Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.1.

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 2.2.1. 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-2016
 changed the housekeeping settings to allow overriding item-level history and trend storage period if internal housekeeping is disabled 
ZBXNEXT-2016
 removed the ZBX_HISTORY_DATA_UPKEEP constant 
ZBXNEXT-1256
 changed example directory size user parameter to return bytes 
ZBX-7250
 made gettext an optional feature for the frontend 
ZBX-1357
 updated American English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBXNEXT-1257
 dropped support for UCD-SNMP

Bug Fixes

ZBX-7479
 fixed remote command execution from Zabbix server if flexible user parameters are configured; thanks to Recurity Labs Team for the report 
ZBX-7461
 fixed compilation on kFreeBSD and other operating systems which are not explicitly supported 
ZBX-7339
 fixed item prototypes of OpenBSD and FreeBSD templates 
ZBX-7332
 properly restore the original memory chunk after shared memory realloc fails, otherwise it could trigger a crash when syncing history at exit 
ZBX-7373
 improved performance of pages that use latest history values; thanks to Kenneth Palmertree and Maksim Tkachenko 
ZBX-7447
 fixed regex configuration form not being displayed in French and Italian languages 
ZBX-7444
 fixed agent crash on HP-UX when processing proc.num[] item 
ZBX-4063
 fixed data selecting for graphs 
ZBX-7391
 fixed items belonging to multiple applications being displayed only under the first one in the latest data page 
ZBX-7347
 fixed custom step duration max size in action configuration 
ZBX-7336
 fixed "Database type" selection in setup step 3, improved SQLite3 check and removed storing setup supported databases in cookies 
ZBX-7340
 fixed incorrect error messages when imported objects reference unexisting objects 
ZBX-7445
 fixed frontend redundant call of history 
ZBX-7277
 made item selection helper translatable 
ZBX-6160
 fixed memory leak in configuration syncer process 
ZBX-6160
 fixed "ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded" error 
ZBX-7354
 fixed resetting linked template list when trying to add template with empty field 
ZBX-7360
 fixed maximum IPMI sensor ID length; thanks to OpenIPMI author Corey Minyard 
ZBX-7400
 fixed possible server crash when processing trigger functions with text or log items with Oracle backend 
ZBX-7400
 fixed possible server crash when sending messages with Oracle backend 
ZBX-7326
 improved escalator idle time calculations and statistics reporting 
ZBX-7355
 fixed various prototype confirmation messages 
ZBX-7408
 removed unnecessary variables and includes in slide show configuration 
ZBX-7034
 improved Alias parameter description in the example configuration files 
ZBX-7337
 fixed undefined index debug profiler 
ZBX-7337
 fixed input parameters validation in multiple pages 
ZBX-7372
 fixed undefined indexes in script.getscriptsbyhosts method 
ZBX-7350
 fixed displaying host prototypes in "Status of Zabbix" 
ZBXNEXT-98
 refactored code for SNMP checks 
ZBX-7184
 added check to prevent host from being switched to unavailable state multiple times in a row 
ZBX-7351
 fixed screen item not being saved if resource type is URL 
ZBX-7329
 fixed VMware related compiling error on FreeBSD 
ZBX-7359
 fixed possible crash when parsing VMware datastore data 
ZBX-7309
 fixed resolving of {ITEM.VALUE} macro in recovery messages 
ZBX-7254
 fixed selected tab not being reset when opening the host mass update form 
ZBX-7316
 fixed drule.delete method 
ZBX-7293
 fixed typo in the plural form of a translatable string 
ZBX-7307
 improved validation for copying graph 
ZBX-7325
 fixed parent LLD rule link color in the darkblue and darkorange themes 
ZBX-7311
 fixed dragging of host interfaces 
ZBX-7272
 fixed graph's grid with fixed Y axis MIN/MAX values 
ZBX-2008
 added support of Audit Success/Failure severity for Windows Security log 
ZBX-2008
 implemented automatic loading of wevtapi.dll file and its functions 
ZBX-2008
 improved performance of eventlog monitoring 
ZBX-7263
 fixed validation of filter parameters in tr_status.php 
ZBX-7303
 removed link to item configuration for discovered items in latest data screen 
ZBX-7289
 added server address and port number to "no active checks on server" message 
ZBX-6920
 fixed displaying of soft linked IT services that contain a dot in their name 
ZBX-7037
 added agent.hostname to the list of supported items 
ZBX-7317
 removed unused code in popup.php

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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