Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.26rc1

22 January 2024

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.26rc1.

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 6.0.26rc1. 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-8891	Updated max supported MySQL version to 8.2 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-8524	Added support for HTTP proxy in GCP templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8759	Added dashboards in Azure templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8580	Added new discovery rules, refactored discovery rules to dependent items and made few minor changes in MSSQL by ODBC template Templates
ZBXNEXT-8730	Added Azure Cost Management by HTTP template Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22371	Fixed process tags option not adding tags for service events Server
ZBX-17208	Fixed invalid command-line flag handling in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-23937	Fixed JavaScript for AWS EC2 instances discovery Templates
ZBX-22715	Fixed map shape dimension changes on resizing in scaled browser mode Frontend
ZBX-23722	Added garbage collection after executing JavaScript code Proxy Server
ZBX-23740	Fixed netsnmp persistent state disabling without affecting its configuration Proxy Server
ZBX-23257	Fixed log items not using MaxLinesPerSecond setting correctly for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-23890	Removed non-existing headers from compiler checks: mtent.h and knlist.h Agent
ZBX-23912	Removed Jira with CustomFields media type in data.tmpl Templates
ZBX-23761	Fixed JavaScript in Jira media type Templates
ZBX-22558	Fixed trigger expression for retrieval of stub page in Nginx templates Templates
ZBX-23691	Fixed LLD filters evaluation type for devices discovery in Cisco SD-WAN by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-23540	Added error checks for RegisterMetrics calls Agent
ZBX-23605	Removed getting location buckets in AWS by HTTP template; added discovery filters for request metrics in AWS S3 bucket by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-23466	Fixed data aggregation errors in Graphs and Top hosts widgets with Elasticsearch backend Frontend
ZBX-23835	Updated Meraki templates Templates
ZBX-23723	Fixed proxy params in JavaScript AWS templates Templates
ZBX-23733	Fixed error when downloading graph as .png image if item name contains multibyte characters Frontend
ZBX-22983	Fixed ellipsed dropdown options in items mass update in preprocessing Frontend
ZBX-23715	Fixed persistent directory path not following symlinks upon creation Agent
ZBX-23825	Fixed query_fields values for Acronis and Nomand templates Templates
ZBX-22055	Fixed map image of map widget not being updated when pressing Apply button Frontend
ZBX-23629	Fixed interface icon cursor to pointer Frontend
ZBX-22536	Fixed TimescaleDB compression detection for history.clear API method and proper error appearance in frontend API Frontend
ZBX-23145	Disabled deprecated automatic reconnection in MySQL Proxy Server
ZBX-22933	Improved vfs.file.regmatch and vfs.file.regexp items to use buffered file read Agent
ZBX-23439	Fixed sorting of numeric items with/without aggregation enabled in Top hosts widget Frontend
ZBX-21973	Changed deprecated X-Frame option allow-from to Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors Frontend
ZBX-23633	Fixed service alarms to be recovered with problem time in case of negative problem duration Server
ZBX-23738	Fixed Zabbix backend sources for libxml2 2.12.0 version changes Proxy Server
ZBX-23746	Fixed creation of tickets during escalation for Zammad media type Templates
ZBX-23561	Fixed spacing between filter and results table Frontend
ZBX-18873	Fixed disabled chevrons color in problem view Frontend
ZBX-23636	Fixed some fields in Administration section not being trimmed on form submit 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 6.0.26.

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