Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.5

19 September 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.5.

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 2.1.5. Download 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-836	Added Windows agent WMI query support with wmi.get key Agent
ZBXNEXT-1267	Changed network discovery to take in account proxies when identifying discovered hosts Server
ZBXNEXT-322	Improved value cache multi-process performance by unlocking it during database requests Server
ZBX-6883	Added possibility to use empty parameters in the trigger functions Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1633	Added vSphere (vCenter hypervisor) datastore and network monitoring keys Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1786	Implemented script name tree in menu popups API Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-1786	Redesigned menu popups using jQuery Menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1786	Updated jQuery-ui to latest Frontend
ZBX-6976	Changed minimal php version parameter Frontend
ZBX-6846	The print link work with javascript instead of reloading the whole page Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-4476	Fixed nodata() calculation for new items Server
ZBX-6950	Fixed termination character sequence for smtp connection termination Server
ZBXNEXT-1689	Improved performance of the latest data page
ZBX-6989	Fixed write cache statistics to account for fragmentation when calculating free space Proxy Server
ZBX-6952	Fixed XSS vulnerability in user themes, thanks to Lincoln and Bernhard Schildendorfer for reporting API Frontend
ZBX-6816	Added URL parameter validation for graph items in bar reports page Frontend
ZBX-6937	Fixed discovery check validation Frontend
ZBX-6992	Fixed PostreSQL query errors due to missing "AS" keyword for aggregate functions in Monitoring > IT Services Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1633	Resolved problem with passive proxy saving Frontend
ZBX-6938	Fixed undefined hostid on delete, fixed filter parameters losing after returning from edit form Frontend
ZBX-6984	Resolved problem with empty "Members" column on Configuration->Host groups page Frontend
ZBX-6967	Added missing spaces between icons Frontend
ZBX-6804	Optimized min item clock calculation for graph; thanks to Volker Fröhlich Frontend
ZBX-6968	Fixed add/remove favorites icon javascript Frontend
ZBX-6946	Fixed octal numbers problem in trigger expression test Frontend
ZBX-6902	Reverting Solaris system.swap.size calculation from "swap -s" (used in 2.0.7, 2.0.8) to "swap -l"-like algorithm (as in 2.0.6) Agent
ZBX-6955	Fixed library order in linking, fixed compiler warnings, improved performance of zbx_snprintf_alloc() function Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-6981	Fixed SQL error during lld trigger creation Server
ZBX-6866	Fixed being able to add graph items from other hosts for templated graphs API
ZBX-6854	Fixed javascript error on pages with checkboxes, but without main checkbox Frontend
ZBX-6873	Fixed errors in page switching after executing an action Frontend

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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 2.1.5.

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 2.1 Manual