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 downloads.

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 Manual for full details.

Upgrade

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 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 1.6 Manual