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