Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.5

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.


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

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ZBXNEXT-828 Remove outdated spec files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

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.

References

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