Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.7

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.

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

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

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.

References

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