Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.2

12 二月 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.2.

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 2.2.2. Download it from download.

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-7649	Synchronize ICMP checks based on item interface. This should reduce the number of fping invocations in most cases
ZBXNEXT-2069	Added HOST.PORT macro support to internal/trigger based notifications and also to trigger names/descriptions
ZBX-1357	Updated American English, Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7521	Fixed possible crash because of item value type change handling in value cache
ZBX-7698	Fixed closing a connection to the database when database server is unavailable
ZBX-7758	Fixed server crash when processing low-level discovery triggers prototypes
ZBX-6296	Fixed macros in item names not being resolved in simple graph titles
ZBX-7743	Fixed not being able to save the user or profile form if PHP gettext is unavailable
ZBX-7693	Fixed user media validation
ZBX-7693	Fixed admin user being able to update media for other users
ZBX-7711	Fixed memory leak in vmware collector
ZBX-7600	Updated .htaccess files to be compatible with Apache 2.4
ZBX-7684	Improved displaying of script execution page
ZBX-7668	Fixed sending empty values when reading from a file with zabbix_sender
ZBX-7571	Fixed incorrect processing of \177 (U+007F) control character in json
ZBX-7726	Fixed max frontend available date displaying
ZBX-7690	Fixed cache for dynamic SNMP indexes not being used
ZBX-7610	Fixed not being able to configure an empty database host in the setup
ZBX-7168	Fixed configure.ac template to properly link libcurl to all components independently
ZBX-7671	Fixed error when importing an existing trigger with dependencies from 1.8
ZBX-7703	Fixed being able to switch users without proper credentials when using HTTP authentication
ZBX-7648	Fixed name resolution when using net.dns items
ZBX-6315	Fixed deleting of lost triggers by the low-level discovery rule
ZBX-7109	Improved performance of processing discovered triggers by the low-level discovery rule
ZBX-7608	Fixed crashes when global scripts timed out
ZBX-7561	Fixed SQL errors while processing host prototypes under MySQL
ZBX-7688	Fixed discovery item import
ZBX-4218	Rewrote the item key parser's source code for independence on the mbstring.func_overload option
ZBX-7697	Fixed items system.swap.in[] and system.swap.out[] going into an infinite loop on Solaris
ZBX-7647	Fixed trigger.get trying to sort by "lastchange" DESC even if a different sort field or sort order is given
ZBX-7686	Fixed UTF-8 strings not being fetched fully from Oracle
ZBX-6721	Fixed LDAP bind password being included in page source
ZBX-7609	Fixed sound playing after frontend messages closing
ZBX-7653	Correctly expand ITEM.LOG.* macros when retrieving eventlog specific attributes for log,logrt items
ZBX-7661	Fixed configuration parser to allow 2G cache values (it was restricted to 2G-1 before)
ZBX-7639	Fixed error when trying to replace host groups and add a new host group at the same time in the host mass update form
ZBX-7458	Added source IP validation on daemon startup
ZBX-7660	Fixed host.get returning the "templates" property even if the "templateids" parameter is not used
ZBX-6790	Changed net.tcp.listen and net.udp.listen keys to read the whole /proc/net/(tcp|udp)(6) file in a single operation to avoid losing data if the file is changed between reading operations
ZBX-7587	Set the correct server status (down) after ORA-01012, ORA-02396 errors
ZBX-7515	Added missing delayed loading option of wevtapi.dll for x64 systems
ZBX-7481	Added checking for OpenBSD version to avoid compilation error on OpenBSD v5.4 and newer due to removed swapins/swapouts uvmexp fields
ZBX-7576	Fixed network discovery processing broadcast responses as valid hosts
ZBX-7632	Allow to add favourite graph from disable host
ZBX-7634	Removed sid from trigger URL in Monitoring->Triggers
ZBX-5526	Removed checking for PostgreSQL server version and disabled nonstandard use of escape strings in order to support versions newer than 8.1
ZBX-7414	Added description to HostnameItem that UserParameters and aliases are not supported
ZBX-7590	Fixed displaying functional macros in graph names when host visible name is not empty
ZBX-7591	Fixed deleting web scenario steps on template linked to host
ZBX-7508	Fixed import map with LLD triggers
ZBX-7586	Fixed trigger log expression saving in IE10
ZBX-7518	Fixed graph scrollbar overflow when clicking period "All" and with no page refresh option
ZBX-7578	Fixed graph item validation
ZBX-7616	Fixed green background color for "New group" field in host edit form
ZBX-7567	Fixed processing of services[] key without a 3rd parameter
ZBX-7573	Fixed item being checked at a wrong time when using flexible intervals
ZBX-6545	Fixed possible SQL errors when syncing a node configuration with PostgreSQL backend version 8.2 and later
ZBX-7452	Fixed processing of received events from slave node
ZBXNEXT-1256	Fixed parameter passing for example userparameter to obtain process CPU usage
ZBXNEXT-1256	Fixed parameter passing for example userparameter to obtain directory size
ZBX-7484	Fixed escalations not being stopped and generation of multiple successive OK or PROBLEM events
ZBX-7521	Fixed crash if value cache entered low memory mode when adding a new item to the cache
ZBX-7521	Fixed memory allocator realloc() function bug in low memory situations
ZBX-4243	Fixed Zabbix syslog application names (RFC 5424 APP-NAME)
ZBX-3855	Fixed bug that prevented the frontend from working with the Turkish locale
ZBX-7483	Fixed user group delete validation
ZBX-6296	Optimized macro resolving in latest data
ZBX-6296	Rewrote user macros resolving
ZBX-6296	Rewrote macro resolving in function parameters
ZBX-6348	Fixed possibility to create host groups and update all other existing objects with name containing only zeros
ZBX-7288	Improved error logging for server-proxy communication
ZBX-7407	Fixed being able to change event source for existing actions
ZBX-7392	Fixed memory leaks in gnuregex.c
ZBX-7397	Reduced value cache memory usage
ZBX-7516	Fixed typo in SQL query: changed "impi_disable_until" to "ipmi_disable_until"
ZBX-7509	Changed "value_flag" to proper name "value_flags" in triggers API
ZBX-7489	Changed "filter_set" to no longer require SID parameter in URL
ZBX-7486	Fixed placeholder default value submitting for IE
ZBX-7438	Made frontend object status update messages more consistent
ZBX-7445	Fixed frontend redundant call of history
ZBX-7227	Modernized autoconf invocation and renamed "configure.in" to "configure.ac"; thanks to Dmitry Smirnov
ZBX-7443	Fixed adding screen to favourites from dashboard
ZBX-7490	Fixed displaying of graphs that include item prototypes in configuration
ZBX-7454	Fixed changing host inventory mode from "Automatic" to "Manual" when updating host with no "inventory_mode" parameter set
ZBX-7417	Expanded function last() with no parameters in map element labels and graph names
ZBX-7338	Fixed screen item validation
ZBX-7427	Fixed element links not being rendered correctly between host groups and other elements

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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 2.2.2.

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 2.2 Manual