Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.9

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.9.

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 1.9.9. 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-4558
 added audit logging when udpating and creating triggers 
ZBXNEXT-1066
 removed the "Monotoring - Hosts" page 
ZBXNEXT-1066
 remade the "Search" page layout 
ZBXNEXT-1066
 added the host pop up menu to the "Events", "Event details", "Latest data" and "Overview" pages 
ZBXNEXT-1066
 added the "Host screens" link to all of the host pop up menus 
ZBXNEXT-814
 added support of disabling media types 
ZBXNEXT-1024
 added support for more vm.memory.size modes for various platforms 
ZBXNEXT-1019
 updated jQuery to 1.7.1 and jQuery-ui to 1.8.17 
ZBXNEXT-1058
 added an item lifetime indicator icon in the item configuration 
ZBXNEXT-1058
 changed the default discovery rule 'lifetime' field value to 30 days 
ZBX-4479
 added possibility to add a dependency from a template to a host 
ZBX-4483
 added transparency support for image resizing 
ZBXNEXT-905
 redesign Configuration->Triggers 
ZBXNEXT-912
 redesign Configuration->Slide shows 
ZBXNEXT-406
 replaced an older 'status' check to an internal 'zabbix[host,<type>,available]' check 
ZBX-4009
 added new option in map configuration which enables macros expanding 
ZBX-3286
 added ability to automatically delete low level discovered resources 
ZBX-2806
 improved processing of escalations 
ZBX-1357
 updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Greek, Latvian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators 
ZBX-3527
 improved host form to allow selection of default interface 
ZBX-4262
 added support of item prototypes for graph y axis min/max 
ZBX-4311
 fixed graph prototype name validation 
ZBXNEXT-906
 redesign Configuration->Host groups 
ZBX-4024
 new build process for database schema and data, also new location of database related files; db data file uses transactions now

Bug Fixes

ZBX-4586
 implemented item's application validation in the Item.update and Item.create API methods 
ZBX-4577
 fixed possible SQL errors when updating a configuration on a proxy 
ZBX-4106
 fixed "Status of triggers" screen element layout 
ZBX-4558
 fixed deleting child template triggers when moving a trigger to a template 
ZBX-4558
 fixed child template trigger attributes being reset when updating a template trigger 
ZBX-4558
 fixed trigger form "type" field value being inverted 
ZBX-4520
 removed possibility to create dependencies from hosts to templates 
ZBX-4467
 removed the warning message when setting the zoom to "All" in screen monitoring 
ZBX-4434
 fixed validation of duplicated user macros; fixed some error messages 
ZBX-4555
 fix compilation error on Solaris (get rid of INT_MAX dependency) 
ZBX-4523
 fixed impossibility to correctly translate some parts of Zabbix 
ZBX-4513
 refactored value mappings form 
ZBX-4477
 fixed new expressions created on each Zabbix regexp update 
ZBXNEXT-1058
 fixed confirmation pop-up showing up on auto refresh in latest data 
ZBX-2701
 removed empty value mappings from a default data 
ZBX-4505
 fixed global macro recreation instead of updating 
ZBX-4505
 fixed audit message appearing when saving an unchanged global macro 
ZBX-4519
 fixed impossibility to delete template : Unknown column 'h.name' 
ZBX-4468
 removed possibility to add to value mappings few items with same name 
ZBX-4483
 added proper icon image resizing 
ZBX-4456
 fixed error position in IT services form 
ZBX-4470
 fixed node initialization in DM setup 
ZBX-4407
 fixed import hosts from 1.8 version 
ZBX-4425
 fixed item prototype interface mapping when cloning a discovery rule 
ZBX-4459
 fixed values are cleared when try to add incorrect value mapping, negative values now allowed 
ZBX-4458
 fixed js error in global macro form, changed layout to be consistant with other places 
ZBX-4449
 fixed IT services SLA graph permission checks 
ZBX-4448
 fixed proxy interface validation 
ZBX-4455
 fixed the 'sortorder' field validation in the IT services form 
ZBX-4427
 fixed map element host group highlighting 
ZBX-4446
 fixed event duration calculation 
ZBX-2806
 fixed possible double notification messages 
ZBX-4425
 fixed unsetting interface when performing Item::udpate requests 
ZBX-4436
 fixed wrong sql query in discovery popup 
ZBX-4429
 fixed problem with wrong mysql comment tag and warning in mysql function when update to 1.9.8 
ZBX-4418
 fixed possible SQL errors while processing of time functions 
ZBX-4336
 fixed problem with item status clearing when changing to active in frontend 
ZBX-4260
 replaced event sorting by 'clock' with 'eventid' 
ZBX-4381
 fixed permission check in SLA reports 
ZBX-4411
 remade the zbx_stripos() function whithout the use of mb_stripos() 
ZBX-4015
 fixed multiple XSS issues 
ZBX-4334
 changed disabled triggers and scenarios to be shown by default 
ZBX-4403
 fixed low level discovery rule creation 
ZBX-3832
 removed support of aggregated graph items 
ZBX-4235
 fixed operations with decimal numbers for certain locales 
ZBX-4382
 fixed missing dates in the midle of graph axis 
ZBX-3366
 fixed API sorting

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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