Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.2rc1

31 October 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.2rc1.

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 2.4.2rc1. 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

ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-8503	Increased limitation of command length for remote commands with agent Agent

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8978	Fixed propagation of the SNMP bulk flag into discovered hosts Server
ZBX-8978	Fixed propagation of the interfaces into discovered hosts in same order as in the parent host Server
ZBX-8970	Fixed interfaces list not being displayed correctly for discovered hosts Frontend
ZBX-8849	Fixed redundant linking with -lcrypto when linking with Net-SNMP Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-8913	Fixed JSON validation sometimes failing to process utf-8 sequences Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8951	Fixed agent crash on HP-UX 11.31 when processing "net.if.discovery" item Agent
ZBX-8901	Added ability to use scientific notation and floats without leading 0 to Configuration -> Hosts -> Discovery -> Item Prototypes Frontend
ZBX-6542	Updated description of HousekeepingFrequency parameter in the default server and proxy configuration files Documentation
ZBX-8833	Fixed dynamic SNMP item cache working incorrectly for hosts with multiple SNMP interfaces, optimized cache performance Proxy Server
ZBX-8904	Fixed item.get API to not read all host interfaces when option "selectInterfaces" is used API Frontend
ZBX-8538	Added Net-SNMP retry of 1 for cases where Zabbix will not be retrying itself Proxy Server
ZBX-8538	Changed the strategy to decrease the optimal number of variables two times only Proxy Server
ZBX-8232	Fixed performance issues in maps Frontend
ZBX-8948	Fixed memory leak when checking Template condition during action processing Server
ZBX-6353	Improved history cache performance when it's flooded with data from less than 1000 items Server
ZBX-8916	Fixed "lastlogsize" not being updated in the configuration cache when values are received from the agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8877	Fixed filters not hiding/showing for IE11 Frontend
ZBX-8794	Fixed parsing of runtime control options and related error messages Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8885	Fixed building of Zabbix daemons with IBM DB2 support on systems with newer gcc compilers Installation
ZBX-8791	Fixed importing sysmaps when host elements are linked and have a trigger assigned to the link Frontend
ZBX-8072	Fixed bug when long messages were not truncated to 2KB when inserting into alerts table on DB2 databases Installation
ZBX-6174	Fixed "skipDependent" option in trigger.get API call to correctly handle cases when triggers on which they depend are disabled API
ZBX-8887	Fixed error messages when saving graph with invalid width and height Frontend
ZBX-8699	Fixed zbx_sleep_loop() to handle correctly signal arrival Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8793	Fixed processing of snmp value to represent it as integer Proxy Server
ZBX-8726	Fixed warning messages shown by deprecated PHP 5.6 options "mbstring.internal_encoding" and "always_populate_raw_post_data" Frontend
ZBX-8817	Fixed incorrect clearing of web scenario item history and trends API Frontend
ZBX-8830	Fixed map pop-up menu "Triggers" link being always disabled for host group map elements Frontend
ZBX-5561	Fixed configuration failure during cross compilation; thanks to Christof Lauber for the patch Installation
ZBX-8621	Added validation of received SNMP responses and warnings in case SNMP responses are bad Proxy Server
ZBX-8764	Added missing validation for resource ID in screenitem.create and screenitem.update API API Frontend
ZBX-8754	Fixed crash in escalator when processing an alert without an user, but with a media type set Server

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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 2.4.2.

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