Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3

15 Oct 2015

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.

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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

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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[]

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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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 3.0 Manual