Release Notes for Zabbix 2.2.8

15 December 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.2.8.

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 2.2.8. 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-4054	Added support for SNMP values of type OID Proxy Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish and Russian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators API Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8582	Fixed SQL injection vulnerability in bar graphs Frontend
ZBX-8873	Fixed incorrect event being generated after maintenance in case there are out of order events due to proxy Server
ZBX-8882	Fixed message logging on DB2 errors Proxy Server
ZBX-8992	Made Zabbix prefer the threshold sensor over a discrete sensor, in case both are available under the same name Proxy Server
ZBX-8506	Fixed memory leak in wmi.get[]; thanks to Pedro Nunes for patch Agent
ZBX-9016	Fixed items not being processed again in case these items or their hosts are disabled and then reenabled Proxy Server
ZBX-5077	Fixed percentile calculation formula and corrected accessed index, by which value is selected Frontend
ZBX-8486	Fixed re-linking templates with web scenarios API
ZBX-8919	Fixed range selection in graphs in IE10 and IE11 Frontend
ZBX-9017	Fixed hostgroup.create and hostgroup.update API calls allowing setting readonly "internal" param API
ZBX-9004	Fixed visible corners in table cells in eventlog history Frontend
ZBX-8928	Fixed history-related macros to obey the ZBX_HISTORY_PERIOD Frontend
ZBX-8952	Fixed bug where an action condition of matching parent templates of a trigger worked with only the first template Server
ZBX-8982	Turned strict OID validation off for single-variable SNMP requests Proxy Server
ZBX-8328	Fixed UTF-8 string truncation for IBM DB2 databases to fit the column width Proxy Server
ZBX-8850	Fixed fatal error in graph generation when there is no data and ZBX_UNITS_ROUNDOFF_LOWER_LIMIT is set to "2" Frontend
ZBX-8476	Fixed queue being calculated incorrectly when there is even a slight time difference between server and proxy Proxy Server
ZBX-8832	Fixed template application inheritance when linking template other templates API
ZBX-8978	Fixed propagation of the interfaces into discovered hosts in same order as in the parent host Server
ZBX-8849	Fixed redundant linking with -lcrypto when linking with Net-SNMP Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-8913	Fixed JSON validation sometimes failing to process utf-8 sequences Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-6542	Updated description of HousekeepingFrequency parameter in the default server and proxy configuration files Documentation
ZBX-8833	Fixed dynamic SNMP item cache working incorrectly for hosts with multiple SNMP interfaces, optimized cache performance Proxy Server
ZBX-8904	Fixed item.get API to not read all host interfaces when option "selectInterfaces" is used API Frontend
ZBX-8538	Added Net-SNMP retry of 1 for cases where Zabbix will not be retrying itself Proxy Server
ZBX-8538	Changed the strategy to decrease the optimal number of variables two times only Proxy Server
ZBX-8232	Fixed performance issues in maps Frontend
ZBX-8948	Fixed memory leak when checking Template condition during action processing Server
ZBX-6353	Improved history cache performance when it's flooded with data from less than 1000 items Server

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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 2.2.8.

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