Release Notes for Zabbix 2.3.4

29 August 2014

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 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

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

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Bug Fixes

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

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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 2.3.4.

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 2.3 Manual