Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.9

22 November 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 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-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