Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.10

28 December 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.10.

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 1.8.10. Download it from download.

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-2843	fixed log trigger creation menu in items list
ZBX-4424	fixed handling of a long localized content by history syncer
ZBX-4424	fixed handling of a localized content with incorrect utf8 characters
ZBX-2737	fixed various messages at linking templates
ZBX-4273	fixed getting permission error while creating an action
ZBX-4377	fixed error message when checking if libcurl can be linked statically
ZBX-4391	fixed suffix support in trigger testing interface
ZBX-4376	fixed escaping of strings with PostgreSQL 9.1 or later
ZBX-2419	fixed calculation of SLA if uptime/downtime is specified
ZBX-3074	moved the 'Status' column in the item list to the right
ZBX-3104	implemented the screen item API
ZBX-3104	fixed screen item "Parameter" field validation and some minor screen item bugs
ZBX-4298	added deleted data report to a housekeeper on every step
ZBX-3649	fixed "frontends/php/styles/ie_default.css" doesn't exist (for IE6)
ZBX-4235	fixed operations with decimal numbers for certain locales
ZBX-3244	fixed dropdown changing its style when navigating menu
ZBX-4015	fixed multiple XSS issues
ZBX-4288	fixed user macros not being deleted when deleting a host
ZBX-2859	fixed possibility to successfully delete zero regular expressions
ZBX-2843	made dashboard and slideshow popup menus have dynamic width
ZBX-4279	added an error message when trying to delete an item, that's being used as a min/max Y axis value for graphs
ZBX-4375	updated Russian translation; thanks to Alexey Pustovalov
ZBX-4360	fixed trapper compilation error on FreeBSD 7.3
ZBX-4249	fixed trigger wizard when inserting macro multiple times
ZBX-4351	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno
ZBX-4353	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima

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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 1.8 Manual