Release Notes for Zabbix 6.4.4rc1

20 June 2023

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 6.4.4rc1.

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 6.4.4rc1. 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-8497	Removed unnecessary JavaScript preprocessing in discovery rules in Kubernetes templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8465	Updated JavaScript scripts in Kubernetes templates Templates
ZBXNEXT-8467	Updated max supported TimescaleDB version to 2.11 Server
ZBXNEXT-7072	Fixed hintbox to be automatically closed when target element disappears Frontend
ZBXNEXT-8294	Added filters of node labels and annotations for Kubelet discovery in Kubernetes cluster state template Templates

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-22987	Fixed inefficient URL schema validation Frontend
ZBX-21892	Fixed wrong fs type returned by vfs.fs.get for file systems with identical mount point Agent
ZBX-21859	Fixed active checks occasionally not being executed on Zabbix agent 2 if checks for a plugin have long and short update intervals Agent
ZBX-22941	Prevented clearing of the user macro secret values on inherited host prototypes as the result of user macros modifications on the parent host prototype of a template API
ZBX-22889	Fixed performance problems by creating problem.cause_eventid index Installation
ZBX-22695	Fixed eventlog duplicate timestamps Agent
ZBX-22903	Fixed scale calculation for Graph and Graph (classic) widgets Frontend
ZBX-22838	Fixed Zabbix proxy reporting JSON error instead of TCP Proxy
ZBX-22904	Fixed streaming of metrics with large float numbers Server
ZBX-22148	Fixed the crash when updating a webhook to JavaScript that cannot be compiled Proxy Server
ZBX-22868	Fixed Zabbix agent 2 plugin Defaults when hardcoded value is provided Agent
ZBX-22399	Added TLS and Default parameters support to MQTT plugin for Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-20280	Fixed page selection in a dashboard after refresh Frontend
ZBX-22883	Fixed occasional crash of user parameters on Windows when using Zabbix agent 2 with UserParameterDir defined Agent
ZBX-22953	Fixed metric names in the Top hosts widget in global view dashboard, added missing connector queue metric to graph in Zabbix server health dashboard Installation
ZBX-22243	Fixed navigation away from edited dashboard without user confirmation Frontend
ZBX-22844	Fixed compilation of Zabbix on OpenBSD when linking with libevent Proxy Server
ZBX-22798	Fixed incorrect output of vfs.file.contents when reading frequently modified file Agent
ZBX-22805	Increased memory allocation limit for JavaScript execution from 64M to 512M Proxy Server
ZBX-21877	Fixed unnecessary proxy name wrapping into multiple lines in proxy list Frontend
ZBX-22697	Fixed VMware tags update error related to curl communication problems Proxy Server
ZBX-21573	Optimized preprocessing steps in the AWS EC2 by HTTP template Templates
ZBX-16326	Fixed displaying of the first and last data points on the graphs Frontend
ZBX-22467	Fixed missing bracket in a trigger event name in Windows templates Templates
ZBX-22738	Fixed flickering debug info while editing empty dashboards Frontend
ZBX-22231	Removed host and interface macros resolution from HTTP proxy fields in items, item prototype and discovery rule test dialogues Frontend
ZBX-22681	Fixed wrongly displayed Revert button for text macros in host, template and host prototype clone forms Frontend
ZBX-21194	Fixed filter form submission upon pressing Enter key in Safari Frontend
ZBX-22762	Fixed race condition in Zabbix agent 2 when reading filesystem Agent
ZBX-22348	Added user role requirement for creating a user or updating a user with role already set to the frontend Frontend
ZBX-21804	Removed requirement for write permissions on hosts, host groups, triggers, discovery rules, discovery checks and proxies when creating or updating actions API Frontend
ZBX-22743	Fixed user list filtering with user roles specified Frontend
ZBX-22418	Fixed popup form fields overlapping labels when textarea width is resized Frontend
ZBX-19590	Changed count_foreach to add 0 when no data are in the requested period Server
ZBX-22594	Fixed fatal error when a request contains invalid authentication parameters Frontend
ZBX-22397	Fixed disabled input field text color in Safari Frontend
ZBX-22691	Fixed action operations edit form opening wrong operation details popup window Frontend
ZBX-21593	Optimized preprocessing steps in the templates PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent and PostgreSQL by Zabbix agent 2 Templates
ZBX-22470	Fixed hang on logging when establishing an encrypted connection in Zabbix agent 2 Agent
ZBX-22314	Fixed OpenSSL, YAML, cmocka compiling in a non-standard location Proxy Server
ZBX-20263	Prevented the ability to link two or more templates with matching item keys to a host or template; improved the check for double template linkage and related error messages API
ZBX-22254	Fixed support of special characters in LDAP group pattern API Frontend
ZBX-22571	Fixed "service not equal" action condition not working as expected Server
ZBX-22644	Fixed Graph widget not showing all problems for multiple items with dataset aggregation enabled Frontend
ZBX-22698	Fixed spelling mistakes in the templates Templates
ZBX-21883	Changed Select map field of the Map widget to multiselect Frontend

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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 6.4.4.

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 6.4 Manual