Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.9rc2

15 November 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.9rc2.

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 1.8.9rc2. 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

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 documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.8.9.

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