Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.1rc2

20 Jun 2012

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.

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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

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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

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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