Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.5rc1

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.

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

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

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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