Release Notes for Zabbix 4.2.7

2 October 2019

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 4.2.7.

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 4.2.7. 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-1287	Added support for English performance counters on Windows Agent
ZBX-16511	Added source IP address to unknown request log warning message Proxy Server
ZBX-3783	Added strict validation of input parameters in valuemap.get() method API
ZBXNEXT-4920	Increased received packet size to 1GB Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-13266	Fixed performance of sql query with lots of items Proxy Server
ZBX-16089	Fixed Windows socket initialization in Windows sender sample application
ZBX-16228	Increased max length to 2000 characters for values of the headers of the http agents Frontend
ZBX-16480	Fixed error in graphs after page refresh if period was set to future Frontend
ZBX-16546	Fixed broken items mass update form preprocessing tab checkbox markup in firefox Frontend
ZBX-16452	Fixed inconsistency in show legend, working time and triggers for graphs in screens and dashboard Frontend
ZBX-16565	Fixed incorrect sorting of triggers in "Trigger overview" widget Frontend
ZBX-16530	Fixed color for blinked elements Frontend
ZBX-7798	Improved performance of icmpping* for fping v4.0 and more Server
ZBX-16522	Fixed undefined index "type" in pie and exploded graph creation API
ZBX-16545	Fixed shell script execution timeout log message Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16467	Removed tables without auto-increment from DBget_maxid_num function Proxy Server
ZBX-16538	Fixed color for the multiselect selected items Frontend
ZBX-16445	Fixed possible duplicate key insertion during LLD Server
ZBX-16539	Fixed "Template Net Juniper SNMPv2" Templates
ZBX-16349	Fixed "Delete missing" checkbox does not work when importing template without checking "Update existing" API
ZBX-16279	Fixed trailing spaces handling in value mapping when using MySQL Server
ZBX-16230	Fixed unreachable host next check calculation uses both unreachable settings and flexible item interval Proxy Server
ZBX-16460	Fixed Zabbix daemon termination on FreeBSD Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-16449	Fixed wrong order of the displayed latest values in problems Frontend
ZBX-16435	Fixed Zabbix graph spinning in preview tab in IE11 Frontend
ZBX-15766	Fixed the ability to add an unlimited number of widgets in the Dashboard Frontend
ZBX-16398	Fixed selection of discovered services by dservice.get "dcheckids" property API
ZBX-16370	Fixed link indicator coloring in network maps 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 4.2.7.

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 4.2 Manual