Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.8

21 Oct 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.8.

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 2.1.8. Download it from downloads.

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

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New Features and Improvements

ZBX-6404	added support for values of type java.lang.Double when toString() returns them in scientific format
ZBXNEXT-78	added support for scientific notation for received values and item multipliers for items of type "Numeric (float)"
ZBXNEXT-1855	dynamic display of process current activity and statistics in "ps" and "top"
ZBXNEXT-1806	changed the way nth day and nth week are calculated in maintenances
ZBX-7097	changed dashboard drag'n'drop widget placeholder color in the dark orange and dark blue themes
ZBX-1357	updated Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and Slovak translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7105	fixed performance of housekeeper; improved indexes for table "events"; fixed SQL statements to use the new indexes
ZBX-7163	fixed default values for sysmaps.label_location and sysmaps_elements.label_location fields; added NOT NULL constraint to sysmaps_elements.label_location field
ZBXNEXT-1179	fixed inconsistency in process activity time logging
ZBX-6362	fixed proxy select interfaces
ZBX-7115	improved data filtering in latest data page
ZBX-6835	fixed bug when agent/proxy connection error could have resulted in a wrong warning about message size
ZBX-7164	fixed trigger and trigger prototype read only fields to no longer change when linking template to host
ZBX-6760	improved performance of getting global scripts
ZBX-6995	improved the performance of graph and graph prototype permission checks
ZBX-6591	fixed resolution of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses if DNS hostname is specified as server parameter in configuration file; thanks to Trever L. Adams for patch
ZBX-5374	removed ONLY directive from PostgreSQL upgrade statements
ZBX-7097	fixed dashboard drag'n'drop widget placeholder not being displayed in the classic theme
ZBX-7130	fixed makefiles to build zabbix_proxy only
ZBX-7055	fixed displaying OK trigger status in maps
ZBX-7081	fixed node drop down being displayed incorrectly in several pop ups
ZBX-7086	fixed application mass add from different hosts or templates validation
ZBX-7133	fixed processing of zabbix[host,*,available] item; fixed proxy's hosts availability data on server
ZBX-7099	fixed IT services tree icons alignment
ZBX-7121	increased size of interface.ip field
ZBX-6975	fixed default values for graphs.yaxismax and graphs_items.yaxisside fields
ZBX-7131	fixed host interface IP validation
ZBX-7112	improved file import validation for graph items
ZBX-6294	fixed nodata() trigger firing immediately after no data maintenance
ZBX-7134	fixed host inventory interface table when no agent interfaces are set
ZBX-7126	fixed host inventories details tab displaying
ZBX-7066	corrected downloadable configuration file name in setup step 6
ZBX-7101	fixed generated SQL queries in action.get method when simultaneously selecting more than one condition and operation

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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.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix Training
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 2.1 Manual