Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.12rc2

9 五月 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.12rc2.

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 2.0.12rc2. Download it from 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-7811	Added example robots.txt file
ZBXNEXT-1889	Made startup.sh and shutdown.sh scripts for Java gateway work in /bin/sh Installation Java gateway
ZBX-7597	Added description of the returned value types to the agentd manpage Documentation
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Slovak and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7856	Fixed zbx_stat() not working with directories in Windows Agent
ZBX-7301	Do not put logrt[] item into unsupported state if log files do not exist (fixed as part of ZBX-6731 solution) Agent
ZBX-8111	Fixed possible XSS in tables with vertical header row cells Frontend
ZBX-8108	Fixed reading /proc virtual files without rewinding the file position Agent
ZBX-7825	Fixed saving of the history data in sequential time order on proxy side Proxy
ZBX-4675	Added error checks to avoid partial configuration loading Proxy Server
ZBX-6542	Added additional information in the default server configuration file about HousekeepingFrequency parameter Documentation
ZBX-7856	Added workaround for Windows _wstat64() not working with symlinks Agent
ZBX-8030	Fixed {HOSTNAME} macro resolving Frontend
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-7966	Fixed possibility to copy a templated graph Frontend
ZBX-7930	Improved execution time in Maintenance page Frontend
ZBX-7872	Removed discovery item prototype from calculation of required performace (NVPS) Frontend Server
ZBX-5778	Removed counting items in queue if host is in maintenance with no data collection Frontend Server
ZBX-6151	Fixed graph prototype and trigger prototype validation so item prototypes are no longer allowed from multiple discovery rules and fixed filter by flags not overriding in item.get method API
ZBX-5804	Added overflow/wrapping detection to calculated items Server
ZBX-7659	Fixed handling of hosts without any interfaces Server
ZBX-5379	Added stale PID file detection for Java gateway Installation Java gateway
ZBX-5558	Fixed Java gateway error messages not being shown in the console on startup Installation Java gateway
ZBX-6731	Faster processing of log files by agent on Unix Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-6729	Faster processing of log files by agent on Microsoft Windows Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-6933	Added substitution of eventlog parameter insertion strings Agent
ZBX-7853	Changed log level from warning to information when listener, active checks and collector processes start Agent
ZBX-7674	Implemented batch processing of IT services to resolve deadlocks and improve performance API Frontend Server
ZBX-5789	Improved performance of processing discovered graphs by the low-level discovery rule Server
ZBX-5789	Fixed updating of low-level discovered graphs: the graph identifier never will change Server
ZBX-7708	Fixed trigger prototype error message and trigger form default description value API Frontend
ZBX-7739	Removed unused label in screen configuration page when no elements exist Frontend

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.0.12.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 2.0 Manual