Release Notes for Zabbix 6.0.6rc1

22 June 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.0.6rc1.

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 6.0.6rc1. 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-7813	Updated MariaDB maximum supported version to 10.7 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-7769	Added support of PHP 8.1 to LDAP authentication Frontend
ZBXNEXT-7722	Fixed runtime errors when using Zabbix with PHP 8.1 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6891	Removed mongodb implementation, updated template to work with new plugin Agent Templates
ZBXNEXT-7632	Added template for HPE Primera Templates
ZBXNEXT-7630	Added templates for HPE MSA 2060 and MSA 2040 Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-21145	Changed host, item and trigger tag merging logic during template linking and LLD to reduce database updates Server
ZBX-20638	Fixed handling of DB version higher than supported Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-20750	Fixed excessive escaping of special characters in audit log details, triggers and graphs Server
ZBX-21015	Fixed web scenario tags disappearing from Monitoring -> Hosts -> Web scenario on page autorefresh Frontend
ZBX-20960	Fixed SVG graph widget throwing error when attempting to plot item with valid user macro defined in history storage period Frontend
ZBX-20965	Fixed positioning of change indicator in Item value widget Frontend
ZBX-20994	Fixed access limitation for Oracle DB to list tables accessible to the user Frontend Server
ZBX-21123	Fixed crash when VMware VC was not available at the first moment when starting zabbix_server Proxy Server
ZBX-21044	Fixed JavaScript preprocessing output conversion to utf-8 Server
ZBX-20534	Fixed popup layout for importing when horizontal scroll was not visible Frontend
ZBX-21185	Fixed pattern selector when item name contains square brackets Frontend
ZBX-20669	Fixed focus on fields when clicking on labels Frontend
ZBX-21064	Rewrote pcre.m4 and pcre2.m4 file Installation
ZBX-20029	Fixed deprecated keys in IIS by Zabbix agent templates Templates
ZBX-18035	Updated README.md for Slack and Mattermost media types Documentation
ZBX-21199	Fixed space utilization items in HPE MSA 2040 and 2060 templates Templates
ZBX-20861	Fixed incorrect naming of web scenario items after upgrade Installation
ZBX-20847	Fixed inability to attach any host groups after removing already attached ones Frontend
ZBX-20233	Fixed handling of empty configuration parameters $ZBX_SERVER and $ZBX_SERVER_PORT the same as if they were not defined API Frontend
ZBX-21163	Fixed "Host inventory overview" page behavior when selected host group was removed Frontend
ZBX-20854	Fixed missing headers in Columns field in Top hosts widget configuration form Frontend
ZBX-21143	Changed API URL in Express.ms media type to a new version Templates
ZBX-20914	Fixed wrong calculation of calculated item formulas Server
ZBX-20875	Fixed filter condition for job discovery rule in MSSQL by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-21146	Fixed item key in NTP service template Templates
ZBX-20565	Fixed visibility of placeholder text in host prototype edit form Frontend
ZBX-20985	Fixed notifications summary for MS Teams media type Templates
ZBX-21137	Fixed VMware collector crash related to datastore state disconnected from all HVs Proxy Server
ZBX-20628	Removed system metrics from PFSense template Templates
ZBX-21136	Fixed value type for checksum of /etc/passwd item in FreeBSD template Templates
ZBX-20903	Removed duplicate in Windows services discovery filter regexp Templates
ZBX-18652	Fixed data overview discrepancy between host location top and left Frontend
ZBX-21111	Fixed HA manager stopping Server
ZBX-20105	Removed bogus dependency on libxml2 from agent Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-21066	Fixed libopenssl.m4 when dealing with lib/64 in openssl 3 Installation

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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 6.0.6.

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