Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.11

20 Mar 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 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-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