Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.20rc2

7 February 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.20rc2.

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 1.8.20rc2. 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-7693	fixed admin user being able to update media for other users API
ZBX-6721	fixed LDAP bind password being included in page source Frontend
ZBX-7703	fixed being able to switch users without proper credentials when using HTTP authentication API
ZBX-7686	fixed UTF-8 strings not being fetched fully from Oracle Proxy Server
ZBX-7643	fixed graph copying Frontend
ZBX-3702	fixed drule.get selectDChecks parameter not returning any results; thanks to Sergey Sireskin API
ZBX-4243	fixed Zabbix syslog application names (RFC 5424 APP-NAME) Agent Proxy 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 1.8.20.

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