Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.8

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.8.

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 1.9.8. Download it from downloads.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

New Features and Improvements

ZBX-3104
 implemented the screen item API 
ZBXNEXT-913
 redesign Configuration->IT Services 
ZBXNEXT-907
 redesign Configuration->Applications 
ZBX-3271
 implemented the _x() and _xn() function for context dependent translations 
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 
ZBXNEXT-1019
 updated jQuery to 1.7 
ZBX-1357
 added initial Greek translation 
ZBXNEXT-911
 redesign Configuration->Web 
ZBXNEXT-579
 added support for vfs.fs.discovery (with both {#FSNAME} and {#FSTYPE}) on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD 
ZBXNEXT-580
 added support for {#FSTYPE} for vfs.fs.discovery on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows 
ZBX-3074
 moved the 'Status' column in the item list to the left 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBX-2960
 added example userparameter for partition discovery on Linux

Bug Fixes

ZBX-3104
 fixed screen item "Parameter" field validation and some minor screen item bugs 
ZBX-3593
 fixed misaligned server name on top of the page 
ZBX-3771
 fixed possible 'Lock wait timeout' while processing lld rules 
ZBX-4139
 fixed "Last n issues" widget label ignoring variable that sets the amount of issues 
ZBX-4359
 fixed potentially incorrectly named index on node_cksum table 
ZBX-4188
 fixed nclob problem for Oracle 
ZBX-4279
 added an error message when trying to delete an item, that's being used as a min/max Y axis value for graphs 
ZBX-4282
 fixed errors when importing templates with trigger dependencies 
ZBX-4108
 updated FSF mailing address 
ZBX-4244
 fixed inline-block container resizing in object lists in IE8 
ZBX-4297
 fixed error in top 100 triggers report 
ZBX-4258
 fixed link to the template prototype item in the caption of the item editing form 
ZBX-3510
 fixed discovery and it's prototype cloning when cloning a host or template 
ZBX-3674
 fixed possible editing of lld created elements 
ZBX-3113
 made nanoseconds patch mandatory for upgrading from 1.8 to 2.0 
ZBX-3468
 fixed error messages and warnings with enabled SQLite3 support in front-end 
ZBX-4056
 fixed dependencies not added when template linked to host 
ZBX-4315
 fixed the 'close' link in the tooltips 
ZBX-3675
 fixed items created via API for template have wrong interfaceid on linked host 
ZBX-4212
 fixed creation of trigger expression with "])" in item key 
ZBXNEXT-675
 reduced surrounding whitespace for Switch, Cloud, Crypto-router, UPS, Hub and Router map icons 
ZBX-4305
 removed CREDITS file 
ZBX-2504
 replaced 'Groups' by 'Replace host groups' in host mass-update form to avoid confusion 
ZBX-2960
 added defaults for example userparameters vfs.dir.size (/tmp) and proc.cpu (zabbix_agentd) to avoid errors in 'zabbix_agentd -p', documented them 
ZBX-2960
 clarified what happens if proc.cpu does not match any processes 
ZBX-2960
 made mysql.ping example userparameter a but more efficient by avoiding extra 'wc' invocation 
ZBX-3710
 renamed "Zabbix Java Proxy" to "Zabbix Java Gateway" 
ZBX-4179
 fixed compilation on OpenBSD: `NS_DEFAULTPORT' undeclared 
ZBX-3885
 fixed error when update trigger prototype with wrong data 
ZBX-3857
 fixed creation and sorting of trigger prototypes 
ZBX-4245
 fixed error when add operation condition in action 
ZBX-4265
 fixed iconmappig API permission check 
ZBX-4283
 fixed template creation being reported as an update 
ZBX-3749
 escaped HTML entities in the web step "required" field

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.

References

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