Release Notes for Zabbix 5.4.0alpha2

18 February 2021

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 5.4.0alpha2.

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 5.4.0alpha2. 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-5868	Moved global mappings to host / template
ZBXNEXT-6385	Added template "Apache Ignite by JMX"
ZBXNEXT-6301	Extended set of collected VMware metrics for VM and HV
ZBXNEXT-6427, ZBXNEXT-6458	Added support for strong encryption protocols for SNMPv3
ZBXNEXT-6339	Added smart plugin to support S.M.A.R.T monitoring in Zabbix Agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6437	Added native support for system.sw.packages plugin in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6306	Added native linux support for key vm.memory.size in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6443	Added sha256() function to JavaScript preprocessing
ZBXNEXT-5809	Added VictorOps media
ZBXNEXT-6394	Added template "Hikvision camera by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6395	Added template "Jenkins by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6386	Raised javascript heap limit from 10 megabytes to 64 megabytes; fixed memory leak when heap limit is reached
ZBXNEXT-5759	Added Oracle DB tnsnames.ora service name lookup support
ZBXNEXT-6360	Added support of JavaScript for global scripts
ZBXNEXT-6441	Added function to configure HTTP authentication for embedded scripts
ZBXNEXT-6376	Implemented support of negative filtering for tags
ZBXNEXT-6183	Added md5 checksum computation to preprocessing
ZBXNEXT-6399	Added support of host and item macros for Script item parameters
ZBXNEXT-6207, ZBXNEXT-6318	Added support of API tokens
ZBXCTR-13	Added custom query support for PostgreSQL plugin and template, fixed unix-socket support
ZBXNEXT-5518	Added support of XML parsing in JavaScript
ZBXNEXT-5862	Added Rocket.Chat media
ZBXNEXT-6389	Added template for NetApp FAS3220
ZBXNEXT-6311	Moved host availability from hosts to host interfaces
ZBXNEXT-6295	Added 3rd level sub-menu
ZBXNEXT-6285	Modified Oracle initial scheme creating and image loading in to the BLOB fields
ZBXNEXT-6419	Added tablespace metrics to Oracle Templates
ZBXNEXT-6331	Updated plugins: ceph, docker, memcached, mysql, oracle, redis — unified functionality (parameters describing and parsing, URI parsing, using sessions, errors handling)
ZBXNEXT-6210	Added native support for proc.mem key in Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6252	Added support of LLD rule filter condition operators "exists" and "does not exist"
ZBXNEXT-6367	Added metrics to the official MySQL template
ZBXNEXT-6380	Added new key vmware.cl.perfcounter
ZBXNEXT-6330	Added Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 template
ZBXNEXT-6219	Added "HashiCorp Vault" template
ZBXNEXT-6231	Added Apache ActiveMQ template
ZBXNEXT-6257	Implemented Check for not supported value preprocessing step test
ZBX-2594	Separated host and template related objects: items, triggers, graphs, low-level discovery rules, web scenarios
ZBXNEXT-6324	Moved Configuration -> Discovery to MVC
ZBXNEXT-6319	Added systemd.unit.get item key to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6345	Added substitution of SID to account name and domain name in eventlog message
ZBXNEXT-6307	Added ability to read properties from a file
ZBXNEXT-6329	Added Template "GitLab by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6294	Replaced mass update pages with popup windows
ZBXNEXT-6325	Moved "Event correlation" to MVC and removed tabs in edit view
ZBXNEXT-6234	Added "Disk read/write request avg waiting time" items in template Windows physical disks
ZBXNEXT-6323	Moved Administration -> Queue to MVC
ZBXNEXT-782	Moved calculated, aggregated and internal checks to new history poller process; moved availability updates to availability manager; removed database connections from pollers, unreachable pollers and Java pollers
ZBXNEXT-6276	Improved period handling of macro function fmttime
ZBXNEXT-6332	Added {ITEM.VALUETYPE} macro
ZBXNEXT-6353	Added Morningstar devices monitoring templates
ZBXNEXT-6269	Added hv ip to vmware.hv.discovery and vm metrics for FQDN template
ZBXNEXT-6272	Added template VMWare FQDN and updated template VMWare
ZBXNEXT-6316	Added iTop media
ZBXNEXT-6281	Added template "Hadoop by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6351	Added template "Aranet Cloud"
ZBXNEXT-6275	Added Template "Zookeeper by HTTP"
ZBXNEXT-6280	Added trend function cache
ZBXNEXT-2480	Removed autocomplete from fields having sensitive data
ZBXNEXT-6253	Added native system.users.num support to Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6129	Added UnitFileState to systemd.unit.discovery for Zabbix agent 2
ZBXNEXT-6293	Replaced import page with popup window
ZBXNEXT-6290	Improved distinction between configuration and monitoring links in search results
ZBXNEXT-6282	Updated media types and templates to follow new JS methods naming
ZBXNEXT-6241	Made JS object and method names more JavaScript alike
ZBX-18134	Removed ability to read PSK fields of hosts and proxies
ZBXNEXT-6236	Added template "Apache Kafka by JMX"
ZBXNEXT-6201	Added "Template DB Apache Cassandra by JMX"

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-19025	Fixed usage of LIMIT in SQL in user.update and user.delete API
ZBX-19029	Fixed Zabbix server and Zabbix proxy not remembering last log size when preprocessing is used
ZBX-17543	Fixed error in case if wmi.getall returned no items
ZBX-18917	Disabled global script webhook execution on proxy
ZBX-18377	Fixed expression in "Memory usage is too high" trigger of "Template DB Redis"
ZBX-18886	Implemented proper resource cleanup when sender terminates by signal
ZBX-18963	Fixed preprocessing for archivelog items in Oracle Templates
ZBX-18741	Fixed numeric value encountered
ZBX-18967	Moved template "Hikvision camera by HTTP" from "templates/cctv/" to "templates/cctv/hikvision"
ZBX-18825	Fixed last year period calculation in service availability report daily mode
ZBX-18638	Removed triggers of the "Temperature" items, added the "Temperature sensor condition" items with triggers, removed unnecessary macros
ZBX-18720	Fixed full clone of discovered host having duplicate interfaces
ZBX-18449	Reworked trigger API validation
ZBX-18887	Fixed user session expiration when notification checks are performed in background
ZBX-18209	Fixed RegEx delimiter not being escaped in macro resolver
ZBX-18817	Fixed missing API and import validation for "unsupported check" preprocessing step
ZBX-18237	Fixed problem description icon in Monitoring->Problems in compact view mode being displayed above problem name
ZBX-18945	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 build Raspbian 10
ZBX-18309	Fixed reading log files with NULL character in log line
ZBX-18872	Fixed system.sw.os[name] for cases without quotation mark in /etc/os-release
ZBX-18885	Fixed SNMP agent item not accepting values that are bigger than 2KB
ZBX-18874	Fixed incorrect links in templates and webhooks documentation

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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 5.4 Manual