Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.6rc1

22 August 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.6rc1.

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 2.2.6rc1. 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

ZBX-8275	Implemented web scenario cloning Frontend
ZBX-8473	Improved performance of deleting triggers by API and server - events will be deleted only by the housekeeper API Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Slovak and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7721	Added support for discovering more than 100 hypervisors on large vcenter installations to vmware collector Server
ZBX-8629	Fixed crash in get_string() function when checking "Database monitor" items Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-4800	Replaced JSON.org library with Android JSON library; thanks to Volker Fröhlich for legal research Installation Java gateway
ZBX-4800	Fixed typo in item name in "Template JMX Generic": "mpTenured" -> "mp Tenured" Templates
ZBX-8488	Fixed items being shown in queue with a delay of more than 44 years Proxy Server
ZBX-8444	Changed the interval for checking sleeping escalations to improve performance Server
ZBX-8608	Added support of IP masks for action conditions Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-8603	Fixed web scenario fields "http_proxy" and "retries" not updating properly when linking template to host API
ZBX-8415	Fixed possible server crash on LLD hosts or host groups update Server
ZBX-8236	Fixed few memory leaks in Windows agent Agent
ZBX-8563	Added field "logtimefmt" to exported items API
ZBX-7621	Changed virtual machine disk and network discovery to use device name instead of instance id in discovered item name Proxy Server Templates
ZBX-8338	Fixed SNMP walking code so that it intelligently chooses either a string or numeric representation for an OID index Proxy Server
ZBX-8577	Added wmi.get[] to the list of suggested items Frontend
ZBX-8216	Fixed screen import error Frontend
ZBX-8510	Fixed possible deadlocks when updating IT services API Frontend
ZBX-8512	Fixed processing of web.page.regexp without a newline character in the end of http GET response Agent
ZBX-8424	Fixed finding last event for triggers API
ZBX-8424	Changed range limit when looking up eventids to the upper bound of a 64bit integer Proxy Server
ZBX-8493	Fixed usergroup.massadd API call to not create duplicate entries in "rights" table API
ZBX-8492	Fixed maintenance periods without hosts/hostgroups to be accessible by both admins and superadmins Frontend
ZBX-8428	Fixed item.get API call to return values for "lastvalue", "lastclock", "lastns", "prevvalue" only for last 24 hours API Frontend
ZBX-8371	Fixed issue when maintenance items with their hosts/host groups removed are not accessible in configuration Frontend
ZBX-8366	Fixed table header display in Monitoring -> Overview for IE11 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 2.2.6.

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 2.2 Manual