Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.8rc1

26 Mar 2018

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.4.8rc1.

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 3.4.8rc1. 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-4374	implemented the widget configuration fields clearing when changing the type
ZBXNEXT-4045	implemented maximum size for graphs in widgets
ZBX-1357	enabled Hebrew translation to be displayed by default
ZBX-1357	updated Chinese (China), Czech, English (United States), French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-13542	fixed http steps on template not inheriting hosts application setting
ZBX-13618	fixed wrong variables order in translatable error message
ZBX-13344	fixed trigger based actions having a default "not in maintenance" condition
ZBX-13613	improved a history syncer when backend elasticsearch is not available
ZBX-13544	fixed agent crashes when using regex with 'Log' item for Mac OSX
ZBX-13611	fixed lld rules not always saving their state/error message changes
ZBX-13571	fixed regression that resulted in slow history data queries on partitioned tables
ZBX-13424	added possibility to select web items as master items and improved copying of dependent items to destination hosts and templates
ZBX-13573	fixed undefined index message changing Action "Acknowledgment operations" from "Remote command" to "Notify all involved"
ZBX-13570	fixed undefined index in API call
ZBX-13331	removed "recovery" property from action.get API method response
ZBX-13309	fixed displaying of Problem/Recovery time
ZBX-13450	fixed server and proxy compilation problem for Solaris 10
ZBX-13458, ZBX-13494	fixed resolving of the macros in map labels for non-superadmin users
ZBX-13526	fixed widget placeholder jumping instead of resizing while dashboard edit
ZBX-13362	fixed potentially wrong rows deleting by housekeeper in PostgreSQL
ZBX-13506	fixed linked trigger is moved to sibling map element
ZBX-13586	fixed trigger-based event correlation - suspend creation of event if no problems are recovered by it
ZBX-13339	improved deallocation of memory
ZBX-13340	fixed pie graphs displaying incorrect data
ZBX-13412	fixed JS error and wrong form behaviour when changing item type, type of information, data type
ZBX-13257	fixed display of the latest item in Audit log
ZBX-13447	fixed trigger name readability on map in dark theme
ZBX-13360	fixed HTML5 placeholder color that previously appeared like actual input data
ZBX-13351	improved OpenSSL error messages
ZBX-13147	fixed inconsistent number on map navigation tree
ZBX-13537	fixed "Inaccessible user" in Dashboard System status widgets acknowledgement popup
ZBX-13472	fixed description of "Server" and "ServerActive" configuration options
ZBX-13455	added frontend error message when templates cannot be linked to LLD host
ZBX-13434	fixed incorrect trigger dependencies being set after copying triggers to multiple hosts; thanks to Kotaro Miyashita for the patch
ZBX-12883	fixed incorrect ordering the list of triggers after saving a map
ZBX-12940	fixed content does not fit dialog window
ZBX-13401	fixed successful items mass update with invalid update interval
ZBX-13342	fixed order by query in frontend Maintenance tab
ZBX-6167	fixed partial updating in maintenance.update
ZBX-13062	banned using of mutex in threads of metrics collection
ZBX-13236	fixed error message of function parameters parse
ZBX-13398	fixed configure script for Debian GNU/Linux "buster" and "sid" to work with PostgreSQL
ZBX-13428	fixed long name of map outside go back button in map widget
ZBX-12754	fixed undefined index error in map import
ZBX-13166	fixed daily and yearly notification reports not including current day/last day of leap-year
ZBX-13498	added optional MySQL upgrade patch for "problem" table to drop redundant index after another index that can be used to enforce the foreign key constraint has been created
ZBX-13452	fixed Elasticsearch history storage default value types
ZBX-12941	fixed checkbox overlay's position over the checkbox
ZBX-13334	fixed translations of Widget parameters window
ZBX-13248	fixed field trapper_hosts to optional for trapper item.create
ZBX-13307	fixed map scaling and position to the widget left side
ZBX-6118	fixed poor performance of changing an item on the template which linked with many hosts
ZBX-13141	fixed invalid value for "Update interval" field in mass update form on submit was redirecting to items list

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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