Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.0alpha1

20 December 2017

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.0.0alpha1.

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 4.0.0alpha1. 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-3480	Added support of inventory macros in event tags Server
ZBXNEXT-4175	Implemented ability to send email to several email addresses specified as user media API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-4139	Added high contrast light and high contrast dark themes Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-4247	Removed deprecated API methods: user.updareProfile, user.addMedia, user.updateMedia, user.deleteMedia, usergroup.massAdd, usergroup.massUpdate and usermedia.get API
ZBXNEXT-970	Added more detailed error information to notification message when DB is unavailable Server
ZBXNEXT-4137	Removed green background from cells Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4157	Added map status summary to be readable by screen reader software Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4127	Implemented popup displaying in overlay dialogues Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1520	Increased the maximum Hosts/DNS name character length from 63 to 255 Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-4108	Implemented search of problems by trigger name Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-4143	Implemented keybord interaction in top navigation Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1567	Added item "vfs.dir.count" for counting directory entries Agent
ZBXNEXT-4135	Added tooltips for vertical labels Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4146	Added icons for error and success messages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4156	Added option to view graphs items data and multiple items graph data as table Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4160	Reworked monitoring Discovery screen to show hint info right in the table cell Frontend
ZBXNEXT-761	Added rules to make dbschema.c, schema.sql and data.sql from schema.tmpl, data.tmpl and templates.tmpl if there is a need to Installation
ZBXNEXT-4186	Added ability to adjust colors for new graph items in graph creation form according selected theme Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-4145	Fixed appearance of host column based on number of hosts specified in filter Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4118	Implemented advanced options for tag-based search of problems API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-4134	Added 'lang' attribute to page body Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4181	Fixed Zabbix server to accept active Zabbix proxy requests only from allowed address if specified API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-4181	Fixed passive Zabbix proxy to accept Zabbix server requests only from allowed address Proxy
ZBX-10576	Restructured unixODBC related code, moved it to a dedicated directory Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-3783	Added strict validation for proxy.delete() method; proxy cannot be deleted when used in actions API
ZBX-11909	Replaced company.com with example.com in data.sql Installation

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-12251	Fixed possibility of trigger status getting stuck in PROBLEM or OK state due to transaction error in history synchronization, added deadlock to a list of recoverable errors Proxy Server
ZBX-12251	Fixed possibility that new history values are lost and not processed by Zabbix server or Zabbix proxy due to recoverable transaction error Proxy Server
ZBX-12996	Fixed radio button and label inconsistency in maintenance period configuration Frontend
ZBX-12895	Improved performance of DB patch for updating data in the alerts table Installation
ZBX-12082	Fixed possibility to select triggers with same name in multiselect Frontend
ZBX-12983	Fixed compilation warnings under Windows Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-10578	Fixed redundant init_result() calls; thanks to MATSUDA Daiki for the patch Server
ZBX-12793	Fixed system compiler checks during source configuration Installation
ZBX-11970	Fixed style for some enumerators and structure type declarations Agent

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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 4.0.0.

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 4.0 Manual