Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.2rc2

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.

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

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

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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