Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.6

26 Aug 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 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-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