Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.9

1 二月 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.9.

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 1.9.9. 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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New Features and Improvements

ZBX-4558	Added audit logging when udpating and creating triggers
ZBXNEXT-1066	Removed the "Monotoring - Hosts" page
ZBXNEXT-1066	Remade the "Search" page layout
ZBXNEXT-1066	Added the host pop up menu to the "Events", "Event details", "Latest data" and "Overview" pages
ZBXNEXT-1066	Added the "Host screens" link to all of the host pop up menus
ZBXNEXT-814	Added support of disabling media types
ZBXNEXT-1024	Added support for more vm.memory.size modes for various platforms
ZBXNEXT-1019	Updated jQuery to 1.7.1 and jQuery-ui to 1.8.17
ZBXNEXT-1058	Added an item lifetime indicator icon in the item configuration
ZBXNEXT-1058	Changed the default discovery rule 'lifetime' field value to 30 days
ZBX-4479	Added possibility to add a dependency from a template to a host
ZBX-4483	Added transparency support for image resizing
ZBXNEXT-905	Redesign Configuration->Triggers
ZBXNEXT-912	Redesign Configuration->Slide shows
ZBXNEXT-406	Replaced an older 'status' check to an internal 'zabbix[host,<type>,available]' check
ZBX-4009	Added new option in map configuration which enables macros expanding
ZBX-3286	Added ability to automatically delete low level discovered resources
ZBX-2806	Improved processing of escalations
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Greek, Latvian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-3527	Improved host form to allow selection of default interface
ZBX-4262	Added support of item prototypes for graph y axis min/max
ZBX-4311	Fixed graph prototype name validation
ZBXNEXT-906	Redesign Configuration->Host groups
ZBX-4024	New build process for database schema and data, also new location of database related files; db data file uses transactions now

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-4586	Implemented item's application validation in the Item.update and Item.create API methods
ZBX-4577	Fixed possible SQL errors when updating a configuration on a proxy
ZBX-4106	Fixed "Status of triggers" screen element layout
ZBX-4558	Fixed deleting child template triggers when moving a trigger to a template
ZBX-4558	Fixed child template trigger attributes being reset when updating a template trigger
ZBX-4558	Fixed trigger form "type" field value being inverted
ZBX-4520	Removed possibility to create dependencies from hosts to templates
ZBX-4467	Removed the warning message when setting the zoom to "All" in screen monitoring
ZBX-4434	Fixed validation of duplicated user macros; fixed some error messages
ZBX-4555	Fix compilation error on Solaris (get rid of INT_MAX dependency)
ZBX-4523	Fixed impossibility to correctly translate some parts of Zabbix
ZBX-4513	Refactored value mappings form
ZBX-4477	Fixed new expressions created on each Zabbix regexp update
ZBXNEXT-1058	Fixed confirmation pop-up showing up on auto refresh in latest data
ZBX-2701	Removed empty value mappings from a default data
ZBX-4505	Fixed global macro recreation instead of updating
ZBX-4505	Fixed audit message appearing when saving an unchanged global macro
ZBX-4519	Fixed impossibility to delete template : Unknown column 'h.name'
ZBX-4468	Removed possibility to add to value mappings few items with same name
ZBX-4483	Added proper icon image resizing
ZBX-4456	Fixed error position in IT services form
ZBX-4470	Fixed node initialization in DM setup
ZBX-4407	Fixed import hosts from 1.8 version
ZBX-4425	Fixed item prototype interface mapping when cloning a discovery rule
ZBX-4459	Fixed values are cleared when try to add incorrect value mapping, negative values now allowed
ZBX-4458	Fixed js error in global macro form, changed layout to be consistant with other places
ZBX-4449	Fixed IT services SLA graph permission checks
ZBX-4448	Fixed proxy interface validation
ZBX-4455	Fixed the 'sortorder' field validation in the IT services form
ZBX-4427	Fixed map element host group highlighting
ZBX-4446	Fixed event duration calculation
ZBX-2806	Fixed possible double notification messages
ZBX-4425	Fixed unsetting interface when performing Item::udpate requests
ZBX-4436	Fixed wrong sql query in discovery popup
ZBX-4429	Fixed problem with wrong mysql comment tag and warning in mysql function when update to 1.9.8
ZBX-4418	Fixed possible SQL errors while processing of time functions
ZBX-4336	Fixed problem with item status clearing when changing to active in frontend
ZBX-4260	Replaced event sorting by 'clock' with 'eventid'
ZBX-4381	Fixed permission check in SLA reports
ZBX-4411	Remade the zbx_stripos() function whithout the use of mb_stripos()
ZBX-4015	Fixed multiple XSS issues
ZBX-4334	Changed disabled triggers and scenarios to be shown by default
ZBX-4403	Fixed low level discovery rule creation
ZBX-3832	Removed support of aggregated graph items
ZBX-4235	Fixed operations with decimal numbers for certain locales
ZBX-4382	Fixed missing dates in the midle of graph axis
ZBX-3366	Fixed API sorting

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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 1.9.9.

Commercial support

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References

Zabbix 1.9 Manual