Release Notes for Zabbix 1.4

29 May 2007

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.4.

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 1.4. Download 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

	changed IT Services interface
	fixed function diff() for floats
	improved configuration scripts
	fixed misc strict compilation issues
	fixed compilation for solaris
	some cleanup in update_triggers()
	fixes related to processing of trigger statuses
	fixed discovery crashes
	fixed trigger description substitution for messages
	fixed SQL schema for housekeeper
	added delta value calculation for UINT64
	fixed log messages for auditlog
	added ZABBIX Server to a host group
	fixed default group for Admin/guest.
	icmpping will be processed regardless of host availability
	do not update trigger statuses to unknown for trapper items
	fixed processing of {TRIGGER.VALUE} and {STATUS}
	fixed displaying of special chars in trigger description
	restored validation for hostname
	split error message for trigger validation
	fixed history severity
	fixed user information displayed
	fixed logfiles monitoring
	fixed WEB monitoring
	fixed SNMP discovery
	documented use of -vv for zabbix_sender
	fixed "plain text" and "history of actions" for screens

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.4.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free Upgrade Service for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please Contact sales for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development services

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References

Zabbix 1 Manual