Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.4rc4

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.

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

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

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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