Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.10rc1

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.10rc1.

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 1.8.10rc1. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

Fixes and minor improvements

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

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 1.8.10.

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.

References

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