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 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-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 documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.6.6.

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