Release Notes for Zabbix 3.2.2

7 Dec 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.2.2.

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 3.2.2. 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 English (United States), Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-3451	improved nested host group selection, added data sorting in multiselect and added '*' support in group names
ZBXNEXT-3425	implemented more compact problem view in triggers list, event details and history of events
ZBXNEXT-2010	added vmware.hv.datastore.size keys for VMware datastore capacity monitoring
ZBXNEXT-1859	improved performance by not inserting events of auto registration if no such action was enabled, insert/update/select in a bulk on auto registration data from proxy
ZBXNEXT-3487	added new key for virtual memory monitoring on Windows
ZBXNEXT-3457	added support of user macros for trigger tags; dropped forward slash restriction in "Tag name" and "Tag for matching"
ZBX-10694	added rollup health sensor item to vmware hypervisor template
ZBXNEXT-2969	added support for suffixed and negative trigger function parameters

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-11509	fixed system.run command parameter to be quoted only if it contains special characters
ZBX-4661	fixed possible crash when Oracle database is not available
ZBX-11359	fixed event acknowledgement in triggers list view when last event is a recovery event
ZBX-11445	fixed update of item host interface from items massupdate form
ZBX-10531	fixed IE not displaying color picker
ZBX-11521	fixed JS error in media popup
ZBX-11440	fixed memory leak when resolving simple macros
ZBX-11397	fixed system.hw.chassis key to read DMI tables through sysfs and fall back to /dev/mem only if sysfs is not available
ZBX-11411	added check for LLD macro values in calculated item formula to be numeric
ZBX-11454	fixed OK event not updating trigger state without open problems
ZBX-11483	improved API script.execute validation
ZBX-11347	fixed resolving of {HOST.IP}, {HOST.DNS} and {HOST.CONN} macros in item key parameters for items without interface
ZBX-11475	fixed copying sharing properties while cloning screen or network maps
ZBX-9781	changed vfs.fs.size, vfs.fs.inode checks to be executed in separate process/thread to avoid lockup with stale NFS mounts
ZBX-11357	implemented exporting and importing of triggers and graphs when they use web items
ZBX-11195	fixed icon mapping visual issues in edit form
ZBX-11390	fixed error hint displaying
ZBX-11246	added disabled "delete" button for edit forms of templated item, item prototype, web scenario and discovery rule
ZBX-11223	rewritten calculated item formula parsing, simple macro parsing and LLD macro parsing; fixed several problems with function parsing
ZBX-11121	disallowed leaving user without linked user groups with usergroup.update, usergroup.massupdate, usergroup.delete API methods
ZBX-9926	fixed displaying of LLD graphs in host screens if user has no rights to Templates group
ZBX-11149	added support of OpenSSL 1.1.0
ZBX-11191	fixed web scenarios not updating step items when giving only "applicationid" and steps with "httpstepid" properties
ZBX-11191	fixed updating templated web scenario steps by prohibiting to directly change the step name or giving different amount of steps than in template
ZBX-11191	improved web scenario step validation by adding required fields
ZBX-11292	fixed getting network interface statistics on Oracle Solaris 10/11
ZBX-11125	prohibited zero in first parameter of nodata() trigger function
ZBX-11349	removed possibility to create items, triggers and graphs with empty names after low level discovery macro substitution
ZBX-11310	fixed event tag conditions checking, that contains operator 'not like' or '<>' in events without tags
ZBX-11244	fixed parsing of JSON text when PHP is compiled without JSON library
ZBX-11219	renamed second argument for net.dns and net.dns.record items from "zone" to "name"
ZBX-8457	fixed user macro resolving for templated host and templates
ZBX-11367	fixed xml import when non-snmp interfaces have incorrect parameter "bulk"
ZBX-10388	removed duplicated data and reduced traffic for hint popups
ZBX-11331	fixed JS error in Configuration->Discovery edit page
ZBX-10906	fixed agent active checks being delayed if system time was pushed back
ZBX-11324	fixed undefined index in screen and map import pages
ZBX-11038	removed compression for the generated CSS files, added "sass" folder to the distribution archive
ZBX-11335	added MariaDB database support when compiling with --with-mysql configuration option; thanks to Dmitry Smirnov for patch
ZBX-11122	fixed comparisons between signed and unsigned integer expressions to eliminate build warnings
ZBX-11326	fixed processing of web monitoring scenario level variables
ZBX-10842	fixed sql error when updating httptest with applicationid and without httpstepid parameters
ZBX-10842	prevented disappearing of step items when updating httptest without applicationid, httpstepid parameters
ZBX-10842	fixed connecting web scenario applicationid to created steps when updating with API httptest.update mehtod
ZBX-9656	prevented updating comments for discovered triggers
ZBX-11221	fixed MySQL connection issue by overriding user defined auto commit setting
ZBX-11291	fixed LLD rule not validating "lifetime" field
ZBX-11329	fixed host scripts pop-up menu not being displayed in Monitoring -> Problems section
ZBX-11209	fixed visual bugs in various browsers
ZBX-10958	fixed displaying of user name for inaccessible users; fixed warnings in PHPUnit test; fixed undefined offsets in screen "Action logs"
ZBX-11091	fixed parsing of XML file which contains tag with attributes but without child tags; it could cause significant memeory leak
ZBX-10694	reverted hypervisor health status to HostSystem.overallStatus property
ZBX-11276	removed extra double quotes in host interface form
ZBX-11256	synchronized the trigger wizzard form with trigger edit form changes
ZBX-11300	fixed variable used in forecast function
ZBX-11146	fixed validation of item update interval 0
ZBX-11021	fixed discoverer to log that it has started before SNMP library initialization
ZBX-11213	fixed database monitoring keys

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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