Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.2rc2

20 September 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 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 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