Release Notes for Zabbix 7.4.0beta1

7 April 2025

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 7.4.0beta1.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution. Zabbix is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), thus it is free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use. More about Zabbix license.

This document contains the release notes for Zabbix 7.4.0beta1. 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-9718	Added additional log message to assist in finding which item causes exhaustion of value cache Server
ZBXNEXT-9850	Moved graphs and graph prototypes to MVC model and refactored edit forms to modal windows Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9782	Added Pure Storage FlashArray by HTTP templates for REST API v1 and v2 Templates
ZBXNEXT-2122	Added new user role actions to control access to create and edit own and other user media API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8784	Added ability to show map element and link labels only on hover, scale map background image proportionally, and set item thresholds and highlights for map links API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-9271	Added Azure MSSQL DTU database by HTTP template Templates
ZBXNEXT-9029	Added button for copying values to clipboard in item test form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8388	Added normalized_value tag extracted from ata_smart_attributes for Zabbix agent 2 SMART plugin Agent
ZBXNEXT-9703	Updated existing Zabbix server/proxy health templates; added Zabbix server/proxy health templates by Zabbix agent passive/active Templates
ZBXNEXT-9762	Added more detailed statistics to history syncer process title Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9338	Dropped legacy libpcre support Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9809	Added refactored webhooks Templates
ZBXNEXT-7048	Converted settings table to key-value format API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9644	Moved Media and Frontend notifications sections from Profile page to new Notifications page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9497	Added icmppingretry item key Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9624	Added support for PHP 8.4 API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9603	Added new built-in macros and functions for timestamp tracking Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-9719	Added history_cache_clear runtime command; improved disabled item to be cleared from history cache immediately; improved history cache message to log items with most values Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9626	Implemented support of nested host groups problems for map elements of "Host group" and "Map" types Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9564	Implemented vault macro resolution on proxies API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-9582	Added discarding of queued duplicate LLD rule values based on embedded and LLD macros Server
ZBXNEXT-9614	Implemented scrolling down to bottom in Item history widget when New values parameter is set to "Bottom" Frontend
ZBXNEXT-9508	Added custom query path to MySQL and Oracle plugins for Zabbix agent 2 Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-26197	Fixed max repetition count not being inherited by host created by LLD Proxy Server
ZBX-26074	Fixed authentication settings in README.md Templates
ZBX-25603	Fixed "Tag for matching" field visibility when "OK event generation" is set to "None" in trigger and trigger prototype configuration forms Frontend
ZBX-25928	Fixed error handling for invalid parameters in item and trigger popup URLs Frontend
ZBX-25683	Fixed Ctrl+Arrow shortcuts not working in preprocessing form Frontend
ZBX-26080	Fixed old file descriptors being held when external log rotation is used Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-25849	Fixed first scale value appearance for Graph widget right Y-axis Frontend
ZBX-25146	Removed concurrency when using net-snmp library for network discovery Proxy Server
ZBX-26121	Added default flags to net.dns.get arguments when none are specified Agent
ZBX-22654	Fixed item units not resolving when value mapping is applied Frontend
ZBX-25975	Optimized temperature sensors discovery in MikroTik templates Templates
ZBX-26026	Updated "get last backup" query in MSSQL by ODBC template Templates
ZBX-26208	Fixed buffer pool efficiency formula for family of MySQL templates Templates
ZBX-26093	Fixed Geomap widget displaced host popup Frontend
ZBX-26061	Fixed vertical text rotation for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages Frontend
ZBX-25306	Updated Zabbix web service chromdp and cdproto dependency Server
ZBX-25749	Removed theming from QR code Frontend
ZBX-23750	Updated documentation for SMART by Zabbix agent 2 templates Templates
ZBX-25612	Updated documentation for both Oracle DB templates and Oracle DB Zabbix agent 2 plugin Documentation
ZBX-25439	Added note about replication privilege requirements for MariaDB in MySQL templates Templates
ZBX-21876	Corrected getPluginCapacity to avoid false warnings when default capacity exceeds maximum capacity Agent
ZBX-26211	Fixed crash on check for not supported value Proxy Server
ZBX-26055	Fixed fail to refresh active checks when next refresh was faster than 60 seconds Agent
ZBX-22900	Fixed Zabbix agent crash on Windows while executing runaway regular expression Agent
ZBX-26042	Fixed agent redirection if host encryption settings are wrong Proxy Server
ZBX-26038	Added 10-second reconnect timeout for PostgreSQL read-only database Server
ZBX-26009	Prevented reporting successful completion for several UI actions when database transaction commit fails; fixed inability to identify interruption of database connection when calling *.get API methods API Frontend
ZBX-25717	Fixed tag inheritance for discovered triggers Frontend
ZBX-26006	Made PSK comparison case-sensitive during autoregistration Proxy Server
ZBX-24714	Fixed "Custom on fail" layout in item preprocessing form being broken in some languages Frontend
ZBX-25940	Added namespace to Pod discovery rule in Kubernetes nodes by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-25436	Updated Zabbix agent 2 server description in configuration file Agent
ZBX-25946	Fixed special pattern removing from multiselect and pattern select fields Frontend
ZBX-25855	Fixed CPU item in Ubiquiti AirOS by SNMP template Templates
ZBX-25837	Fixed global notification sound playback duration Frontend
ZBX-25886	Fixed wildard pattern in Top items widget Frontend
ZBX-22617	Enhanced Zabbix server performance by implementing parallel syncing of trends and avoiding range queries, resulting in faster shutdown times Server
ZBX-25706	Updated macro substitution process to re-try resolving macros in item key parameters and macro context without double-quoting if quoting was not possible Server
ZBX-25798	Fixed error with converting empty string to utf8 Agent
ZBX-25365	Fixed map element deletion during LLD and action operation processing by Zabbix server Server
ZBX-25861	Changed version checking of SSH2 library; increased minimum version to 1.8.0 Proxy Server
ZBX-25907	Fixed auto registration with proxy group to specific proxy in same proxy group Server
ZBX-25860	Prevented 06050165 upgrade patch from saving oversized escaped function parameters Proxy Server
ZBX-26108	Fixed Zabbix agent build on Windows with PCRE2 installed with vcpkg Installation
ZBX-25678	Fixed inability to select multiple tag values in graph subfilter Frontend
ZBX-25651	Improved trend update performance on TimescaleDB by using upserts instead of updates Server
ZBX-25419	Fixed macro expansion when simple context macro begins with substring ":regex" Server
ZBX-25607	Fixed column width in multiple list pages Frontend
ZBX-26029	Added device retrieval loop error exception handling to Meraki template Templates
ZBX-26066	Fixed autoreg_host table overflow during autoregistration Server
ZBX-25731	Fixed host interface going to unknown state when switching proxies due to proxy HA Server
ZBX-26016	Fixed network device and mounted fs LLD rules in VMware Guest template; updated datastore item prototypes for family of VMware templates Templates
ZBX-26014	Added c-ares support for agent poller and snmp poller Proxy Server
ZBX-25670	Restored audit logging of host group links to hosts API
ZBX-25911	Fixed correlation form popup opening on Event details page Frontend
ZBX-26070	Fixed macro in HashiCorp Consul Cluster by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-25868	Fixed missing permissions for built-in templates Installation
ZBX-25744	Fixed column width in Top hosts widget sparkline chart when configured with a single column Frontend
ZBX-22952	Made matching of headers case-insensitive Frontend
ZBX-26010	Fixed template cloning error caused by invalid enabled_lifetime_type value API Installation
ZBX-25582	Fixed "approximation all" for Graph widget with multiple entries and same timestamp on single item Frontend
ZBX-23687	Added improvements and fixed bugs related to context menus Frontend
ZBX-26122	Fixed preprocessing step for monthly costs; added triggers for raw data; updated dashboard in Azure Cost Management by HTTP template 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 7.4.0.

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 7.4 Manual