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