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that error can be indicative of a library dependency issue which one would expect when installing packages with the branch set to a different version than what you are currently running. maybe someone else can comment on whether a backport is possible for 24.03 on the zabbix7 agent/proxy packages. just be aware installing things using this method has the potential to cause issues - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide-prepare.html#packages

Jordan G wrote in #note-1:

that error can be indicative of a library dependency issue which one would expect when installing packages with the branch set to a different version than what you are currently running. maybe someone else can comment on whether a backport is possible for 24.03 on the zabbix7 agent/proxy packages. just be aware installing things using this method has the potential to cause issues - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/install/upgrade-guide-prepare.html#packages

I am aware of the potential for problems, so I tested on a non-critical system first. :)
I was actually surprised that it showed the newer packages, as I thought one of the recent changes made the packages unaffected by the update branch setting.

I know that Zabbix 7.0 packages failed to build for CE 2.7.2, but since pfSense 24.03 is on newer release of FreeBSD (similar to 24.11) I was hoping that it's just a matter of enabling Zabbix 7.0 for the 24.03 repo and it would be fine when Netgate's servers build it for the 24.03 release.

The PR as already been merged into pfSense/FreeBSD-ports. The comment in 15548 says:

Jim Pingle wrote in #note-18:

Brad reviewed the PR and said it looked OK, so I merged it and picked it back to 24.11 and CE 2.7.2. Should know shortly if it built OK.

Does someone just need to merge the existing PR into the 24.03 repo?

We need it like... 2 months ago :(
I don't know how such an important package is still not up to date.

@Jim Pingle Can you push Zabbix 7.0 to 24.03 and see if it builds?

@Jim Pingle @Marcos M @Jordan G
What is needed to get Zabbix 7.0 pushed to 24.03 to see if it builds?

The original request for Zabbix 7.0 was made when 24.03 was still the current release.
Zabbix 6.4 went out of support in December 2024 so we had to update to 7.0, but we still have some firewalls running 24.03 for various reasons, such as they are at a remote site, difficulty scheduling maintenance windows with customers, or the eMMC wear is high and we do not want to risk performing a release upgrade.
Making Zabbix 7.0 available for 24.03 would be very helpful as we continue transitioning to Zabbix 7.0 and pfSense release 24.11.

Zabbix 7.0 works on 24.03 (at least the agent, anyway); it just needs to be made available as a package.
It looks like 24.03 has libnetsnmp.so.40.1.0 and 24.11 has libnetsnmp.so.40.2.1. Hopefully if the Zabbix 7.0 proxy is built on 24.03 then it will work properly.

I hope you will reconsider making Zabbix 7.0 available for release 24.03.