Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.9

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.9.

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 2.1.9. 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

ZBXNEXT-1477
 added support of Windows eventlog source regex filter 
ZBXNEXT-544
 moved help_items data to php code 
ZBXNEXT-1827
 improved multiselect full text search 
ZBX-7065
 changed the design of the setup, login and browser warning pages 
ZBX-6983
 renamed the "Latest host group issues" screen element to "Host group issues" and "Latest host issues" to "Host issues" 
ZBX-7215
 improved the design of the search auto suggest 
ZBXNEXT-1776
 added support for java.math.BigDecimal, java.math.BigInteger and some other open types 
ZBXNEXT-715
 increased the size of sysmaps_elements.label and sysmaps_links.label fields to 2048 characters

Bug Fixes

ZBX-7125
 fixed improper reading of configuration files in case there were problems with included files; we now exit with failure 
ZBX-7257
 improved config file validation 
ZBX-7249
 changed setup pre-requisites values "yes" to "on" and "no" to "off", fixed numeric value validation and port text alignment 
ZBX-7267
 implement menu popup in trigger top 100 page for hosts and triggers columns 
ZBX-7260
 fixed "Wrong RPC call to JS RPC" error when acknowledging trigger and changing group or host in screen element 
ZBX-6129
 fixed changing the status of triggers and trigger prototype working incorrectly if they no longer exist 
ZBX-7266
 fixed frontend big dropdowns displaying 
ZBX-7248
 fixed frontend initial calendar time 
ZBX-7208
 fixed DB schema generation for "t_shorttext"-type fields 
ZBX-7240
 fixed map editing form behaving incorrectly after it has been submitted unsuccessfully 
ZBX-7256
 fixed sorting by hostname in trigger.get 
ZBX-7247
 fixed multiselect allowing to select read only objects in places where write permissions are required 
ZBX-7247
 fixed map.create and map.update not checking permissions to objects used in map elements 
ZBX-7238
 fixed network discovery rule permission checks for admin users 
ZBX-7251
 corrected multiple page headers and other text strings 
ZBX-7212
 fixed interface macros priorities 
ZBX-7235
 fixed activating and deactivating a web scenarios 
ZBX-7181
 fixed frontend natural sorting 
ZBX-7236
 removed the sorting indicator from the "Last 20 issues" widget 
ZBX-7224
 fixed host prototype children group deletion 
ZBX-7199
 fixed permission issue in bar report 
ZBX-7215
 fixed search auto suggest always displaying results in lower case 
ZBX-7166
 added database upgrade patches to set status of template triggers to Enabled and state of template items to normal 
ZBX-7198
 fixed displaying trigger popup menu relative to mouse cursor in Monitoring > Overview page 
ZBX-7218
 fixed configuration failing with Oracle 12.1 instant client libraries 
ZBX-7165
 fixed SNMP field validation in item configuration 
ZBX-5942
 fixed setup navigation 
ZBX-7137
 fixed macros resolving in inventory host interfaces 
ZBX-7206
 fixed arithmetic expressions in C macros not being wrapped in parentheses 
ZBX-7185
 fixed escalations being cancelled by unrelated events 
ZBX-6244
 fixed setting cookies as secure under https 
ZBX-7171
 fixed displaying correct percentages in item and trigger error messages 
ZBX-5590
 fixed item multiplier for jmx["java.lang:type=Compilation",TotalCompilationTime] 
ZBX-6577
 improved "Template JMX Generic" by adding some interesting items and triggers 
ZBX-7189
 fixed web monitoring items not being displayed in Monitoring -> Latest data 
ZBX-7170
 improved performance of item.get method and other API requests with "selectItems" option 
ZBX-7144
 fixed table column widths in Monitoring -> Latest data 
ZBX-7152
 fixed get method subselects not working correctly if a specific node is selected 
ZBX-7180
 fixed table colours in user right assignment lists 
ZBX-7085
 fixed gettext errors when omitting the number placeholder in singular form translations

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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