed error message Templates
ZBX-20003	Fixed update and discard intervals in generic snmp and some other templates Templates
ZBX-18787	Removed undefined macro Templates
ZBX-20032	Fixed server crash when restarting monitored vmware vc Proxy Server
ZBX-19963	Fixed macro with regular expression for serial numbers discovery in cisco template Templates
ZBX-19912	Fixed mysql.db.size, mysql.replication.get_slave_status and pgsql.custom.query items for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-19958	Fixed macro with regular expression for interfaces discovery in OS linux templates Templates
ZBX-18975	Fixed item value being truncated in item test form Frontend
ZBX-19958	Fixed macro with regular expression for interfaces discovery in OS linux template Templates
ZBX-20065	Fixed count() function gt,ge,lt,le operations Server
ZBX-18611	Fixed division by zero error due to small graph size when using gradient lines Frontend
ZBX-20079	Fixed web scenarios import / export error when authentication method is kerberos API
ZBX-18988	Added vm.vmemory.size metric to Zabbix agent 2 for Windows Agent
ZBX-19569	Changed linked template "Zabbix agent" to "Zabbix agent active" in templates "Windows by Zabbix agent active" and "Linux by Zabbix agent active" Templates
ZBX-18554	Fixed MSSQL by ODBC README Templates
ZBX-19872	Removed redundant escaping in XML data of HTTP agent POST request Server
ZBX-19920	Changed setup instruction in README of the "IIS by Zabbix agent" template Templates
ZBX-19237	Changed condition in SQL request of pgsql.connections.sum.waiting item in DB PostgreSQL template to exclude rows with idle state Templates
ZBX-20019	Fixed README file in Oracle by Zabbix Agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-19760	Fixed interface operstate valuemap in the linux templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-6708	Fixed 3rd parameter for Zabbix agent 2 web.certificate.get plugin Agent
ZBX-20017	Added new metrics, fixed update intervals in the "F5 Big-IP" template Templates

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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 5.0.18.

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