Release Notes for Zabbix 2.4.7rc1

4 November 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.4.7rc1.

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 2.4.7rc1. 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-2616	Update bundled DejaVu font from 2.34 to 2.35 Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, French, Italian, Russian and Turkish translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8235	Fixed losing initial values when updating templated items API
ZBX-9959	Fixed JSON validation: produce an error on invalid escape sequences in a string value Server
ZBX-9935	Added check for item delay, to be between 0 and 86400 seconds API
ZBX-9967	Fixed agent compilation error on NetBSD 7 Agent
ZBX-9347	Added information about zabbix_sender input file format to the man page Documentation
ZBX-9948	Fixed graph prototype preview for pie charts Frontend
ZBX-9889	Fixed vmware.eventlog item values to have unique timestamps in history table Server
ZBX-9919	Fixed y scale calculation for linear graphs Frontend
ZBX-9864	Fixed compilation warnings regarding SIZE_T_MAX under NetBSD Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9862	Added meta tag "msapplication-config" to prevent MSIE11 requesting browserconfig.xml Frontend
ZBX-9340	Fixed "data" property not being returned by API when error is generated on DB level API
ZBX-9866	Fixed error field being needlessly copied for LLD rule when full cloning a host API
ZBX-9863	Fixed compilation warning regarding "empty_str" initialization in setproctitle.c Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9912	Fixed ITEM.LASTVALUE macro value being truncated at bytes rather than utf-8 characters Server
ZBX-9643	Fixed resolving of {TRIGGER.NAME} macro in action messages Server
ZBX-7511	Removed trimming of leading and trailing spaces in SNMP strings Server
ZBX-8899	Fixed retrieval of sensor readings on Linux 2.6 and higher Agent
ZBX-9917	Fixed log message when opening windows eventlog Agent
ZBX-9855	Fixed SNMP dynamic index cache refresh when SNMP OID changes Proxy Server
ZBX-9740	Improved proc.num for protected Windows processes Agent
ZBX-9793	Fixed handling of opaque types in SNMP Proxy Server
ZBX-9847	Fixed possible Zabbix agent crash when executing system.cpu.discovery Agent
ZBX-9895	Fixed memory leak in case of unsupported field type while processing configuration received over proxy protocol Proxy Server
ZBX-9796	Fixed item key vfs.fs.size operation for NetBSD Agent
ZBX-9858	Added error message logging when SNMP trapper file size exceeds 2GB Server
ZBX-9666	Fixed invalid SNMP dynamic index cache if 2 SNMP agents have the same IP, port and OID Proxy Server
ZBX-9430	Fixed Windows eventlog item incorrectly interpreting 0x00000103 return value as an error Agent
ZBX-9655	Fixed crash if MYSQL connection object initialization failed Proxy Server
ZBX-9667	Fixed disabled triggers or triggers having disabled hosts or items affecting trigger dependency calculations Server
ZBX-9738	Fixed deletion of related action operations when deleting a host group API
ZBX-9625	Fixed interface list bug in host form Frontend
ZBX-9607	Fixed step form in web scenario Frontend
ZBX-9668	Improved handling of VMware performance counter instances without data Proxy Server
ZBX-9677	Fixed compilation warnings in the escalator.c module Server
ZBX-9682	Fixed parsing of the numeric item key parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9516	Fixed "Go" button display after deleting applications Frontend
ZBX-9639	Fixed chart width validation Frontend
ZBX-9809	Fixed action operation validation Frontend
ZBX-9716	Fixed possible event record number wraparound issues in the old Windows Eventing support Agent
ZBX-9258	Fixed Alias for log[], logrt[] and eventlog[] Agent
ZBX-4284	Improved handling of timeouting items on reachable hosts Proxy Server
ZBX-9721	Fixed agent log message for log[] item in case of log records longer than 256kB Agent
ZBX-9631	Fixed "Undefined offset" in the actions conditions and lld rule filters when using a custom expression with more than 26 elements Frontend
ZBX-7492	Fixed "Undefined index" when importing host without macros Frontend
ZBX-8989	Moved Total memory item from Filesystems to Memory application in Template OS Windows Installation Templates
ZBX-9739	Fixed agent crash when active check fails without setting error message 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 2.4.7.

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