Release Notes for Zabbix 2.3.4

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.3.4.

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 2.3.4. 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-101
 added functionality for changing log level at runtime, added new trace log level for extended web and vmware monitoring 
ZBXNEXT-1467
 added clear separation between 'add' and 'update' operations in the frontend 
ZBXNEXT-570
 implemented the ability to quickly display items on a graph from the latest data page 
ZBX-8367
 added recalculating of unsupported items queue when changed "Refresh unsupported items" parameter 
ZBXNEXT-1583
 implemented new screen element types - "Graph prototype" and "Simple graph prototype" 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBXNEXT-2359
 made server and proxy refuse to start if StartPollersUnreachable=0, but other pollers are started 
ZBX-8557
 implemented housekeeper 30 minutes startup delay 
ZBX-7720
 increased size of "Host name", "Visible host name" and "Proxy name" fields to 128 characters

Bug Fixes

ZBX-8458
 visual fixes in multiselect, actions, screens and maps 
ZBX-8682
 added IT services sorting in dependencies tab 
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-8675
 removed sortorder sorting from IT services popup window 
ZBX-8664
 changed agent to allow empty return values from user parameters and remote commands 
ZBX-8616
 fixed link to host items in Inventory->Hosts host view 
ZBX-8624
 fixed inconsistent header layout in Monitoring->Discovery page 
ZBX-8524
 fixed trigger filter not being reset on the Monitoring->Events page 
ZBX-8494
 added check to prevent starting a proxy with a server database and vice versa 
ZBX-8670
 fixed undefined index error on the web scenario configuration page when no host is selected 
ZBX-8531
 fixed inconsistent group selection dropdown behaviour in application configuration 
ZBX-8653
 fixed big double value check in the decimal validator 
ZBX-8377
 fixed style and hover effect for disabled bulk action buttons and improved readability for readonly input fields 
ZBX-8568
 fixed item.delete and itemprototype.delete to also remove trigger prototypes using them 
ZBX-8636
 fixed user accounts not being disabled after exceeding number of unsuccessful login attempts 
ZBX-7721
 added support for discovering more than 100 hypervisors on large vcenter installations to vmware collector 
ZBX-8564
 added standard error output while running remote script 
ZBX-8629
 fixed crash in get_string() function when checking "Database monitor" items 
ZBX-4800
 replaced JSON.org library with Android JSON library; thanks to Volker Fröhlich for legal research 
ZBX-4800
 fixed typo in item name in "Template JMX Generic": "mpTenured" -> "mp Tenured" 
ZBX-8509
 fixed value of field "Use custom multiplier" to correctly default to "1" if checkbox is unchecked 
ZBX-8530
 fixed host update to work when doing template unlink and interface remove in same request 
ZBX-8488
 fixed items being shown in queue with a delay of more than 44 years 
ZBX-8627
 fixed problem with some of code not working on PHP 5.3 
ZBX-8599
 fixed incorrect error message in Telnet based checks 
ZBX-8389
 fixed compilation error due to undeclared CURLOPT_KEYPASSWD with versions of libcurl up to 7.16.4 
ZBX-8582
 added use of escaping to variables in SQL queries to prevent possible injections in places where it was missing; thanks to Leann for the report 
ZBX-8444
 improved sleeping escalation processing by using configuration cache to get enabled items, triggers and hosts 
ZBX-8608
 added support of IP masks for action conditions 
ZBX-8608
 fixed clearing of discovered services with using CIDR notation in ip lists 
ZBX-8415
 fixed possible server crash on LLD host or host group update 
ZBX-8455
 improved synchronization between perfromance collector and agent threads 
ZBX-8236
 fixed few memory leaks in Windows agent 
ZBX-8601
 fixed bad performance of the proxy configuration synchronization 
ZBX-8600
 fixed SQL errors in proxy configuration synchronization 
ZBX-8563
 added field "logtimefmt" to exported items 
ZBX-8484
 fixed "Plain text" screen elements with "Show text as HTML" enabled trying to display the text as preformatted 
ZBX-7621
 changed virtual machine disk and network discovery to use device name instead of instance id in discovered item name 
ZBX-8338
 fixed SNMP walking code so that it intelligently chooses either a string or numeric representation for an OID index 
ZBX-8577
 added wmi.get[] to the list of suggested items 
ZBX-8430
 fixed SQL errors in drule.delete API method 
ZBX-8510
 fixed possible deadlocks when updating IT services

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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