Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.16rc2

14 June 2024

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.16rc2.

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 6.4.16rc2. 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-9140	Added support for custom compartments in Oracle Cloud by HTTP templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-9034	Added Jira Data Center by JMX template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8682	Introduced a length limit of 512KB for item test values that server returns to Zabbix frontend Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-24588	Fixed CyberArk Vault connection with no certificates Frontend
ZBX-24560	Fixed {HOST.DNS} and {HOST.IP} not being resolved if empty Server
ZBX-24483	Improved memory usage in Zabbix server/proxy trappers and in proxy pollers when sending large configuration Proxy Server
ZBX-23073	Fixed URL widget resizing and dragging Frontend
ZBX-23435	Fixed missing alert message about unsaved changes in nested modal forms Frontend
ZBX-24574	Fixed HA node flipping between standby and active states Server
ZBX-24119	Fixed possible blocking of alert manager when it periodically pings database Server
ZBX-24402	Reduced main process connections to database during startup Proxy Server
ZBX-7998	Added VMware service username, password and URL check for empty values Proxy Server
ZBX-24369	Fixed filter behavior in monitoring pages after deleting filter parameters Frontend
ZBX-24484	Fixed Geomap widget console error when dragging map in widget edit mode Frontend
ZBX-24370	Fixed errors on LDAP configuration page when removing provisioned media mapping Frontend
ZBX-23337	Improved supported version documentation for Zabbix agent 2 Oracle plugin and both templates Documentation
ZBX-24180	Fixed inability to import existing host or template when its dependent item prototype, which is used in trigger prototypes or graph prototypes, would have a different master item API
ZBX-24362	Fixed wrong Zabbix agent 2 loadable plugin process handling catching all child process exits Agent
ZBX-24276	Fixed inconsistency when opening map element URLs Frontend
ZBX-24527	Fixed unnecessary loading text being displayed in hintbox preloader Frontend
ZBX-24540	Fixed crash when expanding host interface macros on main Zabbix agent interface Proxy Server
ZBX-24470	Fixed scale of vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed key Proxy Server
ZBX-24415	Added triggers for datastores in VMware templates Templates
ZBX-18094	Fixed multiple pie graph issues related to calculation of item angles Frontend
ZBX-20766	Fixed confusing port binding error message Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-24481	Fixed inability to unset value map from existing item or item prototype by passing a version without valuemap parameter into configuration.import API
ZBX-24531	Fixed compile time data not being set for agent2 Agent
ZBX-23690	Optimized maintenance calculations for large number of hosts and maintenances Server
ZBX-24453	Implemented socket file cleanup when shutting down, added blocking of signals during important stages of startup Proxy Server
ZBX-24152	Fixed host form submission with Enter button if the form is opened in a popup and focus is in a flexible text area field Frontend
ZBX-23788	Added SNMP OID ifAlias in Network interfaces discovery Templates
ZBX-24482	Fixed the presence of the http_proxy field in the initial data Installation
ZBX-25015	Fixed information exposure in System information widget for users without proper permissions Frontend Server
ZBX-25011	Fixed access for non-admin user to options of installed MSI Installation
ZBX-25012	Implemented phone number validation check to avoid AT commands injection Server
ZBX-25013	Fixed exploit to read files using SMS Server
ZBX-25017	Fixed sensitive data exposure from audit log API
ZBX-25018	Removed direct pointer access in custom javascript objects 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 6.4.16.

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 6.4 Manual