Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.0alpha1

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.

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

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

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.

References

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