Release Notes for Zabbix 5.4.4rc1

23 August 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.4.4rc1.

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 5.4.4rc1. Download it from here.

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-6751	Added Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) template Templates
ZBXNEXT-6765	Added template Cloudflare by HTTP Templates
ZBXNEXT-6754	Added template Website certificate by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBXNEXT-6528, ZBXNEXT-6569	Improved performance of graphs and graphs prototypes configuration process API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-6606	Add encrypted tls connection to mysql postgresql plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6708	Added TLS/SSL website certificates validation plugin to Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-6528, ZBXNEXT-6566	Improved performance of the user macros; added strict validation of user macros API

---

Bug Fixes

ZBX-19915	Fixed go-sqlite3 in zabbix_agent2 Agent
ZBX-19743	Fixed proxy crash when data sending has failed Proxy
ZBX-16822	Fixed performance issues for installations with a lot of historical alerts API Frontend
ZBX-19745	Fixed Zabbix server exiting when quoted user macro context ends with backslash Server
ZBX-19797	Fixed action command operation execution with oracle backend Server
ZBX-19658	Added query batching when reading event data during maintenance processing Server
ZBX-19686	Changed 1-st parameter {#IFNAME} in net.if.* items to {#IFGUID} in Windows templates Templates
ZBX-19688	Fixed minor visual issues with the dashboards Frontend
ZBX-19648	Fixed e-mail encoding declaration Server
ZBX-19770	Fixed context menu appearing out of viewport Frontend
ZBX-19805	Added initial comment with alert content to the incident message Templates
ZBX-19482	Fixed block device discovery of cd-roms and linked devices Agent
ZBX-19032	Fixed percpu param in Zabbix agent 2 system.cpu.load plugin for Windows Agent
ZBX-19341	Fixed template export missing inventory mode for Host prototype API
ZBX-19749	Changed tags, the value type for .rate items to FLOAT, the value type of Status items to CHAR, changed trigger expression for Status items, removed 3 LLD rules, created new master item for LLD rules with update interval 1h, changed LLD rule names spelling to lower case, added new helpful items in HAProxy templates Templates
ZBX-18135	Fixed warning message close button Frontend
ZBX-19439	Fixed Action log dashboard widget missing Remote command entries Frontend
ZBX-19767	Fixed memory errors when server links updated template hostprototype with new interface Server
ZBX-19612	Changed host name to visible name for consistency with UI Templates
ZBX-19741	Fixed database upgrade patch failing due to large query Server
ZBX-19737	Fixed prometheus preprocessing bug Server
ZBX-19703	Added fix for json path preprocessing crash Server
ZBX-19752	Fixed multiple types of media type creation having message templates in one API call API
ZBX-19660	Fixed script permission check when executing on current host Server
ZBX-18271	Fixed incorrect ordering for tags and overrides in widgets, operations overrides in host prototype form and interface order in item and discovery prototypes forms Frontend
ZBX-18523	Added documentation for Hostname parameter in sender Documentation
ZBX-19670	Resolving config file symlink in CConfigFile.php Frontend
ZBX-19116	Fixed system.cpu.util for agent2 not working in non-English Windows Agent
ZBX-19524	Added UTF-8 support to trigger trim functions Server
ZBX-19555	Fixed inventory_mode parameter not being returned for host.get with output=extend API
ZBX-19589	Fixed trailing and leading white-space not getting trimmed in widget configuration form inputs Frontend
ZBX-19547	Fixed displaying inherited tags for web scenarios Frontend
ZBX-19342	Fixed web scenario items not being cloned for graph prototypes API
ZBX-19711	Fixed loose validation of aggregated functions in calculated item formulas Frontend
ZBX-19732	Fixed Zabbix agent2 not starting when ListenIP is set to 0.0.0.0 Agent
ZBX-7933	Added configurable parameter for TCP queue maximum size Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-19692	Fixed issues with Zyxel templates Templates
ZBX-19124	Fixed PHP runtime errors when passed incorrect value for "output" option API
ZBX-19597	Fixed error when value maps API allow to create invalid value mapping of type regexp API
ZBX-19715	Fixed high memory usage in trappers and proxy pollers when sending configuration to Zabbix proxy Server
ZBX-19218	Fixed missed untranslated string in jsLoader Frontend
ZBX-19539	Fixed undefined offset error in host prototype API API
ZBX-19491	Fixed copying of host prototype tags when performing host full clone API

---

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 5.4.4.

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

---

References

Zabbix 5.4 Manual