Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.13

1 February 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.13.

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 6.0.13. 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-8170	Added AWS cloud templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7923	Added templates for BMC Control-M integration Templates
ZBXNEXT-7775	Added Veeam backup and replication templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8054	Updated MariaDB maximum supported version to 10.10 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7951	Implemented configuration import improvements API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8112	Added Line media type Templates
ZBXNEXT-8197	Added TimescaleDB v2.9.x support Server
ZBXNEXT-7962	Fixed interfaces discovery rules in OPNsense, PFSense and TrueNAS templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-7615	Added hmac function for JavaScript Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7977	Added Azure Microsoft SQL templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8076	Added prof_enable and prof_disable commands for profiling Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7963	Added a hint box to the "Enable HTTP authentication" field; added confirmation dialog box for enabling HTTP authentication Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7886	Added Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6119	Added the option to retrieve all JSON data from docker.container_info key in Zabbix agent 2 Docker plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-7834	Added templates for Microsoft Azure and Azure virtual machines Templates
ZBXNEXT-8058	Reduced locking between history syncers, trappers and proxy pollers Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22149	Fixed wrong escaping in trigger expression during upgrade and escaping as a workaround for calculated items Server
ZBX-22061	Fixed custom query parameter read on an empty parameter for Oracle plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21227	Improved error logging during agent start as a Windows service Agent
ZBX-22178	Fixed action operations being executed on the current host only if a host group is selected Server
ZBX-22189	Fixed LLD Zabbix server crash Server
ZBX-21538	Fixed history.get API method blocking drop_chunks requests during housekeeping API
ZBX-21956	Fixed severity sign overlapping trigger name in the map element configuration Frontend
ZBX-22215	Fixed incorrectly quoted function parameter parsing Server
ZBX-22043	Fixed the crash when array index in JSONPath is negative or large Proxy Server
ZBX-22118	Fixed remote command execution sequence in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21556	Updated Etcd by HTTP template to comply with Etcd v3.5 Templates
ZBX-22133	Fixed closed pipe detection for communication with plugins in Windows Agent
ZBX-21936	Fixed actions not being displayed in the Action log widget Frontend
ZBX-22164	Fixed quote and unquote methods for trigger functions Frontend
ZBX-21254	Removed kernel.maxproc from the processes graph in Linux by Zabbix agent templates Templates
ZBX-21754	Improved value cache warmup when retrieving two last values with 1 day update interval Server
ZBX-22077	Fixed Sign out link not working consistently in Mozilla Firefox Frontend
ZBX-21862	Updated tablespaces query for Oracle plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21665	Fixed SMART plugin infinite loop for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-19138	Fixed Redis plugin configuration in Zabbix agent 2 configuration files Agent
ZBX-21592	Moved some static items under LLD rules to optimize Oracle by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-21069	Fixed SNMP max_vars not backing off when generr is received Proxy Server
ZBX-21889	Fixed warnings being displayed even after enabling overrides for trends or history tables with compressed chunks Frontend
ZBX-21563	Changed the order in which escalation steps and recovery operations are executed Frontend Server
ZBX-22017	Fixed map navigation tree widget inability to save the order when the depth levels get changed Frontend
ZBX-21961	Removed the unnecessary "Command:" label for message actions on the Event details page Frontend
ZBX-21783	Fixed Zabbix JS timeout validation
ZBX-21720	Fixed trends function cache size estimation and overallocation handling Server
ZBX-21713	Fixed retrieval of the numeric column width when Oracle DB is used Proxy Server
ZBX-22126	Fixed trends being deleted from cache and retrieved from the database when data older than 1 hour is received Server
ZBX-22075	Fixed crash when Elasticsearch is used Proxy Server
ZBX-21890	Fixed config.dbversion_status containing second empty object on PostgreSQL without TSDB Server
ZBX-22138	Fixed inability to delete a group from the host prototype API
ZBX-21950	Updated script item to not require host interface during template linkage Server
ZBX-21540	Moved some static items under LLD rules to improve performance in Oracle by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21073	Added support of Int8Array(), Buffer() and also duktape plain buffers in md5, sha256 and hmac function parameters Proxy Server
ZBX-22071	Extended description for OPSGenie media type Templates
ZBX-20845	Fixed SNMP interface availability in case of wrong credentials Proxy Server
ZBX-21587	Added metrics for optimizing dependent items preprocessing in Jenkins template Templates
ZBX-21441	Added an override to skip metadata collection on zfs and btrfs for Nix templates Templates
ZBX-22016	Fixed host.get API method not returning any results for hosts with no interfaces when filtering by "hostid" API
ZBX-21927	Fixed a crash on Oracle database when connection is lost Proxy Server
ZBX-21300	Fixed high CPU usage when using net.tcp.socket.count key on Windows Agent
ZBX-21793	Fixed error message for "diaginfo" runtime command Server
ZBX-22042	Fixed inability to get the existing group prototypes by hostprototype.get API method when using Oracle database API
ZBX-21221	Increased character limit of task_result.info Installation
ZBX-21696	Fixed Windows agent 2 Unicode path support for log* items Agent
ZBX-21903	Fixed agent 2 timeout behavior for net.tcp.port item Agent
ZBX-21039	Fixed Readme in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template Templates
ZBX-21922	Fixed expression macros to use corresponding item keys Server
ZBX-21806	Fixed fatal PHP error in case incorrect variable type for controller action is given Frontend
ZBX-21753	Fixed graphs not loading in kiosk mode Frontend
ZBX-20413	Fixed the behavior of paging when a filter or a sub-filter is applied Frontend
ZBX-21206	Updated plugin support dependency for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20356	Updated Zabbix agent 2 to remove and re-add performance counters on failed collection and to keep a query always open Agent
ZBX-21296	Updated Oracle plugin, Oracle ODBC and agent 2 template documentation grant select variables and added a new grant Agent Templates
ZBX-21595	Optimized RabbitMQ node templates Templates
ZBX-21884	Changed system.sw.packages[<package>,<manager>,<format>] to system.sw.packages[<regexp>,<manager>,<format>] Frontend
ZBX-21594	Optimized RabbitMQ cluster templates Templates
ZBX-20050	Fixed broken macro value and type input when changing to/from inherited macros Frontend
ZBX-21864	Fixed the fatal error in system warning page Frontend
ZBX-20110	Added single field search option to the archive.info, ts.stats, pdb.info, cdb.info and diskgroups.stats keys in Zabbix agent 2 Oracle plugin
ZBX-21373	Fixed the agent sometimes crashing when enumerating system processes on OpenBSD Agent

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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 6.0.13.

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