Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.6

27 September 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.6.

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 2.1.6. 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

ZBX-2616	Upgraded the bundled DejaVu font from 2.33 to 2.34 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1763	Added link to inventory in Monitoring -> Maps and displayed link to inventory page for hosts without inventory data in Monitoring -> Latest Data Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1763	Added host related information under Monitoring Frontend
ZBX-6983	Changed the "Status of host group triggers" and "Status of host triggers" screen elements and the "Latest 20 issues" to display triggers without events Frontend
ZBX-6983	Renamed the "Status of host group triggers" screen element to "Latest host group issues" and "Status of host triggers" to "Latest host issues" Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7022	Fixed errors in Monitoring > Screens page when screen item has group and host dropdowns Frontend
ZBX-6978	Fixed leading and trailing spaces for translatable strings Frontend
ZBX-7033	Replaced HTML special characters with corresponding entity names and unicode characters Frontend
ZBX-7013	Strndup function was replaced to avoid compilation error when non-gnu compilers are used Server
ZBX-6904	Now ESC.HISTORY macro creates the same message content whithin the same escalation step when notification is sent to multiple recipients Server
ZBX-6987	Fixed possible crash in value cache when freeing items with out of order values Server
ZBX-7024	Fixed filtering by application name "0" in Monitoring > Overview dropdown Frontend
ZBX-7026	Removed automatic changing of "error" field when trigger and trigger prototype expression is changed API Frontend
ZBX-7027	Improved request of proxies in Configuration > Hosts list and request of hosts in Administration > DM > Proxies Frontend
ZBX-3878	Fixed memory leaks in slide shows Frontend
ZBX-7017	Fixed problem with unwanted lists of services in IT services popup window Frontend
ZBX-6982	Changed background color in user and user group edit form for select tags Frontend
ZBX-6973	Fixed sql error in PostgreSQL database on saving host Frontend

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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 2.1.6.

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 2.1 Manual