Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.4

18 May 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.4.

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 1.9.4. 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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New Features and Improvements

ZBXNEXT-647	Added automatic population of profile fields
ZBXNEXT-629	Redesigned discovery form and added https and telnet to discovery and net.tcp.service(.perf)
ZBXNEXT-627	Support of visible host and template name
ZBXNEXT-672	Advanced options for remote commands
ZBX-1357	Updated French, Latvian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-2756	Renamed macro {TRIGGER.KEY<1-9>} to {ITEM.KEY<1-9>}
ZBXNEXT-511	Renamed item description to name, for description introduced a new field

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3774	Fixed displaying of visible host and template name in several screens
ZBX-3730	Fixed bug with javascript translations - now js strings actually get translated
ZBX-3752	Fixed error in slides with system status
ZBX-3724	Fixed broken images when importing and exporting maps with PostgreSQL
ZBX-3794	Added timeout support to vfs.file.contents[] command
ZBX-3809	Fixed overwriting of existing elements and links when importing a map
ZBX-954	Typo in constant name, cause error when try to clear item history
ZBX-3769	Fixed applications unlinked when update item prototypes
ZBX-3678	Fixed unlinking template with action triggers
ZBX-3758	Made Zabbix daemons remove their PID file upon unsuccessful startup
ZBX-3791	Fixed item form caption after cloning item
ZBX-3689	Fixed error when adding a new second-level IT Service
ZBX-3715	Improve frontend message style & grammar
ZBX-3767	Improve import status messages by avoiding concatenating individual words; thanks to zalex
ZBX-3704	Added default condition trigger value = problem for new actions
ZBX-3729	Fixed server crash when failing to resolve interface-related macros in item keys
ZBX-2885	Fixed 00:00-23:59 vs. 00:00-24:00 inconsistency for periods
ZBX-3687	Fixed link color for lld rules
ZBX-3709	Fixed agree checkbox in setup
ZBX-3658	Fixed the whole request to Java proxy failing if it contains an invalid key
ZBX-3657	Fixed errors while updating proxy configuration data
ZBX-3656	Fixed item filter by data type boolean
ZBX-3620	Fixed error when delete application used in webscenario

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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 1.9.4.

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