Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.7

12 November 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.7.

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 1.6.7. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.

---

Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-1022	fixed syntax in parameter 'continue_pending' in services[] key
ZBX-1202	fixed processing of proc_info[] check with 'sum' parameter. Thanks to Kazuo Ito
ZBX-1148	fixed flap between available and unavailable for hosts with mixed agent and simple checks
ZBX-1051	fixed processing of active checks list on the agent side. Symptom: 'Can't open JSON object' message
ZBX-641	fixed oracle OCI-Lob parse
ZBX-1078	changed link in server info screen element
ZBX-1076	fixed IT services periods
ZBX-1019	fixed stacked graph displays 0 value
ZBX-1040	fixed error when massupdate triggers with empty dependency
ZBX-820	fixed updating downstream item applications when upstream item is updated without changing applications
DEV-426	added new command line parameter '-T' for zabbix_sender
ZBX-1068	fix typos related to height/high
ZBX-948	fixed not working keyboard keys in numericboxes for Opera
ZBX-915	fixed pgsql cycling on transaction failure
ZBX-985	fixed pgsql return value
ZBX-1035	fixed possibility to import graphs to host we don't have permissions
ZBX-1062	deny creation of log and eventlog items with non log type of information
DEV-137	fix incorrect key syntax error message
ZBX-1054	fixed processing of logs and eventlogs which become empty only on the agent side
ZBX-1055	fixed DBexecute function result with PostreSQL
ZBX-778	added support of $1..$9 macros in the {ITEM.NAME} macro in notifications
ZBX-1031	fixed security vulnerability in server, allowing remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL queries. Thanks to Nicob
ZBX-1032	fixed security vulnerability in processing of net.tcp.listen under FreeBSD and Solaris agents. Thanks to Nicob
ZBX-1050	fixed possible windows agent crash while processing big eventlog records
ZBX-991	fixed processing of zabbix[queue] internal check
ZBX-596	fixed support of IPV6 under Windows 2000
ZBX-1027	fixed that item key must be used in each subexpression of trigger expression
ZBX-982	fixed message when can't delete application with web items
ZBX-861	fixed problem with disappearing nodes in frontend

---

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 1.6.7.

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

---

References

Zabbix 1.6 Manual