Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3.

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 3.0.0alpha3. 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-1263
 added encryption support for communications between Zabbix components 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 implemented on-click navigation for sub menus 
ZBXNEXT-2844
 added multiple escalator support 
ZBXNEXT-2988
 reduced the number of poller configuration cache locks by 1/3 
ZBXNEXT-2163
 implemented argument support for script media type 
ZBXNEXT-2128
 implemented execution of an item at a specific time 
ZBXNEXT-922
 added forecasting trigger functions 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBXNEXT-2056
 added an HTTP response code value map 
ZBX-9274
 added printing defaults when Zabbix programs are executed with --help option 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 added a new predefined period (3 days) for the timeline 
ZBXNEXT-2581
 added returning of permissions for usergroup.get 
ZBX-8820
 improved bulk acknowledge of events 
ZBXNEXT-210
 changed macro type labels in template configuration form 
ZBXNEXT-1241
 added host inventory mode setting for new and discovered hosts 
ZBXNEXT-494
 added support for proc.cpu.util key on Linux and Solaris platforms 
ZBX-1357
 updated Czech and Japanese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed debug messages in the dashboard widgets 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed year and month vertical alignment in calendar 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed displaying of month and year in calendar popup 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed script execution window layout 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed displaying of modal dialogs 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed top nav jumping icon bug on page zoom in Safari 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed resizing of multiselect items in filters 
ZBX-9941
 fixed button attributes changes for map cloning 
ZBX-7006
 implemented trend cache cleanup procedure which forces hourly flush of deleted, disabled or rarely updated item trends 
ZBX-9889
 fixed vmware.eventlog item values to have unique timestamps in history table 
ZBX-9919
 fixed y scale calculation for linear graphs 
ZBX-9898
 improved database exception messages 
ZBX-9900
 marked first parameter for proc_info item as mandatory 
ZBX-9902
 fixed undefined variables "mediatype" and "users" in mediatype properties 
ZBX-9864
 fixed compilation warnings regarding SIZE_T_MAX under NetBSD 
ZBX-9862
 added meta tag "msapplication-config" to prevent MSIE11 requesting browserconfig.xml 
ZBX-9340
 fixed "data" property not being returned by API when error is generated on DB level 
ZBX-9866
 fixed error field being needlessly copied for LLD rule when full cloning a host 
ZBX-9883
 fixed host assignment for proxy 
ZBX-9863
 fixed compilation warning regarding "empty_str" initialization in setproctitle.c 
ZBX-9912
 fixed ITEM.LASTVALUE macro value being truncated at bytes rather than utf-8 characters 
ZBX-7511
 removed trimming of leading and trailing spaces in SNMP strings 
ZBX-8899
 fixed retrieval of sensor readings on Linux 2.6 and higher 
ZBX-9917
 fixed log message when opening windows eventlog 
ZBX-9855
 fixed SNMP dynamic index cache refresh when SNMP OID changes 
ZBX-8820
 fixed trimming of new acknowledge messages 
ZBX-9740
 improved proc.num for protected Windows processes 
ZBX-9793
 fixed handling of opaque types in SNMP 
ZBX-9847
 fixed possible Zabbix agent crash when executing system.cpu.discovery 
ZBX-9895
 fixed memory leak in case of unsupported field type while processing configuration received over proxy protocol 
ZBX-9776
 added check for line length when parsing configuration file 
ZBX-9796
 fixed item key vfs.fs.size operation for NetBSD 
ZBXNEXT-494
 fixed proc.cpu.util help item description 
ZBX-9858
 added error message logging when SNMP trapper file size exceeds 2GB 
ZBX-9666
 fixed invalid SNMP dynamic index cache if 2 SNMP agents have the same IP, port and OID 
ZBXNEXT-1078
 removed 'proc.mem[]' 5-th parameter (memtype) value 'dvm' on AIX 
ZBX-9807
 fixed undefined offset errors in configuration export when processing triggers that have items with discovered applications 
ZBX-9810
 fixed trigger prototype expression inheritance incorrectly assigning an invalid expression to child objects and trigger expression test popup displaying a missing class 
ZBX-7847
 added functionality that stops polling inactive IPMI hosts 
ZBX-9430
 fixed Windows eventlog item incorrectly interpreting 0x00000103 return value as an error 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed a map element editing form 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed possibility to change the colours of trigger severities 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed layout of checkboxes with labels 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed layout of host inventory form 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed media editing in user form 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed saving of collapsible widgets in "Event detais" and "Global search" pages 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed displaying of vertical headers under IE10, IE11 and Edge 
ZBXNEXT-2662
 fixed displaying of eventlog severities 
ZBX-9655
 fixed crash if MYSQL connection object initialization failed 
ZBX-9667
 fixed disabled triggers or triggers having disabled hosts or items affecting trigger dependency calculations 
ZBX-9738
 fixed deletion of related action operations when deleting a host group 
ZBX-9625
 fixed interface list bug in host form 
ZBX-9804
 fixed monitoring graph scroller and calendar 
ZBX-9607
 fixed step form in web scenario 
ZBX-9791
 fixed typo in maps.inc.php 
ZBX-9668
 improved handling of VMware performance counter instances without data 
ZBX-9677
 fixed compilation warnings in the escalator.c module 
ZBX-9682
 fixed parsing of numeric item key parameters 
ZBX-9516
 fixed displaying of the "Go" button after deleting applications 
ZBX-9639
 fixed chart width validation 
ZBX-9729
 fixed replacement of {MACRO<1-9>} with {MACRO} where only {MACRO} is acceptable 
ZBX-9809
 fixed action operation validation 
ZBX-9814
 fixed function prototype declaration created in ZBXNEXT-2760 
ZBX-9716
 fixed possible event record number wraparound issues in the old Windows Eventing support 
ZBX-9258
 fixed Alias for log[], logrt[] and eventlog[]

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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