Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.14rc1

21 October 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.0.14rc1.

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 4.0.14rc1. 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-5481	Added support of {TRIGGER.ID} macro in trigger tags Server
ZBXNEXT-4746	Added "Template Server Cisco UCS SNMPv2" template Templates
ZBXNEXT-5422	Quoted numbers are now accepted by JSONPath aggregate functions Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-16605	Fixed accessibility of localstorage identifier if cookies are made unaccessible for client side scripts Frontend
ZBX-16754	Fixed trigger not firing for first collected value if it's timestamp is in future Server
ZBX-15211	Added key 'tests' for bootstrap.sh when working with cmocka tests Installation
ZBX-16542	Fixed incorrect displaying of unacknowledged and resolved recent problematic triggers in trigger overview and dashboard widget Frontend
ZBX-16749	Improved performance and memory consumption of script.getscriptsbyhosts() method API
ZBX-16725	Fixed detection of fping minimal interval Server
ZBX-16562	Fixed configuration.export method in API improperly formatting "application" property within "httptests" when exporting in JSON format API
ZBX-15222	Fixed housekeeper to cleanup history not only for current item type of information but also for other previously selected types Server
ZBX-16481	Fixed spelling issues in the code
ZBX-15675	Added support for more than 64 CPUs in Windows agent Agent
ZBX-16770	Fixed value mapping in Template Net HP Comware HH3C SNMP Templates
ZBX-16534	Fixed stdout and stderr redirection after external log rotation Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16368	Fixed fping double call Proxy Server
ZBX-16317	Fixed log.h is not self-sufficient Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16711	Ensuring errbuf is emptied before every curl_easy_perform request Server
ZBX-16664	Fixed IPMI poller skips processing if one of the elements is missing information Proxy Server
ZBX-16671	Fixed server crashing when linking web scenario template Server
ZBX-16750	Fixed broken validation of peer certificate issuer and subject strings in TLS connect, fixed logging Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16002	Added new macro EVENT.RECOVERY.NAME to display recovery event name in recovery alerts Server
ZBX-16512	Fixed false item insertion into the queue after maintenance Agent Proxy
ZBX-15685	Fixed zabbix_sender failing to report the error due to closed connection Agent
ZBX-16702	Fixed error in the elastic search clearing history API
ZBX-10805	Fixed log items graphs drawing with numeric values like trapper items Frontend
ZBX-16604	Fixed occurrence of an undefined index in discovered graph configuration API
ZBX-16611	Fixed memory and performance leaks in gtlc.js library Frontend
ZBX-15135	Fixed incorrect triggers being displayed in Availability report when filtering by template Frontend
ZBX-16681	Fixed displaying of "Acknowledge" menu option for "Not classified" problems in the Trigger overview page Frontend
ZBX-16428	Fixed SIGBUS crash when mmap memory is not accessible Agent
ZBX-16680	Fixed freeing locked resources when Zabbix agent cannot be started and has to exit with failure Agent
ZBX-16666	Fixed trailing slash being set in cookie path Frontend
ZBX-16612	Fixed possibility of high CPU usage on Windows Agent
ZBX-16683	Fixed race condition between history syncer and escalator that caused recovery operations being delayed by step duration Server
ZBX-16383	Adjusted timer sleeping period to process maintenances each minute at 00 seconds Server
ZBX-16575	Getting disk controller type from linked controller label value Proxy Server
ZBX-16561	Fixed JsonPath parsing for comma characters inside quoted string Proxy Server
ZBX-16677	Fixed empty sql query DBexecute_overflowed_sql call during host availability update Server
ZBX-15897	Fixed overall health check in Template HP iLO SNMPv2 Templates

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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 4.0.14.

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 4.0 Manual