Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.7rc1

4 November 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.7rc1.

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 2.4.7rc1. Download it from download.

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 2.4.7.

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 2.4 Manual