Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0beta1

19 January 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.0beta1.

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 3.0.0beta1. 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-3082	Implemented support of public and private slide shows with ability to share them with other users and user groups Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-3080	Implemented action menu closing only when clicking outside of it Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3051	Implemented action and action condition caching Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented displaying of maps using graph_themes Frontend
ZBX-10102	Added support for log file meta information update for items with value type other than log Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Moved "sid" parameter into POST method for links with actions Frontend
ZBXNEXT-611	Added an option to start Zabbix daemons in foreground mode and a configuration parameter to log to the standard ouput Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Removed "sid" parameter from almost all links Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3073	Implemented support of public and private screens with ability to share them with other users and user groups API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-3071	Optimized history cache to better handle few items flooding cache with values Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-3045	Dropped zabbix_agent - the inetd version of Zabbix agent Agent Installation
ZBX-1357	Updated Czech, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented a new filter in triggers and web checks configuration lists Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented a new screen clock Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented displaying of the IT services bar graph using graph_themes Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Improved editing of the IT Services Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3007	Implemented support of public and private maps with ability to share them with other users and user groups API Frontend Installation
ZBX-10063	Improved net.if.* on Windows to get values from 64-bit counters if available Agent
ZBX-9859	Improved performance of screen.get method for an unprivileged user API
ZBXNEXT-3055	Changed LLD lost resources deletion time calculation logic to avoid issues with invalid discovery item time stamps Server
ZBXNEXT-1193	Implemented trend.get method for API API
ZBXNEXT-3037	Removed unused fields "gridview" and "legendview" from "graph_theme" table Installation
ZBXNEXT-2357	Implemented a new MVC style for Monitoring->Web and IT Services report Frontend
ZBX-9985	Fixed template search results Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1762	Added years, months and half of months periods displaying on graphs X axis Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Implemented value map import/export API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Added checkbox column in value map list view and bulk "Delete" button Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Added "Used in items" column in value map list view and green text "Yes" if value map is used in items or item prototypes Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Added value map sorting by name Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Added limit for the amount of records and paging in value maps Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1679	Replaced built-in confirmation dialog with modal window dialog for image import when selecting "Update existing" Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2683	Added user macro context API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-2616	Updated bundled DejaVu font from 2.34 to 2.35 Frontend
ZBX-9935	Added check for item delay, to be between 0 and 86400 seconds API
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2678	Implemented trigger description and URL popups in the dashboard's "Last 20 issues" and screen element's "Host group issues" and "Host issues" Frontend
ZBX-2517	Changed minimum period for time navigator to 1 minute; thanks to Zabbix community Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1424	Implemented value mapping API, added clone button in value map edit form and slightly improved performance of value map caching in frontend API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2960	Reduced the default MaxLinesPerSecond value to 20 Agent
ZBXNEXT-1263	Added encryption support for communications between Zabbix components API Frontend Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented on-click navigation for sub menus Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2844	Added multiple escalator support Server
ZBXNEXT-2988	Reduced the number of poller configuration cache locks by 1/3 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2163	Implemented argument support for script media type API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-2128	Implemented execution of an item at a specific time API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-922	Added forecasting trigger functions Frontend Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2056	Added an HTTP response code value map Installation
ZBX-9274	Added printing defaults when Zabbix programs are executed with --help option Agent Proxy Server
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

ZBX-9991	Fixed functionality that adds last selected host group to new template groups list Frontend
ZBX-9500	Fixed elements sorting in configuration export Frontend
ZBX-10165	Fixed construction of host discovery filter expression Frontend
ZBX-10270	Fixed HTTP proxy environment variables not being taken into account in Web monitoring Proxy Server
ZBX-10019	Fixed graph time interval selection Frontend
ZBX-10226	Fixed trigger prototype updateReal API method API
ZBX-10232	Fixed SQL errors with invalid "year" parameter in IT services report API Frontend
ZBX-10246	Fixed updating and creating media type API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Added more details to README file about how to add new language API Frontend
ZBX-10266	Fixed uninitialized variable in VMware code reported by Coverity (CIDs 118958, 118960, 118962, 118965) Proxy Server
ZBX-10239	Fixed agent collector crashes on Linux while gathering data for proc.cpu.util[], fixed unsafe use of stack in logging functions Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-10182	Fixed API to disallow update of templated host graphs and disabled form fields for templated host graph update API Frontend
ZBX-10194	Fixed server attempts to insert duplicate entries during LLD on ARM 32 bit processors Server
ZBX-10275	Fixed displaying of the search dropdown Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of a mass selection box in the map configurator Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of action buttons in the list of items Frontend
ZBX-10051	Fixed expanding of trigger expression user macro in trigger name positional macro API Frontend
ZBX-10236	Fixed history page PHP errors that occurred with items that are value mapped with floating point values Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3065	Added arg_separator.output check in setup pre-requisites Frontend
ZBX-10150	Fixed "countOutput" calculation in screen.get API method API
ZBXNEXT-2662	Moved logo in an upper left corner Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Added server name in login page Frontend
ZBX-8914	Improved receiving TCP messages: more tolerant to fragmented messages, stricter message length validation, better performance Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1263	Fixed timeout detection for encrypted connections Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1263	Fixed encryption problems with running remote commands Server
ZBXNEXT-1263	Polished encryption support for communications between Zabbix components API Frontend Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2637	Fixed incorrect double quote character in the default agent configuration files Documentation
ZBX-9904	Fixed server response when active proxy sends in historical data, info string was missing Proxy Server
ZBX-10219	Fixed pointer type in sizeof() Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8755	Removed unutilised header file to eliminate build warnings Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-10066	Fixed bug where host availability changes could be lost if proxy failed to send the update, fixed possibility of duplicate availability updates for passive proxies Proxy Server
ZBX-10145	Fixed macro resolving for trigger description in dashboard Frontend
ZBX-10140	Fixed starting session in page header when output buffering is disabled Frontend
ZBX-10177	Fixed resource leak in sensor[] on Linux kernel versions 2.6 and higher Agent
ZBX-10154	Improved sender.pl script to take advantage of buffering (increases performance and makes communication with daemons more robust) Installation
ZBX-10138	Fixed action based host removal when hosts to be deleted have host prototypes Server
ZBX-10064	Fixed history cache synchronisation with database on shutdown Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed trimming of leading and trailing spaces in the proxy encription-related fields Frontend
ZBX-10022	Fixed a web scenario name into the graphs Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of the server name on the pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Added ZBX_WIDGET_ROWS limitation for displaying of elements the popup windows Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed closing of the multiple message boxes Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Added "Time" column in the actions popup window Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed coloring of the configuration errors in "Status of Zabbix" widget Frontend
ZBX-4794	Removed old-style flash clock Frontend
ZBX-4378	Fixed several screen clock problems Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed coloring for disabled hosts in drop-down controls Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed background in Monitoring->Maps page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed escaping of multiselect drop-down list items Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed the footer for "Last 20 issues" dashboard widget Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed sort icons in the screen elements Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of screen elements Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Replaced <span> with <a> tag in action menu popups to allow open targets in a new browser's tab Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed IT services status bar; fixed align of the root element Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Added information about number of records in tables Frontend
ZBX-9458	Fixed low level discovery macro substitution in calculated item formulas Server
ZBX-10110	Fixed using Japanese in global search Frontend
ZBX-10067	Fixed false event generation on log item meta information update Server
ZBX-9998	Changed output of history and trends in item list and item prototype list from #y #m #d format to #d format Frontend
ZBX-9981	Fixed validation for zabbix.conf.php saving in write protected directory Frontend
ZBX-10139	Fixed possible PHP and SQL errors on the dashdoard and screens Frontend
ZBX-10099	Fixed buffer flushing error when executing script on a host Frontend
ZBX-10077	Fixed deleting of profile data for current user Frontend
ZBX-9950	Fixed foreign key constraint violation when deleting discovered host triggers and graphs with their prototypes Server
ZBX-10033	Fixed Windows agent printing an incorrect error message in case of abandoned lock Agent
ZBX-10034	Fixed agent start-up failures within Windows session due to common locks abandoned by other agents Agent
ZBX-10036	Fixed showing all hosts in dashboard last 20 issues when trigger expression contains several hosts Frontend
ZBX-9906	Fixed automatic refreshing of WEB scenario details Frontend
ZBX-10126	Fixed compilation error in sensors.c on Linux 2.4 kernels Agent
ZBX-10018	Fixed inconsistent messages in debug log when UserParameter terminated by timeout Agent
ZBX-10029	Fixed running remote command on Current host twice if it is within specified Host or Host group targets Server
ZBX-10079	Documented system.run returning '1' with nowait parameter in the item key helper Frontend
ZBX-10107	Fixed compilation warnings for function calls without a real prototype Agent
ZBX-10084	Fixed removing trigger-related network map elements Server
ZBX-10031	Fixed logging of occasionally incorrect process information during agent's start-up on Windows Agent
ZBX-10001	Fixed duplicating log file entries from housekeeper Proxy Server
ZBX-9928	Fixed triple SMS being sent by single action with Cinterion MC35i modem Server
ZBX-10006	Changed color of hovered host name for disabled host in search result Frontend
ZBX-10100	Fixed issue when collected values could be left unsaved to the database Proxy Server
ZBX-9643	Fixed resolving of {TRIGGER.NAME} macro in action messages Server
ZBX-9931	Removed 2KB item key length limitation when sent to agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9932	Removed 1KB zabbix_get item key length limitation Agent
ZBX-9992	Fixed forecast() function info index for trigger expression constructor Frontend
ZBX-10061	Fixed possible server and proxy crash on attempt to clean up text cache if log item meta update packets are present in history cache Proxy Server
ZBX-10045	Fixed first proc.cpu.util[] request returning empty value which was treated as network error by server Agent
ZBX-1916	Improved host availability handling by resetting it for disabled hosts, interfaces without enabled items and hosts monitored by offline proxies Proxy Server
ZBX-2966	Fixed handling of possible negative value of vfs.fs.size check Agent
ZBX-9977	Fixed inconsistent display of acknowledge-related elements when acknowledgement is disabled in configuration Frontend
ZBX-9964	Fixed undefined index "inventory_mode" in host prototype edit form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1762	Fixed time interval calculation and displaying issues in line graphs Frontend
ZBX-9949	Fixed undefined index in proxy edit form Frontend
ZBX-6028	Improved log rotation so that zabbix components do not keep writing to the old log file Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8235	Fixed losing initial values when updating templated items API
ZBX-9888	Added validation in action condition formula to prohibit comparison of several triggers with "AND" operator API Frontend
ZBX-9975	Fixed undefined index when updating trigger prototype API
ZBX-9959	Fixed JSON validation: produce an error on invalid escape sequences in a string value Server
ZBX-7202	Fixed action disabling when deleting user or user group API Frontend
ZBX-9970	Removed service label from configuration popup menu Frontend
ZBX-9945	Fixed updating of "Device uniqueness criterias" while editing discovery checks Frontend
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
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed debug messages in the dashboard widgets Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed year and month vertical alignment in calendar Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of month and year in calendar popup Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed script execution window layout Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of modal dialogs Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed top nav jumping icon bug on page zoom in Safari Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed resizing of multiselect items in filters Frontend
ZBX-9941	Fixed button attributes changes for map cloning Frontend
ZBX-7006	Implemented trend cache cleanup procedure which forces hourly flush of deleted, disabled or rarely updated item trends Server
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-9898	Improved database exception messages Frontend
ZBX-9900	Marked first parameter for proc_info item as mandatory Frontend
ZBX-9902	Fixed undefined variables "mediatype" and "users" in mediatype properties 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-9883	Fixed host assignment for proxy Frontend
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-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-8820	Fixed trimming of new acknowledge messages Frontend
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-9776	Added check for line length when parsing configuration file Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9796	Fixed item key vfs.fs.size operation for NetBSD Agent
ZBXNEXT-494	Fixed proc.cpu.util help item description 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
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

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References

Zabbix 3.0 Manual