Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8

7 December 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.

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 1.8. 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

DEV-316	added logging of executed commands on agent side. Parameter LogRemoteCommands
DEV-316	implemented displaying of history of remote commands
ZBX-1444	added map link macro {host:key.func(param)}
ZBX-1299	fixed "configure" script key "--with-ssh2[=ARG]", custom library path can be provided
ZBX-1409	fixed administrators cannot edit hosts
ZBX-1450	add disabling IPMI items if support of IPMI parameters was not compiled in
DEV-357	added UTF8 support
ZBX-1449	fixed possibility of editing templated graphs
ZBX-1174	fixed "Add host" operation in "Discovery" module, ports are now never updated when the host already exists
ZBX-1357	updated French translation. Thanks to alixen
ZBX-1306	fixed showing triggers that recently changed state as errors in dashboard
ZBX-1030	fixed security vulnerability in server allowing remote unauthenticated users to execute scripts. Thanks to Nicob
ZBX-1437	fixed errors in events screen
ZBX-1433	fixed error viewing event
ZBX-954	improve wording on frontend buttons and elsewhere
ZBX-1369	make more strings translatable
ZBX-1407	fixed misc issues with popup
ZBX-1265	fixed undefined variable on user delete through API
ZBX-1419	fix MySQL upgrade patch
ZBX-1350	drop and recreate help_items table upon upgrade
ZBX-1418	fixed errors in frontend install wizard
ZBX-1316	changed to standard trigger edit form
ZBX-1417	fixed permission check in configuration of actions
ZBX-1290	fixed maintenance permission check

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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 1.8.

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 Manual