Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.1

4 Ноя 2008

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.1.

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 1.6.1. 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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Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-586	Added simple check tcp_perf into help_items
ZBX-585	Added support of macros {hostname},{host.conn},{ipaddress},{host.dns} in item keys
DEV-250	Added support of vfs.dev.read/write under linux 2.4/2.6
ZBX-576	Added ipmi authentication algorithms
ZBX-573	Made sql optimization for pgsql
ZBX-572	Fixed warning messages while updating template linkage
ZBX-570	Fixed possible server crash if flexible interval delay is 0 sec.
ZBX-565	Fixed filtering of conf->triggers
ZBX-562	Fixed improper host group delete action
ZBX-527	Fixed possible poller crash
ZBX-533	Fixed incorrect snmp string to float conversion
ZBX-534	Fixed problem with email messages for discovery events
ZBX-540	Dm: fixed sql error while processing configuration data
ZBX-557	Fixed wrong audit action for items enable/disable
ZBX-403	Added support of commas in userparameter's
ZBX-541	Fixed overwriting proxies on host import issue
ZBX-542	Added processing of nextcheck for active checks
ZBX-504	Fixed date selector issue for log items in latest values screen
ZBX-529	Removed links from dynamic screen graphs
ZBX-538	Fixed wrong theme pick up in login screen issue
ZBX-536	Fixed problem with "unable to add performance counter"
ZBX-535	Added support of monitoring files larger than 2gb in windows
ZBX-520	Removed action condition "event ack" due to not supported
ZBX-480	Fixed patches for sysmaps_links table
ZBX-521	Fixed problem in freebsd with threads in proc.num and proc.mem items
ZBX-519	Removed proxy hosts from applications hosts list
DEV-238	Added support of sec|#num for function count()
DEV-238	Added support of text items for function count()
ZBX-471	Fixed problem with graphs with big values
ZBX-501	Fixed undefined values in server info screen
ZBX-469	Fixed problem with linking extra graph
ZBX-495	Fixed db upgrade script when doing 1.1->1.4->1.6
ZBX-488	Fixed memory leak in zabbix server code
ZBX-500	Added more debug information for icmpping processing
ZBX-499	Fixes problem with ipmi authorization; added field "ipmi ip"
ZBX-484	Fixed host-group selection in templates page
ZBX-464	Fixed user creation under ldap
ZBX-468	Fixed user online status in administration panel
ZBX-492	Fixed wrong url "next 100" in audit actions
ZBX-490	Fixed undefined variable in latest data
ZBX-481	Fixed permission issue in slideshow
ZBX-474	Fixed deleting hosts with postgres-backend
ZBX-475	Added message on missed php-ldap module
DEV-168	Added support of system.cpu.util[] for openbsd agents

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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 1.6 Manual