Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.8

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.

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

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

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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