Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.4rc1

22 January 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.0.4rc1.

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 4.0.4rc1. 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-4872	Reworked SVG graph x-axis timeline
ZBXNEXT-4873	Implemented single dot datasets to be drawn as points in line vector graphs
ZBX-14876	Added a new optional parameter <regex_excl_dir> to items vfs.dir.size[] and vfs.dir.count[]

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-15577	Fixed restricted user access to the host name when calling host_screen
ZBX-13335	Fixed low performance with linkage of items and item prototypes to a lot of hosts
ZBX-15435	Fixed "Undefined index" errors in the "Problems" widget with multiple active maintenances which part of these are inaccessible
ZBX-15417	Changed vmware collector to perform datastore configuration refresh only when directly monitoring ESXi version lower than v6.0
ZBX-14896	Fixed low performance of the SQL statement when link template to many hosts
ZBX-15220	Fixed displaying of last value for values received in the same second
ZBX-15451	Fixed event correlation when "Event tag pair" condition is used and tag contains special characters
ZBX-15460	Reset agent availability when host status changes, e.g., when host gets disabled
ZBX-15331	Updated LLD item creation/updating error messages
ZBX-15465	Removed html non-breaking space from visiblity checkbox labels
ZBX-15307	Fixed upper level maps positioning in Monitoring Map screen
ZBX-15428	Improved regular expression performance by studying compiled pattern
ZBX-11761	Added warnings in case of TLS identity mismatch
ZBX-15373	Fixed removal of trigger when deleting discovered item; fixed removal of dependent child items when removing master item
ZBX-14613	Fixed hostgroup.delete and host.delete API methods to validate maintenance constraint
ZBX-14863	Fixed authentication settings form of LDAP anonymous binding
ZBX-15374	Fixed SQL and PHP errors on chart3.php page
ZBX-15301	Fixed monotonous lag behind in Windows "system.localtime"
ZBX-15377	Fixed error messages for arrays in GET parameters
ZBX-15369	Fixed "Undefined index: label" in map.update() method
ZBX-15376	Fixed "Undefined index: refresh" on several pages with disabled guest user
ZBX-15375	Fixed web scenario step name can consist only of whitespaces
ZBX-15375	Fixed undefined index on Web scenario configuration page
ZBX-15372	Fixed SQL and PHP errors on "Slide shows" page when enter slides.php witout GET parameters
ZBX-15359	Fixed undefined index in maintenance.create and maintenance.update API calls
ZBX-15358	Fixed undefined index in configuration.import API call without one or several rules
ZBX-15355	Fixed undefined index in configuration.import API call
ZBX-14926	Fixed empty "inventory" property being returned by API if inventory mode is disabled
ZBX-15354	Fixed undefined index in API calls without "auth" parameter
ZBX-15399	Fixed IPv4 connections not being accepted when IPv6 mask is used
ZBX-14331	Fixed error allowing users to change type of a host interface that already has items attached
ZBX-15254	Fixed incorrect matching string highlight in multiselect autocomplete box
ZBX-15136	Fixed displaying 'Plain text' on the dashboard as html
ZBX-15313	Fixed unit suffix support in calculated item expressions
ZBX-15224	Fixed failed query errors when receiving non UTF-8 history values
ZBX-14592	Fixed calculation of SLA and availability report when problem has negative duration
ZBX-13804	Fixed generic popup form submission
ZBX-15156	Fixed undefined offset error in host screen with web item
ZBX-14980	Fixed problem with filter by itemids and hostids in history.get
ZBX-14624	Fixed agent collector not releasing connection to missing/removed disk devices
ZBX-15279	Fixed handling of LLD processing errors that should have resulted in not supported LLD rule state
ZBX-15241	Fixed escaping regexp symbols in preprocessing output parameter when creating item by LLD
ZBX-14604	Fixed displaying of the graph name on screens
ZBXNEXT-4588	Renamed 'display options' tab to 'displaying options'; fixed multiple layout issues, footnote in hint-box, field value handling, calculation of mouse position, multiple issues related with Y axis and problem styling
ZBX-15159	Fixed existing context menu closing when new one is opened
ZBX-15233	Renamed fuzzytime() function description in dropdown list
ZBX-12801	Excluded zabbix_sender.dll from MS Windows builds with TLS
ZBXNEXT-4883	Fixed when trigger in problem state hides all dependent triggers in history view
ZBX-15260	Improved misleading warning message when agent fails to find log file during processing logrt[] item
ZBX-15258	Fixed update interval of "Zabbix queue" item in server's template to be consistent with proxy template, added missing units in proxy template
ZBX-15225	Improved handling of timeouts in "vfs.dir.size" and "vfs.dir.count" items on Windows agent

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 4.0.4.

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 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 4.0 Manual