Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.6rc1

15 April 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.6rc1.

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 2.0.6rc1. 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-1643	Added support of {TRIGGER.TEMPLATE.NAME} and {TRIGGER.HOSTGROUP.NAME} notification macros; thanks to Hmami Mohamed Server
ZBX-1357	Added Lithuanian translation; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1663	Added support for notification macros {TRIGGER.NAME.ORIG}, {ITEM.NAME.ORIG}, {ITEM.KEY.ORIG} Server
ZBXNEXT-1056	Added warning logging when active agent fails to connect to server/proxy Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-6468	Fixed regex in trigger expression test Frontend
ZBX-6389	Improved performance in Dashboard "System status" and "Last issues" widgets API Frontend
ZBX-6444	Fixed vertical text alignment in Monitoring -> Overview for IE8 and IE10 Frontend
ZBX-6408	Fixed action conditions not being deleted and actions not being disabled when deleting a template API
ZBX-5225	Fixed deadlocks while processing LLD rules; each prototype will be processed in its own transaction Server
ZBX-6413	Fixed Zabbix API function 'webcheck.update' incorrectly requiring 'name' API
ZBX-5225	Improved performance of processing discovered items by the low-level discovery rule Server
ZBX-6423	Fixed escalator to allow alerts while processing huge amount of escalations Server
ZBX-6306	Fixed frontend layout for latest Google Chrome 25 Frontend
ZBX-6318	Fixed undefined indices for large node IDs in DM API Frontend
ZBX-6388	Fixed regular expression namespace inside nodes Frontend
ZBX-6333	Added node support for global regexps Server
ZBX-6352	Fixed web scenario and discovery rule delay interval Frontend
ZBX-6357	Fixed template graph cloning Frontend
ZBX-4991	Fixed host availability checks with proxies Proxy Server
ZBX-6322	Enforced nls_numeric_characters setting for Oracle DB sessions Server
ZBX-6328	Fixed undefined index in proxy list Frontend
ZBX-6324	Improved text displaying in Overview table header in IE Frontend
ZBX-6261	Fixed service.getsla not working with Oracle database API
ZBX-5797	Fixed server SNMP interfaces ignoring IP/DNS toggle Server
ZBX-6290	Fixed icon mapping selection Frontend
ZBX-5321	Unified translation strings, fixed typo and SQL query formatting API Frontend
ZBX-5982	Fixed read only items being listed in popup for trigger expression Frontend
ZBX-6123	Ensured sequential IT services updates by database syncers Server
ZBX-5635	Changed value types to float for qps items in "Template App MySQL" Installation
ZBX-5622	Fixed grammatical error of snmptrap.fallback in help_items; thanks to Kodai Terashima Installation
ZBX-6191	Fixed state of unsupported items in data.sql Installation
ZBX-6262	Fixed regression when function is_uint_suffix() did not treat '0' as a valid unsigned integer 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 2.0.6.

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 2.0 Manual