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