Release Notes for Zabbix 1.5

12 March 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 download.

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