Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.16rc2

10 一月 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.16rc2.

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 here.

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

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.8.16.

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 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 1.8 Manual