Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.5

17 July 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.5.

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 2.2.5. 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-8278

Prepared frontend for mbstring.internal_encoding ini option deprecation in php 5.6+ Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8405	Fixed typos in item descriptions for JMX Tomcat, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux and OpenBSD templates Templates
ZBX-8011	Fixed escalator giving false 'no media defined' errors Server
ZBX-8359	Changed servers timer processes title line to display amount of hosts that have changed maintenance status; active maintenance period count is no longer displayed Server
ZBX-8270	Fixed disk space reporting for large AIX file systems (>= 16 TB) Agent
ZBX-8422	Removed php mutex locking from server code because of not being used and incompatible licensing issues Proxy Server
ZBX-8394	Corrected misspelled "template" variables in API API
ZBX-8248	Fixed vfs.file.regexp, vfs.file.regmatch and web.page.regexp to handle carriage returns properly Agent
ZBX-8285	Fixed widget "History of events" and frontend messaging to use visible host names Frontend
ZBX-8151	Fixed XXE vulnerability on XML import using obsolete libxml versions; thanks to pnig0s@Freebuf for the report API Frontend
ZBX-8354	Removed period in caption for "Distribution of values for multiple periods" bar report Frontend
ZBX-8092	Fixed items being polled at the same time after host becomes enabled Proxy Server
ZBX-8324	Fixed there being too many expressions in a list in a SQL query Proxy Server
ZBX-8373	Fixed the argument to system.cpu.num[] being ignored on HP-UX Agent

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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 2.2.5.

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