Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.3

27 March 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.3.

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 1.6.3. 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-815	fixed month representation in seconds in most busy triggers report
DEV-267	improved item template-update
ZBX-814	fixed bad performance of the string functions - added two database indexes
ZBX-804	added support of text items for functions str, regexp and iregexp
ZBX-668	"Cannot open Json object" message replaced with a better one in agent log
ZBX-812	fixed Windows agent crash when using incorrect third parameter in proc_info metric
ZBX-809	fixed memory leak while processing proc.num metric under Win2008
ZBX-26	added support of iowait,interrupt,softirq and steal for system.cpu.util under Linux
ZBX-806	fixed data loss of text values processed by proxy
ZBX-805	fixed problem with lost actions when upgrading database to 1.6.x
ZBX-772	trailing newline added in the end of exported xml
DEV-315	when graph shows current time values, ">>" character is shown near end time
DEV-311	added caching of dynamic SNMP indexes
ZBX-685	fixed "System status" cell colours with 0 active triggers
ZBX-799	fixed hosts massupdate with "new group" and "use profile"
ZBX-673	fixed problem with adding the graphs on an autodiscovered hosts
ZBX-795	fixed SQL error when try to activate auto-login in profile
ZBX-794	fixed SQL error on login screen when postgre is used, small GUI typos fix
ZBX-702	events duration now counts weeks instead of months, small GUI typos fix
ZBX-537	Distributed monitoring: PostgreSQL related fixes
ZBX-792	fixed server memory leak in processing remote commands in actions
ZBX-537	Distributed monitoring: added update of Last check and Last value fields
ZBX-537	Distributed monitoring: fixed deadlocks
ZBX-760	historical data is now available for "not supported" items
ZBX-789	fixed error when try to remove trigger comment
ZBX-782	added host name of depending trigger
ZBX-786	fixed undefined argument on graph delete
ZBX-776	changed disabled auto-logout indication
ZBX-784	added extension to hosts when importing graph to template
ZBX-774	display correct error message if file import fails
ZBX-777	default autologout time is set to 900
DEV-268	added support of vfs.dev.read/write under FreeBSD
ZBX-448	fixed Zabbix server status when frontend and backend are on different servers
ZBX-660	fixed screen clock set to server time showed local time
ZBX-603	fixed min autologout value to 90 seconds
ZBX-762	improved performance of processing of log and text items
ZBX-749	details box is open by default if any error occurred
ZBX-751	expanded details box added for triggers copying messages
DEV-268	added support of <mode> for system.cpu.util under Solaris
ZBX-737	the behaviour of the agent's key "vfs.fs.size" improved to be similar to the "df" command
ZBX-599	the purpose of the configuration parameter StartAgents clarified
ZBX-756	added tooltip in "status of ZABBIX" report for number of items and triggers parameter
ZBX-740	fixed wrong aggregate graph drawing
ZBX-747	fixed template linkage not working properly
ZBX-746	fixed incorrect processing of net.tcp.listen
ZBX-745	fixed "invalid URL" when use small popup menus like ping etc
ZBX-744	fixed "invalid URL" when add user to user group
ZBX-743	fixed problem with "Too many open files" by agent under Solaris 2.5, 2.6
ZBX-728	fixed displaying "no status update" error for template triggers
ZBX-738	fixed processing of existing data when -n parameter is used for zabbix_server
ZBX-736	fixed "Undefined index error" during frontend installation
ZBX-735	fixed filter in audit filtering only logs
ZBX-734	fixed evaluation of {ITEM.LASTVALUE} if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-732	fixed wrong action count in audit log
ZBX-731	fixed resetting of web graph periods
ZBX-730	fixed possible Windows agent crash when processing eventlog[]
ZBX-555	added entity counts on interfaces
ZBX-724	improved queries in "Graphs" page
ZBX-725	added new default user group "Disabled"
ZBX-723	fixed Wrong URL when add rights to user group
ZBX-720	edited configure.in file to make some error messages more sensible
ZBX-665	corrected some typos in misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf
	corrected some typos in test/env/standalone/conf/template_server.conf
ZBX-615	fixed processing of four-character-long item keys
ZBX-697	trigger description in "Last 20 issues" is link to the URL defined in trigger parameters + minor GUI typos fix
ZBX-473	fixed SNMP-related compilation problem with undefined 'localname' under some platforms
ZBX-718	fixed web graphs start time not changing
ZBX-699	fixed recursion detection in Include directive for config files
ZBX-301	fixed minor GUI text errors
ZBX-716	fixed wrong caption for graph item editing form
ZBX-717	all templates linked to group Templates in default config
ZBX-715	fixed "Invalid URL" error when choose History from history submenu
ZBX-713	fixed "values per second" having too many decimal places
ZBX-710	fixed duplicating entries in hosts groups after import
ZBX-709	improved item graph exporting
ZBX-712	fixed simple/advanced item filter switch
ZBX-707	fixed sql error when filter items by host group
ZBX-706	fixed element validation in sysmap elements
ZBX-705	improved {ESC.HISTORY} macro in recovery notifications
ZBX-647	fixed audit log record for graph update action "added" -> "updated"
ZBX-700	fixed possible server crash when using {TRIGGER.NAME} for notifications
DEV-286	improved Zabbix main menu
ZBX-311	fixed PostgreSQL errors with out of range string data
ZBX-696	fixed import of triggers with {HOSTNAME} macro
ZBX-677	fixed handling of -c parameter in zabbix_sender. Thanks to Jakov Sosic
ZBX-693	fixed timeout handling for SNMP connect
ZBX-690	fixed memory leak if trigger evaluation fails
DEV-285	added configurable the first dropdown selection
ZBX-689	allowed processing of non-agent based checks for unreachable hosts
ZBX-683	removed "Step" field for recovery messages from Event details
ZBX-680	fixed login while entering any page with HTTP auth enabled
ZBX-678	default number of HTTP pollers was decreased to one
ZBX-676	fixed sql problem with deletion of many hosts
ZBX-675	fixed wrong result of function "nodata" after server restart
ZBX-672	added polish locale
ZBX-671	removed net-snmp debug messages from server logs
ZBX-662	fixed support of quotation marks in command in UserParameter's
ZBX-658	fixed deadlocks in dbcache module
ZBX-659	added define for menu caching
ZBX-581	fixed latest data auto-refresh cripples filter viewing issue
ZBX-657	improved performance of the graph related screen due to missing index
ZBX-656	fixed warning zbx_malloc: allocating already allocated memory in json.c
DEV-282	fixes frontend vulnerabilities

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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 1.6.3.

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 1.6 Manual