Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.8rc1

17 February 2017

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.8rc1.

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 3.0.8rc1. 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-3681	Improved bulk inserts for Oracle database backend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-3669	Optimized trigger expression batch processing to avoid recalculation of identical functions Server
ZBXNEXT-3572	Added option to control amount of queued items Frontend Server

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11568	Fixed incorrect number rounding for CPU statistics Agent
ZBX-11781	Fixed potential integer underflow/overflow in the housekeeper process Server
ZBX-10902	Fixed wrong averages in web monitoring if a web server doesn't respond to a request Proxy Server
ZBX-11365	Fixed button and multiselect positioning in action operations edit form Frontend
ZBX-11655	Fixed Oracle and MySQL column limit calculation when using UTF-8 Proxy Server
ZBX-11703	Removed possibility to execute commit without transaction in processing LLD rules Server
ZBX-11402	Fixed unnecessary notification sending from dependent triggers Server
ZBX-11587	Fixed handling database failure during transaction commit Proxy Server
ZBX-11698	Fixed resolving of user macros with context wich are defined on host or template level API Frontend
ZBX-11621	Fixed cause of error with EventID 5858 in Windows EventLog when using wmi.get key Agent
ZBX-11584	Fixed selection of ntext data from Microsoft SQL Server using 'db.odbc.select' item key Proxy Server
ZBX-11492	Fixed copying sharing properties while cloning slide shows Frontend
ZBX-11635	Fixed possible deadlocks when removing obsolete VMWare services Server
ZBX-11661	Prevented requesting all screens in slide show when slide show screens are deleted Frontend
ZBX-11527	Fixed displaying maintenance icon for trigger element in maps Frontend
ZBX-11481	Fixed resolving macros for the IP and DNS fields in interfaces that are linked to the main interface with {HOST.IP} and {HOST.DNS} macros Proxy Server
ZBX-11482	Improved performance for getting last value of web items by limiting query results for values in last 24h; thanks to D.Spindel Ljungmark for patch API Frontend
ZBX-11630	Added escaping '"', ''', '&', '<' and '>' characters in SOAP XML for VMware requests Proxy Server
ZBX-11525	Ensured unique value timestamps (clock, ns) from active agents and senders Proxy Server
ZBX-11558	Fixed removing trigger dependencies for triggers that are created from LLD prototypes Server
ZBX-11385	Fixed interface displaying in host inventory page Frontend
ZBX-11101	Fixed potential crash in case of failure in zbx_tls_connect() with mbed TLS Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11101	Fixed compilation warnings regarding gnutls_transport_set_ptr() with GnuTLS Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11101	Fixed certificates with empty issuer and subject fields being rejected with OpenSSL Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11101	Fixed daemon behavior being affected by logging level when processing TLS connections Agent 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 3.0.8.

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