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10 January 2013

Zabbix SIA is proud to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.16rc2 (Release Candidate).

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 1.8.16rc2. Download it from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php.

This release fixes known issues of Zabbix 1.8.x. A nice overview of the new functionality is at http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/about/what_s_new_1.8.16.

This release is not for production use. It is a Release Candidate!

If you are using Zabbix 1.8 with node-based distributed setup, please run the following SQL patch. It should improve performance of configuration syncing a lot.

MySQL:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1 ON node_cksum;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);

ORACLE:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);

PostgreSQL:
DROP INDEX node_cksum_1;
CREATE INDEX node_cksum_1 on node_cksum (nodeid,cksumtype,tablename,recordid);

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

• [ZBX-6034] fixed IPMI remote commands and scripts, possible poller and escalator crash
• [ZBX-5201] added handling of PerfCounter error PDH_CALC_NEGATIVE_DENOMINATOR
• [ZBX-6097] fixed the ability to override LDAP configuration when calling user.login
• [ZBX-5988] fixed memory leak in functions evaluate_LOGEVENTID(), evaluate_STR().
• [ZBX-3754] fixed "Undefined variable" in the trigger expression constructor
• [ZBX-3038] fixed the trigger expression constructor to parse expressions created in log wizard
• [ZBX-2793] added possibility to add macros without an item in the trigger expression
• [ZBX-5896] fixed inserting OR condition the trigger expression constructor
• [ZBX-5833] fixed inserting a macro in the trigger expression constructor
• [ZBX-4695] added support of simple check keys with user macros in the trigger expression
• [ZBX-5884] improved the trigger expression constructor to work with parentheses
• [ZBX-5814] fixed an incorrect error message when saving an illegal trigger expression
• [ZBX-4247] fixed processing of trigger expression if item key contains another trigger expression string
• [ZBX-2640] fixed some issues when creating and editing log triggers
• [ZBX-5803] fixed message initialization memory leak in IE7
• [ZBX-5898] fixed Insert Macro button does not work in trigger constructor on IE7 and IE8
• [ZBX-5822] fixed macro in trigger names for unixtime and other types of units
• [ZBX-5697] fixed processing of external check parameters with the right square bracket
• [ZBX-5454] fixed encoding of long email subject line as required by RFC-2047; thanks to Jairo Eduardo Lopez Fuentes Nacarino
• [ZBX-5650] added more information about ProxyLocalBuffer parameter in the example configuration file
• [ZBX-4097] changed the "application", "host" and "group" parameters for item.get and trigger.get to be case sensitive
• [ZBX-5514] fixed SQL query in get_min_itemclock_by_itemid function
• [ZBX-5505] fixed incorrect SQL query building using limits
• [ZBX-5512] fixed undefined index in screens
• [ZBX-5383] maximum data size accepted via Zabbix communication protocol is limited to 128 MB
• [ZBX-5450] added support of "KMGTsmhdw" suffixes in the second parameter of count() function
• [ZBX-5395] fixed {ITEM.LASTVALUE1} and {ITEM.VALUE1} expanding in the trigger.get method

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.6.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

Zabbix Server has been tested on the following platforms:

• Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 5.x
• Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22, PostgreSQL 8.3
• RedHat EL 5.3, Intel, kernel 2.6.18, Oracle 11gR2
• Slackware Linux, x86, kernel 2.6.29.6, MySQL 5.1.x

Zabbix Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:

• AIX 5.2
• FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
• HP-UX 10.x, 11.x
• Linux 2.4.x, 2.6.x
• Linux CentOS
• NetBSD 2.0
• OS/X 10.2
• Solaris 8, 9, 10
• Tru64 5.1B
• Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008, Vista

Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.

Zabbix Company provides a full range of professional services. We also provide trouble-free upgrade service for easy migration from earlier versions to Zabbix 1.8.x. Please contact Sales for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix 1.8 Manual
• Zabbix Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
• Zabbix Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)