Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.1rc1

1 October 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.1rc1.

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 2.4.1rc1. 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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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8784	Fixed link to the latest data page from the map pop up menu Frontend
ZBX-8665	Fixed incorrect display of period in graph filter time bar, dragging the scrollbar beyond year 1970 and calendar months to run in loop for years 1970 and 2038 Frontend
ZBX-8802	Fixed missing sub-menu icon in global script menu Frontend
ZBX-8825	Fixed character "#" being replaced with "<>" in low-level discovery macros during database upgrade Proxy Server
ZBX-8822	Fixed vm.memory.size[] items being unsupported on FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-8693	Fixed "Add" button in Configuration->Triggers->Create Trigger->Add for IE11 Frontend
ZBX-8815	Fixed adding of host groups to the host by discovery action Server
ZBX-8816	Removed "clear history & trends" button from template web scenarios Frontend
ZBX-8727	Fixed item multiplier value validation to support scientific notation correctly Frontend
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 Server
ZBX-8753	Fixed mass update to change host inventory Frontend
ZBX-8744	Fixed database upgrade procedure stopping when upgrade step was failed Installation
ZBX-8719	Optimised value cache requests to better utilise database indexes Server
ZBX-8659	Fixed graphs in screens not respecting "Show legend" setting when in dynamic mode Frontend
ZBX-8679	Removed outdated and unused images
ZBX-8700	Fixed possible SQL error in details of web scenario Frontend
ZBX-8595	Fixed incorrect event message when handling eventlog Agent

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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 2.4.1.

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 2.4 Manual