Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.16rc1

5 April 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.16rc1.

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 6.0.16rc1. 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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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22306	Fixed the crash in Zabbix agent 2 when running out of available file descriptors Agent
ZBX-21013	Hid the option "Create new groups" for unprivileged users in the Import form Frontend
ZBX-22219	Added validation to the "Server" IP/DNS option in the Zabbix agent 2 configuration Agent
ZBX-22627	Fixed loss of preprocessing result when step with delta is used Server
ZBX-22304	Fixed duplication in web scenario error messages when curl cannot resolve host Proxy Server
ZBX-21577	Added an extra master item prototype to the Elasticsearch Cluster by HTTP template to reduce preprocessing worker utilization Templates
ZBX-20084	Fixed VMware parameters display Frontend
ZBX-20699	Fixed the inability to import host prototypes containing SNMPv3 interface; allowed to supply conditional parameters with default values to hostprototype.create and hostprototype.update API methods when the parameters have no effect; added audit logging of changes to host prototypes when unlinking a template; fixed the inability to remove group links or group prototypes from a host prototype of a linked template API Frontend
ZBX-22432	Fixed different severity paddings in trigger popups and maps triggers Frontend
ZBX-22210	Fixed selected count when using filter and filtered parameter is changed in a popup Frontend
ZBX-22533	Fixed debug section overlapping with 'Add new widget' placeholder in the dashboard Frontend
ZBX-22331	Fixed messages when updating graph prototype discovery Frontend
ZBX-22455	Added a check for numeric value in value mapping Frontend
ZBX-22206	Fixed incorrect padding in multiselect popup contrast dark and light stylesheets Frontend
ZBX-18527	Fixed the markup for Type of calculation expression field Frontend
ZBX-22363	Added support for item and item_preproc table fields to be either nvarchar or nclob API Frontend Installation Proxy Server

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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 6.0.16.

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 6.0 Manual