Release Notes for Zabbix 2.3.0

23 May 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.3.0.

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 2.3.0. 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-1782	Added support for newlines and tabs in trigger expressions API Frontend Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1782	Added support of new trigger expression operators ">=", "<=", "<>", "and", "or" and "not"; removed existing "#", "|" and "&" API Frontend Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-2203	Added information on the reason items become not supported Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-734	Implemented support for URL as dynamic screen element and added macro support Frontend
ZBXNEXT-497	Added support for patterns in "Include" configuration directive Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1506	Added support for vfs.dev.read[] and vfs.dev.write[] on AIX; thanks to Jairo Lopez and Boris Manojlovic for patches Agent
ZBX-5430	Implemented ISO 8601 standard date format "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" as default Frontend
ZBX-7981	Deprecated "exists" API methods API
ZBX-7949	Improved multibyte string support API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2270	Changed "Status" dropdown in host and host prototype forms to "Enabled" checkbox Frontend
ZBX-7941	Changed page footer to not show debug in fullscreen mode Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1343	Removed support of old style node-based distributed monitoring API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-2256	Added support of host level macros like {HOST.*} along with user macros in LLD filter regexps Server
ZBX-7979	Added button "Clear history and trends" to scenarios form Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2065	Added a filter option to hide recently resolved triggers in Monitoring -> Triggers Frontend
ZBXNEXT-949	Improved filters by adding different titles for open and collapsed states Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2107	Added links to dependency triggers and added comma separated host list if dependency trigger belongs to multiple hosts in trigger edit and massupdate forms Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2225	Added a percentage free parameter to system.swap.size item; changed the way swap size is calculated Agent
ZBXNEXT-1119	Changed the global search to also search by technical host and template names Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2194	Added configuration option to include all files in a directory on Windows Agent
ZBXNEXT-751	Added support of user macros in the notifications and commands Server
ZBXNEXT-2123	Implemented the application and host inventory filters on the trigger monitoring page API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2117	Added "Description" field for templates, hosts and proxies API Frontend Installation Server
ZBXNEXT-1533	Added "Action name" in "History of actions" screen and added a patch to change screen item sort order Frontend Installation
ZBX-7850	Unified the "Go to" section of host pop-up menus displayed in maps and other other places and made menu links disabled instead of hidden Frontend
ZBXNEXT-421	Implemented user name in action audit page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2167	Improved info column in latest data monitoring and item, trigger, discovery host configuration Frontend
ZBX-6374	Added pagination in availability reports Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1533	Added "Action name" in Audit -> Action log Frontend
ZBX-7742	Added error message upon encountering trailing data for zabbix_sender when reading from file Agent
ZBXNEXT-581	Implemented the ability to filter by multiple LLD macros API Frontend Installation Server
ZBX-7361	Implemented alphabetic host ordering when trigger has many hosts Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1632	Added graph link in host menu popup "Go to" section Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1735	Removed graph and history link from items in latest data page, if history and trends are disabled Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1910	Added active since and active till columns in maintenance page Frontend
ZBX-7095	Added 'Cancel' button in dashboard configuration Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2140	Enabled Monitoring -> Latest data filter option "Show items without data" by default Frontend
ZBX-7713	Changed the event details page to display all hosts used in a trigger Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1700	Added informative messages about database connection restoration Proxy Server
ZBX-7609	Improved frontend messages mute/unmute Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1291	Added clickable links for template names in host, template, host prototype and discovered host property templates tab Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved dashboard refresh time menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved dashboard favourite menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved service configuration menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved slide show refresh multiplier popup menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved trigger log menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Improved trigger macros menu Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2073	Updated jQuery to latest 1.10.2 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-453	Added a new parameter 'User' to daemon configuration that allows dropping privileges to the specified user Agent Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-581	Split database upgrade patches over multiple files for easier maintenance Installation Server
ZBX-7345	Removed deprecated API features API

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-8014	Fixed evaluation of calculated item and trigger expressions not being precise enough Server
ZBX-8212	It is not possible to add triggers from templates to maps anymore Frontend
ZBX-8227	Fixed the "applicationids" parameter in trigger.get overriding the "groupids" parameter API
ZBX-8169	Fixed SLA period calculation to account for DST changes API
ZBX-8172	Fixed numeric value extraction from json data to ensure compatibility with third party tools that sends data as numeric values instead of strings Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8048	Fixed bug where proxy would truncate execute scripts of telnet, SSH and database monitoring items to 2kB Proxy
ZBX-8193	Changed web scenario default timeout to 15 API
ZBX-6190	Added a more informative message to return when an item does not have enough information to perform nodata() calculations Server
ZBX-8157	Fixed size and style of custom user agent in web scenario edit form and fixed IE displaying input field on second click Frontend
ZBX-6834	Fixed trigger.get not returning any results when using the "host" parameter API
ZBX-8190	Fixed validation in API to prevent SQL errors with Oracle database when string with excessive length is stored API Frontend
ZBX-8160	Removed justification in warning message Frontend
ZBX-8141	Corrected 'URL' abbreviation string to uppercase Frontend
ZBX-7839	Fixed cloning of graphs and hosts to use changed form values Frontend
ZBX-8165	Fixed issue when maintenance items with its hosts/host groups removed are not accessible in configuration Frontend
ZBX-2196	Changed status codes of various exit calls to library macros for consistency Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-1274	Fixed negative values, received from SNMP agent, being displayed as large unsigned integers Server
ZBX-8031	Removed pre-processor aliases for Windows string functions; converted all references of Windows types to standard C types Agent
ZBX-8158	Fixed disabled hosts not shown in trigger selection popup when in configuration Frontend
ZBX-8118	Changed image update so that image type can not be changed after create API Frontend
ZBX-7553	Fixed graph not getting period when coming from screen Frontend
ZBX-7890	Fixed broken make distclean Installation
ZBX-7981	Fixed validation when renaming host to an existing template in host.massupdate; fixed validation when renaming template to an existing host in template.massupdate API
ZBX-7436	Changed string "comment" to "description" in trigger list and trigger comments Frontend
ZBX-8159	Fixed missing history bar when viewing or editing trigger descriptions Frontend
ZBX-7949	Fixed inherited graph and graph prototype case insensitive name comparison API
ZBX-7534	Removed the limit of dservice value and removed the limit of authorization string Proxy Server
ZBX-8132	Fixed image.get not properly returning all images for sysmaps API
ZBX-8108	Fixed reading /proc virtual files without rewinding the file position Agent
ZBX-5243	Increased the length of program name and command line that proc.mem[] and proc.num[] can match on AIX; thanks to Boris Manojlovic for patch Agent
ZBX-7448	Fixed Windows agents limit check Agent
ZBX-7335	Improved element copy dialog by having hosts, templates and host group in separate target types and empty groups are not shown Frontend
ZBX-3336	Fixed autodiscovery rule doesn't clear/rescan hosts in dhosts/dservices Proxy Server
ZBX-6497	Improved frontend filters, Filter and Reset now is submit buttons, removed JS form reset scripts, changed filter data saving process in profiles Frontend
ZBX-2840	Fixed map configuration with broken images Frontend
ZBX-6596	Fixed trigger sorting by hostname Frontend
ZBX-8012	Made links to other IT services from the dependency management to open in a new browser tab Frontend
ZBX-7624	Fixed pie charts legend alignment Frontend
ZBX-8029	Changed built-in font size from 0 to 1 for Zabbix home page and date in maps and graphs to support image functions for HHVM Frontend
ZBX-7625	Changed the execution order of API checks API
ZBX-8032	Enabled hyperlinks in host inventory overview page Frontend
ZBX-7120	Fixed undefined index in menu for event csv export Frontend
ZBX-6675	Removed host from the graph title if items from multiple hosts are included Frontend
ZBX-7781	Fixed no error being triggered when trying to pass the "auth" parameter to a method that does not require authentication API Frontend
ZBX-8001	Fixed host massupdate inventory tab being reset after choosing an inventory mode Frontend
ZBX-7873	Removed redundant error message in login page in event when frontend access for guest is not available Frontend
ZBX-7969	Fixed discovery checks sorting in action configuration page Frontend
ZBX-7969	Fixed sorting by name in discovery rule page Frontend
ZBX-7826	Fixed padding near textarea in acknowledges page Frontend
ZBX-4998	Fixed inconsistency of logging on Linux and Windows agents, and fixed information level logging at debug level 0 Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-6235	Fixed unnecessary compilation of C code when only --enable-java is passed to ./configure Installation
ZBX-5546	Removed formatting of JSON objects and escaping of forward slash/solidus Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-7749	Fixed possibility to set up database with default setting "Autocommit OFF" Frontend
ZBX-7140	Fixed SQL query to retrieve data for host updates sorted from the database Server
ZBX-7673	Removed strict necessity for a configuration for options that don't require it Agent
ZBX-7786	Fixed cell limit formatting with ellipsis Frontend
ZBX-7727	Added SQL connection error displaying for Oracle and DB2 Frontend
ZBX-5789	Removed unused fields in graph_discovery table Installation
ZBX-6350	Fixed incorrectly displayed table cell width in Event source details and Event details blocks Frontend
ZBX-7095	Fixed dashboard filter name to show pointer cursor Frontend
ZBX-7773	Fixed jQuery buttonset initializing Frontend
ZBX-7707	Fixed "Auto-logout" field to show submitted incorrect value Frontend
ZBXNEXT-2124	Implemented an application filter for host and host group map elements API Frontend Installation
ZBX-7109	Removed unused fields in trigger_discovery table Installation
ZBX-7168	Fixed configure.ac template to properly link libcurl to all components independently Installation
ZBX-4772	Fixed possibility to pass incorrect host status value API
ZBX-7631	Fixed dashboard favourite widget width Frontend
ZBX-7622	Changed the default value of timeperiods.every field to '1' Installation
ZBX-7618	Removed partial matching for long format command line options Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-6940	Fixed frontend history links not remembering search queries Frontend
ZBX-7413	Fixed inconsistency of config file handling for loading and checking userparameters and aliases before starting the daemon Agent
ZBX-7412	Fixed alias parsing; colon symbols are now supported in alias parameters Agent
ZBX-7204	Fixed timestamp order of events generated during network discovery Server

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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 2.3.0.

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 2.3 Manual