Release Notes for Zabbix 1.5

12 Mar 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.5.

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 1.5. Download it from downloads.

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

DEV-127	Improved system status widget in dashboard screen
DEV-125	Added "discovery status" widget
DEV-123	Screen "queue" moved to administration section
DEV-126	Moved graphs,maps,screens to dashboard, implemented quick add to favourites
DEV-116	Added option to remember user login
DEV-117	Added support of buffersize and buffersend parameters
DEV-118	Added dashboard screen to monitoring
DEV-117	Support of data buffering on agent side
DEV-115	Enhanced sender to use only one tcp connection
DEV-112	Added themes option in frontend
DEV-114	Special processing of simple snmp oids like ifdescr, ifinoctets, etc
DEV-114	Monitoring of snmp objects having flexible index
DEV-104	Added maintenance mode
DEV-103	Added support of disabling login rights for a users group
DEV-102	Added support of utf8 for gui
DEV-97	Added screen for easier creation of locales
DEV-96	Added availability to disable default user "guest"
DEV-95	Added group status enabled/disabled
DEV-94	Added processing of the "database down" event
DEV-93	Added availability to select all hosts in specified group in "monitoring" section
DEV-91	Added printable view for pages
DEV-89	Improved trigger tables view
DEV-88	Removed duplicated entry "login"
DEV-87	Fixed problem with unlinking templates
DEV-52	Added "unlimited number of link styles for maps"
DEV-86	Dm: synchronizing all history data with master node
	Bulk acknowledge with empty comment
	Performance improvement of processing events in frontend
DEV-66	Added sorting to screens
	The last character for last value is unreadable
DEV-60	Added availability of setting hosts view style in overview
DEV-53	Added different style for dependent triggers in "status of triggers"
DEV-62	Added availability to select all hosts in "availability report"
DEV-54	Added zoom for graphs
DEV-48	Support of ping and traceroute in status of triggers screen
DEV-57	Added better "hosts info" selection in screens
DEV-56	Added better item selection in screens
DEV-48	Added scripts form,scripts list, script call menu
DEV-44	More flexible generation of trigger events
DEV-45	Added new design of status of triggers
DEV-47	Added support of selection of events and bulk acknowledge of events
DEV-1	Added new graph bar
	Support of database cache for history and trends
	Basic support of database caching
	Added pie graphs
	Added new columns graphs.show_legend, graphs.show_3d
	Added frontend-side support of quotes and trigger expression validation
	Added availability to show negative values in graphs
	Developed database monitoring via odbc
	Added availability to export/import templates for hosts
	Changed how is showed messages
	Added login/logout

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix Manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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