Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.6

26 August 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.6.

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 1.6.6. 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

ZBX-1024	added check for same application name in linked hosts
ZBX-1014	fixed gaps on graph with fixed y axis
ZBX-1013	fixed evaluation of aggregate items for proxy hosts
ZBX-1011	zabbix_sender will send data in blocks of 250 values per TCP connection
DEV-417	added services[] metric for Windows agents
ZBX-1005	fixed evaluations of functions diff, change and abschange for character items if received value more than 255 characters
ZBX-1004	made snmp parameters editable in templated items
ZBX-1001	fixed possible server crash while processing macros {ITEM.LASTVALUE}
ZBX-999	fixed query in availability reports
ZBX-996	fixed possible server crash with enabled StartDBSyncers option
ZBX-993	fixed possible vulnerability of trapper
ZBX-964	added check on item in trigger expression
ZBX-987	fixed shutting down server/proxy after connection lost to remote mysql server
ZBX-809	fixed memory leak while processing perf_counter metric under Windows
ZBX-959	fixed windows agent crash while processing performance counters under Windows 2000. Thanks to Takanori Suzuki
ZBX-733	added checks on value map creation/update
ZBX-768	improved menu linebreaking
ZBX-853	fixed item massdelete if not zabbix item selected
ZBX-963	removed sid from users map element url
ZBX-980	removed sid from users trigger url
ZBX-981	fixed aggregate item helper text
ZBX-213	added sql patches for graphs_items colour field
ZBX-933	fixed user profile auto-logout behavior
ZBX-908	fixed item nextcheck recalculation on item update
ZBX-965	fixed colour in graph legend
ZBX-966	added sorting in map creation form
ZBX-824	fixed net.tcp.service to work with host DNS name
ZBX-967	cosmetic changes in --help output of zabbix_get and zabbix_sender
ZBX-898	fixed slow performance of events component on a screen
ZBX-920	addedd missing indexes to DB upgrade patch for 1.6
ZBX-854	added support of template triggers for actions
ZBX-916	phrase 'delete selected' replaced by translatable S_DELETE_SELECTED
ZBX-960	fixed confirmation questions in Configuration->Hosts->Host groups
ZBX-975	TRUE/FALSE was replaced to Problems/Ok in Availability Report
ZBX-137	added new indexes for tables: httptest, httptest, actions, dhosts, dservices, escalations
ZBX-946	fixed drawing trigger line in graphs with trigger function "avg"
ZBX-968	added dropdown with time periods for IT services
ZBX-953	added informative note to zabbix_agentd --help output about user parameters and -t switch
ZBX-962	removed "Found: 0" from media type config form

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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