Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.9

22 Nov 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.9.

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 1.8.9. 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-4352	Fixed template linking when mass updating hosts
ZBX-4325	Fixed maintenance periods saved with nonzero seconds
ZBX-4345	Fixed counting of recursive dependency levels for triggers
ZBX-4027	Fixed floating-point comparison and unified epsilon in trigger functions and expressions
ZBX-3551	Fixed image xml export for postgres
ZBX-3625	Fixed validation of aggregated item keys
ZBX-3117	Fixed error notification when unsuccessfully copying a graph
ZBX-4326	Api now returns error when trying to create incorrect host profile field
ZBX-4323	Fixed host profile not created with host using api
ZBX-4275	Made server and proxy try to reconnect to the database upon startup
ZBX-4159	Fixed problem with generating new ids for historical tables
ZBX-3988	Fixed memory leak in dashboard
ZBX-3498	Removed items from unmonitored hosts from the 'add graph' and 'add simple graph' pop-ups in the 'favourite graphs' widget
ZBX-3498	Removed the 'status' column from the 'add simple graph' pop-up
ZBX-2919	Fixed custom multiplier becoming 0 when creating an item
ZBX-3074	Moved the 'status' column in the item list to the left
ZBX-2504	Replaced 'groups' by 'replace host groups' in host mass-update form to avoid confusion
ZBX-4265	Fixed host input validation
ZBX-4264	Fixed zabbix_agent compilation problem on hp-ux
ZBX-3504	Added a text notification in the maps section when no maps are defined
ZBX-3749	Escaped html entities in the web step "required" field
ZBX-3402	Disabled "store value" overriding for host items inherited from templates
ZBX-4201	Fixed template items included in bar reports
ZBX-4178	Fixed compilation on freebsd: union has no member named `sival_int'
ZBX-4241	Added truncation of "ids" table to the database conversion procedure
ZBX-2493	Improved default messages for actions
ZBX-2931	Fixed dns and ip fields, item statuses and trigger values for default templates
ZBX-2361	Fixed item keys in the default template "template_netscreen_25"
ZBX-3441	Fixed server to not process items that are disabled or removed
ZBX-4249	Fixed trigger wizard "insert macro" action break expression
ZBX-2490	Fixed acknowledge flag for events, acknowledged on a child node
ZBX-3743	Fixed no triggers returned when api trigger.get is called with "limit" and "withlasteventunacknowledged" options
ZBX-4203	Fixed api trigger.update method removes dependencies
ZBX-4232	Fixed unclear log messages when checks are temporarily enabled/disabled
ZBX-4221	Fixed sorting by host in configuration->web
ZBX-4198	Fixed items filter when filter by host name with multiple spaces
ZBX-4145	Fixed images import script for postgresql 9.1 and above
ZBX-4045	Removed the check for duplicate hosts, made the server survive the situation instead
ZBX-4159	Fixed frontend incorrectly handle new ids for history tables in distributed setup
ZBX-4216	Fixed weekdays in brazilian portuguese translation; thanks to ricardo santos
ZBX-4205	Fixed trigger status change not logged in audit for inherited triggers
ZBX-4194	Fixed sql query errors in distributed environment with three digit node numbers
ZBX-3257	Fixed item type auto selection in item key popup
ZBX-4026	Fixed disabling snmp host when unreachable
ZBX-3942	Fixed agent's collector to not gather perfstat data on aix unless it is requested
ZBX-4087	Fixed error message when processing configuration file
ZBX-4158	Fixed db transaction processing, stop and abort on error
ZBX-4146	Fixed page refreshing after adding new it service
ZBX-4176	Fixed api action.update required parameters
ZBX-2882	Fixed wrong item vfs.file.cksum[/vmlinuz] for some templates
ZBX-4072	Improved performance of event acknowledging
ZBX-3829	Fixed trigger dependency removed after template linked to host
ZBX-4131	Fixed incorrect page shown after login
ZBX-4104	Fixed handle handling when executing scripts in windows
ZBX-4091	Removed unneeded linking for binaries
ZBX-4155	Fixed .pid file locking not to allow multiple instances
ZBX-4056	Fixed memory read access violation in windows performance counters
ZBX-4177	Updated brazilian portuguese translation; thanks to murilo moreira de oliveira
ZBX-4085	Fixed compilation issues for os x leopard

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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