Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.2

25 September 2017

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.4.2.

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 3.4.2. 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-4091	Improved permission schema of the dashboards for normal administrators
ZBXNEXT-4099	Removed starting point from all OIDs; shortened old IOS Cisco templates names
ZBXNEXT-4067	Added preprocessing_queue item/graph/screen widget in Template App Zabbix Server
ZBXNEXT-4084	Renamed action acknowledgment operation 'Notify all who left acknowledgement and comments' to 'Notify all involved'
ZBXNEXT-4084	Added users who received notifications regarding the problem to 'Notify all involved' acknowledgment operation recipient list
ZBX-1357	Enabled Turkish translation to be displayed by default
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), English (United States), Japanese, Korean, Turkish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-4054	Implemented feature to open first available dashboard from the list
ZBXNEXT-4046	Implemented dashboard widget minimum height limit

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-12769	Fixed XSS vulnerabilities in argument passing for popup forms and file import forms
ZBX-12768	Added schema validation for URL fields based on schemas whitelist in ZBX_URI_VALID_SCHEMES
ZBX-12572	Fixed losing "now" on timeline
ZBX-12739	Fixed data conversion for ssh checks of numeric value type
ZBX-12708	Fixed service port validation if auto-discovery is performed by the zabbix proxy
ZBX-12718	Fixed crash when using item of log value type as master item for dependent items
ZBX-12720	Fixed processing of log keys with non log value types for items monitored by proxies
ZBX-12530	Fixed non well formed numeric value encaunteration in slideshow; implemented getBBox workaround for Firefox
ZBX-12688	Fixed false positives on 'High bandwidth usage' trigger in Template_Module_Interfaces_* templates
ZBX-11675	Fixed crash that could occur during connection failures to MySQL
ZBX-12617	Fixed sorting by host name for items on availability report page
ZBX-12699	Added support of strings in "sortfield" and "sortorder" parameters, and added sorting by "name" for dashboard.get()
ZBX-12577	Added item select filter for simple graph to allow select only supported item
ZBX-12647	Fixed map minimum severity option in screens
ZBX-12696	Fixed trigger not being calculated for newly received item values if last one of those is unsupported value
ZBX-12548	Fixed notification sound not being played for message with timeout set to greater than minute
ZBX-12653	Fixed heap corruption in Windows agent; thanks to Ronnie Kaech for the patch
ZBX-12660	Fixed result of hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces method
ZBX-12469	Added new context for 'Second' string to be properly translated in maintenance period form
ZBX-12616	Fixed trapper item "Allowed hosts" field user macro support
ZBX-12493	Fixed address and ports array size in zbx_init_ipmi_host() to match OpenIPMI internals
ZBX-10820	Fixed potential loss of data when server/proxy processes zabbix_sender data
ZBX-4252	Eliminated sending of DNS AAAA queries when checking IPv4 incoming connection in agent or for trapper item and A queries in case of IPv6
ZBXNEXT-2102	Fixed multiple browser sensitive javascript bugs in navigation tree widget and improved coding style
ZBX-12623	Fixed label macro resolving in maps
ZBX-12578	Implemented widget field validation before dashboard is loaded and fixed undefined index for tag field in dashboard widgets
ZBX-12499	Fixed macro expansion in map editor
ZBX-12597	Fixed graph not being displayed if item update interval contains macro
ZBXNEXT-3807	Fixed delayed first refresh in map widget; improved coding style
ZBX-12500	Fixed regular expression pre-processing step to fail if the pattern does not match input data
ZBX-11042	Allowed libcurl to choose SMTP authentication mechanism other than PLAIN
ZBX-12374	Fixed frontend side DNS parser logic to be same as server side DNS parser logic
ZBX-8997	Fixed trigger expression validation test form
ZBX-12558	Fixed scroll duration in dashboard after adding a new widget
ZBX-12434	Fixed housekeeping of problems and events for deleted items and triggers; added optional database patch to cleanup problems for deleted items and triggers
ZBX-12646	Fixed incorrect SQL query in availability reports
ZBX-12545	Fixed undefined index error on latest data page when host was deleted in another session
ZBX-12416	Optimized data selection of user preferences stored in profiles
ZBX-12321	Fixed removal of multiselect options using backspace button
ZBX-11607	Fixed a rounding of large unsigned numbers
ZBX-12668	Removed delay between sending batches of cached historical data by active proxies
ZBX-12554	Fixed item helper description for proc_info and diplay order for vfs.dir.size
ZBX-12605	Fixed line graph was displayed as points for data taken from trends
ZBX-12404	Fixed visibility of item data first row for 'latest data' page and 'audit log' page
ZBX-12546	Fixed maps not loading without built-in JSON support
ZBX-12634	Fixed incorrect subnet mask calculation when CIDR is less than 8
ZBX-12635	Fixed processing of lld rules in not supported state
ZBX-12186	Fixed parallel processing of multiple values for same lld rule
ZBX-12527	Fixed inconsistency of 'mode' parameter check in vfs_dir_size(); thanks to MATSUDA Daiki for patch
ZBX-12327	Fixed XML import when preprocessing param value is space character
ZBX-12569	Fixed possible SQL errors in dashboard.create() and dashboard.update() methods
ZBX-11887	Fixed improper DB::refreshIds() call when selected row is locked
ZBX-12618	Fixed memory related bugs in item preprocessing
ZBX-12022	Fixed trigger resolving in services configuration; fixed popup window size
ZBX-12396	Fixed an error in screens if screen trigger overview element contains deleted host group
ZBX-12429	Fixed template replacement in mass update form

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 3.4.2.

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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 3.4 Manual