Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.2rc1

3 Feb 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.2rc1.

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 2.2.2rc1. 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

ZBX-7649	Synchronize icmp checks based on item interface. this should reduce the number of fping invocations in most cases
ZBXNEXT-2069	Added host.port macro support to internal/trigger based notifications and also to trigger names/descriptions
ZBX-1357	Updated american english, czech, french, greek, hungarian, italian, japanese, russian, slovak, turkish and ukrainian translations; thanks to zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7600	Updated .htaccess files to be compatible with apache 2.4
ZBX-7684	Improved displaying of script execution page
ZBX-7668	Fixed sending empty values when reading from a file with zabbix_sender
ZBX-7571	Fixed incorrect processing of \177 (u+007f) control character in json
ZBX-7726	Fixed max frontend available date displaying
ZBX-7690	Fixed cache for dynamic snmp indexes not being used
ZBX-7610	Fixed not being able to configure an empty database host in the setup
ZBX-7168	Fixed configure.ac template to properly link libcurl to all components independently
ZBX-7671	Fixed error when importing an existing trigger with dependencies from 1.8
ZBX-7703	Fixed being able to switch users without proper credentials when using http authentication
ZBX-7648	Fixed name resolution when using net.dns items
ZBX-6315	Fixed deleting of lost triggers by the low-level discovery rule
ZBX-7109	Improved performance of processing discovered triggers by the low-level discovery rule
ZBX-7608	Fixed crashes when global scripts timed out
ZBX-7561	Fixed sql errors while processing host prototypes under mysql
ZBX-7688	Fixed discovery item import
ZBX-4218	Rewrote the item key parser's source code for independence on the mbstring.func_overload option
ZBX-7697	Fixed items system.swap.in[] and system.swap.out[] going into an infinite loop on solaris
ZBX-7647	Fixed trigger.get trying to sort by "lastchange" desc even if a different sort field or sort order is given
ZBX-7686	Fixed utf-8 strings not being fetched fully from oracle
ZBX-6721	Fixed ldap bind password being included in page source
ZBX-7609	Fixed sound playing after frontend messages closing
ZBX-7653	Correctly expand item.log.* macros when retrieving eventlog specific attributes for log,logrt items
ZBX-7661	Fixed configuration parser to allow 2g cache values (it was restricted to 2g-1 before)
ZBX-7639	Fixed error when trying to replace host groups and add a new host group at the same time in the host mass update form
ZBX-7458	Added source ip validation on daemon startup
ZBX-7660	Fixed host.get returning the "templates" property even if the "templateids" parameter is not used
ZBX-6790	Changed net.tcp.listen and net.udp.listen keys to read the whole /proc/net/(tcp|udp)(6) file in a single operation to avoid losing data if the file is changed between reading operations
ZBX-7587	Set the correct server status (down) after ora-01012, ora-02396 errors
ZBX-7515	Added missing delayed loading option of wevtapi.dll for x64 systems
ZBX-7481	Added checking for openbsd version to avoid compilation error on openbsd v5.4 and newer due to removed swapins/swapouts uvmexp fields
ZBX-7576	Fixed network discovery processing broadcast responses as valid hosts
ZBX-7632	Allow to add favourite graph from disable host
ZBX-7634	Removed sid from trigger url in monitoring->triggers
ZBX-5526	Removed checking for postgresql server version and disabled nonstandard use of escape strings in order to support versions newer than 8.1
ZBX-7414	Added description to hostnameitem that userparameters and aliases are not supported
ZBX-7590	Fixed displaying functional macros in graph names when host visible name is not empty
ZBX-7591	Fixed deleting web scenario steps on template linked to host
ZBX-7508	Fixed import map with lld triggers
ZBX-7586	Fixed trigger log expression saving in ie10
ZBX-7518	Fixed graph scrollbar overflow when clicking period "all" and with no page refresh option
ZBX-7578	Fixed graph item validation
ZBX-7616	Fixed green background color for "new group" field in host edit form
ZBX-7567	Fixed processing of services[] key without a 3rd parameter
ZBX-7573	Fixed item being checked at a wrong time when using flexible intervals
ZBX-6545	Fixed possible sql errors when syncing a node configuration with postgresql backend version 8.2 and later
ZBX-7452	Fixed processing of received events from slave node
ZBXNEXT-1256	Fixed parameter passing for example userparameter to obtain process cpu usage
ZBXNEXT-1256	Fixed parameter passing for example userparameter to obtain directory size
ZBX-7484	Fixed escalations not being stopped and generation of multiple successive ok or problem events
ZBX-7521	Fixed crash if value cache entered low memory mode when adding a new item to the cache
ZBX-7521	Fixed memory allocator realloc() function bug in low memory situations
ZBX-4243	Fixed zabbix syslog application names (rfc 5424 app-name)
ZBX-3855	Fixed bug that prevented the frontend from working with the turkish locale
ZBX-7483	Fixed user group delete validation
ZBX-6296	Optimized macro resolving in latest data
ZBX-6296	Rewrote user macros resolving
ZBX-6296	Rewrote macro resolving in function parameters
ZBX-6348	Fixed possibility to create host groups and update all other existing objects with name containing only zeros
ZBX-7288	Improved error logging for server-proxy communication
ZBX-7407	Fixed being able to change event source for existing actions
ZBX-7392	Fixed memory leaks in gnuregex.c
ZBX-7397	Reduced value cache memory usage
ZBX-7516	Fixed typo in sql query: changed "impi_disable_until" to "ipmi_disable_until"
ZBX-7509	Changed "value_flag" to proper name "value_flags" in triggers api
ZBX-7489	Changed "filter_set" to no longer require sid parameter in url
ZBX-7486	Fixed placeholder default value submitting for ie
ZBX-7438	Made frontend object status update messages more consistent
ZBX-7445	Fixed frontend redundant call of history
ZBX-7227	Modernized autoconf invocation and renamed "configure.in" to "configure.ac"; thanks to dmitry smirnov
ZBX-7443	Fixed adding screen to favourites from dashboard
ZBX-7490	Fixed displaying of graphs that include item prototypes in configuration
ZBX-7454	Fixed changing host inventory mode from "automatic" to "manual" when updating host with no "inventory_mode" parameter set
ZBX-7417	Expanded function last() with no parameters in map element labels and graph names
ZBX-7338	Fixed screen item validation
ZBX-7427	Fixed element links not being rendered correctly between host groups and other elements

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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