Release Notes for Zabbix 5.4.0alpha1

28 January 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.4.0alpha1.

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 5.4.0alpha1. 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-5759	Added Oracle DB tnsnames.ora service name lookup support
ZBXNEXT-6360	Added support of JavaScript for global scripts
ZBXNEXT-6441	Added function to configure HTTP authentication for embedded scripts
ZBXNEXT-6376	Implemented support of negative filtering for tags
ZBXNEXT-6183	Added md5 checksum computation to preprocessing
ZBXNEXT-6399	Added support of host and item macros for Script item parameters
ZBXNEXT-6207, ZBXNEXT-6318	Added support of API tokens
ZBXCTR-13	Added custom query support for PostgreSQL plugin and template, fixed unix-socket support
ZBXNEXT-5518	Added support of XML parsing in JavaScript
ZBXNEXT-5862	Added Rocket.Chat media
ZBXNEXT-6389	Added template for NetApp FAS3220
ZBXNEXT-6311	Moved host availability from hosts to host interfaces
ZBXNEXT-6295	Added 3rd level sub-menu
ZBXNEXT-6285	Modified Oracle initial scheme creating and image loading in to the BLOB fields
ZBXNEXT-6419	Added tablespace metrics to Oracle Templates
ZBXNEXT-6331	Updated plugins: ceph, docker, memcached, mysql, oracle, redis — unified functionality (parameters describing and parsing, URI parsing, using sessions, errors handling)
ZBXNEXT-6210	Added native support for proc.mem key in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6252	Added support of LLD rule filter condition operators "exists" and "does not exist"
ZBXNEXT-6367	Added metrics to the official MySQL template
ZBXNEXT-6380	Added new key vmware.cl.perfcounter
ZBXNEXT-6330	Added Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 template
ZBXNEXT-6219	Added "HashiCorp Vault" template
ZBXNEXT-6231	Added Apache ActiveMQ template
ZBXNEXT-6257	Implemented Check for not supported value preprocessing step test
ZBX-2594	Separated host and template related objects: items, triggers, graphs, low-level discovery rules, web scenarios
ZBXNEXT-6324	Moved Configuration -> Discovery to MVC
ZBXNEXT-6319	Added systemd.unit.get item key to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6345	Added substitution of SID to account name and domain name in eventlog message
ZBXNEXT-6307	Added ability to read properties from a file
ZBXNEXT-6329	Added Template "GitLab by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6294	Replaced mass update pages with popup windows
ZBXNEXT-6325	Moved "Event correlation" to MVC and removed tabs in edit view
ZBXNEXT-6234	Added "Disk read/write request avg waiting time" items in template Windows physical disks
ZBXNEXT-6323	Moved Administration -> Queue to MVC
ZBXNEXT-782	Moved calculated, aggregated and internal checks to new history poller process; moved availability updates to availability manager; removed database connections from pollers, unreachable pollers and Java pollers
ZBXNEXT-6276	Improved period handling of macro function fmttime
ZBXNEXT-6332	Added {ITEM.VALUETYPE} macro
ZBXNEXT-6353	Added Morningstar devices monitoring templates
ZBXNEXT-6269	Added hv ip to vmware.hv.discovery and vm metrics for FQDN template
ZBXNEXT-6272	Added template VMWare FQDN and updated template VMWare
ZBXNEXT-6316	Added iTop media
ZBXNEXT-6281	Added template "Hadoop by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6351	Added template "Aranet Cloud"
ZBXNEXT-6275	Added Template "Zookeeper by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6280	Added trend function cache
ZBXNEXT-2480	Removed autocomplete from fields having sensitive data
ZBXNEXT-6253	Added native system.users.num support to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6129	Added UnitFileState to systemd.unit.discovery for Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6293	Replaced import page with popup window
ZBXNEXT-6290	Improved distinction between configuration and monitoring links in search results
ZBXNEXT-6282	Updated media types and templates to follow new JS methods naming
ZBXNEXT-6241	Made JS object and method names more JavaScript alike
ZBX-18134	Removed ability to read PSK fields of hosts and proxies
ZBXNEXT-6236	Added template "Apache Kafka by JMX"
ZBXNEXT-6201	Added "Template DB Apache Cassandra by JMX"

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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 5.4.0.

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 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 5.4 Manual