Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.5

15 Apr 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 downloads.

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