Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.7rc2

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.7rc2.

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 2.2.7rc2. 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

ZBXNEXT-2478
 added configuration file option to disable SNMP bulk requests 
ZBX-8503
 increased limitation of command length for remote commands with agent 
ZBX-1357
 updated Chinese (Taiwan), Italian and Polish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

Bug Fixes

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 removed outdated and unused images 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

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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