Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.5rc2

29 September 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.5rc2.

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 3.0.5rc2. 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-3106	Improved concurrent VMware item polling speed, reduced size of cached VMware data Proxy Server
ZBX-11136	Increased width of input fields Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), French, German, Korean, Persian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3389	Removed value length limitation in zabbix_sender when reading data from file/stream Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11220	Fixed visibility of latest event in Monitoring->Events page Frontend
ZBX-11204	Fixed parameter parsing in calculated items when it contains double quote escaping Server
ZBX-5448	Fixed possible delay when proxy sends cached history to server Proxy Server
ZBX-7595	Fixed long SNMP OID not being accepted Proxy Server
ZBX-7108	Fixed error when upgrading graph_theme table in proxy database from 1.8 to 2.0 Installation
ZBX-9068	Fixed forms behaviour when enter key is pressed Frontend
ZBX-11245	Fixed escaped double quote parsing in quoted parameters in array in item key parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11175	Fixed compilation failure for OpenBSD 5.8, 5.9, 6.0 Installation
ZBX-11137	Fixed validation of new host group when creating/updating template Frontend
ZBX-11151	Implemented dynamic default sortorder for graph item, default sortorder increases by one with each entry of graph item API Frontend
ZBX-8897	Increased performance of Monitoring->Events page Frontend
ZBX-10758	Added converting of SNMP lld rules in XML import API
ZBX-11131	Removed mistaken support of {ITEM.VALUE} and {ITEM.LASTVALUE} macros in trigger URLs Frontend
ZBX-11143	Added missing space in CTrigger.php SQL query API
ZBX-11040	Added "page navigation" context to translation strings "First" and "Last"; replicated translations for "First" and "Last" in "page navigation" context from 2.2 branch Frontend
ZBX-11070	Disallowed zabbix admin accessing notifications of users that does not share any user group Frontend
ZBX-11057	Fixed drawing lines of items with scheduled interval when graph data is selected from trends Frontend
ZBX-8801	Made "Trigger status" be always remembered in "Monitoring" -> "Triggers" and "Monitoring" -> "Overview", even if "All" Frontend
ZBX-10974	Fixed filter being reset when moving to a different page in "Monitoring" -> "Triggers" Frontend
ZBX-11020	Fixed "host.create" so that both "inventory" and "inventory_mode" are optional API
ZBX-8489	Removed ODBC request answer size limitation Proxy Server
ZBX-10830	Fixed SNMP trap to convert non-printable values from SNMPv3 to hexadecimal Server
ZBX-11071	Fixed closing success and error messages in IE Frontend
ZBX-11124	Fixed memory leak in process of deleting hosts, which occurs during lld processing Server
ZBX-11109	Fixed processing of parameter HousekeepingFrequency=0 in proxy Proxy
ZBX-11099	Reduced configuration cache lock time after host maintenance ends Server
ZBX-9413	Fixed disabled hosts linking to a maintenance Server
ZBX-11100	Fixed minor bugs and use of magic numbers in IP range parsers Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11072	Fixed problem with string truncation for IBM DB2 databases which contain the char '\r' Server
ZBX-11081	Fixed compilation error with curl library Installation
ZBX-10901	Added missing highlighting for some UI elements in focused state Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3351	Decreased padding in screens to make them more compact Frontend
ZBX-11059	Fixed duplicate notifications sending from one media type Server
ZBX-11073	Fixed compilation with Net-SNMP library support Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-10263	Fixed incorrect record count in getPagingLine() when search limit is reached Frontend
ZBX-10621	Fixed hanging of dragged widget while updating content Frontend
ZBX-10621	Removed excessive white space in dashboard Frontend
ZBX-10713	Fixed incorrect macro {ESC.HISTORY} that gathers history about one event to different actions Server
ZBX-10759	Fixed trigger prototypes status when host become unavailable Server
ZBX-10971	Fixed memory leak when action is removed from configuration Server
ZBX-10721	Made the third parameter (<port>) of "net.tcp.service" optional Agent Server
ZBX-11015	Fixed proc.cpu.util for non-privileged agent on Solaris Agent
ZBX-10753	Fixed server reconnection attempts to MySQL on start and while running in case MySQL stopped or restarting Server
ZBX-11012	Fixed expansion of macro {DISCOVERY.RULE.NAME} Server
ZBX-10504	Reduced padding around graphs to account for decreased padding in CSS Frontend
ZBX-10591	Fixed header widget being broken by selects with long values Frontend
ZBX-10987	Fixed table header line not being visible in dark theme Frontend
ZBX-10797	Fixed evaluation of user macros in calculated items 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 3.0.5.

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 3.0 Manual