Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.15

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.15.

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 2.0.15. 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

ZBXNEXT-786
 made net.tcp.service[ntp] item work over UDP 
ZBX-8839
 added timeout configuration option to Java gateway 
ZBX-1357
 updated Czech, Japanese and Polish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

Bug Fixes

ZBX-9703
 fixed a memory leak in SSH checks when configured public and/or private key is not a regular file 
ZBX-9657
 fixed timeout error being recognized as success when executing scripts on nodes 
ZBX-9623
 fixed possible SQL error when network discovery rule and LLD rule are processed at the same time 
ZBX-9592
 fixed possible crash due to uninitialized counterpath variable 
ZBX-9290
 fixed log file reloading if its size is updated later than modification time 
ZBX-9456
 fixed system.cpu.util item to work correctly on OpenBSD 5.7 
ZBX-4529
 fixed security vulnerability in alerter script execution by using strong quoting for script arguments; thanks to Pavel for the report 
ZBX-8299
 fixed SQL errors in case a network discovery rule or check is deleted during processing 
ZBX-9467
 fixed agent compilation error related to "ifnet" and "ifnet_head" structs on OpenBSD 5.5 and above 
ZBX-5717
 fixed incorrect calculation of icmppingloss[] due to floating-point errors 
ZBX-9436
 fixed zabbix_server to not exit in case of database connection loss in the middle of transaction 
ZBX-9352
 fixed execution of remote commands on the server in case trigger expression contains multiple hosts 
ZBX-3507
 fixed SMS sending with Huawei GSM modems 
ZBX-9251
 added missing socket closing to avoid large number of opened sockets 
ZBX-9410
 fixed agent logging to eventlog (syslog option) on Windows 
ZBX-9367
 fixed "Status of Zabbix" and "System status" widget default refresh intervals 
ZBX-5656
 fixed maintenance.create and maintenance.update methods "timeperiods" parameter to be an array of arrays 
ZBX-9331
 changed value type of system.stat[kthr,*] items in "Template OS AIX" to float and added them to "Performance" application 
ZBX-9368
 fixed possible SQL errors when linking of several templates 
ZBX-9344
 fixed infinite looping in telnet.run[] in case there is no password prompt 
ZBX-9281
 fixed undefined offset in template screens when resource is URL 
ZBX-4633
 fixed host inventories not displaying all filtered results when record count exceeds global limit 
ZBX-9284
 added Zabbix log file locking to avoid incomplete logging on log file rotation 
ZBX-9087
 fixed DB_ID validation expression to properly validate upper bound of received value and fixed various front-end forms not properly validating IDs 
ZBX-9241
 fixed possible vfs.fs.discovery item crash on AIX systems 
ZBX-9104
 fixed repeated error messaging if SSH channel failed to close 
ZBX-8993
 added check for a valid reference of a global regular expression in LLD rules 
ZBX-9088
 fixed parsing of SNMP traps for correct processing of delayed traps 
ZBX-9093
 fixed API host.create method for MySQL strict mode when given partial data in "inventory" property 
ZBX-9168
 fixed incorrect keys and added missing keys in the item key helper 
ZBX-9197
 fixed PHP fatal error "Call to undefined function array_fill_keys()" in trigger.get method with PHP<5.2.0 
ZBX-9195
 fixed lastlogsize and mtime being updated on proxy for unsupported items; thanks to Yoshinori Komuro for patch 
ZBX-8828
 made ICMP items go unsupported if ICMP packets cannot be sent to their host 
ZBX-9176
 fixed {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.NAME} macro to expand properly for HTTPS and Telnet services 
ZBX-9126
 fixed processing of trigger/graph prototypes in case when all item prototypes in trigger/graph prototypes were changed

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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