Zabbix 8.0: what actually changes and what is still a slide
Zabbix 8.0 is the next LTS and half the industry already writes about it as if it were installed. As of 30 July 2026 the latest published artefact is beta 2, dated 9 July, and in the official container registry 8.0 is called trunk. Which features are really in the official release notes (native JSON up to 128 MiB, ClickHouse as a history backend, c-ares with DNS caching), what is still only roadmap (OpenTelemetry, complex event processing, mobile app, proxy permissions) and where the real bill for the upgrade sits: the database minimums and the removed macros living inside your alerts.