Release Notes for Zabbix 3.4.5rc2

19 December 2017

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.4.5rc2.

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 3.4.5rc2. 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

ZBX-12825	Implemented delayed URL validation; enabled user macros containing URLs as valid; made URL validation as optional; improved URL validation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4002	Implemented support for Elasticsearch as history storage Frontend Server
ZBX-12809	Implemented overlay dialog centering using javascript Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-13210	Fixed sort param logic for elasticseach API
ZBX-13188	Fixed possibility of endless loop during unrecoverable database error; fixed incomplete handling of database error Proxy Server
ZBX-13181	Fixed database configuration error reporting and message filtering when messages are received from clear_messages function Frontend
ZBX-13176	Fixed last item value retrieval errors in history manager Frontend
ZBX-12856	Fixed empty host filter when adding dependent trigger in trigger edit form Frontend
ZBX-13024	Fixed parsing "request" parameter for URLs without input parameters Frontend
ZBX-13153	Fixed possibility that proxy last access updates are lost during cache reload Server
ZBX-13149	Fixed possible crash in history syncer when processing deleted item Server
ZBX-13262	Fixed cookie http-only attribute to prevent XSS attacks Frontend
ZBX-13261	Fixed reflected XSS vulnerability in popup forms Frontend
ZBX-13260	Fixed permissions check in script execution form Frontend
ZBX-13190	Fixed check for permissions to enable/disable actions Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4223	Performed network templates cleanup Templates
ZBX-12974	Fixed TLS connection to passive proxy error handling Server
ZBX-12714	Fixed overflow property of svg Frontend
ZBX-12925	Fixed logic of commit/rollback operations Proxy Server
ZBX-13088	Fixed incomplete data in notification reports for yearly report types Frontend
ZBX-12887	Fixed alert error message visibility to unrelated users Server
ZBX-12497	Improved VMware event log data collection and processing Proxy Server
ZBX-8054	Relieved windows agent of dependency on MFC Agent
ZBX-13024	Fixed missed url search part in request login parameter Frontend
ZBX-12798	Added --with-libpcre-lib configure option Installation
ZBX-13044	Fixed undefined index when setting strict-transport-security http header Frontend
ZBX-12897	Fixed error causing empty list in popup window when opened from page having host group filter Frontend
ZBX-12948	Fixed percentile visibility in dashboard graph widgets Frontend
ZBX-12655	Added filter on event details page to show messages sent to users only from same groups API Frontend
ZBX-13061	Fixed memory leak in preprocessing manager Server
ZBX-12232	Fixed mysql m4 configuration script for mariadb C connector Installation
ZBX-12663	Fixed retaining the scrollbar position on page reload Frontend
ZBX-12247	Fixed multiselect not showing results for read-only objects in screen configuration Frontend
ZBX-13016	Fixed warning message shown by deprecated PHP 7.2 function create_function() Frontend
ZBX-12130	Fixed max length validation in textarea fields Frontend
ZBX-13027	Fixed floating range validation during conversion from uint64 to float Server
ZBX-12975	Fixed possibility of foreign key constraint failure due to events being removed before trigger data storage period expires Server
ZBX-11426	Fixed potentially incorrect delete procedure for problems and events Server
ZBX-8049	Fixed zabbix[java,,ping] to stay supported when java gateway is down Server
ZBX-12895	Improved performance of DB patch for updating data in the alerts table Installation
ZBX-12971	Fixed possibility of host availability being stuck in unknown state when monitoring though proxy Server
ZBX-12971	Fixed Zabbix proxy not to send same host availability more than once Proxy
ZBX-12800	Fixed incorrect trigger dependency calculation when processing dependent triggers in the same history syncer batch Server
ZBX-10754	Fixed inheritance of template properties in web scenarios API
ZBX-12926	Fixed translation string on administration general housekeeping page Frontend
ZBX-12738	Added missing key "vfs.dir.size" for active agent in item edit form Frontend
ZBX-12856	Fixed wrong default value for host filter when adding dependent trigger in trigger edit form Frontend
ZBX-12082	Fixed possibility to select triggers with same name in multiselect Frontend
ZBX-9567	Added missing fields to webscenario data handling Server
ZBX-11051	Fixed displaying highest severity when dashboard filter options contain unacknowledged only Frontend
ZBX-10710	Fixed CPU guest time utilization accounting in Linux Agent
ZBX-12978	Improved performance of preprocessor manager, alert manager/worker, IPMI manager/poller by reducing frequency of log rotation checks that handle stdout/stderr Server
ZBX-12936	Improved SQL performance by updating proxy last access in bulks Server
ZBX-12705	Added check for collisions and unsupported characters in macro names in jmx.discovery Java gateway
ZBX-12970	Fixed processing of alerts when related event is removed Server
ZBX-12544	Fixed compilation warnings Agent

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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 3.4.5.

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 3.4 Manual