Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.6

9 九月 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.6.

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 1.9.6. 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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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-747	Added direct SNMP trap monitoring for snmptrapd and embed perl or SNMPTT
ZBX-4116	Fixed ibm_db2 update patch for help_items table
ZBXNEXT-895	Redesign general->Macros
ZBXNEXT-899	Redesign general->Images
ZBXNEXT-785	Support of automatic selection of map icon element depending on element type
ZBX-3683	Removed the obsolete item zabbix[log]
ZBXNEXT-891	Redesign general->Value mapping
ZBXNEXT-889	Redesign general->Regular expressions
ZBXNEXT-885	Redesign general->Housekeeper, Working time and Other
ZBXNEXT-871	Redesign general->gui
ZBX-1357	Updated German, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-863	Renamed "host profile" to "host inventory"

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3647	Fixed parsing of parameter in external scripts to work like in normal keys and added support for multiline output
ZBX-2530	Renamed "system.cpu.util" item parameters for solaris from "wait" to "iowait", from "kernel" to "system"
ZBX-4049	Fixed memory leak in configuration syncer
ZBX-4017	Fixed host deletion using api
ZBX-4029, ZBX-4037	Fixed inconsistent and untranslatable strings in frontend and clarified frontend messages
ZBX-4010	Fixed undefined constant SVC_SNMPv2 in discovery action conditions
ZBX-3775	Fixed html formatting in Overview
ZBX-4001	Fixed nearly duplicate strings, clarified error messages and removed obsolete translation strings
ZBX-4004	Fixed typos in function names
ZBX-4002	Fixed template name being reported as host name when incorrect characters were used

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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 1.9.6.

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 1.9 Manual