Release Notes for Zabbix 4.4.8

27 April 2020

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.4.8.

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 4.4.8. 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

ZBXCTR-1	Added Telegram media type
ZBXNEXT-4829	Changed web setup wizard to not create and drop tables for DB connectivity test purposes
ZBXNEXT-5734	Added base64 encode, decode functions to webhook

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-17571	Changed preprocessing for the haproxy.version, discovery rules divided into HTTP and TCP services
ZBX-17524	Fixed time selector button state
ZBX-17496	Fixed UserMacro API validation
ZBX-17532	Added css files and sprites versioning by query strings
ZBX-17501	Fixed overlapping multiselect suggest with browser autocomplete
ZBX-17402	Fixed search field accidentally transform value to lowercase
ZBX-17505	Fixed crash inside a fork when calling vfs.fs.inode
ZBX-17412	Fixed updating metadata, ip, port for hosts with TLS certificate encryption monitored via proxy
ZBX-17558	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 compilation on MS Windows
ZBX-17140	Fixed builtin counter index rewrite on localized Windows systems
ZBX-16959	Fixed return code check of curl_easy_setopt
ZBX-17423	Fixed "reset" button in history page
ZBX-17551	Fixed duktape crash on ppc64le architecture
ZBX-16112	Fixed connection timeout issue with media type testing by increasing timeout to 65 seconds
ZBX-17377	Fixed HostInterfaceItem not being refreshed during active checks
ZBX-17395	Fixed deletion of templated applications that were linked to items when importing templates
ZBX-17359	Fixed "sortorder": "DESC" option with multiple sortfields
ZBX-16772	Enabled zabbix_agent2 to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2 on Unix platforms
ZBX-17500	Fixed errors in zabbix_agent2 man-page
ZBX-17336	Fixed wrong error message when fping fails
ZBX-17427	Fixed top busiest triggers filter
ZBX-17428	Fixed skipping null cells in CSV file
ZBX-17461	Fixed length parameter for web.page.regexp item key
ZBX-17457	Fixed description in Template DB MySQL by Zabbix agent
ZBX-17508	Fixed error in oracle database encoding check
ZBX-17442	Fixed web.page.get to time out when there is no response
ZBX-17429	Fixed trigger expression condition popup to display negative numbers upon opening existing expression
ZBX-17518	Fixed empty parameter handling in GET method of CurlHttpRequest
ZBX-17012	Fixed URL validator to also accept relative URLs
ZBX-17507	Fixed oracle query interpreted as a multistatement
ZBX-17368	Fixed HostMetadataItem and HostInterfaceItem handling in agent2
ZBX-17275	Optimized database requests in maintenance update
ZBX-17502	Fixed possible hang in agent2 when executing some metrics that forked another process
ZBX-17398	Fixed server crash when escalating internal events with OPDATA macro
ZBX-9387	Fixed incorrect maintenance calculations when DST changed to summer time
ZBX-17390	Fixed validation of the maximum selected period

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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 4.4 Manual