Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.16rc1

8 December 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.16rc1.

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 1.8.16rc1. 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-3754	fixed "Undefined variable" in the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-3038	fixed the trigger expression constructor to parse expressions created in log wizard
ZBX-2793	added possibility to add macros without an item in the trigger expression
ZBX-5896	fixed inserting OR condition the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-5833	fixed inserting a macro in the trigger expression constructor
ZBX-4695	added support of simple check keys with user macros in the trigger expression
ZBX-5884	improved the trigger expression constructor to work with parentheses
ZBX-5814	fixed an incorrect error message when saving an illegal trigger expression
ZBX-4247	fixed processing of trigger expression if item key contains another trigger expression string
ZBX-2640	fixed some issues when creating and editing log triggers
ZBX-5803	fixed message initialization memory leak in IE7
ZBX-5898	fixed Insert Macro button does not work in trigger constructor on IE7 and IE8
ZBX-5822	fixed macro in trigger names for unixtime and other types of units
ZBX-5697	fixed processing of external check parameters with the right square bracket
ZBX-5454	fixed encoding of long email subject line as required by RFC-2047; thanks to Jairo Eduardo Lopez Fuentes Nacarino
ZBX-5650	added more information about ProxyLocalBuffer parameter in the example configuration file
ZBX-4097	changed the "application", "host" and "group" parameters for item.get and trigger.get to be case sensitive
ZBX-5514	fixed SQL query in get_min_itemclock_by_itemid function
ZBX-5505	fixed incorrect SQL query building using limits
ZBX-5512	fixed undefined index in screens
ZBX-5383	maximum data size accepted via Zabbix communication protocol is limited to 128 MB
ZBX-5450	added support of "KMGTsmhdw" suffixes in the second parameter of count() function
ZBX-5395	fixed {ITEM.LASTVALUE1} and {ITEM.VALUE1} expanding in the trigger.get method

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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 1.8.16.

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