Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.2

16 Aug 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.2.

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 2.1.2. 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-1851	hid Finnish, Lithuanian and Swedish translations from the frontend
ZBXNEXT-1405	added IP to the warning about ignored messages because of their size
ZBX-6770	improved host macro resolving by using configuration cache to get hosts used in trigger expressions
ZBXNEXT-1098	added internal check support to Zabbix proxies
ZBX-6587	fixed Windows binary descriptions
ZBXNEXT-1528	added net.if.in, net.if.out and net.if.total item support on HP-UX platform

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-6888	fixed javascript error in popups with "select all" checkbox
ZBX-6897	fixed synchronization of the "httptest" configuration table
ZBX-6898	fixed processing of queue request; items that are not checked will be included in the queue
ZBX-6889	fixed processing of availability data by the server
ZBX-6885	fixed host group error message on delete
ZBX-1583	removed duplicated indexes for 6 tables when using MySQL
ZBX-6864	fixed fullscreen parameter validation
ZBX-6865	fixed "NULL" value validation
ZBX-6863	fixed severity buttonset colour displaying
ZBX-6386	fixed discovered fields update validation in items, triggers and graphs
ZBX-6020	fixed displaying MySQL errors for PHP 5.5.0 and newer; thanks to Michel Meyers
ZBX-6746	fixed template linking to proxy if the agent with the same name is auto-registered
ZBX-6458	fixed "name" parameter validation for hostgroup.update method and improved error messages
ZBX-6838	fixed bug with SQL errors in the application popup window
ZBX-6817	fixed update for web scenarios, to link items to the right application
ZBX-6837	added possibility select templated hosts in item configuration list filter
ZBX-6795	corrected percentage value in graph pie charts
ZBX-6283	added graph filter gradation recalculation
ZBX-6451	fixed the amount of items and triggers displayed for "Status of Zabbix"
ZBX-6672	fixed Windows agent performance counters being capped to 100
ZBX-6808	fixed "Host metadata" field in actions and improved validation for action conditions
ZBX-6825	fixed names of the added items, when editing graph
ZBX-6843	fixed MySQL error while upgrading DB
ZBX-6826	fixed default values for graphs.width and graphs.height
ZBX-6793	removed irrelevant condition for pie graphs that decided whether data from history should be used
ZBX-4986	absolute URLs replaced with relative
ZBX-6831	fixed webtest item conversion in 1.8->2.0 database upgrade patch for MySQL
ZBX-6451	fixed items and items_unsupported internal checks counting discovery rules as items
ZBX-6527	fixed proc.mem calculations with getprocs() for AIX
ZBX-5924	fixed curl verify host option setting in ez texting
ZBX-6664	removed printing of informative line about -vv option after zabbix_sender failure if this option was already used
ZBX-6275	removed the "error" columns in the template item, trigger and discovery rule lists
ZBX-5604	fixed updating graphs and graph prototypes when items are not specified
ZBX-6586	added sid checking for logout action
ZBX-6819	fixed memory leak in snmp trapper regular expression processing
ZBX-6646	removed Micro and Milli units, unifieded length for y-axis values and fixed division by zero in graphs
ZBX-6777	added pointer cursor to the main menu tabs
ZBX-6699	added object flags in Host, Host group, Template and Item get methods
ZBX-6794	fixed host name displaying in pie charts
ZBX-6143	fixed choice for icon label location
ZBX-6372	in trigger filtering, trigger severity default value changed to "Not classified"
ZBX-6624	fixed incorrect y-axis interval names for "s" units
ZBX-282	added sensor item support for Linux kernels newer than v2.4

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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 2.1 Manual