Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.4rc1

28 November 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.4rc1.

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 2.0.4rc1. 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

ZBX-1357	Added initial Portuguese (Portugal) translation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1398	Changed vertical labels in Monitoring -> Overview from PNG images to text Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1398	Implemented flickerfree screen shadowing for old screen data Frontend
ZBX-1357	Added initial Indonesian translation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1393	Fixed global scripts font Frontend
ZBX-4638	Added support of {HOST.HOST}, {HOST.NAME}, {HOST.IP}, {HOST.DNS} and {HOST.CONN} macros in "params" field for SSH, Telnet and DB monitor items Proxy Server
ZBX-4663	Added possibility to use dots in JMX attribute names Java gateway
ZBX-5556	Action recovery message body can now be empty Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated American English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1426	Added initial Persian translation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1447	Added initial Finnish translation API Frontend
ZBX-5525	Renamed macro {TRIGGER.COMMENT} to {TRIGGER.DESCRIPTION} Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-5648	Changes don't allow update "templateid" in items, or create new item with predefined "templateid" API
ZBX-5684	Fixed inconsistency that CItem get() returned discovery rules and item prototypes by default API Frontend
ZBX-5684	Fixed problem when updating non normal items status, it's flag is changed to normal API
ZBX-5882	Fixed "Illegal string offset" errors and allowed templated trigger prototypes in trigger expressions test Frontend
ZBX-5848	Removed flexible intervals from items in the default templates Installation
ZBX-5877	Fixed tree position saving in IT services Frontend
ZBX-5878	Fixed misaligned leading lines in IT services Frontend
ZBX-5875	Fixed items configuration in French language Frontend
ZBX-5860	Fixed hostgroup massupdate API
ZBX-5814	Fixed an incorrect error message when saving an illegal trigger expression API Frontend
ZBX-4247	Fixed processing of trigger expression if item key contains another trigger expression string API Frontend
ZBX-2640	Fixed some issues when creating and editing log triggers Frontend
ZBX-5855	Fixed "Array to string conversion" errors in 1.8 XML import Frontend
ZBX-3684	Fixed "Undefined index" error in 1.8 XML import Frontend
ZBX-5732	Fixed sending data from a file in Zabbix sender Agent
ZBX-5741	Fixed Zabbix sender crash if a corrupted server response is received Agent
ZBX-5722	Fixed calculation of "vm.memory.size[available]" in Zabbix agent on Solaris Agent
ZBX-5149	Fixed refreshing of unsupported "Zabbix agent (active)" items by a proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-5759	Fixed Oracle ORA-01002 SQL error on items bulk actions Frontend
ZBX-5639	Fixed global options "dropdown first entry" and "remember selected" in availability reports Frontend
ZBX-5639	Improved sdii() debugging function Frontend
ZBX-5816	Fixed undefined index in Monitoring > Events, when favorite trigger has been deleted API Frontend Server
ZBX-5771	Fixed acknowledge tick mark lost on "overview" page Frontend
ZBX-5821	Fixed 2.0 xml format template import Frontend
ZBX-5791	Fixed possible SQL errors when linking groups to a host Server
ZBX-5786	Fixed screens import, that contain simple graphs or plain texts Frontend
ZBX-5753	Fixed server crash when using an icmpping* check as a discovery rule Server
ZBX-5382	Fixed agent crash on HP-UX Itanium; thanks to Alice Ferrazzi Agent
ZBX-5289	Fixed agent crash on Solaris; thanks to Jairo Eduardo Lopez Fuentes Nacarino, Takanori Suzuki Agent
ZBX-5744	Removed redundant HTML from the map monitoring page Frontend
ZBX-5744	Fixed script.getscriptsbyhost returning an unnecessary array of hosts for each script API
ZBX-5811	Fixed no permissions error when change user group "status", "frontend access" and "debug mode" using link in user groups list Frontend
ZBX-5751	Fixed CDiscoveryRule get() and CItemPrototype get() "selectGraphs" parameter API
ZBX-5667	Fixed host screen defined in template does not show item data for "Plain text" elements Frontend
ZBX-5762	Fixed undefined indexes in graph prototype form Frontend
ZBX-5125	Fixed possible SQL errors while upgrading DB Installation
ZBX-5415	Fixed check for PostgreSQL dev libraries Installation
ZBX-5740	Removed "discoveryids" parameter from CItem, CTrigger and CGraph get() methods API
ZBX-5740	Fixed CItemPrototype parameter "selectTriggers" not working API
ZBX-5111	Fixed child trigger data reset after changes in parent trigger API
ZBX-5742	Fixed trigger order_result in item and item prototype API
ZBX-5754	Fixed English strings in trigger expression helper Frontend
ZBX-5700	Added permission checks in frontend Frontend
ZBX-5700	Fixed error after image deleting Frontend
ZBX-5700	Fixed duplicates in audit log after deleting Frontend
ZBX-5700	Fixed spaces in audit log Frontend
ZBX-4186	Added permission checks in media types Frontend
ZBX-4185	Added permission checks in user groups Frontend
ZBX-5637	Changed form, functions description and parameters in trigger expression helper (popup_trexpr.php) and changed popup size Frontend
ZBX-5603	Fixed already defined constant error when db is unavailable Frontend
ZBX-5720	Fixed incorrect error when deleting internal host group Frontend
ZBX-5643	Fixed SQL error by adding permission check for triggers when adding nonexistent dependencies via API API
ZBX-5643	Fixed circularity check for trigger addDependencies() in API API
ZBX-5691	Fixed error when creating graph if Oracle configured to use comma as decimal separator Frontend
ZBX-5671	Fixed error when saving configuration in Administration -> General with Oracle backend Frontend
ZBX-5693	Fixed possibility to create graph with the same name as existing graph prototype within template API
ZBX-5698	Fixed API response after "triggerprototype.create", now request returns "triggerids" after INSERT API
ZBX-5648	Fixed problems with "templateid" in API; added check for "templateid" in graphs, triggers, items, screens and template screens; fixed full clone; fixed screen forms; fixed messages in API API Frontend
ZBX-5679	Fixed icon mapping icon preview in configuration form Frontend
ZBX-5137	Fixed host/group dropdowns changing selected value on refresh after page actions Frontend
ZBX-5688	Fixed trigger expression suffix support for graph triggers, only KMG were supported Frontend
ZBX-5665	Fixed LLD created triggers not being deleted when related trigger prototype is deleted Frontend
ZBX-5661	Fixed keys "vfs.dev.read" and "vfs.dev.write" with "ops" and "sps" parameters on Linux and FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-5614	Fixed agent compiling problem on OpenBSD 5.1 Agent
ZBX-5674	Fixed execution of actions with SSH commands with "Public key" autentication Server
ZBX-5656	Fixed timeperiod validation API
ZBX-5660	Fixed expression constructor exp labels style Frontend
ZBX-3204	Changed generating and reading algorithm for trigger expression condition functions, and fixed English translation Frontend
ZBX-5677	Fixed param field 3 manipulation in trigger popup Frontend
ZBX-5648	Disallowed changing "templateid" in items, or creating new item with a predefined "templateid" API
ZBX-5644	Fixed triggers with spaces in the expression missing from the graph legend Frontend
ZBX-5652	Fixed resolving of a {ITEM.NAME} macro in notification messages Server
ZBX-5454	Fixed encoding of long email subject line as required by RFC-2047; thanks to Jairo Eduardo Lopez Fuentes Nacarino Server
ZBX-3920	Added check for duplicate dependencies API Frontend
ZBX-5636	Fixed empty acknowledge block in event details if event has no acknowledgments Frontend
ZBX-5571	Fixed reporting of system.sw.packages for multiple package systems Agent
ZBX-5559	Fixed reporting of system.sw.packages with short package listing Agent
ZBX-5280	Fixed functional macros for newly created items returning 0 instead of 'no data' Frontend
ZBX-5280	Fixed HOST.DNS macro priorities when only JMX and IPMI interfaces are used in host Frontend
ZBX-5280	Fixed HOST.DNS macro not using default DNS from host interface configuration Frontend
ZBX-5280	Added HOST.HOST macro support in map labels for trigger items Frontend
ZBX-4097	Changed the "application", "host" and "group" parameters for item.get, trigger.get and triggerprototype.get to be case sensitive API
ZBX-1946	Fixed being able to create screen items with spans exceeding the size of the screen API Frontend
ZBX-5619	Fixed errors when importing a template with an empty screen API Frontend
ZBX-3803	Added PHP session auto start check in frontend setup Frontend
ZBX-5621	Fixed custom trigger severity displaying in user media configuration Frontend
ZBX-5617	Fixed class bug in trigger expression condition Frontend
ZBX-5046	Fixed an error when deleting a globalmacro when the macro doesn't exist API Frontend
ZBX-5595	Fixed "housekeeper" table getting entries when deleting a discovery rule or an item prototype Frontend
ZBX-5596	Fixed login form input field width Frontend
ZBX-5629	Fixed JavaScript error if user media contains doublequote Frontend
ZBX-5580	Fixed graph grid for negative values Frontend
ZBX-1825	Fixed clickable text in popup menu headers Frontend
ZBX-5582	Clarified StartTrappers parameter in the server and proxy configuration files Documentation
ZBX-4833	Fixed screens not being cloned upon a full template clone Frontend
ZBX-5547	Fixed server name and other parameters in frontend setup not being escaped Frontend
ZBX-3347	Fixed error when creating an item with a new application that already exists Frontend
ZBX-3907	Fixed API user.logout method API
ZBX-4983	Fixed importing of 1.8 templates if they contain already existing host macros Frontend
ZBX-5579	Fixed displaying 'Acknowledged' in Monitoring -> Triggers when a trigger has no events by displaying 'No events' instead Frontend
ZBX-5606	Removed 'units' and 'store value' fields for character data items Frontend
ZBX-5608	Fixed incorrect macro resolving in trigger descriptions if expression has duplicate functions Frontend
ZBX-5650	Added more information about ProxyLocalBuffer parameter in the example configuration file Documentation
ZBX-5414	Fixed handling of an incorrect username/password in SNMPv3 checks Proxy Server
ZBX-5609	Fixed defaults for parameters of vfs.dev.read/write items in "zabbix_agentd -p" Agent
ZBX-5552	Fixed processing of vm.memory.size[total] under FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-5572	Fixed trivial compilation warnings 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 2.0.4.

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 2.0 Manual