Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.2

11 Mar 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.2.

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 1.9.2. 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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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-673	added support of users scripts on Zabbix Agent and IPMI-based remote commands
ZBXNEXT-631	added custom trigger severities configuration
ZBXNEXT-636	login screen redesign, frontend themes restyle
ZBXNEXT-635	introduced API wrapper for Zabbix frontend
ZBXNEXT-575	added new design for action operation remote commands
ZBXNEXT-628	added advanced label settings for maps
ZBXNEXT-626	added remembering of grid options for maps
ZBXNEXT-630	added automatic filling of DNS name for discovered and auto-registered devices
ZBXNEXT-634	added information about usage of media types for actions in the list of media types
ZBXNEXT-602	Export events to CSV
ZBXNEXT-623	restored support of SQLite3 for use with Zabbix Server and front-end
ZBX-1357	updated Dutch translation; thanks to qix
ZBX-1357	updated Latvian translation
ZBXNEXT-594	Add to Zabbix API support for search and filter by rules "ALL" or "ANY"
ZBXNEXT-592	confirmation dialog for scripts
ZBX-3355	added character field length validation on inserts and updates
ZBX-3370	updated Russian translation; thanks to zalex_ua and dotneft
ZBX-3338	updated Ukrainian translation; thanks to zalex_ua

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3496	fixed error when creating new user
ZBX-3496	fixed saving templated items
ZBX-3538	action condition 'Trigger description' renamed to 'Trigger name'
ZBX-976	fix and improve availability report dropdown captions
ZBX-3472	In item and discovery forms snmpv3 auth fields are now hidden if not needed
ZBX-3550	enforce authentication for API, if auth param is not empty
ZBX-3500	added "change" link to "clock" element in screen configuration
ZBX-3500	fixed infinite loop when screen was added as an element of another screen
ZBX-3500	fixed database query algorithm when saving maintenance
ZBX-3497	fixed Undefined index after changing Type of information in items
ZBX-3477	fixed deletion of discovery rules without item prototypes
ZBX-3328	data exported from 1.8.x now can be successfully imported into 2.0
ZBX-3470	table user_groups is now updated only if necessary when user details are saved
ZBX-1819	fixed templates listed twice for graphs if host filter is set to all
ZBX-3442	fixed GUI config "first selected" and "event ack" dropdowns
ZBX-3329	fixed shown last value as "0" in frontend for items that have never been updated
ZBX-3436	added missing "Primary POC Screen Name" to Inventory->Hosts
ZBX-3405	fixed value_type for response code and failed step items when creating webcheck
ZBX-3363	fixed possible crash of server while processing of {HOST.CONN}, {IPADDRESS} and {HOST.DNS} macros
ZBX-3326	add X-Poedit-Basepath header to all locales
ZBX-3369	fixed API returning true in more Classes methods *.update and *.delete
ZBX-3368	fixed custom graphs in screens form prefixed with ':'
ZBX-3329	fixed last value in latest data, status of triggers, and web monitoring
ZBX-3362	fixed inability to rename trigger
ZBX-1341	fixed password hashes returned over API
ZBX-3367	fixed PHP Fatal error when trying to create screen
ZBX-3354	fixed history clearing
ZBX-3360	fixed simple graph adding to a screen
ZBX-3189	fixed broken trigger dependencies
ZBX-3326	sort po file contents and entries in POTFILES.in, include fuzzy entries in mo files
ZBX-3054	fixed Cannot create or update Action with remote command; fix "reset() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /actionconf.php:754"

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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 1.9 Manual