Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.4

4 Dec 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.4.

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 1.7.4. 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-1400	updated patches for DB
ZBX-1415	fixed problem displaying bar graphs
DEV-440	fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return data in bytes for all OS
DEV-439	fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return available disk space for normal users
ZBX-1246	fixed processing of results from items checks when character data must be interpreted like numeric data
ZBX-1408	fixed adding images for postgresql
ZBX-1410	fixed user profile update
ZBX-1371	shrinked API get results
ZBX-1411	fixed group and host selection in status of triggers
ZBX-1391	fixes for map permission checks
ZBX-1412	fixed graphs in web scenarios
ZBX-790	added protection of using special characters in user parameters of Zabbix Agent
ZBX-1375	fixed graphs losing link with template after update
ZBX-137	added patch for Oracle
ZBX-1372	applied patches for localization
ZBX-1378	allowed using months in age view
ZBX-1301	fixed discovery hosts view in dashboard
ZBX-1370	fixes in items copy
ZBX-1398	fixed advanced icons selection
ZBX-1357	updated French translation. Thanks to alixen
ZBX-1380	improved performance viewing inventory host
ZBX-1334	improved performance of template edit form
DEV-438	added support of suffixes (K,M,G) in configuration parameters
DEV-369	item check "log.regexp" was renamed to "logrt" to specify "log rotation"
DEV-339	added more internal checks zabbix[wcache,*] and zabbix[rcache,*]
ZBX-1209	fixed new node not shown in the list after adding
ZBX-1221	fixed node adding mechanizm
ZBX-1400	changed none working time highlight colour for default graph themes
ZBX-1404	fixed undefined variable in screens
ZBX-1324	replaced more user visible strings ZABBIX with Zabbix
DEV-411	added configuration parameters for dbcache module
ZBX-1090	fixes for returned values from API calls
ZBX-1356	fixed undefined errors on user group deletion
ZBX-1403	fixed discovery widget to show only discovery from selected node
ZBX-1397	make 'History' string in page header translatable, thanks to Alexey Pustovalov
ZBX-1381	performance improvements for maps view
ZBX-1325	fixed error when add host or hostgroup with postgre
DEV-137	removed "IF NOT EXISTS" clauses from Sqlite DB schema
ZBX-1395	fixed map elements highlighting option
ZBX-1396	fixes in map element selection
ZBX-1394	fixed compilation of checks_db.c with enabled iODBC
DEV-137	minor fix for PostgreSQL patch

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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 1.7 Manual