Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.2rc2

20 Sep 2017

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.4.2rc2.

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 3.4.2rc2. Download it from downloads.

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 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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 3.4 Manual