Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.2

25 April 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.2.

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 6.4.2. 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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Breaking Changes

ZBX-22465

moved PSK file creation step to be performed before registering Agent service on Windows

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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-8334	Added Event-Driven Ansible media Templates
ZBXNEXT-8394	Created separate proxy compatibility triggers in Zabbix health templates, removed unnecessary dependencies Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22718	Fixed memory leak in json objects and identical keys Proxy Server
ZBX-22719	Fixed replace() function in expressions Proxy Server
ZBX-22727	Fixed crash in expression parser Frontend Server
ZBX-22720	Dropped support for custom geomap HTML attribution text Frontend
ZBX-22376	Fixed warning alert when deleting host or template groups on standalone pages Frontend
ZBX-22615	Fixed master item error handling when processing dependent items Proxy Server
ZBX-22595	Fixed template items' context menu Frontend
ZBX-22521	Added debug logging for process selection in proc.mem[] on AIX Agent
ZBX-22492	Removed size limitation for logged messages in JS Server
ZBX-22609	Fixed issue where the last LDAP server could be removed when LDAP authentication is still enabled API Frontend
ZBX-22373	Updated go.mod/sum to allow mixing session and key parameter for Zabbix agent 2 items Agent
ZBX-22241	Fixed minimum severity filter usage for map element link triggers Frontend
ZBX-22194	Fixed inability to import a template with trigger dependency on a host trigger API
ZBX-19375	Prevented the ability to set duplicate values for the "uuid" parameter when updating any of template entities; added the ability to update the "uuid" parameter for the Service API API
ZBX-21583	Optimized preprocessing steps and added two graphs and dashboard in the Hadoop by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21603	Optimized preprocessing steps in the Zookeeper by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-21589	Optimized SQL queries and preprocessing steps Templates
ZBX-22635	Fixed authentication for SCIM requests API
ZBX-22641	Updated deprecated ports in Kubernetes templates, updated target tags, added notes about binding address options for Scheduler and Cluster Manager components Templates
ZBX-22597	Resolved issue with LDAP group membership mapping not matching case-insensitive entries Frontend
ZBX-22538	Fixed popup menus disappearing on right-clicking links in them Frontend
ZBX-22363	Added support for item and item_preproc table fields to be either nvarchar or nclob API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-22306	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 crash caused by exhausted file descriptors Agent
ZBX-21013	Hid options "Create new template/host groups" for unprivileged users in the Import form Frontend
ZBX-22219	Added validation to the "Server" IP/DNS option in the configuration of Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-22553	Fixed authentication.update not allowing to remove deprovisioning group without unchecking inactive SAML/LDAP JIT provisioning API
ZBX-22304	Fixed duplication in web scenario error message, when curl could not resolve host Proxy Server
ZBX-21577	Added extra master item prototype to reduce preprocessing worker utilization Templates
ZBX-22432	Fixed different severity paddings in triggers popups and maps triggers Frontend
ZBX-20084	Fixed VMware parameters display Frontend
ZBX-22331	Fixed messages during graph prototype discovery updates Frontend
ZBX-20699	Fixed inability to import host prototypes with SNMPv3 interfaces; enabled supplying 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 inability to remove group links or group prototypes from a host prototype of a linked template API Frontend
ZBX-22210	Fixed selected count when using filter and filtered parameter is changed in the popup Frontend
ZBX-22499	Fixed issue where the last remaining action condition could not be removed Frontend
ZBX-22533	Fixed debug section overlapping with 'Add new widget' placeholder in dashboard Frontend
ZBX-22502	Fixed collapsible arrow behavior in the template import diff popup Frontend
ZBX-22455	Added check for numeric value in value mapping Frontend
ZBX-22585	Fixed spacing from dialog top to header in the widget configuration form Frontend
ZBX-22206	Fixed issue with incorrect padding in multiselect popup for contrast dark and light stylesheets Frontend
ZBX-22487	Fixed incorrect documentation link in the Connector create view Frontend
ZBX-22161	Fixed missing documentation links on template groups list and edit/update pages Frontend
ZBX-22245	Fixed inaccessible widget name issue Frontend
ZBX-22272	Fixed checkbox selection issue when clicking on labels in problem mass update Frontend
ZBX-22391	Fixed decimal places of processes in the Dashboard global view Frontend
ZBX-18527	Fixed markup issue for the Type of calculation expression field 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 6.4.2.

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 6.4 Manual