Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.16

7 December 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.16.

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 2.2.16. 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

ZBX-1357	Updated English (United States), Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-1859	Improved performance by not inserting events of auto registration if no such action was enabled, insert/update/select in a bulk on auto registration data from proxy
ZBX-10694	Added rollup health sensor item to vmware hypervisor template

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11509	Fixed system.run command parameter to be quoted only if it contains special characters
ZBX-4661	Fixed possible crash when Oracle database is not available
ZBX-11521	Fixed JS error in media popup
ZBX-11397	Fixed system.hw.chassis key to read DMI tables through sysfs and fall back to /dev/mem only if sysfs is not available
ZBX-11411	Added check for LLD macro values in calculated item formula to be numeric
ZBX-11483	Improved API script.execute validation
ZBX-11347	Fixed resolving of {HOST.IP}, {HOST.DNS} and {HOST.CONN} macros in item key parameters for items without interface
ZBX-9781	Changed vfs.fs.size, vfs.fs.inode checks to be executed in separate process/thread to avoid lockup with stale NFS mounts
ZBX-11223	Rewritten calculated item formula parsing, simple macro parsing and LLD macro parsing; fixed several problems with function parsing
ZBX-11121	Disallowed leaving user without linked user groups with usergroup.update, usergroup.massupdate, usergroup.delete API methods
ZBX-11292	Fixed getting network interface statistics on Oracle Solaris 10/11
ZBX-11219	Renamed second argument for net.dns and net.dns.record items from "zone" to "name"
ZBX-8457	Fixed user macro resolving for templated host and templates
ZBX-10906	Fixed agent active checks being delayed if system time was pushed back
ZBX-10842	Fixed sql error when updating httptest with applicationid and without httpstepid parameters
ZBX-10842	Prevented disappearing of step items when updating httptest without applicationid, httpstepid parameters
ZBX-10842	Fixed connecting web scenario applicationid to created steps when updating with API httptest.update mehtod
ZBX-9656	Prevented updating comments for discovered triggers
ZBX-11221	Fixed MySQL connection issue by overriding user defined auto commit setting
ZBX-10694	Reverted hypervisor health status to HostSystem.overallStatus property
ZBX-11213	Fixed database monitoring keys

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.2.16.

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