Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.5

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.5.

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 2.4.5. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.


Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-1357 updated Polish and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

New Features and Improvements

ZBX-8839 Added timeout configuration option to Java gateway Java gateway
ZBX-1357 Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (China), Italian and Japanese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

Bug Fixes

ZBX-9457 Fixed server crash in case ValueCacheSize=0; thanks to MATSUDA Daiki for patch Proxy Server
ZBX-5717 Fixed incorrect calculation of icmppingloss[] due to floating-point errors Proxy Server
ZBX-9436 Fixed zabbix_server to not exit in case of database connection loss in the middle of transaction Server
ZBX-9355 Added host name and names of conflicting templates to the error message when templates fail to link due to a duplicate item, fixed linking of templates containing web scenarios Server
ZBX-9352 Fixed execution of remote commands on the server in case trigger expression contains multiple hosts Server
ZBX-9394 Fixed SMS sending with Teltonika modems Server
ZBX-3507 Fixed SMS sending with Huawei GSM modems Server
ZBX-7446 Fixed vmware.hv.status item always returning 0 (gray) status Proxy Server
ZBX-9346 Fixed importing trigger dependencies and maps that contain the triggers expressions with old style operators API
ZBX-9410 Fixed agent logging to eventlog (syslog option) on Windows Agent
ZBX-9365 Fixed array_combine() function giving a warning message for PHP versions < 5.4.0 API Frontend
ZBX-9395 Fixed overview triggers and data page to display results when the option to select first dropdown entry is set to "None" and a group is selected Frontend
ZBX-9402 Fixed trigger list sorting Frontend
ZBX-9102 Fixed "System status" dashboard widget performing poorly Frontend
ZBX-5656 Fixed maintenance.create and maintenance.update methods "timeperiods" parameter to be an array of arrays API
ZBX-9331 Changed value type of system.stat[kthr,*] items in "Template OS AIX" to float and added them to "Performance" application Installation Templates
ZBX-9368 Fixed possible SQL errors when linking of several templates Server
ZBX-9343 Fixed user ID being zero in audit logs for login/logout actions API Frontend
ZBX-9375 Renamed "Latest events" to "Events" in menu popup for trigger map elements and fixed its link not setting corresponding trigger in filter Frontend
ZBX-9251 Added missing socket closing to avoid large number of opened sockets Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9344 Fixed infinite looping in telnet.run[] in case there is no password prompt Proxy Server
ZBX-9369 Removed validation of DB_ID from user profile for removed medias and fixed incorrect DB_ID validation for arrays in bar reports page Frontend
ZBX-9348 Fixed possibility to enable/disable LLD trigger Frontend
ZBX-9268 Fixed misleading message in discovered object indicator tooltip when deletion date is in the past Frontend
ZBX-4633 Fixed host inventories not displaying all filtered results when record count exceeds global limit Frontend
ZBX-9286 Fixed configuration.import, when trigger expression have a user macro Frontend
ZBX-9283 Improved proc_info item (Windows only) to get more information about the processes Agent
ZBX-8875 Fixed undefined index in screens with dynamic graph prototype elements when host is not selected Frontend
ZBX-9203 Fixed host scripts menu popup not properly displaying script name when name contains HTML tags Frontend

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 2.4.5.

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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