Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 4.2.0alpha3

28 January 2019

Das Zabbix Team freut sich, Ihnen Zabbix vorzustellen 4.2.0alpha3.

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Dieses Dokument enthält die Release-Hinweise für Zabbix 4.2.0alpha3. Sie finden es unter download.

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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-4868	Added TimescaleDB support Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-4877	Implemented support for custom JSON path in LLD macros API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-1190	Implemented item prototype mass update and combined adding, updating and removing of applications in single control in item mass update form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4933	Dropped support of "elementid" in map.create() and map.update() methods API
ZBXNEXT-4933	Dropped support of string format for "headers" and "variables" in httptest.create() and httptest.update() methods API
ZBXNEXT-4873	Implemented single dot datasets to be drawn as points in line vector graphs Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4724	Added validation and throttling preprocessing rules, ability to discard values and set errors API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-4876	Moved global search page to MVC framework Frontend
ZBX-14876	Added a new optional parameter <regex_excl_dir> to items vfs.dir.size[] and vfs.dir.count[] Agent
ZBXNEXT-4792	Added column "Latest values" in Monitoring->Problems and Dashboard Frontend
ZBX-15202	Implemented widget pausing methods in dashboard; made graph widget paused when using selection box or opening a tooltip Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2315	Implemented content matching in web monitoring headers Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-4853, ZBXNEXT-517	Added ability to send email messages in HTML format on demand API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-1282, ZBXNEXT-4730	Added changes to introduce regex based matching for auto-registration Frontend Server

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Bug-Fixes

ZBX-15577	Fixed restricted user access to the host name when calling host_screen Frontend
ZBX-13335	Fixed low performance with linkage of items and item prototypes to a lot of hosts API
ZBX-15435	Fixed "Undefined index" errors in the "Problems" widget with multiple active maintenances which part of these are inaccessible Frontend
ZBX-15417	Changed vmware collector to perform datastore configuration refresh only when directly monitoring ESXi version lower than v6.0 Proxy Server
ZBX-14896	Fixed low performance of the SQL statement when link template to many hosts API
ZBX-15220	Fixed displaying of last value for values received in the same second API
ZBX-15451	Fixed event correlation when "Event tag pair" condition is used and tag contains special characters Server
ZBX-15460	Reset agent availability when host status changes, e.g., when host gets disabled Server
ZBX-15331	Updated LLD item creation/updating error messages Server
ZBX-15465	Removed html non-breaking space from visiblity checkbox labels Frontend
ZBX-15307	Fixed upper level maps positioning in Monitoring Map screen Frontend
ZBX-15428	Improved regular expression performance by studying compiled pattern Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11761	Added warnings in case of TLS identity mismatch Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-15373	Fixed removal of trigger when deleting discovered item; fixed removal of dependent child items when removing master item API
ZBX-14613	Fixed hostgroup.delete and host.delete API methods to validate maintenance constraint API
ZBX-14863	Fixed authentication settings form of LDAP anonymous binding Frontend
ZBX-15374	Fixed SQL and PHP errors on chart3.php page Frontend
ZBX-15301	Fixed monotonous lag behind in Windows "system.localtime" Agent
ZBX-15377	Fixed error messages for arrays in GET parameters Frontend
ZBX-15369	Fixed "Undefined index: label" in map.update() method API
ZBX-15376	Fixed "Undefined index: refresh" on several pages with disabled guest user Frontend
ZBX-15375	Fixed web scenario step name can consist only of whitespaces Frontend
ZBX-15375	Fixed undefined index on Web scenario configuration page Frontend
ZBX-15372	Fixed SQL and PHP errors on "Slide shows" page when enter slides.php witout GET parameters Frontend
ZBX-15359	Fixed undefined index in maintenance.create and maintenance.update API calls API
ZBX-15358	Fixed undefined index in configuration.import API call without one or several rules API
ZBX-15355	Fixed undefined index in configuration.import API call API
ZBX-14926	Fixed empty "inventory" property being returned by API if inventory mode is disabled API
ZBX-15354	Fixed undefined index in API calls without "auth" parameter API
ZBX-15399	Fixed IPv4 connections not being accepted when IPv6 mask is used Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-14331	Fixed error allowing users to change type of a host interface that already has items attached API
ZBX-15241	Fixed escaping regexp symbols in preprocessing output parameter when creating item by LLD Server
ZBX-15254	Fixed incorrect matching string highlight in multiselect autocomplete box Frontend
ZBX-15136	Fixed displaying 'Plain text' on the dashboard as html Frontend
ZBX-14592	Fixed calculation of SLA and availability report when problem has negative duration API Frontend
ZBX-15400	Fixed possible crash in preprocessing manager when items with change/throttle preprocessing steps were not being monitored anymore Server
ZBX-13804	Fixed generic popup form submission Frontend
ZBX-15313	Fixed unit suffix support in calculated item expressions Server
ZBX-15156	Fixed undefined offset error in host screen with web item API
ZBX-14980	Fixed problem with filter by itemids and hostids in history.get API
ZBX-15224	Fixed failed query errors when receiving non UTF-8 history values Proxy Server
ZBX-14624	Fixed agent collector not releasing connection to missing/removed disk devices Agent
ZBX-15279	Fixed handling of LLD processing errors that should have resulted in not supported LLD rule state Server
ZBX-14604	Fixed displaying of the graph name on screens Frontend
ZBXNEXT-4588	Renamed 'display options' tab to 'displaying options'; fixed multiple layout issues, footnote in hint-box, field value handling, calculation of mouse position, multiple issues related with Y axis and problem styling Frontend
ZBX-15159	Fixed existing context menu closing when new one is opened Frontend
ZBX-15233	Renamed fuzzytime() function description in dropdown list Frontend
ZBX-12801	Excluded zabbix_sender.dll from MS Windows builds with TLS Agent
ZBXNEXT-4883	Fixed when trigger in problem state hides all dependent triggers in history view Frontend
ZBX-15260	Improved misleading warning message when agent fails to find log file during processing logrt[] item Agent
ZBX-15258	Fixed update interval of "Zabbix queue" item in server's template to be consistent with proxy template, added missing units in proxy template Templates
ZBX-15225	Improved handling of timeouts in "vfs.dir.size" and "vfs.dir.count" items on Windows agent Agent
ZBX-15206	Fixed deprecated net-snmp attribute Proxy Server
ZBX-15067	Fixed configuration sync of interfaces without hosts Proxy Server
ZBX-15238	Fixed updating nextcheck time in discovery rules to avoid overlaps between discovery executions Proxy Server
ZBX-13673	Fixed regexp validation when pattern contain slash character Frontend
ZBX-13773	Fixed naming inconsistencies in agent template, added more trigger descriptions in proxy and server templates Installation Templates
ZBX-14528	Fixed incorrect keycode handling in multiselect input fields Frontend
ZBX-15124	Fixed trigger overview behavior when show "any" API Frontend
ZBX-14648	Fixed performance with deletion of item in template linked to many hosts API
ZBX-9011	Added new LLD macros for vmware HV low-level discovery Proxy Server
ZBX-15105	Fixed colorpicker tooltip update Frontend
ZBX-14928	Fixed "check now" being executed for active items and templates API Frontend
ZBX-15153	Fixed custom interval validation; fixed parsing of custom intervals when user macros context contains forward slash Frontend
ZBX-9038	Fixed memory of performance counters consumed during vmware update Proxy Server
ZBX-8383	Updated Tomcat template for compatibility with recent Tomcat versions Installation Templates
ZBX-15078	Fixed API authentication for ldap users having gui access disabled API
ZBX-14880	Fixed misleading ldap authentication error messages API Frontend
ZBX-14877	Fixed style of disabled action on high contrast theme Frontend
ZBX-14606	Removed strict-transport-security header from frontend Frontend
ZBX-15020	Fixed negative time selector offset when selecting time range in graph Frontend
ZBX-14977	Fixed creation of unneeded database record if host prototype inventory mode is disabled; fixed validation for host and host prototype inventory mode API
ZBX-15146	Fixed SQL error occurred when too long IP address is attempted to be written in database API
ZBX-15148	Fixed web scenario item selection in SVG graph widget Frontend
ZBX-15107	Fixed error handling in logrt[] items if regular expression for file name is not valid Agent
ZBX-14800	Fixed resolving of functional macros in graph widget name Frontend
ZBX-15178	Fixed wrong behaviour when referencing unexisting capture groups in item regexp preprocessing, general pcre code improvements Agent Server

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Installations- und Upgrade-Hinweise

Installation

Siehe das Zabbix Handbuch für alle Details.

Upgrade

Siehe das Upgrade-Verfahren for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 4.2.0.

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Referenzen

Zabbix 4.2 Manual