Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.5rc1

6 Feb 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.0.5rc1.

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 2.0.5rc1. 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-1600	Increased maximum values of *cachesize parameters up to 2gb
ZBX-5957	Added configure options to specify iconv include/lib directories
ZBX-1357	Added bulgarian translation
ZBX-6040	Added support of windows 8 and windows server 2012 for system.uname check
ZBX-1357	Updated american english, brazilian portuguese, dutch, finnish, french, german, greek, hungarian, japanese, latvian, polish, portuguese (portugal), russian, slovak, spanish, swedish, turkish and ukrainian translations; thanks to zabbix translators
ZBX-5920	Added prefetching of 2 mb of data for oracle sql selects

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-6349	Fixed calendar popup in graphs, events and screens date/time filter
ZBX-6217	Fixed inability to use html special characters in web scenario password
ZBX-5358	Fixed encoding of network interface names with non ascii characters on vista/server 2008 +
ZBX-6216	Fixed crash when zabbix_sender was used in realtime mode on windows
ZBX-6124	Fixed hostgroup.massupdate validation on removing group from host with only one group
ZBX-6197	Updated db2 image importer script to work with larger (>16kb) images
ZBX-6211	Fixed errors in monitoring->discovery and added check for discovery existing
ZBX-6069	Fixed axis in the default "zabbix server performance" graph template
ZBX-6195	Fixed navigation bar displaying when host remembering in switched off and user watch graph prototypes
ZBX-6140	Fixed job creation for script execution on windows 2000
ZBX-5933	Fixed triggers with negative values in graphs
ZBX-5532	Added support of 1.8 it services time format
ZBX-5945	Fixed map url expanding
ZBX-5968	Fixed updating of triggers and graphs when low-level discovered value changes
ZBX-6180	Fixed host edit page for ibm db2
ZBX-5863	Changed external command execution to store output in a dynamically allocated buffer up to 512kb
ZBX-6177	Fixed testing of a trigger expression with an item prototype
ZBX-6175	Fixed password field naming in item properties
ZBX-6005	Fixed event.get not returning network discovery or auto-registration events for admin users when passing only the "source" parameter
ZBX-6173	Removed unknown trigger color from the trigger overview help pop up
ZBX-6161	Fixed reading empty files with vfs.file.contents key
ZBX-5458	Fixed some date strings being not translatable
ZBX-6114	Fixed errors in graphs (invalid arguments and division by zero)
ZBX-6057	Fixed using of serveractive option by zabbix_sender
ZBX-6142	Fixed "current host" removing in configuration -> actions -> operations
ZBX-6131	Fixed undefined indexes in maintenance periods
ZBX-6133	Fixed undefined indexes when importing hosts with "update existing" disabled
ZBX-6122	Fixed error when trying to create an it service and submitting an incorrectly filled form
ZBX-6101	Fixed processing of snmp traps in maintenance "with data collection"; thanks to volker fröhlich for patch
ZBX-6012	Added support of user macros and global regular expressions in snmp trap item key parameter
ZBX-5973	Improved performance of snmp dynamic index item cache building in poller processes
ZBX-3534	Fixed templated linking using read-only template
ZBX-6110	Fixed selected map remembering in monitoring -> maps
ZBX-6117	Fixed item value macros resolving using non-converted to null values
ZBX-6113	Fixed hidden input field appearing when assigning hosts to groups in ie
ZBX-6063	Fixed graph selection pop up working incorrectly when adding a graph to a templated screen
ZBX-6014	Improved performance in most it services pages and pages that retrieve trigger information
ZBX-6070	Fixed event csv export ignoring the selected page and filters
ZBX-6006	Optimized web interface api calls, which requested redundant data
ZBX-5806	Fixed template.massadd and template.massremove returning an empty hostids array
ZBX-5201	Added handling of perfcounter error pdh_calc_negative_denominator
ZBX-6054	Fixed host write permissions being required to view screens
ZBX-6027	Fixed global notification messages not working in fullscreen frontend mode
ZBX-6037	Fixed duplicate frontend messages and changed frontend messages to show last event for 15 triggers instead of last 15 events
ZBX-5900	Fixed date validation in services and maintenances, fixed js calendar and fixed maintenance period validation
ZBX-5835	Fixed possible "undefined index" in configuration -> actions screen
ZBX-6097	Fixed the ability to override ldap configuration when calling user.login
ZBX-5986	Fixed page filter to not use remembered group if selected host is not in that group
ZBX-6013	Fixed table layout in monitoring -> it services for ie10
ZBX-5977	Removed possibility to add an lld rule to an application via the api in application and discovery rule
ZBX-5938	Removed orphaned trigger from default data set
ZBXNEXT-894	Fixed generate_events comment to say that events are generated after maintenance if trigger changed its state during the maintenance at all
ZBX-5988	Fixed memory leak in functions evaluate_logeventid(), evaluate_str(), dblld_process_discovery_rule(); thanks to takanori suzuki for patch
ZBX-5940	Fixed displaying default key parameters when agent is used with option -p
ZBX-5981	Fixed incorrect use of function assert() if build option -dndebug was used, it caused random crashes
ZBX-3379	Added sourceip support for snmp items
ZBX-6002	Optimized fetching latest service alarms in service api
ZBX-5986	Fixed page filter in monitoring -> graphs
ZBX-6004	Optimised monitoring -> screens page
ZBX-6003	Optimised monitoring -> maps page
ZBX-5862	Fixed sql condition algorithm
ZBX-4789	Improved performance of permissions check
ZBX-5979	Fixed monitoring -> events page not to show events from triggers that reference at least one disabled or unsuported item
ZBX-5985	Fixed db error in "configuration of web monitoring" for postgresql
ZBX-5699	Fixed configuration graph host id passing in navigation
ZBX-1946	Improved error messages when validating screen item row and column spans
ZBX-3402	Disabled "store value" overriding for host items inherited from templates
ZBX-3402	Fixed the "formula" input not being displayed when editing templated items with a disabled multiplier
ZBX-3071	Fixed reading and writing of oracle nclob fields
ZBX-5704	Fixed validation on file uploading
ZBX-5737	Fixed image saving using oracle
ZBX-5809	Fixed global url displaying in map screen item
ZBX-5837	Fixed filtering by proxy status in hostgroup api get method
ZBX-5899	Implemented flicker-free graph support for web monitoring
ZBX-5919	Removed oci_commit_on_success option for sql statements in transaction on oracle backend
ZBX-5869	Fixed host id detection in graph configuration
ZBX-3754	Fixed "undefined variable" in the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-3038	Fixed the trigger expression constructor to parse expressions created in log wizard
ZBX-2793	Added possibility to add macros without an item in the trigger expression
ZBX-5896	Fixed inserting or condition in the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-5833	Fixed inserting a macro in the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-5884	Improved the trigger expression constructor to work with parentheses

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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