Release Notes for Zabbix 3.2.0

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.

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

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

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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