Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.4rc1

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 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-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

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

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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