Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.14rc1

19 June 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.14rc1.

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 1.8.14rc1. 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-4007	fixed not being able to add screens from a child node to a slideshow API Frontend
ZBX-5147	fixed profiler lib not supporting G suffix for memory_limit option Frontend
ZBX-5027	added file size check to log monitoring to report error if it's over 2 GB Agent
ZBX-4980	fixed error in decoding of big base64 encoded values Proxy Server
ZBX-4793	fixed processing of SNMP strings terminated with a NUL character Proxy Server
ZBX-4793	added support for display-hint when getting SNMP octet string values Proxy Server
ZBX-5091	fixed usermacro.get templateids filter API
ZBX-4031	fixed error message when deleting a link in a map Frontend
ZBX-5006	fixed memory leak; thanks to Mike Brady Frontend
ZBX-5032	fixed media type selection in user properties API Frontend
ZBX-5014	fixed error in distributed mode setup for guest user Frontend
ZBX-4984	fixed export including graphs and triggers with web items Frontend
ZBX-4980	fixed trapper process crash/hang on decoding big base64 encoded values Proxy Server
ZBX-3897	fixed processing of proc.num[] item under FreeBSD; thanks to Jim Riggs Agent
ZBX-4918	fixed value mapping when resolving {ITEM.LASTVALUE} and {ITEM.VALUE} macros Frontend
ZBX-4917	fixed slow screens for non-Super-Admins API

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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 1.8.14.

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