Release Notes for Zabbix 2.3.2

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.3.2.

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 2.3.2. 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-2301
 added a way to disable SNMP bulk operations per interface 
ZBX-2603
 added validation while working with regular expressions 
ZBX-8278
 prepared frontend for mbstring.internal_encoding ini option deprecation in PHP 5.6+ 
ZBXNEXT-2222
 added trigger status filter to the trigger overview page 
ZBX-8339
 removed auto login/logout controls while editing guest user 
ZBXNEXT-2203
 added information on the reason log[] and logrt[] items became not supported 
ZBXNEXT-2254
 added support for custom PostgreSQL schema to frontend and updated setup wizard 
ZBX-8329
 added styling for disabled buttons and inputs 
ZBXNEXT-2344
 added links on group names in "Web monitoring" widget 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBX-7399
 improved multiselect by adding popup select window 
ZBX-8113
 changed frontend configuration wizard to store info in session instead of cookies

Bug Fixes

ZBX-7941
 changed page footer to show debug in fullscreen mode again 
ZBX-8011
 fixed escalator giving false 'no media defined' errors 
ZBX-8450
 removed carriage return stripping from text values when inserting data into the database 
ZBX-8439
 fixed layout problems in host and template configuration, host inventory in Safari 
ZBX-8443
 fixed host mass update form to be displayed correctly in Opera 
ZBX-8437
 fixed JS errors after show/hide frontend filter 
ZBX-8411
 fixed item selection by click-and-drag and element form hiding in sysmap configuration with IE8 
ZBX-8406
 fixed typos "overriden" to "overridden", "occurence" to "occurrance", changed "WEB" to "web" in translations and database patch files 
ZBX-8397
 removed outdated queue related code from frontend and API 
ZBX-8359
 changed servers timer processes title line to display amount of hosts that have changed maintenance status; active maintenance period count is no longer displayed 
ZBX-8375
 fixed multiple issues in various forms: removed duplicate hidden fields, added missing field translations, added JS confirmation message encoding and fixed displaying submitted values on failure 
ZBX-8240
 fixed multiselect input placeholder behaviour on IE8, input cursor issue and removed "clear field" button for multiselect in IE10+ 
ZBXNEXT-1782
 fixed testing of trigger expressions that contain nested parentheses 
ZBX-8270
 fixed disk space reporting for large AIX file systems (>= 16 TB) 
ZBX-8422
 removed PHP mutex locking from server code because of not being used and incompatible licensing issues 
ZBX-8377
 fixed dark orange theme input fields being displayed light blue, submit button hover not displaying as disabled and made readonly and disabled input fields more readable on all browsers 
ZBX-8332
 removed redundant screen import code from 1.8 importer 
ZBX-1215
 changed captions of items and periods to be autogenerated by default in barreports 
ZBX-8378
 fixed bar graphs to automatically resize vertically thus preventing broken charts when captions are very long 
ZBX-8380
 fixed disabled confirmation text label in "Administration/Scripts" for IE8 
ZBX-8370
 fixed misc. bugs in barreports (input validation, default captions, caption escaping) 
ZBX-8382
 fixed trigger severity sound not stopping in user profile form on "Stop" button press 
ZBX-8315
 fixed host interface import (from 1.8 and up) to correctly create new or reuse existing interfaces 
ZBX-8248
 fixed vfs.file.regexp, vfs.file.regmatch and web.page.regexp to handle carriage returns properly 
ZBX-7459
 fixed saving and editing of regular expression having trailing, leading, or repeating spaces 
ZBX-1268
 fixed log trigger expression editor to show only usable sorting arrows 
ZBX-8285
 fixed widget "History of events" and frontend messaging to use visible host names 
ZBX-8151
 fixed XXE vulnerability on XML import using obsolete libxml versions; thanks to [email protected] for the report 
ZBX-8354
 removed period in caption for "Distribution of values for multiple periods" bar report 
ZBX-8092
 fixed items being polled at the same time after host becomes enabled 
ZBX-8324
 fixed there being too many expressions in a list in a SQL query 
ZBX-8355
 changed confusing context for date format translations 
ZBX-7921
 fixed default values for screen item colspan/rowspan to 1 in frontend and database 
ZBX-8288
 fixed problems with vertical table headers sometimes being offset 
ZBX-8213
 fixed possible crash when processing eventlog on Windows 2000,2003,XP 
ZBX-8040
 wait for proper SMTP response before sending first command 
ZBX-8358
 fixed overview screen elements being displayed incorrectly after refreshing 
ZBX-8196
 added validation for sorting parameters 
ZBX-8334
 fixed selecting group prototypes in HostPrototype::get() using Oracle backend 
ZBX-8320
 corrected help item strings by removing double spaces in sentences and "IP" used in uppercase letters 
ZBX-8061
 fixed VMware cluster functions returning notsupported despite clusters being discovered normally 
ZBX-8348
 fixed processing of LLD triggers; function references in the trigger expression could be out of order 
ZBX-8053
 changed label "Latest data" to "Monitoring" in host inventory view 
ZBX-8333
 renamed screen item adding, updating and deleting messages 
ZBX-8197
 fixed all data not being shown on a graph if the period is set to or more than 2 years 
ZBX-8330
 fixed a bug with grouped buttons in discovery rules for SNMP checks 
ZBX-8318
 added "d. m. Y" date format to recognized formats in frontend and set "Y-m-d H:i:s" as fallback 
ZBXNEXT-2124
 fixed submap problem count calculation in Monitoring -> Maps when application filters are active 
ZBX-8301
 restricted "unique" attribute to Zabbix agent & SNMP checks in discovery rule creation 
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 a crash with Oracle when inserting a large number of records 
ZBX-8336
 fixed server crash when value cache is working in low memory mode 
ZBX-8327
 fixed possible crash when processing Windows eventlog 
ZBX-8306
 added Percona database support when compiling with --with-mysql configuration option 
ZBX-8287
 added truncating of long text values to maximum field length before inserting them 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 a limited period only 
ZBX-8200
 improved performance of Monitoring -> Events page 
ZBX-7536
 changed popups to display host visible name instead of hostname 
ZBX-8292
 fixed host prototype creation 
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-7901
 improved value cache database operations when caching count based requests 
ZBX-8172
 fixed null JSON value decoding 
ZBX-8188
 fixed IPMI items staying supported when sensor data becomes unavailable 
ZBX-8216
 fixed screen import error 
ZBX-8245
 fixed repeating of actions while sorting / paging 
ZBX-5567
 removed parameter "not_proxy_hosts" from hostgroup.get API method and frontend code 
ZBX-8271
 fixed importing of maps with LLD discovered hosts

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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