Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.2rc1

11 April 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.2rc1.

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 3.0.2rc1. 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-3210	Replaced user macro cache with expanded trigger expression caching Server
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 API Frontend
ZBX-10318	Added disabling of [-] or [+] buttons when screen column or row cannot be removed or added Frontend

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Bug Fixes

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

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 3.0.2.

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