Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.12rc1

11 April 2016

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.12rc1.

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 2.2.12rc1. 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

ZBX-1357	Enabled Chinese (China), Greek, Korean, Romanian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations to be displayed by default API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Updated Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), English (United States), French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend
ZBX-9859	Improved performance of screen.get method for an unprivileged user API

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-9162	Fixed performance of the hostgroup.get method under MySQL API
ZBX-10493	Fixed memory leak when trying to reconnect to URL Proxy Server
ZBX-6491	Fixed resolving of {ITEM.VALUE} macro in "System status" widget and Monitoring -> Triggers Frontend
ZBX-10510	Fixed action condition time period checking Server
ZBX-10155	Prohibited creation of a trigger prototype which belongs to a host and a template simultaneously API
ZBX-10155	Prohibited creation of a trigger prototype without item prototypes in the expression API
ZBX-10155	Prohibited creation of a trigger prototype without permissions to a host or template in the expression API
ZBX-6744	Fixed "expression tree is too large (maximum depth 1000)" error when using SQLite3 in a large environment Proxy
ZBX-10316	Fixed the regular expression preventing from adding web scenario steps API Frontend
ZBX-10257	Changed VMware items to become not supported if no VMware collector processes are started Proxy Server
ZBX-10262	Fixed item.update modifying "delta" field for a templated item API
ZBX-10372	Fixed searching of network interface statistics in Solaris kstat Agent
ZBX-4842, ZBX-10532	Improved auditing of maintenance API operations API Frontend
ZBX-10387	Fixed overview vertical column rotation for IE in Japanese language Frontend
ZBX-10369	Fixed unexpected deleting of screen items in screen.update API method API
ZBX-10342	Fixed item value not being cached by value cache if its timestamp seconds matches the oldest cached value timestamp, but the nanoseconds value is less Server
ZBX-4894	Fixed fping 3.x source IP option detection Proxy Server
ZBX-10320	Fixed NFS based VMware datastore statistics Proxy Server
ZBX-10356	Fixed user media form "send to" and "period" fields having incorrect "maxlength" property Frontend
ZBX-10221	Fixed MySQL transaction handling when execute query fails Proxy Server
ZBX-10366	Fixed parsing of VMware responses containing too deep XML data Proxy Server
ZBX-9991	Fixed functionality that adds last selected host group to new host groups list Frontend
ZBX-10319	Fixed graphs consuming 100% CPU when given incorrect "stime" parameter in URL Frontend
ZBX-10358	Fixed error message in template screen cloning API
ZBX-10215	Fixed host availability not being updated for connection errors on timeouting items Proxy Server
ZBX-10313	Changed wmi.get[] to accept UTF-8 encoded namespace and WQL query, fixed wmi.get[] to return UTF-8 encoded strings Agent
ZBX-9661	Fixed bug when VMware collectors could sometimes use 100% of CPU without processing any data Proxy Server
ZBX-8635	Fixed undefined index in trigger expression constructor popup Frontend
ZBX-9938	Fixed displaying incorrect number of hosts that have acknowledged problematic triggers in dashboard host status widget when "Problem display" is "Unackowledged only" in dashboard filter Frontend
ZBX-10251	Fixed "countOutput" calculation in map.get API method API
ZBX-9733	Fixed possibility to start several agents on the same port on Windows Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9991	Fixed functionality that adds last selected host group to new template groups list Frontend
ZBX-10270	Fixed HTTP proxy environment variables not being taken into account in Web monitoring Proxy Server
ZBX-10232	Fixed SQL errors with invalid "year" parameter in IT services report API Frontend
ZBX-1357	Added more details to README file about how to add new language API Frontend
ZBX-10150	Fixed "countOutput" calculation in screen.get API method API
ZBX-10170	Fixed column names vertical rotation in Firefox v43 Frontend
ZBX-9904	Fixed server response when active proxy sends in historical data, info string was missing Proxy Server
ZBX-10219	Fixed pointer type in sizeof() Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-10177	Fixed resource leak in sensor[] on Linux kernel versions 2.6 and higher Agent
ZBX-10154	Improved sender.pl script to take advantage of buffering (increases performance and makes communication with daemons more robust) Installation
ZBX-10138	Fixed action based host removal when hosts to be deleted have host prototypes Server
ZBX-10064	Fixed history cache synchronisation with database on shutdown Server
ZBX-9458	Fixed low level discovery macro substitution in calculated item formulas Server
ZBX-10110	Fixed using Japanese in global search Frontend
ZBX-10099	Fixed buffer flushing error when executing script on a host Frontend
ZBX-10077	Fixed deleting of profile data for current user Frontend
ZBX-10126	Fixed compilation error in sensors.c on Linux 2.4 kernels Agent
ZBX-10084	Fixed removing trigger-related network map elements Server
ZBX-9928	Fixed triple SMS being sent by single action with Cinterion MC35i modem Server
ZBX-9931	Removed 2KB item key length limitation when sent to agent Proxy Server
ZBX-9932	Removed 1KB zabbix_get item key length limitation Agent
ZBX-9820	Fixed overview of items and triggers with same name and multiple hosts Frontend

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 2.2.12.

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 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 2.2 Manual