Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.11rc1

12 March 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.11rc1.

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 1.8.11rc1. 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

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

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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 1.8.11.

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