Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.4rc4

19 Jun 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.4rc4.

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 2.2.4rc4. 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-1357	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-1357	updated Italian, German and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-7399	improved multiselect, added popup select window
ZBX-7811	added example robots.txt file
ZBX-1357	updated Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-7555	removed "select" statement from the history cache; increased the cache performance

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8213	fixed possible crash when processing eventlog on Windows 2000,2003,XP
ZBX-8358	fixed overview screen elements being displayed incorrectly after refreshing
ZBX-8334	fixed selecting group prototypes in HostPrototype::get() using Oracle backend
ZBX-8061	fixed vmware cluster functions returning notsupported despite clusters being discovered normally
ZBX-8348	fixed processing of LLD triggers; functions in a trigger expression could have incorrect ordering
ZBX-8095	fixed a bug in item queue that updated item's nextcheck but not its position in the queue
ZBX-8343	fixed a bug in binary heap that could cause a slightly inconsistent ordering of elements in the queue
ZBX-8325	fixed crash with Oracle when inserting large number of records
ZBX-8336	fixed server crash with value cache is working in low memory mode
ZBX-8327	fixed possible crash when processing Windows eventlog
ZBX-8302	fixed ordering of discovery rules
ZBX-8209	improved host and item name column widths on Monitoring / Latest data page
ZBX-8287	added truncating of long text values to maximum field length before inserting into database
ZBX-3163	fixed trigger evaluation order so that it takes dependencies into account
ZBX-7373	improved performance of latest data and item overview pages by taking data for limited period only
ZBX-8200	improved performance of Monitoring / Events page
ZBX-7983	improved performance of "System status" widget
ZBX-7901	improved value cache database operations when caching count based requests
ZBX-8188	fixed IPMI items staying supported when sensor data becomes unavailable
ZBX-8243	added log message when the reason for an item being in an unsupported state changes
ZBX-8195	fixed web scenario step validation for httptest.create and httptest.update API methods
ZBX-6531	fixed memory leak in filesystem discovery on AIX systems
ZBX-8241	fixed duplicate display of actions in media type list
ZBX-8269	fixed processing of active checks in agent
ZBX-8238	fixed updating agent 'mtime' for logrt[] items; thanks to Yoshinori Komuro for patch
ZBX-8143	triggers are now committed to the database individually when setting to an unknown state to avoid potential locking between the poller and history syncer
ZBX-7968	fixed bug when proxy stopped sending history data if it had more than 1000 unmonitored item values in history table; thanks to Corey Shaw for identifying the issue and providing a patch
ZBX-8251	fixed possible crash when trying to get item value from a failed vmware service with log level set to debug
ZBX-8092	changed the way the number of active triggers is calculated in the dashboard and zabbix[triggers] item
ZBX-8092	added disabled triggers to the configuration cache for correct macro expansion in notifications
ZBX-8092	added disabled hosts and disabled items to the configuration cache for correct macro expansion in notifications
ZBX-8230	changed maintenance status log messages from warning to debug level
ZBX-7098	improved handling of log file rotation/truncation for logrt[] and log[] items
ZBX-8210	fixed crash when attempting to evaluate an eventlog key for items obtained from the value cache
ZBX-8219	fixed regression in ipmi checks to support on/off values for sent commands
ZBX-8213	fixed library loading code on Windows to prevent potential crash condition
ZBX-8223	fixed compilation of dummy module on 64-bit platforms by adding "-fPIC"
ZBX-7387	changed default memory usage graph display method for operating system templates
ZBX-8101	fixed exporting maps from Oracle database
ZBX-8198	decreased verbosity of Windows agent with DebugLevel=4
ZBX-7729	added data alignment to prevent crash on non x86 processors; thanks to Pablo Ruiz for patch
ZBX-8202	fixed queue calculation for unavailable hosts which are monitored through a proxy
ZBX-8152	added informative log message about optional database patches
ZBX-8138	fixed SSH infostring searching and validation for SSH related items to allow information messages as per RFC4253 Section 4.2
ZBX-7875	fixed wrongly reported system version for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2
ZBX-7766	fixed webscenario status code field validation to accept user macros
ZBX-8127	fixed truncation of hostname on HP-UX machines
ZBX-8181	fixed possible entering of "history syncer" process in an eternal loop when processing IT services
ZBX-8176	fixed SQL errors while mass operations when using Oracle database
ZBX-8158	fixed disabled hosts not shown in trigger selection popup when in configuration
ZBX-7553	fixed graph not getting period when coming from screen
ZBX-8075	fixed triggers/data without application not showing in overview
ZBX-8111	fixed possible XSS in tables with vertical header row cells
ZBX-7887	fixed calculated item becoming not found if referenced item becomes not supported
ZBX-8100	fixed map mass deletion using Oracle
ZBX-8148	fixed maintenance warning message on php < 5.4 versions
ZBX-8108	fixed reading /proc virtual files without rewinding the file position
ZBX-8115	added workaround for 64 bit integer binding not working with Oracle versions less than 11.2
ZBX-8140	added net.udp.listen key to item popup
ZBX-8123	fixed form fields show/hide switching in IE9
ZBX-8083	fixed proxy performance query item conditions to be same as in dashboard
ZBX-8021	fixed password changing for users with internal authentication
ZBX-8133	fixed possible deadlock while updating host_inventory table
ZBX-8104	fixed inverted case sensitivity for regular expressions
ZBX-8117	fixed possible crash of agent under Windows after asking the "system.sw.arch" item
ZBX-8093	fixed incorrect plural in global script property host and user group labels
ZBX-7997	fixed applications not being displayed in template item mass update form
ZBX-7825	fixed saving of the history data in sequential time order on proxy side
ZBX-8035	fixed proxy queue for ICMP, JMX and SNMP items being calculated incorrectly by the server
ZBX-6542	added additional information in the default server configuration file about HousekeepingFrequency parameter
ZBX-8077	fixed log messages about sending/receiving of the configuration data
ZBX-8060	fixed server crash when calculating queue
ZBX-7867	fixed graph item drag and drop when selecting multiple items
ZBX-8046	fixed application toggling in Latest data page if same item belongs to several applications
ZBX-7856	added workaround for Windows _wstat64() not working with symlinks
ZBX-7534	fixed buffers being too small for long function parameters containing UTF-8 characters
ZBX-7046	fixed get_ip_by_socket returning an empty string for IPv4 addresses when Zabbix is compiled with IPv6 support
ZBX-7630	fixed monitoring event page navigation
ZBX-7990	fixed marking of unavailable agents; it could cause excess utilisation of "poller" processes
ZBX-7837	fixed y axis configuration in default proxy template graph
ZBX-7957	improved graph Y axis min/max value validation for line and stacked graphs
ZBX-8030	fixed {HOSTNAME} macro resolving
ZBX-7974	fixed host group selecting using invalid node in user group rights page
ZBX-7943	fixed undefined indexes in HTTP test dashboard widget when no history is found
ZBX-7809	improved validation on decimal values
ZBX-7809	fixed unused graph Y axis min/max fields unsetting from db
ZBX-7976	fixed template "unlink and clear" leaving items attached to parent template
ZBX-7545	fixed item mass update form being rendered with a delay when updating template items
ZBX-7864	fixed filter by host group in "Availability reports" page

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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