Release Notes for Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3

15 十月 2015

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 3.0.0alpha3.

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 3.0.0alpha3. Download it from here.

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

ZBXNEXT-1263	Added encryption support for communications between Zabbix components API Frontend Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Implemented on-click navigation for sub menus Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2844	Added multiple escalator support Server
ZBXNEXT-2988	Reduced the number of poller configuration cache locks by 1/3 Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2163	Implemented argument support for script media type API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-2128	Implemented execution of an item at a specific time API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-922	Added forecasting trigger functions Frontend Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2056	Added an HTTP response code value map Installation
ZBX-9274	Added printing defaults when Zabbix programs are executed with --help option Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2662	Added a new predefined period (3 days) for the timeline Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2581	Added returning of permissions for usergroup.get API
ZBX-8820	Improved bulk acknowledge of events Frontend
ZBXNEXT-210	Changed macro type labels in template configuration form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1241	Added host inventory mode setting for new and discovered hosts API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-494	Added support for proc.cpu.util key on Linux and Solaris platforms Agent
ZBX-1357	Updated Czech and Japanese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed debug messages in the dashboard widgets Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed year and month vertical alignment in calendar Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of month and year in calendar popup Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed script execution window layout Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of modal dialogs Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed top nav jumping icon bug on page zoom in Safari Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed resizing of multiselect items in filters Frontend
ZBX-9941	Fixed button attributes changes for map cloning Frontend
ZBX-7006	Implemented trend cache cleanup procedure which forces hourly flush of deleted, disabled or rarely updated item trends Server
ZBX-9889	Fixed vmware.eventlog item values to have unique timestamps in history table Server
ZBX-9919	Fixed y scale calculation for linear graphs Frontend
ZBX-9898	Improved database exception messages Frontend
ZBX-9900	Marked first parameter for proc_info item as mandatory Frontend
ZBX-9902	Fixed undefined variables "mediatype" and "users" in mediatype properties Frontend
ZBX-9864	Fixed compilation warnings regarding SIZE_T_MAX under NetBSD Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9862	Added meta tag "msapplication-config" to prevent MSIE11 requesting browserconfig.xml Frontend
ZBX-9340	Fixed "data" property not being returned by API when error is generated on DB level API
ZBX-9866	Fixed error field being needlessly copied for LLD rule when full cloning a host API
ZBX-9883	Fixed host assignment for proxy Frontend
ZBX-9863	Fixed compilation warning regarding "empty_str" initialization in setproctitle.c Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9912	Fixed ITEM.LASTVALUE macro value being truncated at bytes rather than utf-8 characters Server
ZBX-7511	Removed trimming of leading and trailing spaces in SNMP strings Server
ZBX-8899	Fixed retrieval of sensor readings on Linux 2.6 and higher Agent
ZBX-9917	Fixed log message when opening windows eventlog Agent
ZBX-9855	Fixed SNMP dynamic index cache refresh when SNMP OID changes Proxy Server
ZBX-8820	Fixed trimming of new acknowledge messages Frontend
ZBX-9740	Improved proc.num for protected Windows processes Agent
ZBX-9793	Fixed handling of opaque types in SNMP Proxy Server
ZBX-9847	Fixed possible Zabbix agent crash when executing system.cpu.discovery Agent
ZBX-9895	Fixed memory leak in case of unsupported field type while processing configuration received over proxy protocol Proxy Server
ZBX-9776	Added check for line length when parsing configuration file Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9796	Fixed item key vfs.fs.size operation for NetBSD Agent
ZBXNEXT-494	Fixed proc.cpu.util help item description Agent
ZBX-9858	Added error message logging when SNMP trapper file size exceeds 2GB Server
ZBX-9666	Fixed invalid SNMP dynamic index cache if 2 SNMP agents have the same IP, port and OID Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1078	Removed 'proc.mem[]' 5-th parameter (memtype) value 'dvm' on AIX Agent
ZBX-9807	Fixed undefined offset errors in configuration export when processing triggers that have items with discovered applications API
ZBX-9810	Fixed trigger prototype expression inheritance incorrectly assigning an invalid expression to child objects and trigger expression test popup displaying a missing class API Frontend
ZBX-7847	Added functionality that stops polling inactive IPMI hosts Proxy Server
ZBX-9430	Fixed Windows eventlog item incorrectly interpreting 0x00000103 return value as an error Agent
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed a map element editing form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed possibility to change the colours of trigger severities Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed layout of checkboxes with labels Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed layout of host inventory form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed media editing in user form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed saving of collapsible widgets in "Event detais" and "Global search" pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of vertical headers under IE10, IE11 and Edge Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2662	Fixed displaying of eventlog severities Frontend
ZBX-9655	Fixed crash if MYSQL connection object initialization failed Proxy Server
ZBX-9667	Fixed disabled triggers or triggers having disabled hosts or items affecting trigger dependency calculations Server
ZBX-9738	Fixed deletion of related action operations when deleting a host group API
ZBX-9625	Fixed interface list bug in host form Frontend
ZBX-9804	Fixed monitoring graph scroller and calendar Frontend
ZBX-9607	Fixed step form in web scenario Frontend
ZBX-9791	Fixed typo in maps.inc.php Frontend
ZBX-9668	Improved handling of VMware performance counter instances without data Proxy Server
ZBX-9677	Fixed compilation warnings in the escalator.c module Server
ZBX-9682	Fixed parsing of numeric item key parameters Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9516	Fixed displaying of the "Go" button after deleting applications Frontend
ZBX-9639	Fixed chart width validation Frontend
ZBX-9729	Fixed replacement of {MACRO<1-9>} with {MACRO} where only {MACRO} is acceptable Server
ZBX-9809	Fixed action operation validation Frontend
ZBX-9814	Fixed function prototype declaration created in ZBXNEXT-2760 Server
ZBX-9716	Fixed possible event record number wraparound issues in the old Windows Eventing support Agent
ZBX-9258	Fixed Alias for log[], logrt[] and eventlog[] Agent

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 3.0.0.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 3.0 Manual