Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.2

16 一月 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.2.

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 1.6.2. 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-653	fixes for postgresql
DEV-137	fixed compilation warnings
ZBX-652	improved support of SNMP items
ZBX-589	added processing of quoted numbers ("0.5" => float 0.5)
DEV-275	changed value processing. Multiplier after delta
DEV-274	added overflow check for uint64 for incoming values
ZBX-506	fixed duplicate UnavailableDelay in zabbix_server.conf
ZBX-428	added internal check zabbix[requiredperformance]
ZBX-639	fixed numeric snmp oid for ifOutOctets. Thanks to Alexandr Kovalenko.
DEV-268	added support of net.tcp.listen under FreeBSD
ZBX-651	fixed possible memory leak in autodiscovery actions
DEV-268	added support of system.boottime under Solaris
DEV-268	added support of system.cpu.load under Solaris 2.6
ZBX-650	DM: fixed memory leak in synchronization of node configuration
ZBX-650	fixed rare race condition in DBimplode_exp
ZBX-650	fixed cleanup of open file descriptor
ZBX-649	fixed problem with "Too many open files" by agent under Solaris and AIX
DEV-268	added support of system.swap.size under FreeBSD
DEV-276	added support of HTML text in plaintext view in screens
ZBX-395	fixed item list for simple graph
ZBX-334	added sorting to group list in elements copy form
ZBX-509	fixed problem with user rights to hostgroup without any host
ZBX-564	added more descriptive message on conflict of templates
ZBX-443	removed excess space after detail messages
ZBX-526	fixed graphs on screens not getting refreshed issue
ZBX-531	fixed plain text line wrapping
ZBX-551	updated German language file
ZBX-554	added proxy host info in export/import
ZBX-638	fixed deleting applications on host remove
ZBX-636	removed "Keep trends (in days)" from Item Configuration form if "Type of information" is Character, Log or Text
ZBX-608	added sorting to templates column in hosts screen
ZBX-635	improved escalations to stop if host, item or trigger is disabled
ZBX-632	fixed sql query in map elements configuration form
ZBX-631	fixed incorrect incoming string values if using dbcache
ZBX-630	improved log files view in BB theme
ZBX-629	fixed sql error in popup window
DEV-271	fixed graphs out of bounds problem
ZBX-628	fixed memory leak in proxy module
ZBX-611	fixed undefined variables in installation wizard
ZBX-612	fixed possible incorrect value for host
ZBX-627	fixed items update
ZBX-625	fixed possible incorrect processing of delta for integers if using dbcache
DEV-273	added mass update for IPMI fields
DEV-272	added support of {HOSTNAME}, {HOST.CONN}... macros for "IPMI IP address"
ZBX-623	fixed incorrect processing of function abschange() for integers
ZBX-622	fixed broken autocreation of SQLite database
ZBX-621	fixed bad performance of the graph related screen due to missing index
ZBX-620	fixed jstree error in IT Services
ZBX-619	fixed agent crash for system.uptime under Solaris 2.5.1
ZBX-618	fixed cast problem with oracle9
ZBX-613	fixed possible incorrect evaluating of trigger functions if using dbcache
ZBX-610	fixed memory leak in external checks
DEV-254	improved server side logging
ZBX-602	fixed possible incorrect trigger evaluation if value stored as "delta"
DEV-268	added support of net.if.in/out/total under AIX
DEV-268	added support of system.cpu.num/util/load/intr/switches, system.uptime under AIX
ZBX-595	improved performance of export screen
DEV-269	added permission check when sending notifications
DEV-270	improved trigger configuration view; error string moved to description column
DEV-263	added support of a new map element - simple image
DEV-260	support of macro TRIGGER.NSEVERITY
DEV-255	added support of #num for function last()
ZBX-593	fixed stop escalations if action is disabled
ZBX-592	fixed incorrect {TRIGGER.STATUS} value in recovery message
DEV-250	added support of vm.memory.size under AIX
DEV-250	added full support of proc.num/mem under Linux 2.4/2.6, Solaris and AIX
ZBX-588	fixed undefined variable in trigger status page
ZBX-587	fixed LDAP test functionality

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix 手册。 for full details.

版本升级

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 1.6 Manual