Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.8rc1

22 August 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.8rc1.

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 6.0.8rc1. 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-7520

Added template for OPNsense Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-20920	Fixed problem of empty PSK fields sent to audit log when any proxy parameter is updated Frontend
ZBX-20809	Fixed problem with stuck widget action popovers Frontend
ZBX-19747	Fixed inability to delete a template containing an item prototype with a value map, if the template is linked to a host and the discovered item was created API
ZBX-21328	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 log and eventlog items behavior to match Zabbix agent when key has been updated Agent
ZBX-21234	Fixed net.dns to return 0 when server is unreachable in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-21445	Improved performance by only calling res_init() on changed resolv.conf if glibc lower than 2.26 is used Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-21440	Fixed setting of character set for MySQL and MariaDB when utf8 is missing while utf8mb4 is present Proxy Server
ZBX-21342	Fixed sessionStorage not being updated when deleting services Frontend
ZBX-21455	Fixed trigger for uptime in "Proxmox VE by HTTP" template Templates
ZBX-15984	Added hardware uptime in SNMP templates Templates
ZBX-19893	Fixed script parameters updates during linking Server
ZBX-20260	Fixed system.cpu.util unable to get usage data of cores on second NUMA node Agent
ZBX-20975	Fixed PHP TypeError in inaccessible dashboard view Frontend
ZBX-19769	Fixed performance when Host API is filtering records by severity or suppressed problems API
ZBX-19176	Fixed multiple performance issues in map navigation tree widget and map Frontend
ZBX-21041	Fixed broken layout of inherited macros table and added missing column name Frontend
ZBX-21295	Changed system.cpu.load[percpu] to split based on online CPUs in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-18573	Improved performance of directory scanning by Zabbix agent on Windows Agent
ZBX-20889	Fixed special characters in item tags breaking the subfilter in the latest data and graphs Frontend
ZBX-21355	Fixed default regular expression issues when PHP 8.1 is used Frontend
ZBX-19399	Fixed browser error when editing a map navigation widget which hasn't yet been fully loaded Frontend
ZBX-21315	Fixed latest data page freezing in kiosk mode Frontend
ZBX-21165	Fixed max length and trim function for the field Remove domain name Frontend
ZBX-21311	Fixed runtime error for host and host prototype graph preview tabs Frontend
ZBX-20901	Changed host macro in MySQL by Zabbix agent template to use TCP/IP connection method explicitly Templates
ZBX-20931	Fixed automatic type selection in item form Frontend
ZBX-21344	Changed JS preprocessing in Apache by HTTP/Zabbix agent templates to use ServerActive field from status page primarily Templates
ZBX-21135	Added fix to prevent agent from stopping in case of broken Windows performance counters Agent
ZBX-21220	Changed uptime item description, removed uptime trigger in Zookeeper by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-20992	Fixed typos and duplications in templates Templates
ZBX-21300	Fixed high CPU usage when using net.tcp.socket.count key Agent
ZBX-20419	Fixed database deadlocks and MySQL error number calculation to be consistent between logging and recoverability detection logic Server
ZBX-21043	Fixed z-select error when labels have specials chars Frontend
ZBX-20656	Updated active proxy throttling to allow task transfer Server
ZBX-21153	Fixed info collection about access to VMware DS for HV with large number of connected DS Proxy Server
ZBX-19821	Fixed host prototype interface update when linking templates Server
ZBX-4646	Fixed month abbreviation with capital "M" Frontend
ZBX-21333	Fixed housekeeper table usage with disabled housekeeping 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 6.0.8.

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