Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.2

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.2.

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 3.0.2. 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-3210
 replaced user macro cache with expanded trigger expression caching 
ZBX-1357
 updated Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, English (United States), French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBX-10318
 added disabling of [-] or [+] buttons when screen column or row cannot be removed or added

Bug Fixes

ZBX-10626
 fixed crash in agent's collector process on Solaris 8 
ZBX-10564
 fixed trigger acknowledging in slide shows 
ZBX-10571
 fixed network discovery based on agent checks 
ZBX-9162
 fixed performance of the hostgroup.get method under MySQL 
ZBX-10575
 fixed history cache memory leak when floating value calculations resulted in out of bounds value 
ZBX-10410
 fixed possible crashes during history cache synchronisation during shutdown/crash 
ZBX-10493
 fixed memory leak when trying to reconnect to URL 
ZBX-10435
 fixed position of labels in the action operation form 
ZBX-10608
 fixed evaluation of action conditions with and/or evaluation type 
ZBX-6491
 fixed resolving of {ITEM.VALUE} macro in "System status" widget and Monitoring -> Triggers 
ZBX-10563
 fixed validation of timeperiods in maintenance create and maintenance update API methods 
ZBX-10375
 defined zbx_uint32_t to avoid conflicting uint32_t definitions 
ZBX-10510
 fixed action condition time period checking 
ZBX-10155
 prohibited creation of a trigger prototype without item prototypes in the expression 
ZBX-6744
 fixed "expression tree is too large (maximum depth 1000)" error when using SQLite3 in a large environment 
ZBX-10530
 fixed trappers and agent listeners accepting connections without a timeout 
ZBX-10570
 fixed incorrect select input height in FF 
ZBX-10413
 improved XML import validation 
ZBX-4148
 separated third-party library CFLAGS to avoid header file name conflicts 
ZBX-9820
 fixed overview of items and triggers with same name and multiple hosts 
ZBX-10466
 fixed event selection by trigger ID 
ZBX-7422
 fixed LLD discovery rule list showing 0 instead of blank space in interval column for trapper and SNMP trap items 
ZBX-10316
 fixed the regular expression preventing from adding web scenario steps 
ZBX-10497
 fixed proxy crash when processing metadata updates of log[] or logrt[] items 
ZBX-10257
 changed VMware items to become not supported if no VMware collector processes are started 
ZBX-10262
 fixed item.update modifying "delta" field for a templated item 
ZBX-10318,ZBX-10517
 added validation of vsize and hsize parameters in screen.create() and screen.update() methods 
ZBX-10318,ZBX-10517
 fixed validation of screen elements position in screen.create() and screen.update() methods 
ZBX-10318
 more secure removing of the screen columns and rows in GUI 
ZBX-10086
 restored old behaviour - do not disable core dump if compiled without encryption support 
ZBX-10459
 fixed compilation error with libxml2 versions before 2.7.0 
ZBX-10372
 fixed searching of network interface statistics in Solaris kstat 
ZBX-4842,ZBX-10532
 improved auditing of maintenance API operations 
ZBX-10431
 fixed net.tcp.listen on Linux when using netlink interface to obtain socket data; thanks to Andrey Melnikov for patch 
ZBX-9700
 fixed API receiving null and false instead of an array in method parameters 
ZBX-10379
 added context for text strings 'Filter' and 'Subject' 
ZBX-10360
 improved description for 'fuzzytime' trigger function in expression helper 
ZBX-9659
 changed setup condition for checking always_populate_raw_post_data 
ZBX-10485
 fixed database upgrade crash on attempt to substitute old-style comparison operators in empty trigger expressions 
ZBX-10422
 fixed layout of the history tables 
ZBX-10386
 fixed slideshow refresh rate 
ZBX-10369
 fixed unexpected deleting of screen items in screen.update API method 
ZBX-10342
 fixed item value not being cached by value cache if its timestamp seconds matches the oldest cached value timestamp, but the nanoseconds value is less 
ZBX-10221
 fixed MySQL transaction handling when execute query fails 
ZBX-4894
 fixed fping 3.x source IP option detection 
ZBX-10429
 fixed expression evaluation when a negated macro or function has a negative value itself 
ZBX-10356
 fixed user media form "send to" and "period" fields having incorrect "maxlength" property 
ZBX-10320
 fixed NFS based VMware datastore statistics 
ZBX-10248
 moved processing of zabbix[host,,items*] internal items to server if the host is monitored by a proxy

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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