Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.8rc1

18 January 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.8rc1.

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 5.0.8rc1. 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

ZBXCTR-13	Added custom query support for PostgreSQL plugin and template, fixed unix-socket support Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-5862	Added Rocket.Chat media Templates
ZBXNEXT-6389	Added template for NetApp FAS3220 Templates
ZBXNEXT-6419	Added tablespace metrics to Oracle Templates Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-6331	Updated plugins: ceph, docker, memcached, mysql, oracle, redis — unified functionality (parameters describing and parsing, URI parsing, using sessions, errors handling) Agent
ZBXNEXT-6210	Added native support for proc.mem key in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6367	Added metrics to the official MySQL template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6330	Added Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6231	Added Apache ActiveMQ template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6358	Removed detailed information from Reports -> Notifications page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6364	Removed long lists of cloned objects from host and template full clone forms Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-18942	Fixed missing SID valiadion in authentication update route Frontend
ZBX-18893	Changed frontend config file permissions to 0600 Frontend
ZBX-18884	Fixed crash in web monitoring and web.page.* keys when encoding non ASCII characters in URL Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-18865	Fixed dbConditionInt (db.inc.php) returning wrong result in rare cases API Frontend
ZBX-18853	Removed hardcoded teams_endpoint check Templates
ZBX-18556	Fixed gaps in time labels of classic graphs related to DST transitions Frontend
ZBX-16216	Fixed semaphore not being cleaned up when stopping Zabbix agent Agent
ZBX-18815	Fixed displaying incomplete list of inherited trigger tags under rare circumstances Frontend
ZBX-18468	Changed preprocessing for item "PHP-FPM: Ping" in PHP-FPM templates Templates
ZBX-17369	Fixed retrieval of decimal values from WMI Agent
ZBX-18410	Fixed retrieval of Nth most recent values in trigger function strlen Server
ZBX-18722	Fixed runtime error when creating user group without users API
ZBX-18644	Replaced deprecated gethostbyname function with getaddrinfo Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-18802	Fixed close problem task to be deleted when problem event is deleted Server
ZBX-17716	Fixed 'UserParameter' parsing and possible buffer overrun Agent
ZBX-17865	Fixed displaying of long problem names on problems and event pages Frontend
ZBX-18796	Improved update performance of the preprocessing rules in item.update(), itemprototype.update() and discoveryrule.update() methods API
ZBX-17169	Added locale forced to English in userparameter pgsql.ping.time [*] in agent configuration Templates
ZBX-18623	Fixed the global search showing number of objects that user has no permissions Frontend
ZBX-18612	Added error message for when real-time data export file become inaccessible Server
ZBX-18784	Fixed memory leak when handling vmware events Proxy Server
ZBX-18625	Fixed host level tags were not inherited in Trigger -> Tags configuration form 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 5.0.8.

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