Release Notes for Zabbix 3.2.0beta1

25 August 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.2.0beta1.

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 3.2.0beta1. 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-1791	Added evaluation of logical expressions with unsupported items in trigger expressions and calculated items; thanks to users alix and Calimero for patch Server
ZBXNEXT-2877	Added datacenter name to vmware hypervisors and virtual machines Server
ZBXNEXT-1262	Added support of nested host groups API Frontend Installation Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), Czech, English (United States), French, Georgian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1791	Enabled evaluation of nodata() and time-based functions for not supported items in trigger expressions and calculated items Server
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added history of events in Monitoring->Problems view Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added new filtering options in event.get() and problem.get() methods API
ZBXNEXT-3201	Dropped Monitoring->Events view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-104	Implemented ability to manually close problems API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3358	Added a beautiful favorites icon Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3195	Implemented independent escalations for each problem event Server
ZBXNEXT-3277	Added global event correlation API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3274	Added event correlation on trigger level API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added high-performance view of current problems, implemented problem.get() method API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3296	Added basic filtering for several frontend pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2430	Added new items log.count[] and logrt.count[], added option for monitoring fast-growing log files Frontend Agent
ZBXNEXT-3175	Added filtering for the list of templates and host groups Frontend
ZBXNEXT-821	Added possibility to view, copy, mass update and delete lld created elements API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3193	Added event_recovery table to link problem and recovery events, added problem table to cache active problem events Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3267	Added one minute delay for repeated SNMP trap file error log entries Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-3196	Added action option to pause escalations during maintenance API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-178	Implemented web scenarios import/export API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2087	Added trigger and event tags API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1638	Added macro functions to allow substring extraction from item value macros in triggers and notifications API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-2118	Added support of trigger option "OK event generation" and recovery expression API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1250	Added two new options "regexp" and "iregexp" to the third parameter <operator> of trigger function count(); thanks to Michael Kolomiets for patch API Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, English (United States), French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3135	Removed id field from history text and log tables API Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11109	Fixed processing of parameter HousekeepingFrequency=0 in proxy Proxy
ZBX-11105	Fixed compiler warnings regarding unused function parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11099	Reduced configuration cache lock time after host maintenance ends Server
ZBX-10476	Extended 'Template OS Windows' template by 'service.discovery' LLD Installation Templates
ZBX-9413	Fixed disabled hosts linking to a maintenance Server
ZBX-11100	Fixed minor bugs and use of magic numbers in IP range parsers Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11098	Corrected log messages about completion of the trend data synchronization Server
ZBX-11072	Fixed problem with string truncation for IBM DB2 databases which contain the char '\r' Server
ZBX-11081	Fixed compilation error with curl library Installation
ZBX-7602	Added error messages about invalid regular expressions in eventlog items Agent
ZBX-11093	Fixed possible crash when copying cached correlation rules Server
ZBX-10901	Added missing highlighting for some UI elements in focused state Frontend
ZBX-11075	Fixed host full clone with discovered items and discovered triggers Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3351	Decreased padding in screens to make them more compact Frontend
ZBX-3101	Fixed EVENT macro processing in recovery operations Server
ZBX-10761	Added upgrade patch to clean wrong values in 'triggers' table Server
ZBX-11059	Fixed duplicate notifications sending from one media type Server
ZBX-11050	Renamed constants SCREEN_RESOURCE_TRIGGERS_OVERVIEW => SCREEN_RESOURCE_TRIGGER_OVERVIEW SCREEN_RESOURCE_HOSTS_INFO => SCREEN_RESOURCE_HOST_INFO SCREEN_RESOURCE_TRIGGERS_INFO => SCREEN_RESOURCE_TRIGGER_INFO Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-11050	Changed translation strings "Alarm acknowledgements" => "Event acknowledgements" and "Status of triggers" => "Triggers" and changed few other translation strings to singular form Frontend
ZBX-11060	Fixed copying correlation_mode, correlation_tag, tags of trigger and trigger prototype API Frontend
ZBX-11073	Fixed compilation with Net-SNMP library support Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-10263	Fixed incorrect record count in getPagingLine() when search limit is reached Frontend
ZBX-10768	Fixed compilation warning on FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-10561	Improved style consistency for disabled elements Frontend
ZBX-3823	Improved validation and error messaging when history, discovery, autoregistration and host availability data sent by passive and active proxies are processed on server Server
ZBX-10030	Fixed API action update method request with only "actionid" property API
ZBX-9972	Changed SERVICE_SLA constant to match database default goodsla value Frontend
ZBX-10049	Fixed optional field validation in drule.update API method API
ZBX-10076	Fixed text information containing non-ASCII characters being saved incorrectly to IBM DB2 database in case of system locale misconfiguration Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-9989	Optimized SQL queries for graphs building 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 3.2.0.

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 3.2 Manual