Release Notes for Zabbix 4.4.2

25 November 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.4.2.

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 4.4.2. 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-5493, ZBX-16540	Moved LLD rules from parent templates to linked templates for Module HOST-RESOURCES-MIB SNMPv2, Module Interfaces Windows SNMPv2, Net Arista SNMPv2, OS Windows SNMPv2 Templates
ZBXNEXT-5570	Changed agent2 plugin configuration, moved MaxLinesPerSecond, EnableRemoteCommands, LogRemoteCommands from global to plugin configuration Agent
ZBX-16871	Fixed not setting the default values of multiselects on initial load Frontend
ZBX-16776	Reworked custom item select to multiselect Frontend
ZBXNEXT-5543	Added compression support for Zabbix agent 2 Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-5532	Disabled guest user by default Installation
ZBXNEXT-5500	Added scrollbars for item and problem descriptions Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4825	Implemented in Monitoring -> Problems the button "Export to CSV" to export all pages Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-16955	Fixed performance of history syncers and timer processes by not locking each other when suppressing events Server
ZBX-16884	Fixed links to usergroups in user list Frontend
ZBX-16842	Added range validation and optional conversion to is_double() Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16893	Fixed "Y-axis" graph widget field type Frontend
ZBX-16790	Fixed log rotation on Windows Agent
ZBX-16865	Fixed dynamic graphs not updating when changing host in combo box Frontend
ZBX-16856	Fixed "readonly" feature for checkbox and combobox Frontend
ZBX-9146	Fixed json null value being treated as empty string for LLD filters Server
ZBX-16828	Fixed array_db validation when validated value is not an array Frontend
ZBX-11659	Made user profile icon visible for guest user Frontend
ZBX-16745	Implemeted webhook returned tags preview in media type test modal window, added server improvements in webhook processing, removed webhooks from watchdog media type lists Frontend Server
ZBX-16849	Moved INTERFACE_TYPE_PRIORITY definition to misc.c Server
ZBX-16844	Fixed the process of saving the scroll position on the Latest data page in Internet Explorer Frontend
ZBX-16343	Fixed LLD not to create items on wrong host if there are failed transactions Server
ZBX-16730	Fixed disappearance of successful modification message while saving the Dashboards Frontend
ZBX-16823	Fixed preprocessing regex for ping.time Templates
ZBX-16883	Fixed possible out of bounds access in csv to json preprocessing Proxy Server
ZBX-16787	Fixed wrong placeholder in graph widget form Frontend
ZBX-16835	Fixed throttled LLD items being shown in queue when monitored through Zabbix proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-16679	Fixed username and password fields resetting and saving for item, item prototype and LLD rule on type change API
ZBX-16785	Improved performance of timer process when reading from "problem_tag" table Server
ZBX-16696	Fixed multiselect suggest box clipping when overflowing not allowed in parent containers Frontend
ZBX-16809	Fixed undefined offset error in action operation condition form Frontend
ZBX-16595	Optimized active logs checks monitoring when buffer flushing fails Agent
ZBX-16682	Fixed wrong element label update in map constructor Frontend
ZBX-16769	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 compilation on i386, arm, ppc64le and s390x architectures Agent
ZBX-16843	Fixed {TRIGGER.ID} to be supported on trigger level in addition to host level and template level tags Server
ZBX-16812	Fixed problems by severity widget problem duplication Frontend
ZBX-16815	Fixed widget form positioning when changing widget type from Graph to any other type Frontend
ZBX-16706	Fixed unneeded padding for dashboard URL widget Frontend
ZBX-16784	Fixed Oracle performance by using "between" operator in SQL queries Frontend
ZBX-16579	Fixed long text wrapping in the latest data history Frontend
ZBX-16767	Fixed possible null pointer arithmetic; thanks to Mikhail Grigorev for the patch Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16744	Fixed GO compiler check during configuration Installation
ZBX-16817	Fixed missing maxlength property for global macros description field Frontend
ZBX-16500	Fixed SLA calculation when requested time window starts during the service time; fixed downtime time calculation API
ZBX-16805	Fixed when the HttpTest API selects too many entries from the httpstep table when editing a specific Web scenario API
ZBX-10618	Fixed disappearing dependent trigger cells and rows in overview Frontend
ZBX-16596	Added handling of BOM to detect encoding for vfs.file.contents, vfs.file.regex and vfs.file.regmatch Agent
ZBX-16719	Added support of EVENT.TAGS.<name> macros to trigger based notifications Server
ZBX-16771	Fixed wrong Tab number being remembered when several browser tabs are in use Frontend
ZBX-16548	Fixed sort order in plain text screen Frontend
ZBX-16721	Fixed checkboxes of "Connections from host" in host prototype encryption tab not being disabled Frontend

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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 4.4.2.

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 4.4 Manual