Release Notes for Zabbix 2.3.2

11 July 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.3.2.

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 2.3.2. 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

ZBXNEXT-2301	Added a way to disable SNMP bulk operations per interface API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-2603	Added validation while working with regular expressions Frontend
ZBX-8278	Prepared frontend for mbstring.internal_encoding ini option deprecation in PHP 5.6+ Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2222	Added trigger status filter to the trigger overview page Frontend
ZBX-8339	Removed auto login/logout controls while editing guest user Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2203	Added information on the reason log[] and logrt[] items became not supported Agent
ZBXNEXT-2254	Added support for custom PostgreSQL schema to frontend and updated setup wizard Frontend
ZBX-8329	Added styling for disabled buttons and inputs Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2344	Added links on group names in "Web monitoring" widget Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-7399	Improved multiselect by adding popup select window Frontend
ZBX-8113	Changed frontend configuration wizard to store info in session instead of cookies Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7941	Changed page footer to show debug in fullscreen mode again Frontend
ZBX-8011	Fixed escalator giving false 'no media defined' errors Server
ZBX-8450	Removed carriage return stripping from text values when inserting data into the database Proxy Server
ZBX-8439	Fixed layout problems in host and template configuration, host inventory in Safari Frontend
ZBX-8443	Fixed host mass update form to be displayed correctly in Opera Frontend
ZBX-8437	Fixed JS errors after show/hide frontend filter Frontend
ZBX-8411	Fixed item selection by click-and-drag and element form hiding in sysmap configuration with IE8 Frontend
ZBX-8406	Fixed typos "overriden" to "overridden", "occurence" to "occurrance", changed "WEB" to "web" in translations and database patch files API Frontend Installation
ZBX-8397	Removed outdated queue related code from frontend and API API Frontend
ZBX-8359	Changed servers timer processes title line to display amount of hosts that have changed maintenance status; active maintenance period count is no longer displayed Server
ZBX-8375	Fixed multiple issues in various forms: removed duplicate hidden fields, added missing field translations, added JS confirmation message encoding and fixed displaying submitted values on failure Frontend
ZBX-8240	Fixed multiselect input placeholder behaviour on IE8, input cursor issue and removed "clear field" button for multiselect in IE10+ Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1782	Fixed testing of trigger expressions that contain nested parentheses Frontend
ZBX-8270	Fixed disk space reporting for large AIX file systems (>= 16 TB) Agent
ZBX-8422	Removed PHP mutex locking from server code because of not being used and incompatible licensing issues Proxy Server
ZBX-8377	Fixed dark orange theme input fields being displayed light blue, submit button hover not displaying as disabled and made readonly and disabled input fields more readable on all browsers Frontend
ZBX-8332	Removed redundant screen import code from 1.8 importer API
ZBX-1215	Changed captions of items and periods to be autogenerated by default in barreports Frontend
ZBX-8378	Fixed bar graphs to automatically resize vertically thus preventing broken charts when captions are very long Frontend
ZBX-8380	Fixed disabled confirmation text label in "Administration/Scripts" for IE8 Frontend
ZBX-8370	Fixed misc. bugs in barreports (input validation, default captions, caption escaping) Frontend
ZBX-8382	Fixed trigger severity sound not stopping in user profile form on "Stop" button press Frontend
ZBX-8315	Fixed host interface import (from 1.8 and up) to correctly create new or reuse existing interfaces API
ZBX-8248	Fixed vfs.file.regexp, vfs.file.regmatch and web.page.regexp to handle carriage returns properly Agent
ZBX-7459	Fixed saving and editing of regular expression having trailing, leading, or repeating spaces Frontend
ZBX-1268	Fixed log trigger expression editor to show only usable sorting arrows Frontend
ZBX-8285	Fixed widget "History of events" and frontend messaging to use visible host names Frontend
ZBX-8151	Fixed XXE vulnerability on XML import using obsolete libxml versions; thanks to pnig0s@Freebuf for the report API Frontend
ZBX-8354	Removed period in caption for "Distribution of values for multiple periods" bar report Frontend
ZBX-8092	Fixed items being polled at the same time after host becomes enabled Proxy Server
ZBX-8324	Fixed there being too many expressions in a list in a SQL query Proxy Server
ZBX-8355	Changed confusing context for date format translations Frontend
ZBX-7921	Fixed default values for screen item colspan/rowspan to 1 in frontend and database Frontend Installation
ZBX-8288	Fixed problems with vertical table headers sometimes being offset Frontend
ZBX-8213	Fixed possible crash when processing eventlog on Windows 2000,2003,XP Agent
ZBX-8040	Wait for proper SMTP response before sending first command Proxy Server
ZBX-8358	Fixed overview screen elements being displayed incorrectly after refreshing Frontend
ZBX-8196	Added validation for sorting parameters Frontend
ZBX-8334	Fixed selecting group prototypes in HostPrototype::get() using Oracle backend API Frontend
ZBX-8320	Corrected help item strings by removing double spaces in sentences and "IP" used in uppercase letters Frontend
ZBX-8061	Fixed VMware cluster functions returning notsupported despite clusters being discovered normally Proxy Server
ZBX-8348	Fixed processing of LLD triggers; function references in the trigger expression could be out of order Server
ZBX-8053	Changed label "Latest data" to "Monitoring" in host inventory view Frontend
ZBX-8333	Renamed screen item adding, updating and deleting messages Frontend
ZBX-8197	Fixed all data not being shown on a graph if the period is set to or more than 2 years Frontend
ZBX-8330	Fixed a bug with grouped buttons in discovery rules for SNMP checks Frontend
ZBX-8318	Added "d. m. Y" date format to recognized formats in frontend and set "Y-m-d H:i:s" as fallback Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2124	Fixed submap problem count calculation in Monitoring -> Maps when application filters are active Frontend
ZBX-8301	Restricted "unique" attribute to Zabbix agent & SNMP checks in discovery rule creation Frontend
ZBX-8095	Fixed a bug in item queue that updated item's nextcheck but not its position in the queue Proxy Server
ZBX-8343	Fixed a bug in binary heap that could cause a slightly inconsistent ordering of elements in the queue Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8325	Fixed a crash with Oracle when inserting a large number of records Proxy Server
ZBX-8336	Fixed server crash when value cache is working in low memory mode Server
ZBX-8327	Fixed possible crash when processing Windows eventlog Agent
ZBX-8306	Added Percona database support when compiling with --with-mysql configuration option Installation
ZBX-8287	Added truncating of long text values to maximum field length before inserting them into database Proxy Server
ZBX-3163	Fixed trigger evaluation order so that it takes dependencies into account Server
ZBX-7373	Improved performance of latest data and item overview pages by taking data for a limited period only API Frontend
ZBX-8200	Improved performance of Monitoring -> Events page Frontend
ZBX-7536	Changed popups to display host visible name instead of hostname Frontend
ZBX-8292	Fixed host prototype creation Frontend
ZBX-8092	Changed the way the number of active triggers is calculated in the dashboard and zabbix[triggers] item Frontend Server
ZBX-8092	Added disabled triggers to the configuration cache for correct macro expansion in notifications Server
ZBX-7901	Improved value cache database operations when caching count based requests Server
ZBX-8172	Fixed null JSON value decoding Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8188	Fixed IPMI items staying supported when sensor data becomes unavailable Proxy Server
ZBX-8216	Fixed screen import error Frontend
ZBX-8245	Fixed repeating of actions while sorting / paging Frontend
ZBX-5567	Removed parameter "not_proxy_hosts" from hostgroup.get API method and frontend code API Frontend
ZBX-8271	Fixed importing of maps with LLD discovered hosts Frontend

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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 2.3.2.

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 2.3 Manual