Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.2rc1

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.

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

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

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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