Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.11

20 March 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.11.

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 1.8.11. 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-4718	fixed Graph axis item cloning in host Full Clone
ZBX-3522	fixed errors when inserting too long values in the user_history and profiles tables
ZBX-4124	fixed template.get to correctly select applications, graphs and triggers; thanks to gescheit
ZBX-4562	fixed mediatype.update returning incorrectly formatted result
ZBX-4721	fixed handling of \u0000 by JSON parser; thanks to Rick Alm
ZBX-4604	added the "change" link for clocks in screen configuration
ZBX-4604	fixed the "change" link not being accessible for graph type screen items in embedded screens
ZBX-4549	fixed nested db transaction error when stopping server
ZBX-4694	fixed possible SQL errors or server crash while processing trends by history syncer
ZBX-4579	fixed incorrect "unknown" values in availability report if no events present
ZBX-4683	fixed timestamps mismatch while sending history data from proxy
ZBX-4140	fixed trigger test functionality for operator '#'
ZBX-4600	fixed trigger dependencies being reset when executing a mass update
ZBX-4604	fixed "screen" type screen item validation
ZBX-4680	fixed minor typo in frontends/php/js/class.rpc.js
ZBX-1298	fixed processing of command line arguments more than 2KB in proc.num and proc.mem checks on Linux
ZBX-4650	fixed possible server crash while processing trigger expressions
ZBX-3688	fixed changing host's availability for dynamic SNMP checks
ZBX-3788	signal handlers changed to reduce probability of process hang on exit
ZBX-4593	fixed "trigger info" type screen item resource validation
ZBX-1555	fixed discovery error message if IPv6 support is not compiled in
ZBX-3992	removed web monitoring items from synchronization of the proxy
ZBX-860	more useful SNMP error messages
ZBX-1787	fixed gradient element rendering if the value exceeds the max Y scale value
ZBX-4612	Unix style exit codes when converting database to DM
ZBX-2679	fixed validation of masks in IP ranges in discovery
ZBX-4333	fixed linking templates with cross template trigger dependencies
ZBX-4333	fixed empty error messages when performing certain actions
ZBX-3262	fixed warning "no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body" raised during compilation
ZBX-4586	fixed items being bound to the wrong applications when cloning to a different host
ZBX-3955	added pop up field name parameter validation
ZBX-4535	fixed build with --as-needed linker flag
ZBX-4564	daemon processes will use default priority, no prioritization on startup
ZBX-4507	added possibility to remove a discovered host from "Discovered hosts" group by action
ZBX-4569	fixed newline at end of file for some upgrade patches
ZBX-4354	fixed validation of a trigger expression
ZBX-1609	added support for all data types in dynamic indexes in SNMP
ZBX-4511	removed the "user_history" table from the list of synchronized tables between nodes
ZBX-4499	fixed upper case error in some browsers while adding user macro
ZBX-4526	fixed processing of string trigger functions if the data contains CR character
ZBX-4073	removed unused TrendCacheSize and CacheUpdateFrequency options from proxy
ZBX-4506	removed unnecessary new line symbol stripping from HTML attributes
ZBX-4525	updated Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to Murilo Moreira de Oliveira
ZBX-4468	removed possibility to add multiple value mappings with same name
ZBX-4404	fixed incorrect max value for the MaxHousekeeperDelete option in the default zabbix_server.conf file
ZBX-4337	fixed broken check for existing user macros on host while adding macros to host
ZBX-4461	changed binary path from bin to sbin in FreeBSD initscripts
ZBX-4491, ZBX-4559	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-4169	fixed filter being reset after timeline is change in Monitoring->Latest data->History for log items
ZBX-3219	changed global script error messages to more user friendly ones
ZBX-4457	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno
ZBX-3909	fixed link to null on map menu and non-hiding menu in maps
ZBX-4421	added individual CPU statistics on FreeBSD
ZBX-4466	fixed inserting UNKNOWN events with incorrect 'clock' values
ZBX-2802	fixed handling of NodeNoHistory and NodeNoEvents parameters
ZBX-4394	fixed handling of log rotation failure
ZBX-4455	fixed the 'sortorder' field validation in the IT services form
ZBX-4447	fixed object selection in several forms in IE6 and IE7
ZBX-4298	fixed the number of deleted events in the housekeeper deleted data report

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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