Release Notes for Zabbix 3.2.0rc2

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.2.0rc2.

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 3.2.0rc2. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.


New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-3206 Added support of flexible item key parameters for aliases Agent
ZBXNEXT-3405 Implemented timeline in Monitoring->Problems view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3353 Implemented interface for history export through loadable modules and changed module loading to require only zbx_module_api_version() function Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-3423 Removed ability to acknowledge OK events API Frontend
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 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3412 Implemented mass update for trigger and trigger prototype tags and manual close Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added icon in Monitoring->Problems view to show who close problem; implemented new information icons Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added blinking on CLOSING state in Monitoring->Problems view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added "Show details" filter option in Monitoring->Problems view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added displaying of recovery actions in Monitoring->Problem view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3389 Removed value length limitation in zabbix_sender when reading data from file/stream Agent
ZBXNEXT-3409 Replaced drop-down controls with modern radio buttons in several forms Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1791 Added evaluation of logical expressions with unsupported items in trigger expressions and calculated items; thanks to users alix and Calimero for patch Server
ZBXNEXT-2877 Added datacenter name to vmware hypervisors and virtual machines Server
ZBXNEXT-1262 Added support of nested host groups API Frontend Installation Server
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 API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1791 Enabled evaluation of nodata() and time-based functions for not supported items in trigger expressions and calculated items Server
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added history of events in Monitoring->Problems view Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added new filtering options in event.get() and problem.get() methods API
ZBXNEXT-3201 Dropped Monitoring->Events view Frontend
ZBXNEXT-104 Implemented ability to manually close problems API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3358 Added a beautiful favorites icon Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3195 Implemented independent escalations for each problem event Server
ZBXNEXT-3277 Added global event correlation API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3274 Added event correlation on trigger level API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3201 Added high-performance view of current problems, implemented problem.get() method API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3296 Added basic filtering for several frontend pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2430 Added new items log.count[] and logrt.count[], added option for monitoring fast-growing log files Frontend Agent
ZBXNEXT-3175 Added filtering for the list of templates and host groups Frontend
ZBXNEXT-821 Added possibility to view, copy, mass update and delete lld created elements API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3193 Added event_recovery table to link problem and recovery events, added problem table to cache active problem events Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-3267 Added one minute delay for repeated SNMP trap file error log entries Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-3196 Added action option to pause escalations during maintenance API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-178 Implemented web scenarios import/export API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2087 Added trigger and event tags API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1638 Added macro functions to allow substring extraction from item value macros in triggers and notifications API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-2118 Added support of trigger option "OK event generation" and recovery expression API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1250 Added two new options "regexp" and "iregexp" to the third parameter <operator> of trigger function count(); thanks to Michael Kolomiets for patch API Server
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 API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3135 Removed id field from history text and log tables API Frontend Server

Bug Fixes

ZBX-11182 Fixed creating of recovery expressions for triggers created from trigger prototypes Server
ZBX-11182 Added possibility to open lld-created trigger from list of items Frontend
ZBX-11189 Fixed resolving of problems by event correlation on trigger level Server
ZBX-11187 Improved performance of event tag processing by caching eventtagid and problemtagid Server
ZBX-11177 Fixed sql errors while processing event correlation on trigger level Server
ZBXNEXT-3101 Fixed displaying fields of "Operations" tab in action edit form when adding new operation in IE Frontend
ZBX-11171 Updated database versioning for v3.2 release Installation
ZBXNEXT-3101 Fixed sql errors while upgrade IBM DB2 database Installation
ZBX-11143 Added missing space in CTrigger.php SQL query API
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" Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Fixed displaying of "Actions" hintbox Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Fixed "Actions" column in exported csv file from Monitoring->Problem page Frontend
ZBX-11119 Fixed use of uninitialized variable Proxy Server
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 Frontend
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" Frontend
ZBX-11070 Disallowed zabbix admin accessing notifications of users that does not share any user group Frontend
ZBX-11057 Fixed drawing lines of items with scheduled interval when graph data is selected from trends Frontend
ZBX-11050 Changed translation strings "Enable event acknowledges" => "Enable event acknowledgement" and "Search/Filter elements limit" => "Limit for search and filter results" Frontend
ZBX-11071 Fixed closing success and error messages in IE Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3101 Fixed undefined index when adding a message to user in action operations Frontend
ZBX-11148 Fixed suppressing of escalations when an event is closed by event correlation operation 'close new' Server
ZBX-8801 Made "Trigger status" be always remembered in "Monitoring" -> "Triggers" and "Monitoring" -> "Overview", even if "All" Frontend
ZBX-10974 Fixed filter being reset when moving to a different page in "Monitoring" -> "Triggers" Frontend
ZBX-11020 Fixed "host.create" so that both "inventory" and "inventory_mode" are optional API
ZBX-8489 Removed ODBC request answer size limitation Proxy Server
ZBX-10830 Fixed SNMP trap to convert non-printable values from SNMPv3 to hexadecimal Server
ZBX-9124 Changed getting OS name by item system.sw.os[name] Agent
ZBX-11132 Added database patch to fill all required fields in "problem" table Installation
ZBX-10476 Fixed several issues with 'service.discovery' lld rule in template 'Template OS Windows' Installation Templates
ZBX-11124 Fixed memory leak in process of deleting hosts, which occurs during lld processing Server
ZBX-11045 Fixed action audit log "Recipient" column name Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3201 Fixed possible SQL errors in problem.get() method API
ZBX-11109 Fixed processing of parameter HousekeepingFrequency=0 in proxy Proxy
ZBX-11105 Fixed compiler warnings regarding unused function parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11099 Reduced configuration cache lock time after host maintenance ends Server
ZBX-10476 Extended 'Template OS Windows' template by 'service.discovery' LLD Installation Templates
ZBX-9413 Fixed disabled hosts linking to a maintenance Server
ZBX-11100 Fixed minor bugs and use of magic numbers in IP range parsers Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-11098 Corrected log messages about completion of the trend data synchronization Server
ZBX-11072 Fixed problem with string truncation for IBM DB2 databases which contain the char '\r' Server
ZBX-11081 Fixed compilation error with curl library Installation
ZBX-7602 Added error messages about invalid regular expressions in eventlog items Agent
ZBX-11093 Fixed possible crash when copying cached correlation rules Server
ZBX-10901 Added missing highlighting for some UI elements in focused state Frontend
ZBX-11075 Fixed host full clone with discovered items and discovered triggers Frontend
ZBXNEXT-3351 Decreased padding in screens to make them more compact Frontend
ZBX-3101 Fixed EVENT macro processing in recovery operations Server
ZBX-10761 Added upgrade patch to clean wrong values in 'triggers' table Server
ZBX-11059 Fixed duplicate notifications sending from one media type Server
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 Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-11050 Changed translation strings "Alarm acknowledgements" => "Event acknowledgements" and "Status of triggers" => "Triggers" and changed few other translation strings to singular form Frontend
ZBX-11060 Fixed copying correlation_mode, correlation_tag, tags of trigger and trigger prototype API Frontend
ZBX-11073 Fixed compilation with Net-SNMP library support Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-10263 Fixed incorrect record count in getPagingLine() when search limit is reached Frontend
ZBX-10768 Fixed compilation warning on FreeBSD Agent
ZBX-10561 Improved style consistency for disabled elements Frontend
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 Server
ZBX-10030 Fixed API action update method request with only "actionid" property API
ZBX-9972 Changed SERVICE_SLA constant to match database default goodsla value Frontend
ZBX-10049 Fixed optional field validation in drule.update API method API
ZBX-10076 Fixed text information containing non-ASCII characters being saved incorrectly to IBM DB2 database in case of system locale misconfiguration Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-9989 Optimized SQL queries for graphs building Frontend

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 3.2.0.

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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