Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.7rc2

20 Oct 2014

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.

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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

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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

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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