Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.6

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.


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

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

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.

References

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