Release Notes for Zabbix 5.0.1rc1

18 May 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.0.1rc1.

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 5.0.1rc1. 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-5902	Added Spiceworks integration guide Templates
ZBXNEXT-5922	Increased max configuration cache size limit to 64GB Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1839	Added LLD for perf_counter; thanks to Ryan Armstrong for the patch Agent
ZBXNEXT-5657	Added media "OTRS" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5838	Added win perf_instance.discovery and perf_instance_en.discovery to agent2 Agent
ZBXCTR-2	Added agent2 PostgreSQL plugin and template Agent
ZBXCTR-6	Added two way functionality for acknowledgement, close and annotation with SIGNL4 Templates
ZBXNEXT-5880	Added component version item to server and proxy remote monitoring templates Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-3035	Fixed lld override validation and visualization; fixed discover control in prototype edit forms API Frontend
ZBX-17711	Added double.sql file to source distribution tarball Installation
ZBX-16162	Reverted fix graph line interruptions when discarding values with heartbeat Frontend
ZBX-17227	Fixed 4-byte utf-8 sequence handling in embedded scripts Proxy Server
ZBX-17689	Fixed issue with trigger for service status Templates
ZBX-17607	Fixed unreachable poller being too busy due to SNMP checks being attempted twice at a time Proxy Server
ZBX-17595	Fixed latest data all applications expansion with every refresh Frontend
ZBX-17662	Fixed a failing query when updating existing host prototypes Server
ZBX-17482	Fixed selected menu item appearance upon opening screens of any host Frontend
ZBX-17555	Fixed error message box position Frontend
ZBX-17629	Fixed markup in User Media popup Frontend
ZBX-16347	Increased TimescaleDB chunk interval for trends and trends_uint to 1 month Installation
ZBX-17747	Fixed javascript preprocessing output variable initialization to not trigger false positive memory allocation warning Proxy Server
ZBX-17684	Implemented host preselection in filter graph fields in Monitoring -> Hosts -> Graphs section Frontend
ZBX-17553	Fixed notification window location Frontend
ZBX-17728	Fix invalid memory size in evaluate_macro_function() Server
ZBX-17109	Fixed agent request parameter type parsing Server
ZBX-17733	Fixed web.page.get,web.page,web.page.regexp keys on Zabbix agent2 not to verify server's certificate chain and host name
ZBX-17470	Fixed element of filters is not focused on several pages Frontend
ZBX-17267	Fixed start time data loading in Maintenance edit form Frontend
ZBX-17643	Fixed acknowledge option in context menu on Problems page Frontend
ZBX-17550	Fixed log level check in case of DebugLevel=0 Agent
ZBX-17280	Fixed runtime error in action operations Frontend
ZBX-17678	Removed unused code left from mbedTLS support Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-17691	Fixed server crashes on regexp preprocessing Server
ZBX-15484	Shadow global auto_increment variables for MySQL 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 5.0.1.

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 5.0 Manual