Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.7

1 September 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.7.

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 1.8.7. 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

ZBXNEXT-898	new trigger actions have "trigger = PROBLEM" and "not in maintenance" conditions by default
ZBX-4021	fixed item visibility in case when last value is null
ZBX-4052	fixed key macros resolving in item names
ZBX-1357	removed outdated translation strings from all translations
ZBX-3998	reload recipient list for database down messages every CacheUpdateFrequency seconds
ZBX-4034	fixed macros resolving in item names
ZBX-4044	removed redundant query "SET CHARACTER SET"
ZBX-3997	fixed IE9 dragging
ZBX-4043	fixed processing of system.cpu.util on Solaris with non-sequential cpu numbers
ZBX-4036	fixed period slider position saving in Monitoring->Events
ZBX-1010	fixed processing of a vfs.fs.size metric on Solaris with filesystems larger than 2TB
ZBX-3874	always enable all trigger severity checkboxes after enabling GUI Messaging in user profile
ZBX-3889	fixed deadlocks while processing triggers
ZBX-4023	fixed excess spacing and fake plural in graph deletion message
ZBX-4016	fixed web monitoring item status on insert and update
ZBX-3443	fixed "not selected" working as "all" in Monitoring->Events
ZBX-3979	added searchWildcardsEnabled flag in API for searching using wildcards
ZBX-4018	fixed server crash on unsupported aggregate items
ZBX-3908	allow empty string for formula field if multiplier is switched off
ZBX-3961	added recalculation of nextcheck time after changed flexible intervals
ZBX-3978	fixed time period calculation, do not include upper bound
ZBX-4000	fixed stop propagation (network map element dragging in configuration) in IE9
ZBX-2467	added more command line arguments to objdump to request more debugging information about crashes
ZBX-3972	added "Now" and "Done" buttons into js calendar - change action after day selection
ZBX-3993	fixed transmitting of templated user macros between server and proxy
ZBX-4008	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-4005	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno
ZBXNEXT-869	clarify in manpages how the process for runtime signalling is found

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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 1.8.7.

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