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