Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.7

12 Nov 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.7.

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 2.4.7. Download it from downloads.

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-2616	Update bundled dejavu font from 2.34 to 2.35
ZBX-1357	Updated chinese (china), chinese (taiwan), czech, french, italian, russian and turkish translations; thanks to zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8235	Fixed losing initial values when updating templated items
ZBX-9959	Fixed json validation: produce an error on invalid escape sequences in a string value
ZBX-9935	Added check for item delay, to be between 0 and 86400 seconds
ZBX-9967	Fixed agent compilation error on netbsd 7
ZBX-9347	Added information about zabbix_sender input file format to the man page
ZBX-9948	Fixed graph prototype preview for pie charts
ZBX-9889	Fixed vmware.eventlog item values to have unique timestamps in history table
ZBX-9919	Fixed y scale calculation for linear graphs
ZBX-9864	Fixed compilation warnings regarding size_t_max under netbsd
ZBX-9862	Added meta tag "msapplication-config" to prevent msie11 requesting browserconfig.xml
ZBX-9340	Fixed "data" property not being returned by api when error is generated on db level
ZBX-9866	Fixed error field being needlessly copied for lld rule when full cloning a host
ZBX-9863	Fixed compilation warning regarding "empty_str" initialization in setproctitle.c
ZBX-9912	Fixed item.lastvalue macro value being truncated at bytes rather than utf-8 characters
ZBX-9643	Fixed resolving of {trigger.name} macro in action messages
ZBX-7511	Removed trimming of leading and trailing spaces in snmp strings
ZBX-8899	Fixed retrieval of sensor readings on linux 2.6 and higher
ZBX-9917	Fixed log message when opening windows eventlog
ZBX-9855	Fixed snmp dynamic index cache refresh when snmp oid changes
ZBX-9740	Improved proc.num for protected windows processes
ZBX-9793	Fixed handling of opaque types in snmp
ZBX-9847	Fixed possible zabbix agent crash when executing system.cpu.discovery
ZBX-9895	Fixed memory leak in case of unsupported field type while processing configuration received over proxy protocol
ZBX-9796	Fixed item key vfs.fs.size operation for netbsd
ZBX-9858	Added error message logging when snmp trapper file size exceeds 2gb
ZBX-9666	Fixed invalid snmp dynamic index cache if 2 snmp agents have the same ip, port and oid
ZBX-9430	Fixed windows eventlog item incorrectly interpreting 0x00000103 return value as an error
ZBX-9655	Fixed crash if mysql connection object initialization failed
ZBX-9667	Fixed disabled triggers or triggers having disabled hosts or items affecting trigger dependency calculations
ZBX-9738	Fixed deletion of related action operations when deleting a host group
ZBX-9625	Fixed interface list bug in host form
ZBX-9607	Fixed step form in web scenario
ZBX-9668	Improved handling of vmware performance counter instances without data
ZBX-9677	Fixed compilation warnings in the escalator.c module
ZBX-9682	Fixed parsing of the numeric item key parameters
ZBX-9516	Fixed "go" button display after deleting applications
ZBX-9639	Fixed chart width validation
ZBX-9809	Fixed action operation validation
ZBX-9716	Fixed possible event record number wraparound issues in the old windows eventing support
ZBX-9258	Fixed alias for log[], logrt[] and eventlog[]
ZBX-4284	Improved handling of timeouting items on reachable hosts
ZBX-9721	Fixed agent log message for log[] item in case of log records longer than 256kb
ZBX-9631	Fixed "undefined offset" in the actions conditions and lld rule filters when using a custom expression with more than 26 elements
ZBX-7492	Fixed "undefined index" when importing host without macros
ZBX-8989	Moved total memory item from filesystems to memory application in template os windows
ZBX-9739	Fixed agent crash when active check fails without setting error message

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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 contact Sales for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 2.4 Manual