Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.5

16 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ZBX-886	removed duplicate and outdated strings from locales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