Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.2

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.

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

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

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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