Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.15

10 Aug 2015

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.

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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

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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

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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 2.0 Manual