Release Notes for Zabbix 5.2.5

22 February 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.2.5.

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 5.2.5. Download it from 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-6385	Added template "Apache Ignite by JMX" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6301	Extended set of collected VMware metrics for VM and HV Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6339	Added smart plugin to support S.M.A.R.T monitoring in Zabbix Agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6437	Added native support for system.sw.packages plugin in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6306	Added native linux support for key vm.memory.size in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6443	Added sha256() function to JavaScript preprocessing Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5809	Added VictorOps media Templates
ZBXNEXT-6395	Added template "Jenkins by HTTP" Templates
ZBXNEXT-6386	Raised javascript heap limit from 10 megabytes to 64 megabytes; fixed memory leak when heap limit is reached Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6441	Added function to configure HTTP authentication for embedded scripts Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6183	Added md5 checksum computation to preprocessing Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-6399	Added support of host and item macros for Script item parameters Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19025	Fixed usage of LIMIT in SQL in user.update and user.delete API API
ZBX-19029	Fixed Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy not remembering last log size when preprocessing is used Proxy Server
ZBX-17543	Fixed error in case if wmi.getall returned no items Agent
ZBX-18377	Fixed expression in "Memory usage is too high" trigger of "Template DB Redis" Templates
ZBX-18886	Implemented proper resource cleanup when sender terminates by signal Agent
ZBX-18963	Fixed preprocessing for archivelog items in Oracle Templates Templates
ZBX-18741	Fixed numeric value encountered Frontend
ZBX-18825	Fixed last year period calculation in service availability report daily mode Frontend
ZBX-18638	Removed triggers of the "Temperature" items, added the "Temperature sensor condition" items with triggers, removed unnecessary macros Templates
ZBX-18720	Fixed full clone of discovered host having duplicate interfaces Frontend
ZBX-18449	Reworked trigger API validation API
ZBX-18887	Fixed user session expiration when notification checks are performed in background Frontend
ZBX-18209	Fixed RegEx delimiter not being escaped in macro resolver Frontend
ZBX-18817	Fixed missing API and import validation for "unsupported check" preprocessing step API Frontend
ZBX-18237	Fixed problem description icon in Monitoring->Problems in compact view mode being displayed above problem name Frontend
ZBX-18945	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 build Raspbian 10 Agent
ZBX-18309	Fixed reading log files with NULL character in log line Agent
ZBX-18872	Fixed system.sw.os[name] for cases without quotation mark in /etc/os-release Agent
ZBX-18885	Fixed SNMP agent item not accepting values that are bigger than 2KB Proxy Server
ZBX-18874	Fixed incorrect links in templates and webhooks documentation Templates

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 5.2.5.

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 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 5.2 Manual