Release Notes for Zabbix 4.0.42rc1

20 June 2022

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.0.42rc1.

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 4.0.42rc1. 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-7694

Added "utf8mb3" character set support for MySQL database API Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-21123	Fixed crash when VMware VC was not available at the first moment when starting zabbix_server Proxy Server
ZBX-21137	Fixed VMware collector crash related to datastore state disconnected from all HVs Proxy Server

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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 4.0.42.

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