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 it from download.

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
ZBXNEXT-5636	Added "Template App HAProxy"
ZBXNEXT-5549	Added media "PagerDuty"
ZBXNEXT-5472	Added "Template DB Redis" template
ZBXNEXT-5239	Added housekeeping of unused/deleted items values in value cache
ZBXNEXT-5562	Added media "Slack"
ZBXNEXT-5428	Added redis plugin for agent2
ZBXNEXT-5680	Added windows support to agent2 file plugin
ZBX-3783	Added strict validation of input parameters in script.get() method
ZBXNEXT-5473	Reworked template linking with Multiselect and loading macro list with AJAX

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Bug Fixes

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

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. 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 4.4 Manual