Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.1rc2

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.1rc2.

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 2.0.1rc2. 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

ZBX-5150
 added support of Numeric (unsigned) type for aggregated items 
ZBXNEXT-1259
 added a script file existence and permissions check for the "Script" media type 
ZBXNEXT-801
 maximum number of monitored disks increased to 1024, with dynamic increasing of shared memory size 
ZBXNEXT-1256
 added example Solaris partition LLD user parameter 
ZBX-5074
 redesigned action configuration page 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, French, Greek, Japanese, Ukrainian and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBXNEXT-1019
 updated jQuery to 1.7.2 and jQuery UI to 1.8.20 
ZBXNEXT-829
 added Zabbix server availability check

Bug Fixes

ZBX-5094
 removed trailing backslash from returned value {#FSNAME} by Windows agent 
ZBX-2801
 removed incorrect message after removing of master node 
ZBX-5188
 fixed incorrect graph themes being used for graphs from child nodes 
ZBX-5155
 fixed importing of triggers with dependencies from 1.8 to 2.0 
ZBX-5184
 fixed availability displaying for all types in host properties 
ZBX-5136
 fixed XML import handling of short and long empty tag syntax 
ZBX-5154
 fixed host group tab not adding selected hosts to the host group 
ZBX-5176
 fixed trigger events not being deleted when changing it to a templated trigger 
ZBX-5042
 fixed server crash while synchronizing host_inventory table 
ZBX-5042
 fixed possible SQL errors during node synchronization 
ZBX-5133
 fixed error when adding the first map element 
ZBX-5115
 fixed API object names being case sensitive 
ZBX-5058
 init.d scripts updated for Zabbix 2.0 
ZBX-5143
 fixed regular expression deletion action ignoring cancelation in confirmation dialog 
ZBX-5148
 fixed linking of item prototypes by a discovery rule 
ZBX-5061
 fixed Oracle SQL errors when executing data.sql 
ZBX-5123
 fixed Oracle SQL error while linking a template by server 
ZBX-5156
 fixed incorrect values in node edit form 
ZBX-5140
 fixed usermacro.get returning macros from all nodes by default 
ZBX-5106
 fixed trigger dependencies not being mapped to new triggers when cloning a host 
ZBX-5106
 fixed trigger dependencies on web triggers not being removed when cloning a host 
ZBX-5128
 fixed pagefilter->groupid 
ZBX-5073
 fixed parent template links in items, triggers, graphs and discovery rules 
ZBX-5104
 fixed severity colors in trigger forms 
ZBX-5104
 fixed trigger severity control working incorrectly on fast clicks 
ZBX-5119
 fixed maintenance till day 
ZBX-5105
 fixed server name not shown in page title 
ZBX-4863
 fixed graph Y marker positions and values when setting a minimum value for the Y scale 
ZBX-4861
 fixed excess queries upon no-change graph saving 
ZBX-5090
 fixed errors when fully cloning a host that contains trigger prototypes with web items in the expression 
ZBXNEXT-1256
 fixed example Linux partition LLD item 
ZBX-4980
 fixed error in decoding of big base64 encoded values 
ZBX-5081
 fixed simple slide show update changing slideids in a database 
ZBX-5092
 fixed the get method "nodeids" parameter not working in some APIs 
ZBX-5000
 fixed "all" shown instead of "not selected" in Monitoring -> Discovery 
ZBX-4793
 fixed processing of SNMP strings terminated with a NUL character 
ZBX-4793
 added support for display-hint when getting SNMP octet string values 
ZBX-5080
 fixed incorrect JavaScript parameter encoding in the map editor 
ZBX-5245
 fixed subfilter going out of screen when there are too many items 
ZBX-4974
 fixed showing of groups w/o templates when linking a template 
ZBX-5096
 fixed error when creating a hostgroup with too long name 
ZBX-4985
 improved hostgroup area icon layout 
ZBX-5078
 fixed item prototype application linking when fully cloning a host 
ZBX-5053
 fixed Y max/min value validation for calculated graph scales 
ZBX-5029
 fixed inherited item interface being updated incorrectly when changing it's type 
ZBX-4958
 fixed undefined indexes when switching auth method 
ZBX-5071
 fixed macros being deleted when leaving the "macro" and "value" fields empty 
ZBX-5076
 fixed possible server or proxy crash when using Calculated, DB Monitor, SSH or Telnet items 
ZBX-5032
 fixed media type selection in user properties 
ZBX-4864
 fixed graph Y axis label alignment 
ZBXNEXT-1225
 fixed multiple design issues 
ZBX-4932
 fixed weekly top 100 trigger report using incorrect time period 
ZBX-3106
 fixed supported types for calculated items 
ZBX-5030
 fixed IT services query in Oracle 
ZBX-5041
 changed {HOSTNAME} macro to {HOST.NAME} in the default templates 
ZBX-4974
 fixed and improved several popups 
ZBX-5020
 fixed undefined functions prior requirement check in setup.php 
ZBX-5016
 fixed graph borders in screens 
ZBX-4962
 fixed varchar default saving in MySQL 
ZBX-4977
 fixed GUI messaging 
ZBX-4994
 fixed SQL error when trying to remove host interface used in items 
ZBX-4918
 fixed value mapping when resolving {ITEM.LASTVALUE} and {ITEM.VALUE} macros 
ZBX-5013
 fixed requirements check in frontend setup 
ZBX-4923
 fixed IDs sorting before update and delete 
ZBX-5026
 fixed error messages when creating IT Service 
ZBX-3897
 fixed processing of proc.num[] item under FreeBSD; thanks to Jim Riggs

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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