Release Notes for Zabbix 3.2.0

13 Sep 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.2.0.

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 3.2.0. Download it from downloads.

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

ZBX-1357	Updated czech, english (united states), hebrew, italian, japanese, korean, portuguese (brazil), russian, ukrainian translations; thanks to zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-3206	Added support of flexible item key parameters for aliases
ZBXNEXT-3405	Implemented timeline in monitoring->problems view
ZBXNEXT-3353	Implemented interface for history export through loadable modules and changed module loading to require only zbx_module_api_version() function
ZBXNEXT-3423	Removed ability to acknowledge ok events
ZBXNEXT-3416	Implemented event hidden tag display with hint box when there are more than 3 tags and better display of long tags and added event tag display in event details widget
ZBXNEXT-3412	Implemented mass update for trigger and trigger prototype tags and manual close
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added icon in monitoring->problems view to show who close problem; implemented new information icons
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added blinking on closing state in monitoring->problems view
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added "show details" filter option in monitoring->problems view
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added displaying of recovery actions in monitoring->problem view
ZBXNEXT-3389	Removed value length limitation in zabbix_sender when reading data from file/stream
ZBXNEXT-3409	Replaced drop-down controls with modern radio buttons in several forms
ZBXNEXT-1791	Added evaluation of logical expressions with unsupported items in trigger expressions and calculated items; thanks to users alix and calimero for patch
ZBXNEXT-2877	Added datacenter name to vmware hypervisors and virtual machines
ZBXNEXT-1262	Added support of nested host groups
ZBX-1357	Updated chinese (china), czech, english (united states), french, georgian, german, italian, japanese, korean, polish, portuguese (brazil), russian, slovak, spanish, turkish, ukrainian translations; thanks to zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-1791	Enabled evaluation of nodata() and time-based functions for not supported items in trigger expressions and calculated items
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added history of events in monitoring->problems view
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added new filtering options in event.get() and problem.get() methods
ZBXNEXT-3201	Dropped monitoring->events view
ZBXNEXT-104	Implemented ability to manually close problems
ZBXNEXT-3358	Added a beautiful favorites icon
ZBXNEXT-3195	Implemented independent escalations for each problem event
ZBXNEXT-3277	Added global event correlation
ZBXNEXT-3274	Added event correlation on trigger level
ZBXNEXT-3201	Added high-performance view of current problems, implemented problem.get() method
ZBXNEXT-3296	Added basic filtering for several frontend pages
ZBXNEXT-2430	Added new items log.count[] and logrt.count[], added option for monitoring fast-growing log files
ZBXNEXT-3175	Added filtering for the list of templates and host groups
ZBXNEXT-821	Added possibility to view, copy, mass update and delete lld created elements
ZBXNEXT-3193	Added event_recovery table to link problem and recovery events, added problem table to cache active problem events
ZBXNEXT-3267	Added one minute delay for repeated snmp trap file error log entries
ZBXNEXT-3196	Added action option to pause escalations during maintenance
ZBXNEXT-178	Implemented web scenarios import/export
ZBXNEXT-2087	Added trigger and event tags
ZBXNEXT-1638	Added macro functions to allow substring extraction from item value macros in triggers and notifications
ZBXNEXT-2118	Added support of trigger option "ok event generation" and recovery expression
ZBXNEXT-1250	Added two new options "regexp" and "iregexp" to the third parameter <operator> of trigger function count(); thanks to michael kolomiets for patch
ZBX-1357	Updated chinese (china), chinese (taiwan), czech, english (united states), french, georgian, greek, italian, japanese, korean, polish, romanian, russian, slovak, turkish, ukrainian, vietnamese translations; thanks to zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-3135	Removed id field from history text and log tables

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11182	Fixed creating of recovery expressions for triggers created from trigger prototypes
ZBX-11182	Added possibility to open lld-created trigger from list of items
ZBX-11189	Fixed resolving of problems by event correlation on trigger level
ZBX-11187	Improved performance of event tag processing by caching eventtagid and problemtagid
ZBX-11177	Fixed sql errors while processing event correlation on trigger level
ZBXNEXT-3101	Fixed displaying fields of "operations" tab in action edit form when adding new operation in ie
ZBX-11171	Updated database versioning for v3.2 release
ZBXNEXT-3101	Fixed sql errors while upgrade ibm db2 database
ZBX-11143	Added missing space in ctrigger.php sql query
ZBX-6083	Strings that are related to status of item, trigger and host prototypes was renamed "enable" and "status" => "create enabled", "disable" => "create disabled", "enabled" => "yes", "disabled" => "no"
ZBXNEXT-3201	Fixed displaying of "actions" hintbox
ZBXNEXT-3201	Fixed "actions" column in exported csv file from monitoring->problem page
ZBX-11119	Fixed use of uninitialized variable
ZBX-11040	Added "page navigation" context to translation strings "first" and "last"; replicated translations for "first" and "last" in "page navigation" context from 2.2 brancha
ZBX-11035	Fixed incorrect headers in screens "status of zabbix" => "system status", "zabbix server info" => "status of zabbix"; renamed screen element select option "server info" => "status of zabbix"
ZBX-11070	Disallowed zabbix admin accessing notifications of users that does not share any user group
ZBX-11057	Fixed drawing lines of items with scheduled interval when graph data is selected from trends
ZBX-11050	Changed translation strings "enable event acknowledges" => "enable event acknowledgement" and "search/filter elements limit" => "limit for search and filter results"
ZBX-11071	Fixed closing success and error messages in ie
ZBXNEXT-3101	Fixed undefined index when adding a message to user in action operations
ZBX-11148	Fixed suppressing of escalations when an event is closed by event correlation operation 'close new'
ZBX-8801	Made "trigger status" be always remembered in "monitoring" -> "triggers" and "monitoring" -> "overview", even if "all"
ZBX-10974	Fixed filter being reset when moving to a different page in "monitoring" -> "triggers"
ZBX-11020	Fixed "host.create" so that both "inventory" and "inventory_mode" are optional
ZBX-8489	Removed odbc request answer size limitation
ZBX-10830	Fixed snmp trap to convert non-printable values from snmpv3 to hexadecimal
ZBX-9124	Changed getting os name by item system.sw.os[name]
ZBX-11132	Added database patch to fill all required fields in "problem" table
ZBX-10476	Fixed several issues with 'service.discovery' lld rule in template 'template os windows'
ZBX-11124	Fixed memory leak in process of deleting hosts, which occurs during lld processing
ZBX-11045	Fixed action audit log "recipient" column name
ZBXNEXT-3201	Fixed possible sql errors in problem.get() method
ZBX-11109	Fixed processing of parameter housekeepingfrequency=0 in proxy
ZBX-11105	Fixed compiler warnings regarding unused function parameters
ZBX-11099	Reduced configuration cache lock time after host maintenance ends
ZBX-10476	Extended 'template os windows' template by 'service.discovery' lld
ZBX-9413	Fixed disabled hosts linking to a maintenance
ZBX-11100	Fixed minor bugs and use of magic numbers in ip range parsers
ZBX-11098	Corrected log messages about completion of the trend data synchronization
ZBX-11072	Fixed problem with string truncation for ibm db2 databases which contain the char '\r'
ZBX-11081	Fixed compilation error with curl library
ZBX-7602	Added error messages about invalid regular expressions in eventlog items
ZBX-11093	Fixed possible crash when copying cached correlation rules
ZBX-10901	Added missing highlighting for some ui elements in focused state
ZBX-11075	Fixed host full clone with discovered items and discovered triggers
ZBXNEXT-3351	Decreased padding in screens to make them more compact
ZBX-3101	Fixed event macro processing in recovery operations
ZBX-10761	Added upgrade patch to clean wrong values in 'triggers' table
ZBX-11059	Fixed duplicate notifications sending from one media type
ZBX-11050	Renamed constants screen_resource_triggers_overview => screen_resource_trigger_overview screen_resource_hosts_info => screen_resource_host_info screen_resource_triggers_info => screen_resource_trigger_info
ZBX-11050	Changed translation strings "alarm acknowledgements" => "event acknowledgements" and "status of triggers" => "triggers" and changed few other translation strings to singular form
ZBX-11060	Fixed copying correlation_mode, correlation_tag, tags of trigger and trigger prototype
ZBX-11073	Fixed compilation with net-snmp library support
ZBX-10263	Fixed incorrect record count in getpagingline() when search limit is reached
ZBX-10768	Fixed compilation warning on freebsd
ZBX-10561	Improved style consistency for disabled elements
ZBX-3823	Improved validation and error messaging when history, discovery, autoregistration and host availability data sent by passive and active proxies are processed on server
ZBX-10030	Fixed api action update method request with only "actionid" property
ZBX-9972	Changed service_sla constant to match database default goodsla value
ZBX-10049	Fixed optional field validation in drule.update api method
ZBX-10076	Fixed text information containing non-ascii characters being saved incorrectly to ibm db2 database in case of system locale misconfiguration
ZBX-9989	Optimized sql queries for graphs building

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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 3.2 Manual