Zabbix 1.4.7 released

[Alexei]

03 January 2011

ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.4.7.

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 release notes for ZABBIX 1.4.7.

It is highly recommended to upgrade from earlier ZABBIX 1.4.x.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

:: Fixes and minor improvements included into 1.4.7

• [ZBX-812] fixed Windows agent crash when using incorrect third parameter in proc_info metric
• [ZBX-809] fixed memory leak while processing proc.num metric under Win2008
• [ZBX-708] DM: fixed possible server crash while synchronizing events between nodes
• [ZBX-675] fixed wrong result of function "nodata" after server restart
• [ZBX-623] fixed incorrect processing of function abschange() for integers
• [ZBX-619] fixed agent crash for system.uptime under Solaris 2.5.1
• [ZBX-610] fixed memory leak in external checks
• [ZBX-604] fixed compilation problems under AIX 2.5.1
• [ZBX-602] fixed possible incorrect trigger evaluation if value sotred as "delta"
• [ZBX-450] fixed showing status of items in maps for non english locale
• [ZBX-432] set trigger value to unknown if changed item status
• [DEV-198] improved displaying of disabled items in the maps
• [ZBX-430] improved configuration scripts
• [ZBX-103] fixed escaping in sql queries
• [ZBX-424] fixed possible server crash while importing XML
• [ZBX-420] added support of log files in screens
• [ZBX-418] fixed possible server crash while processing macros
• [ZBX-370] fixed cpu.c for system.cpu.load[] processing
• [ZBX-412] fixed malfunction of triggers based on log[] and eventlog[]
• [DEV-195] added support of source ip address
• added Korean locale, thanks to Kodai
• updated Japanese locale thanks to Kodai

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See ZABBIX Manual for full details.

Upgrade

See ZABBIX Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure. No upgrade of database schema required for upgrade from earlier 1.4.x.

Pre-release testing

ZABBIX Server

ZABBIX Server has been tested on the following platforms:

• CentOS Linux 4.4, Intel
• CentOS Linux 5.0, Intel
• FreeBSD 6.2, Intel
• Solaris 10, Intel
• Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
• Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22

ZABBIX Agents

ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:

• AIX 5.2
• FreeBSD 4.11, 5.4
• HP-UX 11.00
• Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
• Linux 2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
• Linux CentOS
• NetBSD 2.0
• OS/X 10.2
• Solaris 8
• Solaris 9
• Solaris 10
• Tru64 5.1B
• Windows XP

Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.

Commercial support

ZABBIX Company provides a full range of professional services. Please contact our sales department for pricing and more details.

References

• ZABBIX 1.4 Manual
• ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
• ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)