Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.4rc4

19 June 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.4rc4.

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 2.2.4rc4. 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	Updated Japanese translation; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Italian, German and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-7399	Improved multiselect, added popup select window Frontend
ZBX-7811	Added example robots.txt file
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-7555	Removed "select" statement from the history cache; increased the cache performance Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8213	Fixed possible crash when processing eventlog on Windows 2000,2003,XP Agent
ZBX-8358	Fixed overview screen elements being displayed incorrectly after refreshing Frontend
ZBX-8334	Fixed selecting group prototypes in HostPrototype::get() using Oracle backend API Frontend
ZBX-8061	Fixed vmware cluster functions returning notsupported despite clusters being discovered normally Proxy Server
ZBX-8348	Fixed processing of LLD triggers; functions in a trigger expression could have incorrect ordering Server
ZBX-8095	Fixed a bug in item queue that updated item's nextcheck but not its position in the queue Proxy Server
ZBX-8343	Fixed a bug in binary heap that could cause a slightly inconsistent ordering of elements in the queue Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8325	Fixed crash with Oracle when inserting large number of records Proxy Server
ZBX-8336	Fixed server crash with value cache is working in low memory mode Server
ZBX-8327	Fixed possible crash when processing Windows eventlog Agent
ZBX-8302	Fixed ordering of discovery rules Frontend
ZBX-8209	Improved host and item name column widths on Monitoring / Latest data page Frontend
ZBX-8287	Added truncating of long text values to maximum field length before inserting into database Proxy Server
ZBX-3163	Fixed trigger evaluation order so that it takes dependencies into account Server
ZBX-7373	Improved performance of latest data and item overview pages by taking data for limited period only API Frontend
ZBX-8200	Improved performance of Monitoring / Events page Frontend
ZBX-7983	Improved performance of "System status" widget API Frontend
ZBX-7901	Improved value cache database operations when caching count based requests Server
ZBX-8188	Fixed IPMI items staying supported when sensor data becomes unavailable Proxy Server
ZBX-8243	Added log message when the reason for an item being in an unsupported state changes Server
ZBX-8195	Fixed web scenario step validation for httptest.create and httptest.update API methods API
ZBX-6531	Fixed memory leak in filesystem discovery on AIX systems Agent
ZBX-8241	Fixed duplicate display of actions in media type list Frontend
ZBX-8269	Fixed processing of active checks in agent Agent
ZBX-8238	Fixed updating agent 'mtime' for logrt[] items; thanks to Yoshinori Komuro for patch Agent
ZBX-8143	Triggers are now committed to the database individually when setting to an unknown state to avoid potential locking between the poller and history syncer Server
ZBX-7968	Fixed bug when proxy stopped sending history data if it had more than 1000 unmonitored item values in history table; thanks to Corey Shaw for identifying the issue and providing a patch Proxy
ZBX-8251	Fixed possible crash when trying to get item value from a failed vmware service with log level set to debug Proxy Server
ZBX-8092	Changed the way the number of active triggers is calculated in the dashboard and zabbix[triggers] item Frontend Server
ZBX-8092	Added disabled triggers to the configuration cache for correct macro expansion in notifications Server
ZBX-8092	Added disabled hosts and disabled items to the configuration cache for correct macro expansion in notifications Server
ZBX-8230	Changed maintenance status log messages from warning to debug level Server
ZBX-7098	Improved handling of log file rotation/truncation for logrt[] and log[] items Agent
ZBX-8210	Fixed crash when attempting to evaluate an eventlog key for items obtained from the value cache Server
ZBX-8219	Fixed regression in ipmi checks to support on/off values for sent commands Server
ZBX-8213	Fixed library loading code on Windows to prevent potential crash condition Agent
ZBX-8223	Fixed compilation of dummy module on 64-bit platforms by adding "-fPIC" Agent
ZBX-7387	Changed default memory usage graph display method for operating system templates Templates
ZBX-8101	Fixed exporting maps from Oracle database API Frontend
ZBX-8198	Decreased verbosity of Windows agent with DebugLevel=4 Agent
ZBX-7729	Added data alignment to prevent crash on non x86 processors; thanks to Pablo Ruiz for patch Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8202	Fixed queue calculation for unavailable hosts which are monitored through a proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-8152	Added informative log message about optional database patches Proxy Server
ZBX-8138	Fixed SSH infostring searching and validation for SSH related items to allow information messages as per RFC4253 Section 4.2 Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-7875	Fixed wrongly reported system version for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 Agent
ZBX-7766	Fixed webscenario status code field validation to accept user macros API Frontend
ZBX-8127	Fixed truncation of hostname on HP-UX machines Agent Installation
ZBX-8181	Fixed possible entering of "history syncer" process in an eternal loop when processing IT services Server
ZBX-8176	Fixed SQL errors while mass operations when using Oracle database Frontend
ZBX-8158	Fixed disabled hosts not shown in trigger selection popup when in configuration Frontend
ZBX-7553	Fixed graph not getting period when coming from screen Frontend
ZBX-8075	Fixed triggers/data without application not showing in overview Frontend
ZBX-8111	Fixed possible XSS in tables with vertical header row cells Frontend
ZBX-7887	Fixed calculated item becoming not found if referenced item becomes not supported Server
ZBX-8100	Fixed map mass deletion using Oracle Frontend
ZBX-8148	Fixed maintenance warning message on php < 5.4 versions Frontend
ZBX-8108	Fixed reading /proc virtual files without rewinding the file position Agent
ZBX-8115	Added workaround for 64 bit integer binding not working with Oracle versions less than 11.2 Proxy Server
ZBX-8140	Added net.udp.listen key to item popup Frontend
ZBX-8123	Fixed form fields show/hide switching in IE9 Frontend
ZBX-8083	Fixed proxy performance query item conditions to be same as in dashboard Frontend
ZBX-8021	Fixed password changing for users with internal authentication Frontend
ZBX-8133	Fixed possible deadlock while updating host_inventory table Server
ZBX-8104	Fixed inverted case sensitivity for regular expressions Frontend
ZBX-8117	Fixed possible crash of agent under Windows after asking the "system.sw.arch" item Agent
ZBX-8093	Fixed incorrect plural in global script property host and user group labels Frontend
ZBX-7997	Fixed applications not being displayed in template item mass update form Frontend
ZBX-7825	Fixed saving of the history data in sequential time order on proxy side Proxy
ZBX-8035	Fixed proxy queue for ICMP, JMX and SNMP items being calculated incorrectly by the server Proxy Server
ZBX-6542	Added additional information in the default server configuration file about HousekeepingFrequency parameter Documentation
ZBX-8077	Fixed log messages about sending/receiving of the configuration data Proxy Server
ZBX-8060	Fixed server crash when calculating queue Server
ZBX-7867	Fixed graph item drag and drop when selecting multiple items Frontend
ZBX-8046	Fixed application toggling in Latest data page if same item belongs to several applications Frontend
ZBX-7856	Added workaround for Windows _wstat64() not working with symlinks Agent
ZBX-7534	Fixed buffers being too small for long function parameters containing UTF-8 characters Server
ZBX-7046	Fixed get_ip_by_socket returning an empty string for IPv4 addresses when Zabbix is compiled with IPv6 support Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-7630	Fixed monitoring event page navigation Frontend
ZBX-7990	Fixed marking of unavailable agents; it could cause excess utilisation of "poller" processes Proxy Server
ZBX-7837	Fixed y axis configuration in default proxy template graph Installation
ZBX-7957	Improved graph Y axis min/max value validation for line and stacked graphs Frontend
ZBX-8030	Fixed {HOSTNAME} macro resolving Frontend
ZBX-7974	Fixed host group selecting using invalid node in user group rights page Frontend
ZBX-7943	Fixed undefined indexes in HTTP test dashboard widget when no history is found Frontend
ZBX-7809	Improved validation on decimal values Frontend
ZBX-7809	Fixed unused graph Y axis min/max fields unsetting from db API Frontend
ZBX-7976	Fixed template "unlink and clear" leaving items attached to parent template Frontend
ZBX-7545	Fixed item mass update form being rendered with a delay when updating template items Frontend
ZBX-7864	Fixed filter by host group in "Availability reports" page 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 2.2.4.

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 2.2 Manual