Release Notes for Zabbix 4.4.5rc1

21 January 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.4.5rc1.

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 4.4.5rc1. 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-5671	Added zabbix_js command line utility for embedded javascript testing
ZBXNEXT-5490	Added new key vfs.fs.get to collect mounted filesystems information and relevant metrics into json Agent
ZBXNEXT-5636	Added "Template App HAProxy" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5549	Added media "PagerDuty" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5472	Added "Template DB Redis" template Templates
ZBXNEXT-5239	Added housekeeping of unused/deleted items values in value cache Server
ZBXNEXT-5562	Added media "Slack" Templates
ZBXNEXT-5428	Added redis plugin for agent2 Agent
ZBXNEXT-5680	Added windows support to agent2 file plugin Agent
ZBX-3783	Added strict validation of input parameters in script.get() method API
ZBXNEXT-5473	Reworked template linking with Multiselect and loading macro list with AJAX Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-10240	Fixed maintenance time period update every field validation API Server
ZBX-17164	Fixed file change time in vfs.file.time on Windows Agent
ZBX-17135	Fixed allowing user to enter blank spaces in media type Webhook parameter names, script and menu entry name and URL fields Frontend
ZBX-17036	Fixed memory leak and wrong type cast; thanks to Yudai Hashimoto for the patch Agent
ZBX-16811	Fixed SQL error during prototype removal by adding select for update locks API Server
ZBX-17002	Added bulk gathering of attributes for Zabbix Java gateway when using attribute discovery Tools
ZBX-16960, ZBX-16961, ZBX-16964	Fixed time of check - time of use issues reported by coverity Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-17153	Fixed memory leak in alert manager Proxy Server
ZBX-16901	Fixed 'opdata' property in event.get and problem.get for events without triggers API
ZBX-16902	Fixed providing notifications for devices without audio support Frontend
ZBX-17127	Fixed crash on jsonpath function processing Server
ZBX-17080	Fixed deadlock on maintenance table when using Oracle database Server
ZBX-16907	Icmppingloss counting all after first 400 ping responses as lost Proxy Server
ZBX-17090	Fixed error when creating user with long password Frontend
ZBX-16325	Fixed httpstepid validation when its value exceeds int32 Frontend
ZBX-17113	Fixed agent2 build failure on 32-bit platforms Agent
ZBX-17078	Fixed web scenario step allowing to use 0 timeout API Frontend
ZBX-16997	Fixed duplicate entry errors on 32-bit architecture during item application discovery Server
ZBX-17102	Fixed scroll bar visibility in svg graph widget configuration form Frontend
ZBX-17049	Fixed non well formed numeric value encountered in maintenance API
ZBX-16866	Fixed indistinguishable validation messages for graph axis and unified graph validation messages in overrides Frontend
ZBX-16972	Fixed DB2 data import script Installation
ZBX-16481	Fixed spelling issues in the code Frontend
ZBX-1977	Reverted fix for axis labels calculation
ZBX-16894	Fixed dynamic rows losing old input at form error Frontend
ZBX-17019	Fixed aria-live message partially visible beneath multiselect controls Frontend
ZBX-16966	Fixed not operator in correlation function expression 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 4.4.5.

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