Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.1

9 Dec 2013

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.

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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

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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

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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 2.2 Manual