Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.0beta1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.4.0beta1.

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This document contains the release notes for Zabbix 3.4.0beta1. 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-2102
 added support of new dashboard widgets "Plain text" and "Graph" 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 implemented two-direction widget linkage for data sharing; improved active element selection in map navigation tree widget when map is changed from map widget 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 implemented validation for empty fields in widget configuration forms 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 added placeholder on empty dashboard 
ZBXNEXT-3006
 implemented support of bulk metric collection for dependent items data population 
ZBXNEXT-3725
 updated templates for network devices to new version (internal version 0.10beta) 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 added blinking for recent problems in Problems widget 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 implemented additional filters for dashboard widgets 
ZBXNEXT-1076
 implemented new permission schema to allow view map when no permissions to all map elements 
ZBXNEXT-18
 implemented sending alerts on acknowledges 
ZBXNEXT-3910
 added support to the agent for monitoring processes in trace or uninterruptible state on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD 
ZBX-12258
 added bulk selections to improve performance in processing of escalations 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 added support of multiple dashboards; implemented API for dashboards 
ZBXNEXT-1223
 implemented jmx discovery item 
ZBXNEXT-2442
 implemented parallel alert processing, removed database watchdog process, moved its tasks to alerter process 
ZBXNEXT-3863
 added jsonpath based item pre-processing option 
ZBXNEXT-3864
 added xmlpath based item pre-processing option 
ZBXNEXT-3930
 improved log monitoring by adjusting formula to process 10 times more new lines than set in MaxLinesPerSecond 
ZBXNEXT-1274
 added support of configurable jmx endpoint url for jmx items 
ZBXNEXT-3872
 implemented new internal item 'zabbix[host,discovery,interfaces]' 
ZBXNEXT-3869
 implemented map lines 
ZBXNEXT-1675
 added support for user macros and time unit suffixes in various time-related settings: update intervals, timeouts, housekeeping settings, time periods, etc. 
ZBXNEXT-3762
 added browser warning for IE 9 and IE10 
ZBXNEXT-3870
 implemented ability to drag multiple selected items in map editor 
ZBXNEXT-3655
 reduced self monitoring cache locking in trappers and manager processes 
ZBXNEXT-51
 implemented ability to copy and paste map elements 
ZBXNEXT-3567
 implemented ability to hide SQL error messages for non-superadmin users 
ZBXNEXT-3659
 reduced cache locking time during configuration synchronization 
ZBXNEXT-3432
 added support of {HOST.ID}, {HOST.HOST}, {HOST.NAME} macros in tags, improved to read those from cache; added support of interface macros in tags 
ZBXNEXT-2074
 implemented URL encoding and punycode support in web monitoring 
ZBXNEXT-3687
 made shared memory and semaphores private to the zabbix processes. Dropped SQLite3 support for frontend and server 
ZBXNEXT-2694
 implemented multiple triggers support for map elements 
ZBXNEXT-2445
 increase the length of alert and trigger errors 
ZBXNEXT-2031
 implemented map shapes 
ZBXNEXT-34
 implemented vector graphics for maps 
ZBXNEXT-936
 implemented remote command execution via proxy 
ZBXNEXT-3654
 implemented a feature to apply host group permissions to all existing subgroups 
ZBXNEXT-3660
 renamed "IT services" to "Services" 
ZBXNEXT-3568
 decreased internal, discovery and auto registration default data storage period to 1 day 
ZBXNEXT-3679
 implemented a new design for Dashboard page 
ZBXNEXT-3386
 added IPMI manager and reworked IPMI pollers to avoid connecting to one host from multiple pollers 
ZBXNEXT-3572
 added option to control amount of queued items 
ZBXNEXT-491
 added vfs.dir.size[dir,<regex_incl>,<regex_excl>,<mode>,<max_depth>] check 
ZBXNEXT-1380
 added check for exit code of scripts 
ZBX-3783
 deprecated mappings.sortorder parameter by iconmap.create() and iconmap.update() methods 
ZBXNEXT-1443
 added item pre-processing options 
ZBXNEXT-830
 implemented full clone of maps 
ZBXNEXT-12
 added support of CIDR subnet mask notations for Server option on agent config 
ZBXNEXT-12
 added support of CIDR subnet mask notations for Allowed hosts of trapper items 
ZBXNEXT-3576
 increased user media periods and item flexible intervals to 1024 characters 
ZBX-3783
 added support of user_medias parameter by user.update() method 
ZBX-3783
 prohibited deleting users and user groups which are used in actions 
ZBX-3783
 deprecated user.addmedia(), user.updatemedia(), user.deletemedia(), user.updateprofile(), usergroup.massadd(), usergroup.massupdate() and usermedia.get() API methods 
ZBXNEXT-1804
 reduced the number of connections required for proxy-server data exchange by adding new 'proxy data' request and increasing the size of data sent 
ZBXNEXT-3086
 improved performance of action condition evaluation by ensuring that equivalent conditions are only checked once, thus there will be less queries to database 
ZBXNEXT-3570
 removed the deprecated "isReadable" and "isWritable" methods as well as the "proxy.interfaces" parameter 
ZBXNEXT-1667
 added support of LLD macros in function parameters of trigger prototype expression 
ZBXNEXT-1667
 added support of LLD macros in function parameters when using function with ITEM.VALUE, ITEM.LASTVALUE in trigger prototype name, description and tags 
ZBXNEXT-1667
 added support of LLD macros in function parameters of graph prototype name simple macros like {host:key[].func()} 
ZBXNEXT-707
 implemented full clone functionality for all types of screens 
ZBXNEXT-2970
 increased maximum supported SNMP trapper file size 
ZBXNEXT-1141
 added support for AtomicBoolean, AtomicInteger, and AtomicLong to Java gateway 
ZBX-10777
 made checkboxes and radio buttons look the same across all browsers 
ZBXNEXT-3344
 increased SNMP OID length limitation from 255 to 512 bytes; thanks to Patrick Hemmer for patch 
ZBX-9425
 added permission check on the server side for global script execution 
ZBXNEXT-3725
 added templates for network devices (internal version 0.8beta)

Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-3006
 fixed libevent build depenedencies 
ZBX-12446
 fixed discovery and auto registration to accept empty DNS names 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed several issues in dashboard 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed copying sharing properties when cloning dashboard 
ZBXNEXT-18
 fixed unnecessary notification sending a recovery message 
ZBXNEXT-18
 fixed acknowledge notification sending in maintenance period 
ZBX-12339
 fixed item history and trends flags update during configuration cache synchronization 
ZBXNEXT-18
 fixed php5.4 incompatibility in events page and acknowledge operation form 
ZBXNEXT-18
 fixed script name select button for new acknowledge operation form and recovery operation form 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed multiple issues in Map widget 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed Undefined constant: ALERT_MAX_RETRIES in Action log widget 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 added check for dashboard owners in user.delete() method 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed updating of dashboard with inaccessible elements 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed possible sql errors in upgrade patch 
ZBXNEXT-2102
 fixed removing of favourites from dashboard widgets 
ZBXNEXT-2031
 fixed multiple bugs in maps 
ZBX-12384
 fixed JMX endpoint related bugs in item mass update form and item.update API 
ZBX-12318
 fixed maintenance status not being updated in cache if host is disabled 
ZBX-12224
 fixed connection to Oracle database when database server gives out warnings 
ZBX-12195
 fixed contamination of script output with Zabbix'es own log messages when logging level is set to 4 or 5 and LogType=console 
ZBX-12270
 fixed processing of AIX item 'system.stat[ent]' in agent; thanks to Marc for patch 
ZBX-12277
 fixed trigger expression test form incorrectly replacing macros 
ZBX-12357
 fixed missing user macro substitution in expression of newly added triggers 
ZBX-12296
 added type hinting for item preprocessor numeric conversions based on item value type 
ZBX-12266
 fixed memory leak when executing IPMI commands 
ZBX-11938
 fixed 'type of condition' dropdown appearing if only one filter condition is set 
ZBX-11530
 fixed lost application name in exported host web scenario 
ZBX-12201
 fixed crash when processing SNMP trap log item, fixed log item processing without pre-processing options 
ZBX-12199
 removed condition check for recovery operations 
ZBX-3924
 switched from POSIX extended to the PCRE regular expression library for enhanced regular expressions and consistency with frontend 
ZBX-11867
 fixed memory leak in history cache and history cache statistics 
ZBX-11671
 added register information and backtrace to log when metric thread crashes 
ZBX-11381
 fixed displaying list of recovery actions in "Problems" and "Event details" 
ZBX-11805
 fixed aggregate checks log messages formats 
ZBX-11470
 fixed unary minus and prefix extraction for trigger expression references; optimized simple macro and macro function calculation 
ZBX-7015
 forced setting UTF-8 character set for connections to Oracle database 
ZBX-11371
 prevented executing client side script by changing value of $ZBX_SERVER_NAME from setup.php page 
ZBX-5116
 prevented escaping forward slashes while encoding API response to JSON text 
ZBX-11036
 fixed server not to synchronize IPMI configuration for new hosts without IPMI

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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