Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.6rc1

4 August 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.6rc1.

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 2.4.6rc1. 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	Enabled Czech locale to be displayed by default API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, Japanese and Spanish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-786	Made net.tcp.service[ntp] item work over UDP Agent Proxy Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-9375	Fixed "Group" and "Host" dropdowns not setting values in "Events" page when navigating from trigger menu pop-up link and fixed availability reports filter dropdowns mistakenly using "Dropdown first entry" config Frontend
ZBX-9703	Fixed a memory leak in SSH checks when configured public and/or private key is not a regular file Server
ZBX-9605	Fixed an issue with start lines and end lines in vfs.file.regexp[] and vfs.file.regmatch[] Agent
ZBX-9332	Fixed correct display of green circle in maps and showing more unacknowledged problems than total number of problems Frontend
ZBX-9381	Removed 'groupid' parameter from global search URLs sometimes causing inaccessible forms due to insufficient permissions Frontend
ZBX-9623	Fixed possible SQL error when network discovery rule and LLD rule are processed at the same time Server
ZBX-8949	Fixed possible deadlocks when deleting items on systems with MySQL backend Server
ZBX-9592	Fixed possible crash due to uninitialized counterpath variable Agent
ZBX-9595	Added variable initialization for correct operation of system.swap.*[,pages] items Agent
ZBX-9290	Fixed log file reloading if its size is updated later than modification time Agent
ZBX-9456	Fixed system.cpu.util item to work correctly on OpenBSD 5.7 Agent
ZBX-9402	Fixed sorting of elements in pages and fixed several requests returning more results than record count set in configuration Frontend
ZBX-4529	Fixed security vulnerability in alerter script execution by using strong quoting for script arguments; thanks to Pavel for the report Server
ZBX-9385	Fixed proc.num[,,run] and proc.num[,,sleep] always returning 0 on AIX hosts Agent
ZBX-9511	Fixed compiler warnings in discoverer, SNMP trapper, LLD, and DNS item code Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8299	Fixed SQL errors in case a network discovery rule or check is deleted during processing Proxy Server
ZBX-9467	Fixed agent compilation error related to "ifnet" and "ifnet_head" structs on OpenBSD 5.5 and above 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 2.4.6.

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