Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.0rc2

6 November 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.0rc2.

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 2.2.0rc2. 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-1513	Set autofocus for the event acknowledgement text field Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1998	Added vmware.fullname[], vmware.version[] key support Server
ZBXNEXT-1975	Increased the size of alerts table message field to 64KB also on Oracle database Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-1371	Added links to graphs, web monitoring and LLD rules in the search results; thanks to Volker Fröhlich and Marc for patches Frontend
ZBX-6832	Improved default templates (e.g., split "Template App Agentless" into 12 templates for each service) Templates
ZBXNEXT-1851	Hid American English, Greek and Polish translations from the frontend Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-1371	Fixed links in global search results to LLD discovery for non-admin users to say "Discovery" instead of "Discoveries" Frontend
ZBX-7304	Fixed wrong SQL statement in processing of escalations Server
ZBX-7186	Fixed recovery-awaiting escalations staying in the database forever if their action, trigger or item is deleted Server
ZBX-7280	Fixed map background in IE10 Frontend
ZBX-7276	Fixed count of displaying hosts in proxy list Frontend
ZBX-7299	Fixed dashboard widget drag'n'drop not working on PHP setups without JSON Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-7292	Fixed resolving of macros in host interfaces Proxy Server
ZBX-7061	Fixed warnings produced by clang static analyzer (e.g., Linux agent crash for item system.swap.in[sda3]) Agent Server
ZBX-7161	Fixed full clone form not saving data after an unsuccessful submit Frontend
ZBX-7161	Fixed the clone button in the host configuration form Frontend
ZBX-6528	Fixed highlighting unmonitored hosts in Host inventory page Frontend
ZBX-7259	Fixed "Show lines" field in Configuration > Screen > cell element to be a value between 1 and 100 API Frontend
ZBX-7286	Fixed displaying double quotes as HTML entities in trigger menu pop-ups Frontend
ZBX-7284	Fixed incorrect permissions when selecting a screen element from pop-up in screens and slideshow pages Frontend
ZBX-7282	Fixed server or proxy crash while terminating database upgrade by TERM signal Proxy Server
ZBX-7275	Fixed eventlog sometimes returning garbage value Agent
ZBX-7269	Fixed units and value type for vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},pfree] item in "Template Virt VMware Guest" template Templates
ZBX-7258	Fixed vCenter VMs unique identifier for host names Server
ZBX-7283	Fixed latest data table layout issues when switching hosts and the "Show details" filter Frontend
ZBX-5854	Fixed host status indicator not displaying maintenance status in the host configuration form header Frontend
ZBX-7242	Fixed sortable table elements not to change width while dragging them Frontend
ZBX-7213	Fixed pre-loader image width and height for Internet Explorer Frontend
ZBX-7273	Fixed newlines in default data strings for Oracle Installation
ZBX-7141	Made it clear agent of which particular type is unavailable for unknown triggers 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 2.2.0.

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