Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.5

15 April 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.5.

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 1.8.5. 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-3686	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno
ZBX-3672	fixed possible hang of history syncers when a zabbix[log] message is added while processing history data
ZBX-3644	fixed API permission checks for applications, items and triggers
ZBX-3673	fixed processing of operators & and | in trigger and calculated items expressions
ZBX-3660	fixed macro resolving in map labels
ZBX-3659	API exists() methods now return true/false instead of true/error
ZBX-2997	added global regular expression to be sent to proxies (for use with log, logrt and eventlog items)
ZBX-1907	changed logging - when a proxy fails to connect to the server it logs "Still unable to connect" message max once a minute
ZBX-3548	added IPV6_V6ONLY flag (where defined) for binding IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces separately
ZBX-3626	fixed bugs on map export: duplicate image decoding and inserting duplicate map elements; thanks to Takanori Suzuki
ZBX-3453	improve performance of cpu collector
ZBX-3610	fixed active agent full buffer bug - stop processing active checks till the buffer is sent
ZBX-3566	fixed error in administration->notifications and added a hint when no mediatypes are defined
ZBX-3628	fixed server crash while processing notification messages with an already deleted trigger
ZBX-3075	fixed a regex bug with zero-length strings
ZBX-3621	changed the maximum number of processes for Zabbix daemons
ZBXNEXT-448	added trigger function logeventid that matches the last event ID to a regex
ZBX-1419	improve and fix database upgrade patches for older versions
ZBX-3576	fixed showing triggers with disabled items in monitoring
ZBX-3483	added missing fields in items mass update
ZBX-3435	fixed error that sometimes appear after profile edit
ZBX-2616	bundled DejaVu font upgraded from 2.32 to 2.33
ZBX-1557	changed process_ping logic to return an error if fping doesn't give a value (or '-') for any of the hosts but outputs something
ZBX-3430	fixed disappeared hints for "SSH", "Telnet" and "Database Monitor" item types in item form
ZBX-3578	added arguments to the output when using agent with '-p' or '-t', modified default arguments in win32.c and common.c
ZBX-3514	removed non "regexp" triggers from item log-form menu
ZBX-3584	fixed allowed_hosts set to 'localhost' for items by default
ZBX-3568	fixed processing of trigger functions with macros in item key parameters in notifications
ZBX-3076	disabled generation of events in case if some items or hosts in trigger expression are not active
ZBX-3562	fixed user macros in map element label expressions
ZBXNEXT-508	added dayofmonth to trigger functions
ZBX-3352	made item Y axis min/max items also change when used in screen with Dynamic enabled
ZBX-3523	fixed error when open monitoring->maps and last viewed map was removed
ZBX-3557	fixed possible incorrect usage of internal array pointers in frontend
ZBX-2979	fixed trigger function time() test
ZBX-3563	fixed host group filter in graph selection popup
ZBX-3544	fixed user login method resetting attempts
ZBX-3555	fixed possible pollers hang while processing ssh.run[] checks
ZBXNEXT-408	added zabbix[process,...] internal checks
ZBX-2262	added `hosts_templates_2' index
ZBX-3537	trigger events are now sorted by timestamp
ZBX-3472	changed item and discovery rule form to display SSH and SNMPv3 auth fields correctly when changing item type
ZBX-3542	reduced the amount of debugging output for configuration cache
ZBX-3536	made SNMP checks work when DNS resolves to IPv6 address; thanks to Marc Dequènes
ZBX-3541	fixed processing of nodata() function
ZBX-3126	all checkboxes in map and screen import are now "on" by default
ZBX-3158	improved links in map element menu
ZBX-3532	fixed add item to trigger expression from popup menu
ZBX-1357	fixed confusing date format in network maps
ZBX-3516	fixed items and hosts disappearing from configuration cache indexes
ZBX-3479	fixed possible hang of agents while processing scripts or net.tcp.service* checks
ZBX-3514	fixed log trigger wizard
ZBX-3515	fixed names of SNMPv3 security levels, again
ZBX-3411	fixed trigger filter update when changing host
ZBX-3431	fixed severity for log and eventlog or mixed
ZBX-2913	fixed timeout handling in processing of web.page.* checks
ZBX-3176	removed navigation dropdown from applications screen
ZBX-3494	added database monitor items to the queue calculation
ZBX-3454	fixed clearing item edited using by Trigger-wizard
ZBX-3481	fixed massAdd for applications
ZBX-3480	fixed possible crash of server after shutdown of ORACLE server
ZBX-3457	in trigger wizard, use double symbol references past 26 entries
ZBX-983	fixed error when updating trigger
ZBX-974	recompress some images with pngcrush
ZBX-3446	fixed possible hang of pollers - added timeout handler for external scripts
ZBX-1690	fixed undefined index when creating action with name that already exists
ZBX-3461	fixed names of IPMI pollers in debug output and the number of items they take
ZBX-3100	fixed messages in popup when no proxies or discovery checks defined
ZBX-3138	fixed bug when disabling application, webitems were disabled too
ZBX-2951	made interval hidden for trapper items
ZBX-2867	changed order of "Discovery" and "IT services" in configuration menu
ZBX-3460	forbid saving host with enabled IPMI but without IPMI address
ZBX-3047	fixed Zapcat compatibility for trigger expressions
ZBX-2912	added check for valid UTF-8 characters in the incoming data
ZBX-1346	add more user parameter examples
ZBX-2922	changed log level from warning to debug for some messages
ZBX-3440	Added pagination to slide and discovery configuration
ZBX-3433	fixed removing deleted passive proxies from queue
ZBX-416	fixed PostgreSQL errors in configuration sender module when using DM setup
ZBX-3346	fixed items being polled more frequently than necessary
ZBX-3409	fixed semaphore and shared memory access permissions
ZBX-3173	made server-side JSON parser ignore whitespace better
ZBX-3425	updated Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to Murilo Moreira de Oliveira
ZBX-3403	fixed SQL statements for auto registration and discovery operations
ZBX-3403	removed UNIQUE constraint for autoreg_host_1 index
ZBX-3414	expressions for triggers with web items are marked as error in trigger wizard
ZBX-3406	better API validation
ZBX-3413	added escaping of parameters used in LIKE SQL statements
ZBX-3391	fixed wrong comparison operators used for strings
ZBX-1346	document LogSlowQueries configuration parameter
ZBXNEXT-612	added mapname URL parameter for monitoring->maps
ZBX-886	remove duplicate translation strings
ZBX-3384	fixed server crash in a distributed monitoring setup with PostgreSQL
ZBX-3274	fixed SQLite3 semaphore errors while starting server or proxy
ZBXNEXT-614	add Slovak translation; thanks to Marcel Hecko
ZBX-2914	add Ubuntu upstart files; thanks to S. Canchon
ZBX-3381	negative multipliers for items with value type "numeric (float)" are now allowed
ZBX-1357, ZBX-3462	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-3385	fixed trigger status change record in audit log
ZBX-2825	make profiles form redirect to the last visited page on save or cancel
ZBX-3383	fixed error in audit log when filtering by Macro or Template
ZBX-3378	updated Russian translation; thanks to dotneft and zalex_ua
ZBX-3350	fixed minor interface bug and it is now not possible to add host name longer than 64 chars
ZBX-3341	fixed host export - valuemap property is now exported as expected
ZBX-3338	updated Ukrainian translation; thanks to zalex_ua
ZBX-954	fix minor typos
ZBX-1419	don't print an informative message during upgrade if no orphan hosts were found

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix Manual for full details.

Upgrade

Recompile Zabbix binaries and update front-end PHP files. Execute a database patch if migrating from Zabbix 1.8.x. See Zabbix manual for a detailed upgrade procedure.

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