Release Notes for Zabbix 4.2.2rc1

21 May 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.2.2rc1.

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 4.2.2rc1. 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

ZBX-16069

Upgraded jQuery version v1.10.2 -> v3.3.1 and jQueryUI v1.10.3 -> v1.12.1 Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-16032	Changed application filtering to partial name search Frontend
ZBX-15915	Fixed linking error if round() is undefined Agent
ZBX-16074	Added file revision number generation for compilation on MS Windows Installation
ZBX-15833	Fixed scrollbar in overlay popups Frontend
ZBX-16058	Fixed error in IPMI poller causing growing queue Proxy Server
ZBX-16047	Fixed division by zero error in SVG graph widget if selected time period is so small that calculated step between 2 milestones is 0s Frontend
ZBX-15936	Removed "change password" button when cloning media types Frontend
ZBX-11272	Changed sorting by type, fixed information disclosure and formatting of recipient name in action log screen item and dashboard widget; added new sortfields to alert API API Frontend
ZBX-15416	Fixed locale validation in user create and update API methods API Frontend
ZBX-15877	Fixed Tab Key navigation for Safari and Edge browsers Frontend
ZBX-15891	Fixed trigger dependencies are ignored when changing only trigger state Server
ZBX-13029	Fixed api validation messages for linktrigger API
ZBX-15967	Fixed buffer offset for reading hardware info from long DMI files Agent
ZBX-16018	Fixed detection of logical functions (or / and) inside the context of user macros Frontend
ZBX-14782	Deliver human friendly uptime in dashbord Frontend
ZBX-11325	Fixed transparency of draggable interfaces; changed cursor type for all draggable and sortable elements Frontend
ZBX-16048	Fixed global search box loosing the search phrase after searching Frontend
ZBX-15101	Fixed several object IDs allowing them to be 64 bit integers, added asterisk for map navigation tree name field and changed the error message to more generic one Frontend
ZBX-15933	Added state preservation eol Frontend
ZBX-10729	Fixed map element link coloring when linked problem is acknowledged Frontend
ZBX-16050	Fixed HTTP poller crashes Proxy Server
ZBX-16007	Fixed trigger list checkboxes when filtering by single host Frontend
ZBX-15871	Fixed problem events to be filtered by "suppressed" instead of "related to maintenance" Frontend
ZBX-16011	Made "Test all steps" button be available only when at least 2 preprocessing steps are created Frontend
ZBX-10550	Added warnings when Zabbix components have different versions Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11284	Removed sid URL argument for form cancel buttons Frontend
ZBX-11429	Fixed macro not being retained in trigger expression editing wizard Frontend
ZBX-15816	Increased header value input field max length Frontend
ZBX-16036	Fixed items being stuck in unsupported state under some conditions when "Discard unchanged" preprocessing step is used Proxy Server
ZBX-15677	Fixed the process of compiling the dummy.c module Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-15981	Fixed invalid xpath for vmware "eventlog" key with "skip" option Proxy Server
ZBX-15704	Fixed sending log meta information without obvious needs Agent
ZBX-15905	Added versioning of browser cached files Frontend
ZBX-15956	Reduced configuration cache fragmentation when reloading time based triggers Server
ZBX-15998	Improved performance of "Remove host", "Remove from host group", "Unlink from template" operations when processing network discovery events and using MySQL database Server
ZBX-15959	Fixed when undefined index: rows_per_page on Global search screen Frontend
ZBX-15935	Fixed infinite loop and 100% CPU usage when using OpenIPMI 2.0.26 or newer Server
ZBX-16005	Fixed "{{ITEM.VALUE}.regsub(<pattern>,<output>}" and "{{ITEM.LASTVALUE}.regsub(<pattern>,<output>}" being resolved to *UNKNOWN* during upgrade 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 4.2.2.

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