Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.4rc1

16 February 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.4rc1.

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 2.4.4rc1. Download it from download.

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-2354	Separated VMware performance collector based statistic retrieval from VMware data retrieval and added items to monitor custom performance counters
ZBX-1357	Enabled Chinese (China) locale to be displayed by default
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (China), Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-2160	Added support for extended IP ranges in network discovery and action conditions

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-9284	Added Zabbix log file locking to avoid incomplete logging on log file rotation
ZBX-591	Fixed web monitoring, VMware monitoring, Ez Texting alerts and net.tcp.service{.perf}[https] items to use the SourceIP configuration parameter
ZBX-9143	Improved proc.num under Windows to handle more processes
ZBX-9232	Fixed processing of eventlog messages to avoid incomplete messaging for events which description could not be found
ZBX-9257	Fixed displaying missing history links in trigger context menu
ZBX-9257	Added missing host prefix before items in trigger context menu if trigger belongs to multiple hosts
ZBX-9257	Changed displaying host list from vertical to horizontal if trigger belongs to multiple hosts in Monitoring->Trigger status page
ZBX-9285	Fixed memory leak when processing host prototypes
ZBX-9279	Optimized VMware requests to reduce amount of transferred data
ZBX-9087	Fixed DB_ID validation expression to properly validate upper bound of received value and fixed various front-end forms not properly validating IDs
ZBX-7719	Added configurable timeout for VMware data gathering requests
ZBX-9241	Fixed possible vfs.fs.discovery item crash on AIX systems
ZBX-9104	Fixed repeated error messaging if SSH channel failed to close
ZBX-9183	Fixed eventlog message collecting in case of error formatting the log message; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-9224	Fixed audit log for failed login attempts
ZBX-9233	Fixed processing of bogus negative value of performance counter
ZBXNEXT-2354	Fixed VMware virtual machine network and disk transmission rates being reported in kilobytes rather than bytes
ZBX-8930	Fixed map import displaying incorrect message when map had non-existing sub elements
ZBX-8448	Fixed host and template permissions validation when an object belongs to both read and read-write groups
ZBX-8448	Added read-only groups in host and template edit forms as grayed out when object belongs to both read and read-write groups
ZBX-8448	Fixed template edit form losing host and template linkages by adding grayed out objects when they belong to both read and read-write groups
ZBX-8448	Fixed trigger and trigger prototype "enable/disable" action when trigger belongs to read-only group
ZBX-9013	Fixed action operation incorrect sorting in edit form which sometimes caused duplicate and missing operations
ZBX-8993	Added check for a valid reference of a global regular expression in LLD rules
ZBX-9218	Fixed agent crash if error message is not set in loadable module
ZBX-9088	Fixed parsing of SNMP traps for correct processing of delayed traps
ZBX-9093	Fixed API host.create method for MySQL strict mode when given partial data in "inventory" property
ZBX-9168	Fixed incorrect keys and unified key parameters in the item key helper
ZBX-8584	Fixed vmware eventlog items sometimes returning duplicate values
ZBX-9206	Fixed agent crash in case net.tcp.service[] item is used as an active agent item with an unsupported first parameter
ZBX-9195	Fixed lastlogsize and mtime being updated on proxy for unsupported items; thanks to Yoshinori Komuro for patch
ZBX-9010	Fixed audit actions not displaying most recent logs when record count exceeds maximum
ZBX-8555	Fixed 'broken pipe' errors when executing remote commands. This was happening because pipe was closed without reading from it
ZBX-8828	Made ICMP items go unsupported if ICMP packets cannot be sent to their host
ZBX-9163	Fixed SNMPERR_TOO_LONG error being wrongly treated as a network error; thanks to Santal for patch
ZBX-6047	Fixed system.boottime and system.uptime returning incorrect results on Solaris zones
ZBX-8874	Fixed LLD rule form flexible interval field being submitted when other form fields are in focus
ZBX-9169	Fixed upgrade of the proxy database with several discovery rules
ZBX-9176	Fixed {DISCOVERY.SERVICE.NAME} macro to expand properly for HTTPS and Telnet services
ZBX-9185	Fixed upgrade procedure in case database version is greater than version of the binary
ZBX-9177	Improved host and item name column widths on Monitoring / Latest data page
ZBX-9154	Fixed compilation error with Oracle backend
ZBX-9042	Unified "mass update" spelling in trigger configuration page
ZBX-9153	Fixed vmware.version item key being listed as vmware.eventlog in the item key helper
ZBX-8950	Fixed "selecIconMap" option in map.get method
ZBX-8405	Fixed typo in item key helper for system.cpu.num item description
ZBX-8846	Fixed non-existent page displaying
ZBX-9126	Fixed processing of trigger/graph prototypes in case when all item prototypes in trigger/graph prototypes were changed

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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 2.4.4.

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 2.4 Manual