Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.8

31 October 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.8.

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 6.4.8. Download it from download.

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-8552	Added FortiGate by SNMP and FortiGate by HTTP templates
ZBXNEXT-8727	Added additional metrics in Cisco Meraki organization by HTTP template
ZBXNEXT-7097	Added item and trigger for monitoring PostgreSQL version into PostgreSQL by ODBC and PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 templates
ZBXNEXT-8283	Implemented role-based authentication for AWS monitoring
ZBXNEXT-8575	Added Nextcloud template
ZBXNEXT-8469	Increased PostgreSQL maximum supported version to 16
ZBXNEXT-8714	Increased MariaDB maximum supported version to 11.1

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-23576	Fixed group condition in calculated item in case when there is template group with same name as host group
ZBX-23173	Fixed memory leak in agent 2 for Windows Events processing on MS Windows
ZBX-23563	Fixed JSONPath for rowshare locks metric in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 template
ZBX-22907	Removed unused LLD macro in PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent template
ZBX-23539	Fixed missing filesystem label macro in Windows by Zabbix agent templates, added discard to filesystems discovery
ZBX-23377	Added support for VMware perfCounter with nanosecond type
ZBX-23012	Possible optimization of the SQL queries when updating LLD items
ZBX-23325	Fixed ability to add duplicate ICMP ping checks to discovery rule configuration form via popup
ZBX-23270	Renamed trigger name condition to event name condition
ZBX-23340	Fixed TLS parameter handling in MySQL plugin for Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-23528	Fixed inability to resize trigger expression field horizontally
ZBX-23259	Fixed field focus on label click in user group mapping form for user authentication
ZBX-22977	Fixed positioning of hidden checkbox inputs and fixed autofocus in template/host mass update
ZBX-23475	Fixed memory leak when SNMP walk to JSON preprocessing step fails due to parsing error
ZBX-23494	Added SNMP fallback item to TrueNAS by SNMP template, updated uptime item and template descriptions, added preprocessing to free swap percentage calculation
ZBX-23101	Added asterisk to description field label in Item value widget
ZBX-23404	Fixed Zabbix agent crashes on HP-UX 11.23
ZBX-22666	Disabled severity filter for Geomap widget in dashboard edit mode
ZBX-23200	Fixed parsing NULL values, multiline strings and quoted strings in SNMP walk output
ZBX-22735	Fixed confusing error message on user parameter reload in Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-23393	Fixed unquoted macro parsing in trigger function parameters
ZBX-23064	Simplified trend synchronization queries to improve performance
ZBX-23373	Fixed result for script.get API call with selectActions option
ZBX-23014	Fixed Zabbix agent build on HP-UX
ZBX-23164	Added timespan parameter in JavaScript Cisco Meraki template
ZBX-23455	Fixed inconsistency in button naming, confirmation messages, success and error messages in item and web scenario list pages
ZBX-20038	Fixed master host parameter for MySQL replication.get_slave_status key in Zabbix agent 2
ZBX-23301	Removed checks for PostgreSQL-TimescaleDB versions combination
ZBX-23454	Fixed runtime errors while resolving macros in the trigger URL name
ZBX-23211	Fixed host dashboard view for multi-page dashboard where the first page is empty
ZBX-23427	Fixed trends not being calculated

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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 6.4.8.

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 6.4 Manual