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.

---

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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

---

References

Zabbix 2.2 Manual