Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.5

15 Jun 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.5.

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 1.6.5. 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

ZBX-956	Fixed js error on map link edit
ZBX-955	Fixed bold lines in map links
ZBX-954	Fixed various minor typos and formatting errors
ZBX-886	Removed duplicate and outdated strings from locales
ZBX-952	Increased max length of processed text and log data to 64kb
ZBX-840	Added displaying of text items in the latest data screen
DEV-137	Updated japanese translation. thanks to kodai.
ZBX-850	Zabbix version removed from locales
ZBX-947	Fixed various typos and formatting errors in changelog
ZBX-945	Added comment about min/max values for refreshactivechecks param in agent config file
ZBX-935	Minor fixes for snmptrap.sh. thanks to joseph womack.
ZBX-942	Fixed error message for server and proxy if cannot bind a port
ZBX-940	Fixed bug with not initialized array variable
ZBX-939	Fixed ipc semaphore related issue when starting zabbix daemons
ZBX-938	Fixed usage of 'color' in en_gb locale
ZBX-937	Fixed possible server crash while processing ipmi remote command
ZBX-936	Fixed saving flexible intervals to items linked to templates
ZBX-932	Fixed typo in changelog
ZBX-931	Fixed timeout handling for agent's user parameters
ZBX-889	Fixed possible bug in media types form
ZBX-927	Removed default values for text and blob fields in the upgrade script for compatibility with mysql 5.0
ZBX-719	Fixed typo in default graph title
ZBX-859	Fixed typo in server log message
ZBX-848	Fixed typos in changelog and comments
ZBX-926	Fixed exporting after preview
ZBX-925	Fixed verification of ipv6 addresses in frontend
ZBX-918, ZBX-919	Fixed compilation errors for 'unknown' platforms
ZBX-922	Fixed selection proper hosts for hosts-groups assign
ZBX-559	Fixed wrong format of input file in help info of zabbix_sender
DEV-381	Added printing of svn revision number to all binaries
ZBX-914	Fixed sql error while updating configuration tables on the proxy side
ZBX-910	Queue/details screen now has "delayed at" column
ZBX-910	Queue/details screen now displays only 500 records
ZBX-910	Fixed incorrect values for proxy items in the queue in case of time difference between server and the proxy
ZBX-885	Removed unused test code from zabbix agent
ZBX-887	Fixed typo in "not accessible resources"
DEV-329	Fixed server crash if postgresql transaction fails
ZBX-902	Fixed wrongly updated operation in action in several circumstances
ZBX-779	Removed postgresql warning message "nonstandard use of ..."
ZBX-901	Fixed possible bug on trigger creation
ZBX-900	Fixed adding several user to group with oracle db
ZBX-894	Fixed processing of {hostname} for trigger name if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-894	Fixed processing of {item.name},{hostname},{ipaddress} and {trigger.key} for alerts if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-897	Fixed user groups rights adding for host groups
ZBX-896	Improved performance of processing of it services. added database index
DEV-137	Fixed incorrect comment for trappertimeout option in zabbix_server.conf
ZBX-894	Fixed processing of {item.lastvalue} for alerts if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-893	Fixed error creating trigger when in host dropdown selected all
ZBX-888	More supported gsm modems (ignoring at+cmee command)
ZBX-884	Fixed sudden stop of jabber notifications
ZBX-884	Added subject field for jabber notifications
ZBX-460	Fixed processing `distclean' target of `makefile' for zabbix_proxy
ZBX-882	Fixed template linkage form
ZBX-879	Fixed maximum 30 issues shown in dashboard system status
ZBX-876	Removed unused files
ZBX-872	Fixed group selected in another section of hosts affects shown proxy members, and proxies shown in items host dropdown
ZBX-874	Fixed evaluation of items nextcheck for flexible intervals
ZBX-868	Fixed incorrect processing of not supported internal checks
ZBX-867	Added php sockets check to installation wizard
ZBX-865	Fixed displaying templates without groups in template linkage page
ZBX-857	Changed queue details timestamp to timestamp defined in locale file
ZBX-864	Fixed problem when saving screen item without selected item
ZBX-856	Fixed email sending if tcp packets from smtp server are segmented
ZBX-855	Fixed processing of eventlogs timestamps on server side
ZBX-851	Changed sorting of users to alias in popup
ZBX-849	Fixed permissions problem for users in dashboard
ZBX-797	Fixed possible manual deletion of web items
ZBX-847	Fixed error in "status of zabbix" when server is not running
ZBX-846	Fixed node names instead of group names

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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 1.6 Manual