Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.0alpha1

20 Dec 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 downloads.

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
ZBXNEXT-4175	Implemented ability to send email to several email addresses specified as user media
ZBXNEXT-4139	Added high contrast light and high contrast dark themes
ZBXNEXT-4247	Removed deprecated api methods: user.updareprofile, user.addmedia, user.updatemedia, user.deletemedia, usergroup.massadd, usergroup.massupdate and usermedia.get
ZBXNEXT-970	Added more detailed error information to notification message when db is unavailable
ZBXNEXT-4137	Removed green background from cells
ZBXNEXT-4157	Added map status summary to be readable by screen reader software
ZBXNEXT-4127	Implemented popup displaying in overlay dialogues
ZBXNEXT-1520	Increased the maximum hosts/dns name character length from 63 to 255
ZBXNEXT-4108	Implemented search of problems by trigger name
ZBXNEXT-4143	Implemented keybord interaction in top navigation
ZBXNEXT-1567	Added item "vfs.dir.count" for counting directory entries
ZBXNEXT-4135	Added tooltips for vertical labels
ZBXNEXT-4146	Added icons for error and success messages
ZBXNEXT-4156	Added option to view graphs items data and multiple items graph data as table
ZBXNEXT-4160	Reworked monitoring discovery screen to show hint info right in the table cell
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
ZBXNEXT-4186	Added ability to adjust colors for new graph items in graph creation form according selected theme
ZBXNEXT-4145	Fixed appearance of host column based on number of hosts specified in filter
ZBXNEXT-4118	Implemented advanced options for tag-based search of problems
ZBXNEXT-4134	Added 'lang' attribute to page body
ZBXNEXT-4181	Fixed zabbix server to accept active zabbix proxy requests only from allowed address if specified
ZBXNEXT-4181	Fixed passive zabbix proxy to accept zabbix server requests only from allowed address
ZBX-10576	Restructured unixodbc related code, moved it to a dedicated directory
ZBX-3783	Added strict validation for proxy.delete() method; proxy cannot be deleted when used in actions
ZBX-11909	Replaced company.com with example.com in data.sql

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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
ZBX-12251	Fixed possibility that new history values are lost and not processed by zabbix server or zabbix proxy due to recoverable transaction error
ZBX-12996	Fixed radio button and label inconsistency in maintenance period configuration
ZBX-12895	Improved performance of db patch for updating data in the alerts table
ZBX-12082	Fixed possibility to select triggers with same name in multiselect
ZBX-12983	Fixed compilation warnings under windows
ZBX-10578	Fixed redundant init_result() calls; thanks to matsuda daiki for the patch
ZBX-12793	Fixed system compiler checks during source configuration
ZBX-11970	Fixed style for some enumerators and structure type declarations

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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