Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.0alpha1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.0alpha1.

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 5.2.0alpha1. 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-5965 Added support for load balancing by change user session storage driver from file based to encrypted cookies API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6073 Added item log macros support in trigger names, operational data, descriptions, event tags, event values and trigger URL Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-82 Reworked part of parameters from definitions file to configurable parameters using frontend; added new API for settings, authentication, housekeepeing API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-2156 Implemented ability to create hosts without interfaces API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2754 Added YAML as default import/export format API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-250 Added support of global and per-user time zones for frontend, notifications and for time limit when notifications are sent API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3362 Added ability to set the default system language API Frontend Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-18249 Fixed Oracle ODBC Template issues Templates
ZBXNEXT-6052 Added filter and showing additional details in the list of dashboards Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6054 Moved Configuration -> Applications to MVC Frontend
ZBX-17955 Fixed "medias" parameter named inconsistency in user.create and user.update API methods API
ZBX-17548 Don't store text items with history 0 in proxy history Proxy Server

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 5.2.0.

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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