Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3

15 October 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 download.

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