Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.8

7 December 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.8.

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 1.6.8. Download here.

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-1063	fixed checking for the maximal possible value of the zabbix_agentd loglevel
ZBX-1544	fixed showing discoveries from all nodes in dashboard
ZBX-1539	fixed reseting graph time when go to fullscreen mode
ZBX-1470	fixed importing triggers with ':' in description
ZBX-1530	fixed wrong host selected clicking simple graph with dynamic item on screen
ZBX-1408	fixed adding images for postgresql
ZBX-3	remove a comment saying syslog is used until it works
ZBX-1184	fixed support of more than 10 CPU's for system.cpu.util under Linux
ZBX-1365	fixed housekeeper to process trends_uint table
ZBX-1384	fixed memory leak in processing ldap checks
ZBX-1355	fixed possible server crash when receiving invalid data. Thanks to Nicob
ZBX-1031	added more security checks for communication between nodes. Thanks to Nicob
ZBX-1309	fixed input file processing by zabbix_sender (-i option)
ZBX-1284	fixed server crash if using zabbix[queue] check without dbcache
ZBX-1276	fixed import template as template if status tag is after groups tag in xml
ZBX-1150	added refreshing of not supported performance counters

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix documentation for full details.

Upgrade

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.6.8.

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