Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.15rc1

4 August 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.15rc1.

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 2.0.15rc1. Download 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-786	Made net.tcp.service[ntp] item work over UDP Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8839	Added timeout configuration option to Java gateway Java gateway
ZBX-1357	Updated Czech, Japanese and Polish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.0.15.

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