Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.1rc1

19 June 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.1rc1.

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 2.0.1rc1. 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-5150	Added support of Numeric (unsigned) type for aggregated items API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1259	Added a script file existence and permissions check for the "Script" media type Server
ZBXNEXT-801	Maximum number of monitored disks increased to 1024, with dynamic increasing of shared memory size Agent
ZBXNEXT-1256	Added example Solaris partition LLD user parameter Installation
ZBX-5074	Redesigned action configuration page API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, French, Greek, Japanese, Ukrainian and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1019	Updated jQuery to 1.7.2 and jQuery UI to 1.8.20 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-829	Added Zabbix server availability check Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-2801	Removed incorrect message after removing of master node Frontend
ZBX-5188	Fixed incorrect graph themes being used for graphs from child nodes Frontend
ZBX-5155	Fixed importing of triggers with dependencies from 1.8 to 2.0 API
ZBX-5184	Fixed availability displaying for all types in host properties Frontend
ZBX-5136	Fixed XML import handling of short and long empty tag syntax Frontend
ZBX-5154	Fixed host group tab not adding selected hosts to the host group Frontend
ZBX-5176	Fixed trigger events not being deleted when changing it to a templated trigger API Frontend
ZBX-5042	Fixed server crash while synchronizing host_inventory table Server
ZBX-5042	Fixed possible SQL errors during node synchronization Server
ZBX-5133	Fixed error when adding the first map element Frontend
ZBX-5115	Fixed API object names being case sensitive API
ZBX-5058	Init.d scripts updated for Zabbix 2.0 Installation
ZBX-5143	Fixed regular expression deletion action ignoring cancelation in confirmation dialog Frontend
ZBX-5148	Fixed linking of item prototypes by a discovery rule Server
ZBX-5061	Fixed Oracle SQL errors when executing data.sql Installation
ZBX-5123	Fixed Oracle SQL error while linking a template by server Server
ZBX-5156	Fixed incorrect values in node edit form Frontend
ZBX-5140	Fixed usermacro.get returning macros from all nodes by default API
ZBX-5106	Fixed trigger dependencies not being mapped to new triggers when cloning a host Frontend
ZBX-5106	Fixed trigger dependencies on web triggers not being removed when cloning a host Frontend
ZBX-5128	Fixed pagefilter->groupid Frontend
ZBX-5073	Fixed parent template links in items, triggers, graphs and discovery rules Frontend
ZBX-5104	Fixed severity colors in trigger forms Frontend
ZBX-5104	Fixed trigger severity control working incorrectly on fast clicks Frontend
ZBX-5119	Fixed maintenance till day Frontend
ZBX-5105	Fixed server name not shown in page title Frontend
ZBX-4863	Fixed graph Y marker positions and values when setting a minimum value for the Y scale Frontend
ZBX-4861	Fixed excess queries upon no-change graph saving API Frontend
ZBX-5090	Fixed errors when fully cloning a host that contains trigger prototypes with web items in the expression API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1256	Fixed example Linux partition LLD item Installation
ZBX-4980	Fixed error in decoding of big base64 encoded values Proxy Server
ZBX-5081	Fixed simple slide show update changing slideids in a database Frontend
ZBX-5092	Fixed the get method "nodeids" parameter not working in some APIs API
ZBX-5000	Fixed "all" shown instead of "not selected" in Monitoring -> Discovery Frontend
ZBX-4793	Fixed processing of SNMP strings terminated with a NUL character Proxy Server
ZBX-4793	Added support for display-hint when getting SNMP octet string values Proxy Server
ZBX-5080	Fixed incorrect JavaScript parameter encoding in the map editor Frontend
ZBX-5245	Fixed subfilter going out of screen when there are too many items Frontend
ZBX-4974	Fixed showing of groups w/o templates when linking a template Frontend
ZBX-5096	Fixed error when creating a hostgroup with too long name Frontend
ZBX-4985	Improved hostgroup area icon layout Frontend
ZBX-5078	Fixed item prototype application linking when fully cloning a host Frontend
ZBX-5053	Fixed Y max/min value validation for calculated graph scales API Frontend
ZBX-5029	Fixed inherited item interface being updated incorrectly when changing it's type API Frontend
ZBX-4958	Fixed undefined indexes when switching auth method API Frontend
ZBX-5071	Fixed macros being deleted when leaving the "macro" and "value" fields empty Frontend
ZBX-5076	Fixed possible server or proxy crash when using Calculated, DB Monitor, SSH or Telnet items Proxy Server
ZBX-5032	Fixed media type selection in user properties API Frontend
ZBX-4864	Fixed graph Y axis label alignment Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1225	Fixed multiple design issues Frontend
ZBX-4932	Fixed weekly top 100 trigger report using incorrect time period Frontend
ZBX-3106	Fixed supported types for calculated items Frontend
ZBX-5030	Fixed IT services query in Oracle API
ZBX-5041	Changed {HOSTNAME} macro to {HOST.NAME} in the default templates Installation
ZBX-4974	Fixed and improved several popups API Frontend
ZBX-5020	Fixed undefined functions prior requirement check in setup.php Frontend
ZBX-5016	Fixed graph borders in screens Frontend
ZBX-4962	Fixed varchar default saving in MySQL API
ZBX-4977	Fixed GUI messaging Frontend
ZBX-4994	Fixed SQL error when trying to remove host interface used in items API
ZBX-4918	Fixed value mapping when resolving {ITEM.LASTVALUE} and {ITEM.VALUE} macros Frontend
ZBX-5013	Fixed requirements check in frontend setup Frontend
ZBX-4923	Fixed IDs sorting before update and delete API
ZBX-5026	Fixed error messages when creating IT Service API
ZBX-3897	Fixed processing of proc.num[] item under FreeBSD; thanks to Jim Riggs Agent

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.0.1.

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 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 2.0 Manual