Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.5

26 July 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.5.

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 1.9.5. 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-831	Macros in interface IP addresses and DNS names are resolved in cache
ZBXNEXT-841	Added "config" table to configuration cache, refresh_unsupported now is read from cache and synced with proxies
ZBXNEXT-807	Implemented configuration cache for triggers
ZBXNEXT-674	Added host area functionality for maps
ZBXNEXT-738	Added configurable colors and blinking for alarm states OK/PROBLEM
ZBXNEXT-827	Move misc/conf to the top level source directory
ZBXNEXT-746	Added trigger sorting by severity and host name
ZBX-1357	Updated Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBXNEXT-783	Added Inventory -> Overview report and filter to Inventory -> Hosts
ZBXNEXT-467	Renamed net.tcp.dns(.query)[] to net.dns(.record)[], added Windows support, retrans and timeout parameters and IP parameter support for UNIX
ZBX-3828	Added Turkish translation; thanks to Murat Koç
ZBXNEXT-677	Added system.hw.* and system.sw.* items for Linux
ZBXNEXT-780	All items (including user parameters and external checks) can also return only whitespace

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3962	Fixed memory leak in poller processes
ZBX-3901	Fixed make errors due to "cp -n" under RHEL with --enable-java option
ZBXNEXT-828	Remove outdated spec files
ZBX-3841	Returned functionality of a macro {HOSTNAME} as in the version 1.8.x
ZBX-3841	Fixed processing of {HOST.NAME} macro in item keys
ZBX-3858	Fixed host selection in action condition popup
ZBX-3852	Fixed duplicate HTML IDs in events.php
ZBX-3846	Fixed typo in map creation info message during export

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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 1.9.5.

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