Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.10rc1

15 December 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.10rc1.

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 1.8.10rc1. Download it from download.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

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Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-4424	fixed handling of a long localized content by history syncer Proxy Server
ZBX-4424	fixed handling of a localized content with incorrect utf8 characters Proxy Server
ZBX-2737	fixed various messages at linking templates Frontend
ZBX-4273	fixed getting permission error while creating an action API
ZBX-4377	fixed error message when checking if libcurl can be linked statically Installation
ZBX-4391	fixed suffix support in trigger testing interface Frontend
ZBX-4376	fixed escaping of strings with PostgreSQL 9.1 or later Proxy Server
ZBX-2419	fixed calculation of SLA if uptime/downtime is specified Frontend
ZBX-3074	moved the 'Status' column in the item list to the right Frontend
ZBX-3104	implemented the screen item API API
ZBX-3104	fixed screen item "Parameter" field validation and some minor screen item bugs API Frontend
ZBX-4298	added deleted data report to a housekeeper on every step Server
ZBX-3649	fixed "frontends/php/styles/ie_default.css" doesn't exist (for IE6) Frontend
ZBX-4235	fixed operations with decimal numbers for certain locales API Frontend
ZBX-3244	fixed dropdown changing its style when navigating menu Frontend
ZBX-4015	fixed multiple XSS issues API Frontend
ZBX-4288	fixed user macros not being deleted when deleting a host API Frontend
ZBX-2859	fixed possibility to successfully delete zero regular expressions API Frontend
ZBX-2843	made dashboard and slideshow popup menus have dynamic width Frontend
ZBX-4279	added an error message when trying to delete an item, that's being used as a min/max Y axis value for graphs API Frontend
ZBX-4375	updated Russian translation; thanks to Alexey Pustovalov Frontend
ZBX-4360	fixed trapper compilation error on FreeBSD 7.3 Server
ZBX-4249	fixed trigger wizard when inserting macro multiple times API Frontend
ZBX-4351	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno Frontend
ZBX-4353	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima 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 1.8.10.

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 1.8 Manual