Release Notes for Zabbix 2.0.5rc1

6 February 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 here.

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 Proxy Server
ZBX-5957	Added configure options to specify iconv include/lib directories Installation
ZBX-1357	Added Bulgarian translation API Frontend
ZBX-6040	Added support of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 for system.uname check Agent
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 API Frontend
ZBX-5920	Added prefetching of 2 MB of data for Oracle SQL selects Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-6349	Fixed calendar popup in graphs, events and screens date/time filter Frontend
ZBX-6217	Fixed inability to use HTML special characters in web scenario password Frontend
ZBX-5358	Fixed encoding of network interface names with non ASCII characters on Vista/Server 2008 + Agent
ZBX-6216	Fixed crash when zabbix_sender was used in realtime mode on windows Agent
ZBX-6124	Fixed hostgroup.massupdate validation on removing group from host with only one group API
ZBX-6197	Updated DB2 image importer script to work with larger (>16KB) images Installation
ZBX-6211	Fixed errors in Monitoring->Discovery and added check for Discovery existing Frontend
ZBX-6069	Fixed axis in the default "Zabbix Server performance" graph template Installation
ZBX-6195	Fixed navigation bar displaying when host remembering in switched off and user watch graph prototypes Frontend
ZBX-6140	Fixed job creation for script execution on windows 2000 Agent
ZBX-5933	Fixed triggers with negative values in graphs Frontend
ZBX-5532	Added support of 1.8 IT services time format API Frontend
ZBX-5945	Fixed map URL expanding API
ZBX-5968	Fixed updating of triggers and graphs when low-level discovered value changes Server
ZBX-6180	Fixed host edit page for IBM DB2 Frontend
ZBX-5863	Changed external command execution to store output in a dynamically allocated buffer up to 512KB Agent
ZBX-6177	Fixed testing of a trigger expression with an item prototype Frontend
ZBX-6175	Fixed password field naming in item properties Frontend
ZBX-6005	Fixed event.get not returning network discovery or auto-registration events for admin users when passing only the "source" parameter API Frontend
ZBX-6173	Removed unknown trigger color from the trigger overview help pop up Frontend
ZBX-6161	Fixed reading empty files with vfs.file.contents key Agent
ZBX-5458	Fixed some date strings being not translatable Frontend
ZBX-6114	Fixed errors in graphs (invalid arguments and division by zero) Frontend
ZBX-6057	Fixed using of ServerActive option by zabbix_sender Agent
ZBX-6142	Fixed "Current host" removing in Configuration -> Actions -> Operations API
ZBX-6131	Fixed undefined indexes in maintenance periods Frontend
ZBX-6133	Fixed undefined indexes when importing hosts with "Update existing" disabled Frontend
ZBX-6122	Fixed error when trying to create an IT service and submitting an incorrectly filled form Frontend
ZBX-6101	Fixed processing of SNMP traps in maintenance "with data collection"; thanks to Volker Fröhlich for patch Proxy Server
ZBX-6012	Added support of user macros and global regular expressions in SNMP trap item key parameter Proxy Server
ZBX-5973	Improved performance of SNMP dynamic index item cache building in poller processes Proxy Server
ZBX-3534	Fixed templated linking using read-only template API
ZBX-6110	Fixed selected map remembering in Monitoring -> Maps Frontend
ZBX-6117	Fixed item value macros resolving using non-converted to null values Frontend
ZBX-6113	Fixed hidden input field appearing when assigning hosts to groups in IE Frontend
ZBX-6063	Fixed graph selection pop up working incorrectly when adding a graph to a templated screen Frontend
ZBX-6014	Improved performance in most IT services pages and pages that retrieve trigger information API Frontend
ZBX-6070	Fixed event CSV export ignoring the selected page and filters Frontend
ZBX-6006	Optimized web interface API calls, which requested redundant data Frontend
ZBX-5806	Fixed template.massadd and template.massremove returning an empty hostids array API
ZBX-5201	Added handling of PerfCounter error PDH_CALC_NEGATIVE_DENOMINATOR Agent
ZBX-6054	Fixed host write permissions being required to view screens API
ZBX-6027	Fixed global notification messages not working in fullscreen frontend mode Frontend
ZBX-6037	Fixed duplicate frontend messages and changed frontend messages to show last event for 15 triggers instead of last 15 events Frontend
ZBX-5900	Fixed date validation in services and maintenances, fixed JS calendar and fixed maintenance period validation API Frontend
ZBX-5835	Fixed possible "Undefined index" in Configuration -> Actions screen Frontend
ZBX-6097	Fixed the ability to override LDAP configuration when calling user.login API
ZBX-5986	Fixed page filter to not use remembered group if selected host is not in that group Frontend
ZBX-6013	Fixed table layout in Monitoring -> IT services for IE10 Frontend
ZBX-5977	Removed possibility to add an LLD rule to an application via the API in application and discovery rule API
ZBX-5938	Removed orphaned trigger from default data set Installation
ZBXNEXT-894	Fixed generate_events comment to say that events are generated after maintenance if trigger changed its state during the maintenance at all Documentation
ZBX-5988	Fixed memory leak in functions evaluate_LOGEVENTID(), evaluate_STR(), DBlld_process_discovery_rule(); thanks to Takanori Suzuki for patch Proxy Server
ZBX-5940	Fixed displaying default key parameters when agent is used with option -p Agent
ZBX-5981	Fixed incorrect use of function assert() if build option -DNDEBUG was used, it caused random crashes Proxy Server
ZBX-3379	Added SourceIP support for SNMP items Proxy Server
ZBX-6002	Optimized fetching latest service alarms in Service API API Frontend
ZBX-5986	Fixed page filter in Monitoring -> Graphs Frontend
ZBX-6004	Optimised Monitoring -> Screens page Frontend
ZBX-6003	Optimised Monitoring -> Maps page Frontend
ZBX-5862	Fixed SQL condition algorithm API Frontend Server
ZBX-4789	Improved performance of permissions check API Frontend
ZBX-5979	Fixed Monitoring -> Events page not to show events from triggers that reference at least one disabled or unsuported item Frontend
ZBX-5985	Fixed DB error in "Configuration of web monitoring" for PostgreSQL Frontend
ZBX-5699	Fixed configuration graph host ID passing in navigation Frontend
ZBX-1946	Improved error messages when validating screen item row and column spans API
ZBX-3402	Disabled "store value" overriding for host items inherited from templates Frontend
ZBX-3402	Fixed the "formula" input not being displayed when editing templated items with a disabled multiplier Frontend
ZBX-3071	Fixed reading and writing of Oracle NCLOB fields Proxy Server
ZBX-5704	Fixed validation on file uploading API Frontend
ZBX-5737	Fixed image saving using Oracle API
ZBX-5809	Fixed global URL displaying in map screen item Frontend
ZBX-5837	Fixed filtering by proxy status in HostGroup API get method API
ZBX-5899	Implemented flicker-free graph support for web monitoring Frontend
ZBX-5919	Removed OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS option for SQL statements in transaction on Oracle backend Proxy Server
ZBX-5869	Fixed host ID detection in graph configuration Frontend
ZBX-3754	Fixed "Undefined variable" in the trigger expression constructor Frontend
ZBX-3038	Fixed the trigger expression constructor to parse expressions created in log wizard Frontend
ZBX-2793	Added possibility to add macros without an item in the trigger expression Frontend
ZBX-5896	Fixed inserting OR condition in the trigger expression constructor Frontend
ZBX-5833	Fixed inserting a macro in the trigger expression constructor API Frontend
ZBX-5884	Improved the trigger expression constructor to work with parentheses Frontend

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.0.5.

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