Release Notes for Zabbix 1.4.1

29 June 2007

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.4.1.

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 1.4.1. 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

	fixed processing of 'service_state[*]'
	fixed PostgreSQL database upgrade script
	added support of non standard PostgreSQL & MySQL ports
	fixed compilation of ZABBIX server under HP-UX
	fixed upgrade of maps without backgrounds
	improved UserParameters for Win32
	fixed location of the manual and added link to support
	check timeouted item only after 4*delay seconds
	improved UserParameters for Win32
	fixed several issues in housekeeper
	changed properties of text files in SVN repository
	removed text "Current node [N]" from node selector
	new release of the Manual
	removed duplicate index of table httptest
	fixes for Oracle and SQLite schemas
	improved main poller loop
	fixed int_in_list() function
	fixed and improved log monitoring
	fixed type of items.valuemapid
	improved Standalone_Template
	fixed PostgreSQL upgrade patch
	added loop protection in selection of slave nodes
	change delimiter for DM data transfers to 0xFF
	better reporting of DM data transfers in log file
	added better error reporting in zbx_malloc()
	fixed transfer of NULL values between nodes
	minor Oracle related fixes for frontend
	fixed reconnection for jabber notifications
	fixed incorrect reporting of SMTP error messages
	filesize[] replaced by vfs.file.size[] in data.sql
	support of processing of negative data
	support of negative numbers in trigger expressions
	more formal logic of execution of trigger expressions
	server-side support of quotes in item parameters (num_param, get_param)
	improved reading of configuration files
	fixed Dashed lines for graphs
	fixed host and group remembering on graph monitoring screen
	improved trigger expression syntax and validation
	fixed 'Field [formula] is not double'
	fixed template application synchronization
	fixed NOTSUPPORTED status for 'net.if.*' of Solaris, thanks to 'juampe'
	minor fixes for sqlite mutexes
	added check of memory leaks in zbx_malloc()
	added "PerfCounter" configuration parameter
	cleaned code to avoid '... may be used uninitialized in this function' warnings
	fixed printing of debug info in delete_history()
	fixed incorrect type of icmpInAddrMaskReps in SNMPv1 template
	fixed processing of complex action conditions
	fixed crash in processing of active checks on agent side
	minor fix of misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf
	fixed linkage of applications in 1.1.x migration scripts
	fixed permissions of Admin in 1.1.x migration scripts
	fixed bug in processing of host groups permissions
	minor fix of zabbix_sender command line help
	fixed pinger to process DNS name instead of host name
	fixed possible incorrect memory access in nodewatcher
	fixed processing of cmdline for proc.num and proc.mem
	fixed processing of {IPADDRESS} for hosts monitored by DNS name
	fixed 'count' function for trigger expression
	added availability of using "[&'%" character for key
	fixed compilation under FreeBSD
	fixed XML export
	improved management of timeline period
	fixed configure with postgreSQL, thanks to "abi"
	fixed errors for services.php

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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 1.4.1.

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 1.4 Manual