Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.8

21 十月 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.8.

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 2.1.8. 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-6404	Added support for values of type java.lang.Double when toString() returns them in scientific format
ZBXNEXT-78	Added support for scientific notation for received values and item multipliers for items of type "Numeric (float)"
ZBXNEXT-1855	Dynamic display of process current activity and statistics in "ps" and "top"
ZBXNEXT-1806	Changed the way nth day and nth week are calculated in maintenances
ZBX-7097	Changed dashboard drag'n'drop widget placeholder color in the dark orange and dark blue themes
ZBX-1357	Updated Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7105	Fixed performance of housekeeper; improved indexes for table "events"; fixed SQL statements to use the new indexes
ZBX-7163	Fixed default values for sysmaps.label_location and sysmaps_elements.label_location fields; added NOT NULL constraint to sysmaps_elements.label_location field
ZBXNEXT-1179	Fixed inconsistency in process activity time logging
ZBX-6362	Fixed proxy select interfaces
ZBX-7115	Improved data filtering in latest data page
ZBX-6835	Fixed bug when agent/proxy connection error could have resulted in a wrong warning about message size
ZBX-7164	Fixed trigger and trigger prototype read only fields to no longer change when linking template to host
ZBX-6760	Improved performance of getting global scripts
ZBX-6995	Improved the performance of graph and graph prototype permission checks
ZBX-6591	Fixed resolution of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses if DNS hostname is specified as server parameter in configuration file; thanks to Trever L. Adams for patch
ZBX-5374	Removed ONLY directive from PostgreSQL upgrade statements
ZBX-7097	Fixed dashboard drag'n'drop widget placeholder not being displayed in the classic theme
ZBX-7130	Fixed makefiles to build zabbix_proxy only
ZBX-7055	Fixed displaying OK trigger status in maps
ZBX-7081	Fixed node drop down being displayed incorrectly in several pop ups
ZBX-7086	Fixed application mass add from different hosts or templates validation
ZBX-7133	Fixed processing of zabbix[host,*,available] item; fixed proxy's hosts availability data on server
ZBX-7099	Fixed IT services tree icons alignment
ZBX-7121	Increased size of interface.ip field
ZBX-6975	Fixed default values for graphs.yaxismax and graphs_items.yaxisside fields
ZBX-7131	Fixed host interface IP validation
ZBX-7112	Improved file import validation for graph items
ZBX-6294	Fixed nodata() trigger firing immediately after no data maintenance
ZBX-7134	Fixed host inventory interface table when no agent interfaces are set
ZBX-7126	Fixed host inventories details tab displaying
ZBX-7066	Corrected downloadable configuration file name in setup step 6
ZBX-7101	Fixed generated SQL queries in action.get method when simultaneously selecting more than one condition and operation

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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 2.1.8.

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 2.1 Manual