Release Notes for Zabbix 1.4.5

26 March 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.4.5.

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 1.4.5. 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

ZBX-295	fixed processing of null values under Oracle. Thanks to Max Lapan.
ZBX-340	Oracle related fixes. Thanks to Max Lapan.
ZBX-294, ZBX-296	Oracle related fixes. Thanks to Max Lapan.
ZBX-343	fixed possible hang of server trapper process
ZBX-341	fixed compilation problem under Tru64/OSF
ZBX-338	png files for images_oracle.sql script
ZBX-322	fixed possible incorrect autodiscovery
ZBX-315	fixed server irregulary stop on OpenBSD
ZBX-206	fixed case sensitive hosts sorting
ZBX-313	fixed problem with sqlite3 semaphore
ZBX-292	fixed negative values in availability report issue
ZBX-182	fixed processing of icmpping if dns name cannot be resolved
HAN-2	improved speed on coping triggers to host
ZBX-290	fixed possible server crash if host dns name is unknown
ZBX-288	fixed compilation of the agent under Solaris 2.6
ZBX-287	fixed compilation under FreeBSD 4.1 with older GCC
ZBX-283	fixed SQL statement where INTEGER exceeds allowed range
ZBX-277	fixed possible server crash when evaluating functions str(), regexp() and iregexp()
ZBX-271	added support of system.boottime[] for OpenBSD & FreeBSD agents
ZBX-268	added support of proc.num[], proc.mem[] & system.cpu.num[] for OpenBSD agents
ZBX-263	fixed problem with saving of lastlogsize for log[] and eventlog[] items when history is set to 0
ZBX-253	fixes problem in frontend with long int values
ZBX-250	speed improvement for Triggers when use "{ITEM.VALUE}" macro
ZBX-250	100% CPU on server side after connection loss
ZBX-246	fixed header error in Monitoring->slideshows
ZBX-243	speed improvement for windows agent for eventlog[] processing
DEV-92	added support of multiple windows agents, service description
ZBX-7	added support of system.cpu.util[] for FreeBSD agents, thanks to 'brick'
ZBX-222	fixed problem with slashes
ZBX-210	added support of system.cpu.num[] for FreeBSD agents, thanks to 'freak'

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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 1.4.5.

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