Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.2

16 August 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 download.

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