Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.8rc1

11 四月 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.8rc1.

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 2.4.8rc1. 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-1357	Enabled French, Greek, Korean, Romanian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations to be displayed by default
ZBX-1357	Updated English (United States), French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-9859	Improved performance of screen.get method for an unprivileged user

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-10510	Fixed action condition time period checking
ZBX-10387	Fixed overview vertical column rotation for IE in Japanese language
ZBX-10485	Fixed database upgrade crash on attempt to substitute old-style comparison operators in empty trigger expressions
ZBX-10386	Fixed slideshow refresh rate
ZBX-10369	Fixed unexpected deleting of screen items in screen.update API method
ZBX-10342	Fixed item value not being cached by value cache if its timestamp seconds matches the oldest cached value timestamp, but the nanoseconds value is less
ZBX-4894	Fixed fping 3.x source IP option detection
ZBX-10429	Fixed expression evaluation when a negated macro or function has a negative value itself
ZBX-10320	Fixed NFS based VMware datastore statistics
ZBX-9991	Fixed functionality that adds last selected host group to new host groups list
ZBX-10356	Fixed user media form "send to" and "period" fields having incorrect "maxlength" property
ZBX-10221	Fixed MySQL transaction handling when execute query fails
ZBX-10366	Fixed parsing of VMware responses containing too deep XML data
ZBX-10238	Fixed error message when linking two templates with same item keys
ZBX-10319	Fixed graphs consuming 100% CPU when given incorrect "stime" parameter in URL
ZBX-10358	Fixed error messages in template screen cloning and web scenario step validation
ZBX-10215	Fixed host availability not being updated for connection errors on timeouting items
ZBX-10313	Changed wmi.get[] to accept UTF-8 encoded namespace and WQL query, fixed wmi.get[] to return UTF-8 encoded strings
ZBX-9661	Fixed bug when VMware collectors could sometimes use 100% of CPU without processing any data
ZBX-9784	Fixed host clone form to work with prototype v1.7.1
ZBX-9640	Improved server/proxy/agent item value timestamp synchronization
ZBX-10227	Fixed exporting events to CSV for selected host
ZBX-10112	Fixed displaying trigger name in IT service dependencies after error
ZBX-9938	Fixed displaying incorrect number of hosts that have acknowledged problematic triggers in dashboard host status widget when "Problem display" is "Unackowledged only" in dashboard filter
ZBX-10251	Fixed "countOutput" calculation in map.get API method
ZBX-9733	Fixed possibility to start several agents on the same port on Windows
ZBX-9991	Fixed functionality that adds last selected host group to new template groups list
ZBX-10165	Fixed construction of host discovery filter expression
ZBX-10270	Fixed HTTP proxy environment variables not being taken into account in Web monitoring
ZBX-10232	Fixed SQL errors with invalid "year" parameter in IT services report
ZBX-1357	Added more details to README file about how to add new language
ZBX-10150	Fixed "countOutput" calculation in screen.get API method
ZBX-10170	Fixed column names vertical rotation in Firefox v43
ZBX-7006	Implemented trend cache cleanup procedure which forces hourly flush of deleted, disabled or rarely updated item trends
ZBX-9904	Fixed server response when active proxy sends in historical data, info string was missing
ZBX-10219	Fixed pointer type in sizeof()
ZBX-10177	Fixed resource leak in sensor[] on Linux kernel versions 2.6 and higher
ZBX-10154	Improved sender.pl script to take advantage of buffering (increases performance and makes communication with daemons more robust)
ZBX-10138	Fixed action based host removal when hosts to be deleted have host prototypes
ZBX-10064	Fixed history cache synchronisation with database on shutdown
ZBX-9458	Fixed low level discovery macro substitution in calculated item formulas
ZBX-10110	Fixed using Japanese in global search
ZBX-10099	Fixed buffer flushing error when executing script on a host
ZBX-10077	Fixed deleting of profile data for current user
ZBX-9950	Fixed foreign key constraint violation when deleting discovered host triggers and graphs with their prototypes
ZBX-10126	Fixed compilation error in sensors.c on Linux 2.4 kernels
ZBX-10084	Fixed removing trigger-related network map elements
ZBX-9928	Fixed triple SMS being sent by single action with Cinterion MC35i modem
ZBX-9931	Removed 2KB item key length limitation when sent to agent
ZBX-9932	Removed 1KB zabbix_get item key length limitation

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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 2.4.8.

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 2.4 Manual