Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.7

24 October 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.7.

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 2.2.7. Download here.

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 Polish and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2478	Added configuration file option to disable SNMP bulk requests Proxy Server
ZBX-8503	Increased limitation of command length for remote commands with agent Agent
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (Taiwan), Italian and Polish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8916	Fixed "lastlogsize" not being updated in the configuration cache when values are received from the agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8877	Fixed filters not hiding/showing for IE11 Frontend
ZBX-8885	Fixed building of Zabbix daemons with IBM DB2 support on systems with newer gcc compilers Installation
ZBX-8072	Fixed bug when long messages were not truncated to 2KB when inserting into alerts table on DB2 databases Installation
ZBX-6174	Fixed "skipDependent" option in trigger.get API call to correctly handle cases when triggers on which they depend are disabled API
ZBX-8887	Fixed error messages when saving graph with invalid width and height Frontend
ZBX-5561	Fixed configuration failure during cross compilation; thanks to Christof Lauber for the patch Installation
ZBX-8860	Fixed flexible interval updating with mass update Frontend
ZBX-8621	Added validation of received SNMP responses and warnings in case SNMP responses are bad Proxy Server
ZBX-8754	Fixed crash in escalator when processing an alert without an user, but with a media type set Server
ZBX-8797	Fixed erroneous phantom node ID detection from request parameter when using node-based system converted to nodeless Frontend
ZBX-8822	Fixed error message being set for vm.memory.size[] items on FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-8693	Fixed "Add" button in Configuration->Triggers->Create Trigger->Add for IE11 Frontend
ZBX-8815	Fixed adding of host groups to the host by discovery action Server
ZBX-8727	Fixed item multiplier value validation to support scientific notation correctly Frontend
ZBX-8514	Fixed bug where server would turn a passive proxy into a host if the proxy machine is running an agent that is discovered via network discovery Server
ZBX-8773	Fixed inventory mode resetting when adding template to a host Frontend
ZBX-8798	Fixed evaluation of trigger expressions where a suffixed number is followed by a subtraction Server
ZBX-8719	Optimized value cache database requests Server
ZBX-8659	Fixed graphs in screens not respecting "Show legend" setting when in dynamic mode Frontend
ZBX-8679	Removed outdated and unused images
ZBX-8700	Fixed possible SQL error in details of web scenario Frontend
ZBX-8650	Fixed undefined index in user.get method when using 'search' option, removed redundant code in CUserMedia class and corrected user link in user groups page API Frontend
ZBX-8701	Fixed disabled web scenarios being displayed in the web monitoring widget Frontend
ZBX-3407	Fixed NVPS query to not fail on DB2 Frontend
ZBX-8646	Added a warning on UNIX/GNU/Linux platforms if logrt[] directory has no 'execute' permission Agent
ZBX-8541	Fixed queue calculation when hosts with active items return from no data maintenance Server
ZBX-8414	Fixed value cache statistics update when database contains only part of requested data Server
ZBX-8414	Fixed value cache single value request returning FAIL for not found items in low memory mode Server
ZBX-8616	Fixed link to host items in Inventory->Hosts host view Frontend
ZBX-8595	Fixed incorrect event message when handling eventlog Agent

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.2.7.

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