Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.9

4 Nov 2013

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.

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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

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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

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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