Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.5

21 April 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.5.

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 2.4.5. 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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Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-1357

updated Polish and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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New Features and Improvements

ZBX-8839	Added timeout configuration option to Java gateway Java gateway
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (China), Italian and Japanese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-9457	Fixed server crash in case ValueCacheSize=0; thanks to MATSUDA Daiki for patch Proxy Server
ZBX-5717	Fixed incorrect calculation of icmppingloss[] due to floating-point errors Proxy Server
ZBX-9436	Fixed zabbix_server to not exit in case of database connection loss in the middle of transaction Server
ZBX-9355	Added host name and names of conflicting templates to the error message when templates fail to link due to a duplicate item, fixed linking of templates containing web scenarios Server
ZBX-9352	Fixed execution of remote commands on the server in case trigger expression contains multiple hosts Server
ZBX-9394	Fixed SMS sending with Teltonika modems Server
ZBX-3507	Fixed SMS sending with Huawei GSM modems Server
ZBX-7446	Fixed vmware.hv.status item always returning 0 (gray) status Proxy Server
ZBX-9346	Fixed importing trigger dependencies and maps that contain the triggers expressions with old style operators API
ZBX-9410	Fixed agent logging to eventlog (syslog option) on Windows Agent
ZBX-9365	Fixed array_combine() function giving a warning message for PHP versions < 5.4.0 API Frontend
ZBX-9395	Fixed overview triggers and data page to display results when the option to select first dropdown entry is set to "None" and a group is selected Frontend
ZBX-9402	Fixed trigger list sorting Frontend
ZBX-9102	Fixed "System status" dashboard widget performing poorly Frontend
ZBX-5656	Fixed maintenance.create and maintenance.update methods "timeperiods" parameter to be an array of arrays API
ZBX-9331	Changed value type of system.stat[kthr,*] items in "Template OS AIX" to float and added them to "Performance" application Installation Templates
ZBX-9368	Fixed possible SQL errors when linking of several templates Server
ZBX-9343	Fixed user ID being zero in audit logs for login/logout actions API Frontend
ZBX-9375	Renamed "Latest events" to "Events" in menu popup for trigger map elements and fixed its link not setting corresponding trigger in filter Frontend
ZBX-9251	Added missing socket closing to avoid large number of opened sockets Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9344	Fixed infinite looping in telnet.run[] in case there is no password prompt Proxy Server
ZBX-9369	Removed validation of DB_ID from user profile for removed medias and fixed incorrect DB_ID validation for arrays in bar reports page Frontend
ZBX-9348	Fixed possibility to enable/disable LLD trigger Frontend
ZBX-9268	Fixed misleading message in discovered object indicator tooltip when deletion date is in the past Frontend
ZBX-4633	Fixed host inventories not displaying all filtered results when record count exceeds global limit Frontend
ZBX-9286	Fixed configuration.import, when trigger expression have a user macro Frontend
ZBX-9283	Improved proc_info item (Windows only) to get more information about the processes Agent
ZBX-8875	Fixed undefined index in screens with dynamic graph prototype elements when host is not selected Frontend
ZBX-9203	Fixed host scripts menu popup not properly displaying script name when name contains HTML tags 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 2.4.5.

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 2.4 Manual