Release Notes - ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES - Version 2.3.0 - HTML format

Problem report

  • [ZBX-7713] - Displaying correct hostname in trigger and events screen

Incident report

  • [ZBX-1274] - Negative values got from SNMPv1 agent reported as large unsigned integers
  • [ZBX-2008] - "Windows Eventing 6.0" not supported
  • [ZBX-2019] - by trigger template report does not work in nested configuration
  • [ZBX-2196] - zabbix uses unconventional exit codes
  • [ZBX-2840] - map elements can become uneditable
  • [ZBX-3336] - Changing autodiscovery rule doesn't clear/rescan hosts in dhosts/dservices
  • [ZBX-3482] - discovery history does not correspond to the changed discovery rule
  • [ZBX-3512] - Network Discovery caches results which can not be deleted by interface
  • [ZBX-4063] - gui looks into trends even when "keep trends" is set to 0
  • [ZBX-4218] - Cannot add and update item at type of log with multi byte character in key.
  • [ZBX-4243] - Change syslog tag not to contain a space
  • [ZBX-4772] - API allows to send meaningless values as host status, letting the host disappear
  • [ZBX-4998] - Inconsistency with logging on DebugLevel=0 between Linux and Windows agents
  • [ZBX-5243] - AIX procfs parsing is reading truncated information about cmdline using external process
  • [ZBX-5379] - Java Gateway doesn't start if old pidfile is present
  • [ZBX-5430] - Unified date formats in the frontend
  • [ZBX-5526] - WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal - zabbix-2.0.2 + postgresql
  • [ZBX-5546] - agent lld items return formatted json
  • [ZBX-5558] - java gateway hides error messages
  • [ZBX-5681] - Discovery will fail and discovery rule will become ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED if there is an empty table next in the snmpwalk
  • [ZBX-5778] - Hosts in Maintenance mode ('no data collection') are counted (but shouldn't) in Queue of items to be updated
  • [ZBX-5789] - Graphs from LLD discovery changing ID's often
  • [ZBX-5804] - Overflow in calculated items
  • [ZBX-6151] - Cross-host reference in LLD trigger prototype ignored
  • [ZBX-6160] - Too many process using zabbix with oracle RAC 11 as Backend and too many cursors never closed
  • [ZBX-6235] - compiling java gateway also compiles unneeded components
  • [ZBX-6296] - Monitoring > Latest Data is slow on large setups
  • [ZBX-6315] - LLD triggers are deleted immediately if not discovered anymore
  • [ZBX-6348] - "0" = "00" = "000...0" in frontend
  • [ZBX-6350] - Width of event source details is not limited in case of large expressions
  • [ZBX-6374] - Availability report doesn't honor "Rows per page"
  • [ZBX-6497] - Consistent behaviour for 'Reset' buttons in frontend
  • [ZBX-6545] - PostgreSQL SQL errors during node configuration sync
  • [ZBX-6596] - Sortfield "hostname" fails for trigger.get if output is not extended
  • [ZBX-6675] - Host name in graph caption with items from several hosts
  • [ZBX-6729] - Log files are slow processed by Agent on Windows
  • [ZBX-6731] - Log files are slow processed by Agent on Unix
  • [ZBX-6742] - 2.0.6. does not support multiple linked templates
  • [ZBX-6790] - net.tcp.listen race condition
  • [ZBX-6834] - "Trigger.get" with "host" param returns nothing
  • [ZBX-6920] - Soft linked services not showing in IT Services tree because of dot in the id string
  • [ZBX-6933] - Windows agent does not expand variables in eventlog message
  • [ZBX-6940] - Accessing previous search via history hyperlink
  • [ZBX-7037] - Item Creation in Frontend doesn't show agent.hostname in the "key" selection list
  • [ZBX-7046] - bug in get_ip_by_socket()
  • [ZBX-7095] - Filter for dashboard should have a 'Cancel' button
  • [ZBX-7098] - logrt possibly read old log file from very beginning after log rotation
  • [ZBX-7109] - Very slow processing of low-level discovered triggers
  • [ZBX-7120] - Undefined index: menu [include/classes/class.cpagefilter.php:248]
  • [ZBX-7140] - The server updates hosts availability in incorrect order
  • [ZBX-7168] - Zabbix reports status "Not Supported" using net.tcp.sevice[https,,443]
  • [ZBX-7184] - multiple pollers can simultaneously declare a host unavailable
  • [ZBX-7227] - current versions of autotools give a lot of warnings when running ./bootstrap.sh
  • [ZBX-7242] - Dragging an element in list changes it's width
  • [ZBX-7250] - PHP gettext extention should be optional
  • [ZBX-7254] - host mass update form remembers chosen tab
  • [ZBX-7263] - Errors in postgresql log due to bad syntax (invalid input syntax for integer: "1.3832467E9")
  • [ZBX-7272] - graph in a templated screen has many vertical lines and is not pretty
  • [ZBX-7277] - make 'item selection helper' translatable
  • [ZBX-7288] - proxy tries to process failed response from server
  • [ZBX-7289] - "no active checks on server" does not tell which server this is about
  • [ZBX-7301] - The logrt go unsupported state when the log rotates
  • [ZBX-7303] - link to item configuration should not be shown in latest data for discovered items
  • [ZBX-7307] - duplicate graphs can be created
  • [ZBX-7309] - {ITEM.VALUE} was resolved incorrectly in the recovery message
  • [ZBX-7311] - Dragging a host interface changes width
  • [ZBX-7316] - drule.delete is not working
  • [ZBX-7317] - Unused code in popup.php
  • [ZBX-7325] - discoved host's prototypes (LLD) are not gold-colored on black/blue frontend theme
  • [ZBX-7326] - Zabbix Escalator Frequency
  • [ZBX-7329] - zabbix-2.2.0rc2 make error on FreeBSD 9.2
  • [ZBX-7332] - server can hang upon shutdown if config cache is full
  • [ZBX-7335] - Copying elements, dropdown shows groups with no hosts
  • [ZBX-7336] - frontend config wizard database step does not change fields properly
  • [ZBX-7337] - PHP Notice: Undefined index: file & line when server availability is checked
  • [ZBX-7338] - incorrect span validation in screen import
  • [ZBX-7339] - openbsd template item prototypes attached to freebsd template
  • [ZBX-7340] - "Template Virt VMware" can fail with mysterious message
  • [ZBX-7345] - Remove the deprecated API features from 2.4
  • [ZBX-7347] - Different size of input fields for default and custom step duration
  • [ZBX-7350] - status of zabbix widget counts host prototypes
  • [ZBX-7351] - unable to save Screen cell configuration when resource is URL. ERROR: Cannot add/update item (Incorrect value "0" for "elements" field: must be between 1 and 100)
  • [ZBX-7354] - template linkage control can add template from empty field
  • [ZBX-7355] - graph prototype deletion message says "graph deleted"
  • [ZBX-7359] - crash vmware collector
  • [ZBX-7360] - ERROR [file:checks_ipmi.c,line:105] Something impossible has just happened
  • [ZBX-7361] - Order hosts by name when trigger belongs to multiple hosts
  • [ZBX-7372] - Undefined index in the "Last 20 issues" widget
  • [ZBX-7387] - default linux template memory graph problems
  • [ZBX-7391] - "Latest data" no longer shows items beneath more than one application
  • [ZBX-7400] - crash in dbsyncer after upgrade to 2.2.0
  • [ZBX-7407] - URL eventsource parameter has effect on existing action
  • [ZBX-7408] - The strange URL parameter "config=1" in configuration form of the slideshows
  • [ZBX-7409] - Basic web check items are missing.
  • [ZBX-7412] - alias key validation
  • [ZBX-7413] - inconsistent incorrect config file handling
  • [ZBX-7417] - function last() is not expanded in map element labels and in graph names
  • [ZBX-7427] - Error is shown if "Host group" object is present on map
  • [ZBX-7436] - trigger comment in monitoring is the same as trigger description in configuration
  • [ZBX-7438] - Inconsistent frontend enable/disable messages
  • [ZBX-7443] - Unable to add screen to "Favorite screens" *from* Dashboard using not Admin user with Read only access
  • [ZBX-7444] - Zabbix 2.2.0 zabbix_agentd crashed on HPUX 11.31
  • [ZBX-7445] - Frontend tries to take latest values while deleting host
  • [ZBX-7447] - Configuration of Regular Expression : form does not display when language is french or italian
  • [ZBX-7448] - Zabbix-agent on windows return empty string on simultaneous request of same user parameter
  • [ZBX-7452] - Event synchronization is broken in multinode DM case
  • [ZBX-7454] - updating inventory object API change inventory_mode status to manual (0)
  • [ZBX-7458] - source ip validation happens too late
  • [ZBX-7461] - zabbix does not compile if operating system cannot be determined
  • [ZBX-7481] - Zabbix 2.2 and 2.0 fails to compile on OpenBSD 5.4
  • [ZBX-7483] - User can become without group after deleting user group.
  • [ZBX-7484] - Escalations still escalate even when trigger is OK
  • [ZBX-7486] - msie8 saves exact placeholder strings
  • [ZBX-7489] - Cannot open items.php page without a "sid" variable in URL
  • [ZBX-7490] - Graph prototype preview displays "ERROR: No permissions to referred object or it does not exist!"
  • [ZBX-7495] - after link template with LLD to hosts the database stops normally run queries
  • [ZBX-7508] - Impossible to import map with LLD discovered triggers
  • [ZBX-7515] - Zabbix_agentd.exe won't run on Windows Server 2003 x64
  • [ZBX-7516] - [Z3005] query failed: [1054] Unknown column 'impi_disable_until' in 'field list'
  • [ZBX-7518] - graph slider becomes too long when clicking "All"
  • [ZBX-7521] - 2.2.1 Server Crash - in "history syncer"
  • [ZBX-7535] - Incorrect errors message for duplicate map URLs
  • [ZBX-7545] - Mass updating items may lead to (configuration) data loss
  • [ZBX-7553] - graphs do not get the period from screens
  • [ZBX-7555] - Query for getting list of items in DBSyncer process is slow for Oracle database
  • [ZBX-7561] - [Z3005] query failed: [1364] Field 'hardware_full' doesn't have a default value [insert into host_inventory (hostid,inventory_mode) values
  • [ZBX-7567] - "services[<type>,<state>,<exclude>]" always returns zero
  • [ZBX-7571] - Zabbix server/proxy does not process correctly non-printable characters
  • [ZBX-7572] - Zabbix server returns non-JSON answer to not correctly packaged JSON query
  • [ZBX-7573] - item with flexible interval checked at a wrong time
  • [ZBX-7576] - Discovery does not correctly process broadcast addresses
  • [ZBX-7578] - Template Import fail with Undefined variable: graph [conf.import.php:130 ? CConfigurationImport->import()
  • [ZBX-7586] - log trigger wizard doesn't work with IE10
  • [ZBX-7587] - zabbix server does not re-login to oracle DB backend after ORA-02396 error
  • [ZBX-7590] - Macros in graphs name does not work
  • [ZBX-7591] - can't delete web scenario step on template
  • [ZBX-7597] - Some item parameters are not supported for test by agent
  • [ZBX-7608] - Server crash. [signal:11(SIGSEGV),reason:1,refaddr:0x0] - in "zabbix trapper"
  • [ZBX-7609] - Frontend messaging close button does not stop alert sound
  • [ZBX-7610] - Postgresql frontend cannot configure assistant with empty db host for socket use
  • [ZBX-7613] - Possibly unused code in users and user groups
  • [ZBX-7614] - host may get activated incorrectly on an unsupported item
  • [ZBX-7616] - Green background color is broken in host edit form for "new group" field.
  • [ZBX-7618] - some short options also work as long options
  • [ZBX-7620] - VMware datastore latency item become not supported on vCenter 4.1
  • [ZBX-7624] - Inconsistent item names in graphs
  • [ZBX-7625] - incorrect api methods result in weird error response
  • [ZBX-7630] - selected host in filter prevents viewing trigger events when coming from dashboard
  • [ZBX-7631] - Widget is not scaled correctly when adding a favorite graph
  • [ZBX-7639] - cannot use both "Replace host groups" and "Add new or existing host groups" in host mass update
  • [ZBX-7647] - lastchange sort doesn't work with trigger.get method
  • [ZBX-7648] - After using net.dns item, some of the host resolution (web.page.get) uses the name server used in net.dns instead of the configured name servers in /etc/resolv.conf
  • [ZBX-7649] - icmp ping items for a single host should be checked together
  • [ZBX-7651] - Incorrect focus field in item settings causes adding flexible interval in Safari
  • [ZBX-7659] - Got signal [signal:7(SIGBUS),reason:128,refaddr:(nil)]. Crashing - in "poller"
  • [ZBX-7661] - can't set CacheSize to 2G
  • [ZBX-7668] - cannot send empty string with zabbix_sender if input is from file
  • [ZBX-7670] - Zabbix 2.2.1 server (with Oracle DB) on HP-UX 11.23 'make install' fails
  • [ZBX-7671] - can't update triggers when importing xml: "Duplicate dependencies in trigger"
  • [ZBX-7673] - Windows agent always requires config for any command line option
  • [ZBX-7674] - Possibility of permanent locking history syncer processes because of IT Services
  • [ZBX-7684] - When running global scripts the output window is not reset
  • [ZBX-7686] - utf-8 strings are only fetched partially from oracle
  • [ZBX-7688] - use of undefined constant ZBX_FLAG_DISCOVERY_CHILD when importing a host
  • [ZBX-7690] - Caching of Dynamic SNMPv2 indexes
  • [ZBX-7697] - agent stop responding after a few minutes on solaris
  • [ZBX-7698] - Zabbix does not close PostgreSQL connection socket when DB is not available
  • [ZBX-7707] - Auto-logout checkbox reseting
  • [ZBX-7708] - minor presentation issues regarding errors when editing triggers
  • [ZBX-7711] - Memory leak of vmware collector process
  • [ZBX-7716] - Unused constants in defines.inc.php
  • [ZBX-7726] - Latest data page hangs on PHP 5.3.3
  • [ZBX-7727] - Frontend does not receive error message when connection to DB is failed
  • [ZBX-7729] - Crash zabbix server on solaris 10 after start.
  • [ZBX-7736] - testing for global regular expression of type "any character string is included" does not work
  • [ZBX-7737] - deadlock detected on postgresql
  • [ZBX-7739] - dot in the middle of the sentence
  • [ZBX-7740] - Zabbix agent crashes on Solaris when logrt and log items are not supported
  • [ZBX-7742] - zabbix_sender silently ignores trailing/trash values when reading from files
  • [ZBX-7743] - Error "Field "lang" is mandatory." when trying to create or update a user.
  • [ZBX-7748] - "Latest 500 values" error in Menu Selection with an US Profil
  • [ZBX-7749] - Default Authentication type is not changed permanently
  • [ZBX-7754] - Cannot add Expression at Configuration of Triggers screen.
  • [ZBX-7756] - SQL Error in Monitoring->Maps
  • [ZBX-7758] - Zabbix server crashing - in "poller"
  • [ZBX-7763] - Server does not exit after failing to create SQLite3 mutex
  • [ZBX-7766] - Webcheck scenario required status codes is not accepting usermacro's
  • [ZBX-7768] - Bogus message on import: Undefined index: valuemap [conf.import.php:130 ? CConfigurationImport->import() ? CConfigurationImport->processItems() in /usr/share/zabbix/include/classes/import/CConfigurationImport.php:589]
  • [ZBX-7770] - web.page.perf item can be selected as Simple check item
  • [ZBX-7772] - Without HTTP authentification set up, frontend shows "no permissions" error message and undefined index when debug mode is enabled
  • [ZBX-7773] - Administration > Authentification buttons change during page load
  • [ZBX-7777] - After 2.2.1 Proxy config from server fails due to message size greater than 64M
  • [ZBX-7781] - Login is denied If user.login is called with an no longer valid auth token
  • [ZBX-7786] - Incorrect ellipsis in proxy and host group list.
  • [ZBX-7808] - Item names can be truncated on Monitoring->Latest data page
  • [ZBX-7809] - Changing Y min/max value from 'item' to other type does not reset the corresponding database fields to null
  • [ZBX-7811] - Include a robots.txt
  • [ZBX-7817] - Duplicate entry '100100000010710-General' for key 'applications_2'
  • [ZBX-7825] - Proxy doesn't save data in sequential time order
  • [ZBX-7826] - Minor acknowledgement form layout issue
  • [ZBX-7829] - "reserveIds" and "refreshIds" functions still assume not 64-bit IDs range in standalone installation.
  • [ZBX-7831] - "preg_match_all(): Compilation failed: unrecognized character" errors in monitoring -> graphs
  • [ZBX-7832] - screen cell span can be left incorrect after row/column deletion
  • [ZBX-7836] - zabbix server crashed
  • [ZBX-7839] - Incorrect graph cloning
  • [ZBX-7840] - icmppingloss gets a negative value of -100%
  • [ZBX-7849] - Can't update Action: Maintenance action condition value must be empty.
  • [ZBX-7850] - Host menus on maps differ from other places
  • [ZBX-7851] - bad item status sorting
  • [ZBX-7853] - LOG_LEVEL_INFORMATION is better for agent start up log
  • [ZBX-7856] - Windows agent doesn't support symbolic links for log monitoring
  • [ZBX-7858] - Monitoring->Triggers can miss triggers because of no ordering data
  • [ZBX-7864] - Reports - Availability report - Filter by host !group not work!
  • [ZBX-7867] - Drag and drop don't work in graph items
  • [ZBX-7872] - NVPS calculation logic of frontend (PHP) is not syncing with server (C)
  • [ZBX-7873] - "GUI access disabled." message displayed for guest users
  • [ZBX-7875] - "Server 2012 R2" detected incorrectly as "Server 2012", core number is different.
  • [ZBX-7879] - SQL syntax error when applying templates that contain applications with names containing any ot the letters "åäö" to a host
  • [ZBX-7883] - "Undefined variable: initSortable" when adding slides (have to click "select" twice)
  • [ZBX-7884] - host selection placeholder showing on top of confirmation message
  • [ZBX-7887] - calculated item referencing an unsupported item says the item is not found
  • [ZBX-7890] - make distclean broken for zabbix_server 2.2.2
  • [ZBX-7892] - Web step table layout problem
  • [ZBX-7893] - incorrect parenthesis in "status of zabbix"
  • [ZBX-7896] - translated "No items defined" message is garbled on graph preview screen
  • [ZBX-7897] - memory leak in trapper process
  • [ZBX-7918] - Value cache free space statistics are incorrect
  • [ZBX-7930] - slow maintenance page and weird queries
  • [ZBX-7943] - Undefined index: lastfailedstep
  • [ZBX-7949] - Multi byte string support
  • [ZBX-7957] - Y Min/Max side calculation problems in graphs
  • [ZBX-7966] - Cannot copy templated graph due to disabled checkbox
  • [ZBX-7968] - The Zabbix server pretty much just stops importing data from proxies
  • [ZBX-7969] - service types not sorted in discovery action condition
  • [ZBX-7972] - SQL ERROR after template creating
  • [ZBX-7974] - Impossible to choose host group for an user group after refusing node installation
  • [ZBX-7979] - No "Clear history and trends" button for web scenarios
  • [ZBX-7990] - proxy not marking agent as unavailable
  • [ZBX-7997] - Cannot mass update applications for template items
  • [ZBX-8001] - Cosmetic Bug in Mass Update - Inventory
  • [ZBX-8012] - Links in IT service configuration form must be opened in a new window
  • [ZBX-8014] - insufficient precision when evaluating calculated item and trigger expressions
  • [ZBX-8021] - no way to specify password when creating new user (with internal auth mode) if Ldap auth is enabled
  • [ZBX-8029] - Cant display maps with HHVM
  • [ZBX-8030] - HOSTNAME macro is incorrect in map
  • [ZBX-8031] - Potentially dangerous redefinition of some Zabbix string API in Windows
  • [ZBX-8032] - Inventory overview page column does not display hyperlinks
  • [ZBX-8035] - Wrong next time query calculation (wrong presentation of queue)
  • [ZBX-8046] - Items with several applications will disappear if upper applications is folded
  • [ZBX-8048] - Proxy truncates executable script.
  • [ZBX-8060] - zabbix_server crash - in poller (when calculating queue)
  • [ZBX-8077] - Server log message differs between active and passive proxies
  • [ZBX-8082] - dashboard filter not showing as clickable
  • [ZBX-8083] - expected nvps includes log items
  • [ZBX-8093] - incorrect plural in global script configuration
  • [ZBX-8100] - SQL error while mass remove maps on Oracle database
  • [ZBX-8101] - Impossible to export map from Zabbix on Oracle database
  • [ZBX-8104] - User defined regular expression test function return incorrect result
  • [ZBX-8108] - zabbix 2.2.3 net.udp.listen[port] check is not stable
  • [ZBX-8117] - zabbix agent 64bit crashed on win2k12 after asking achitecture "-k system.sw.arch"
  • [ZBX-8118] - Don't allow to change image type for images used in maps
  • [ZBX-8123] - Some item configuration forms are hidden after changing item type with IE9
  • [ZBX-8127] - 2.2 agent on HP-UX truncates "system.hostname" to 8 characters
  • [ZBX-8132] - Can't add missing image if map exported with only background image and no icons
  • [ZBX-8133] - Possible deadlocks while updating host_inventory table
  • [ZBX-8140] - net.udp.listen missing from item key popup list.
  • [ZBX-8141] - screen element is named "Url"
  • [ZBX-8148] - Corrupted message about Zabbix maintenance
  • [ZBX-8152] - missing explanation in server log of optional DB patching
  • [ZBX-8157] - Small custom user agent input field
  • [ZBX-8158] - Cannot select triggers from disabled hosts in multiple configuration forms
  • [ZBX-8159] - The history bar is not displayed when editing a trigger comment
  • [ZBX-8160] - Remove "justify" alignment in warning message box.
  • [ZBX-8165] - Maintenance can stay without host or hostgroup and become invisible in maintenance list.
  • [ZBX-8169] - IT Service SLA wrong for monthly/yearly
  • [ZBX-8181] - Possible lock itservices processing
  • [ZBX-8190] - Inserted text length is not validated for Oracle DB
  • [ZBX-8193] - Web scenario step default timeout must be 15 seconds
  • [ZBX-8198] - decrease verbosity of windows zabbix agent (debuglevel=4) after ZBX-5201
  • [ZBX-8202] - Server ignores host availability for hosts are monitored by proxy
  • [ZBX-8210] - Zabbix server crashed on Oracle DB
  • [ZBX-8212] - It's possible to select a template trigger for a map element
  • [ZBX-8219] - Broken support of ON/OFF values in IPMI commands
  • [ZBX-8221] - incorrect label in the element copying form
  • [ZBX-8223] - dummy module does not compile on 64-bit Linux
  • [ZBX-8227] - Triggers page with application filter ignores host group filter
  • [ZBX-8230] - host maintenance updates are logged as warnings
  • [ZBX-8251] - Possible server crash when processing failed vmware services

Defect (Security)

  • [ZBX-6721] - HTML code of "authentication.php" contains a ldap_bind_password in clear text if LDAP auth is enabled
  • [ZBX-7479] - Possible shell command injection
  • [ZBX-7693] - User type "Zabbix Admin" users can modify the media for all Zabbix users - Security hole
  • [ZBX-7703] - Security flaw with API access when using HTTP authentication
  • [ZBX-7981] - "Exists" API methods ignore permissions

Sub-task

  • [ZBX-3855] - turkish locale does not work (php bug)

Edit/Copy Release Notes

The text area below allows the project release notes to be edited and copied to another document.