Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0alpha2

9 September 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.0alpha2.

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 3.0.0alpha2. 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

ZBXNEXT-2662	Added a new predefined period (3 days) for the timeline Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2581	Added returning of permissions for usergroup.get API
ZBX-8820	Improved bulk acknowledge of events Frontend
ZBXNEXT-210	Changed macro type labels in template configuration form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1241	Added host inventory mode setting for new and discovered hosts API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-494	Added support for proc.cpu.util key on Linux and Solaris platforms Agent
ZBX-1357	Updated Czech and Japanese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-1078	Removed 'proc.mem[]' 5-th parameter (memtype) value 'dvm' on AIX Agent
ZBX-9807	Fixed undefined offset errors in configuration export when processing triggers that have items with discovered applications API
ZBX-9810	Fixed trigger prototype expression inheritance incorrectly assigning an invalid expression to child objects and trigger expression test popup displaying a missing class API Frontend
ZBX-7847	Added functionality that stops polling inactive IPMI hosts Proxy Server
ZBX-9430	Fixed Windows eventlog item incorrectly interpreting 0x00000103 return value as an error Agent
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed a map element editing form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed possibility to change the colours of trigger severities Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed layout of checkboxes with labels Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed layout of host inventory form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed media editing in user form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed saving of collapsible widgets in "Event detais" and "Global search" pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of vertical headers under IE10, IE11 and Edge Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of eventlog severities Frontend
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-9804	Fixed monitoring graph scroller and calendar Frontend
ZBX-9607	Fixed step form in web scenario Frontend
ZBX-9791	Fixed typo in maps.inc.php 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 numeric item key parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9516	Fixed displaying of the "Go" button after deleting applications Frontend
ZBX-9639	Fixed chart width validation Frontend
ZBX-9729	Fixed replacement of {MACRO<1-9>} with {MACRO} where only {MACRO} is acceptable Server
ZBX-9809	Fixed action operation validation Frontend
ZBX-9814	Fixed function prototype declaration created in ZBXNEXT-2760 Server
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

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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 3.0.0.

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 3.0 Manual