Release Notes for Zabbix 4.2.0alpha2

21 December 2018

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.2.0alpha2.

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 4.2.0alpha2. Download here.

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-4724	Added validation and throttling preprocessing rules, ability to discard values and set errors API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-4876	Moved global search page to MVC framework Frontend
ZBX-14876	Added a new optional parameter <regex_excl_dir> to items vfs.dir.size[] and vfs.dir.count[] Agent
ZBXNEXT-4792	Added column "Latest values" in Monitoring->Problems and Dashboard Frontend
ZBX-15202	Implemented widget pausing methods in dashboard; made graph widget paused when using selection box or opening a tooltip Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2315	Implemented content matching in web monitoring headers Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-4853, ZBXNEXT-517	Added ability to send email messages in HTML format on demand API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-1282, ZBXNEXT-4730	Added changes to introduce regex based matching for auto-registration Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-15224	Fixed failed query errors when receiving non UTF-8 history values Proxy Server
ZBX-14624	Fixed agent collector not releasing connection to missing/removed disk devices Agent
ZBX-15279	Fixed handling of LLD processing errors that should have resulted in not supported LLD rule state Server
ZBX-14604	Fixed displaying of the graph name on screens Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4588	Renamed 'display options' tab to 'displaying options'; fixed multiple layout issues, footnote in hint-box, field value handling, calculation of mouse position, multiple issues related with Y axis and problem styling Frontend
ZBX-15159	Fixed existing context menu closing when new one is opened Frontend
ZBX-15233	Renamed fuzzytime() function description in dropdown list Frontend
ZBX-12801	Excluded zabbix_sender.dll from MS Windows builds with TLS Agent
ZBXNEXT-4883	Fixed when trigger in problem state hides all dependent triggers in history view Frontend
ZBX-15260	Improved misleading warning message when agent fails to find log file during processing logrt[] item Agent
ZBX-15258	Fixed update interval of "Zabbix queue" item in server's template to be consistent with proxy template, added missing units in proxy template Templates
ZBX-15225	Improved handling of timeouts in "vfs.dir.size" and "vfs.dir.count" items on Windows agent Agent
ZBX-15206	Fixed deprecated net-snmp attribute Proxy Server
ZBX-15067	Fixed configuration sync of interfaces without hosts Proxy Server
ZBX-15238	Fixed updating nextcheck time in discovery rules to avoid overlaps between discovery executions Proxy Server
ZBX-13673	Fixed regexp validation when pattern contain slash character Frontend
ZBX-13773	Fixed naming inconsistencies in agent template, added more trigger descriptions in proxy and server templates Installation Templates
ZBX-14528	Fixed incorrect keycode handling in multiselect input fields Frontend
ZBX-15124	Fixed trigger overview behavior when show "any" API Frontend
ZBX-14648	Fixed performance with deletion of item in template linked to many hosts API
ZBX-9011	Added new LLD macros for vmware HV low-level discovery Proxy Server
ZBX-15105	Fixed colorpicker tooltip update Frontend
ZBX-14928	Fixed "check now" being executed for active items and templates API Frontend
ZBX-15153	Fixed custom interval validation; fixed parsing of custom intervals when user macros context contains forward slash Frontend
ZBX-9038	Fixed memory of performance counters consumed during vmware update Proxy Server
ZBX-8383	Updated Tomcat template for compatibility with recent Tomcat versions Installation Templates
ZBX-15078	Fixed API authentication for ldap users having gui access disabled API
ZBX-14880	Fixed misleading ldap authentication error messages API Frontend
ZBX-14877	Fixed style of disabled action on high contrast theme Frontend
ZBX-14606	Removed strict-transport-security header from frontend Frontend
ZBX-15020	Fixed negative time selector offset when selecting time range in graph Frontend
ZBX-14977	Fixed creation of unneeded database record if host prototype inventory mode is disabled; fixed validation for host and host prototype inventory mode API
ZBX-15146	Fixed SQL error occurred when too long IP address is attempted to be written in database API
ZBX-15148	Fixed web scenario item selection in SVG graph widget Frontend
ZBX-15107	Fixed error handling in logrt[] items if regular expression for file name is not valid Agent
ZBX-14800	Fixed resolving of functional macros in graph widget name Frontend
ZBX-15178	Fixed wrong behaviour when referencing unexisting capture groups in item regexp preprocessing, general pcre code improvements Agent Server

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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 4.2.0.

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 4.2 Manual