Release Notes for Zabbix 4.2.8rc1

21 Oct 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.2.8rc1.

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 4.2.8rc1. 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-5481	Added support of {trigger.id} macro in trigger tags
ZBXNEXT-4746	Added "template server cisco ucs snmpv2" template
ZBXNEXT-5422	Quoted numbers are now accepted by jsonpath aggregate functions

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-16605	Fixed accessibility of localstorage identifier if cookies are made unaccessible for client side scripts
ZBX-16754	Fixed trigger not firing for first collected value if it's timestamp is in future
ZBX-15211	Added key 'tests' for bootstrap.sh when working with cmocka tests
ZBX-16542	Fixed incorrect displaying of unacknowledged and resolved recent problematic triggers in trigger overview and dashboard widget
ZBX-16749	Improved performance and memory consumption of script.getscriptsbyhosts() method
ZBX-16725	Fixed detection of fping minimal interval
ZBX-16562	Fixed configuration.export method in api improperly formatting "application" property within "httptests" when exporting in json format
ZBX-15222	Fixed housekeeper to cleanup history not only for current item type of information but also for other previously selected types
ZBX-15675	Added support for more than 64 cpus in windows agent
ZBX-16481	Fixed spelling issues in the code
ZBX-16770	Fixed value mapping in template net hp comware hh3c snmp
ZBX-16650	Fixed empty transaction to database in lld worker
ZBX-16534	Fixed stdout and stderr redirection after external log rotation
ZBX-16368	Fixed fping double call
ZBX-16317	Fixed log.h is not self-sufficient
ZBX-16711	Ensuring errbuf is emptied before every curl_easy_perform request
ZBX-16750	Fixed broken validation of peer certificate issuer and subject strings in tls connect, fixed logging
ZBX-16664	Fixed ipmi poller skips processing if one of the elements is missing information
ZBX-16671	Fixed server crashing when linking web scenario template
ZBX-15685	Fixed zabbix_sender failing to report the error due to closed connection
ZBX-16002	Added new macro event.recovery.name to display recovery event name in recovery alerts
ZBX-16512	Fixed false item insertion into the queue after maintenance
ZBX-16702	Fixed error in the elastic search clearing history
ZBX-10805	Fixed log items graphs drawing with numeric values like trapper items
ZBX-16604	Fixed occurrence of an undefined index in discovered graph configuration
ZBX-16611	Fixed memory and performance leaks in gtlc.js library
ZBX-15135	Fixed incorrect triggers being displayed in availability report when filtering by template
ZBX-16681	Fixed displaying of "acknowledge" menu option for "not classified" problems in the trigger overview page
ZBX-16428	Fixed sigbus crash when mmap memory is not accessible
ZBX-16680	Fixed freeing locked resources when zabbix agent cannot be started and has to exit with failure
ZBX-16666	Fixed trailing slash being set in cookie path
ZBX-16612	Fixed possibility of high cpu usage on windows
ZBX-16683	Fixed race condition between history syncer and escalator that caused recovery operations being delayed by step duration
ZBX-16383	Adjusted timer sleeping period to process maintenances each minute at 00 seconds
ZBX-16575	Getting disk controller type from linked controller label value
ZBX-16561	Fixed jsonpath parsing for comma characters inside quoted string
ZBX-16677	Fixed empty sql query dbexecute_overflowed_sql call during host availability update
ZBX-15897	Fixed overall health check in template hp ilo snmpv2

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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 4.2 Manual