Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.21

10 September 2014

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.21.

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 1.8.21. 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-3407	fixed NVPS query to not fail on DB2 Frontend
ZBX-8608	added support of IP masks for action conditions Frontend Proxy Server
ZBX-8151	fixed XXE vulnerability on XML import using obsolete libxml versions; thanks to pnig0s@Freebuf for the report API Frontend
ZBX-8343	fixed a bug in binary heap that could cause a slightly inconsistent ordering of elements in the queue Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-8198	decreased verbosity of Windows agent with DebugLevel=4 Agent
ZBX-7930	improved SQL performance and execution time in Maintenance page API Frontend

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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 1.8.21.

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