Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.5

15 June 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.5.

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 1.6.5. 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-956	fixed js error on map link edit
ZBX-955	fixed bold lines in map links
ZBX-954	fixed various minor typos and formatting errors
ZBX-886	removed duplicate and outdated strings from locales
ZBX-952	increased max length of processed text and log data to 64KB
ZBX-840	added displaying of text items in the latest data screen
DEV-137	updated Japanese translation. Thanks to Kodai.
ZBX-850	Zabbix version removed from locales
ZBX-947	fixed various typos and formatting errors in changelog
ZBX-945	added comment about min/max values for RefreshActiveChecks param in agent config file
ZBX-935	minor fixes for snmptrap.sh. Thanks to Joseph Womack.
ZBX-942	fixed error message for server and proxy if cannot bind a port
ZBX-940	fixed bug with not initialized array variable
ZBX-939	fixed IPC semaphore related issue when starting Zabbix daemons
ZBX-938	fixed usage of 'color' in en_gb locale
ZBX-937	fixed possible server crash while processing IPMI remote command
ZBX-936	fixed saving flexible intervals to items linked to templates
ZBX-932	fixed typo in changelog
ZBX-931	fixed timeout handling for agent's user parameters
ZBX-889	fixed possible bug in media types form
ZBX-927	removed default values for text and blob fields in the upgrade script for compatibility with MySQL 5.0
ZBX-719	fixed typo in default graph title
ZBX-859	fixed typo in server log message
ZBX-848	fixed typos in changelog and comments
ZBX-926	fixed exporting after preview
ZBX-925	fixed verification of IPv6 addresses in frontend
ZBX-918, ZBX-919	fixed compilation errors for 'unknown' platforms
ZBX-922	fixed selection proper hosts for hosts-groups assign
ZBX-559	fixed wrong format of input file in help info of zabbix_sender
DEV-381	added printing of SVN revision number to all binaries
ZBX-914	fixed SQL error while updating configuration tables on the proxy side
ZBX-910	Queue/Details screen now has "Delayed at" column
ZBX-910	Queue/Details screen now displays only 500 records
ZBX-910	fixed incorrect values for proxy items in the Queue in case of time difference between server and the proxy
ZBX-885	removed unused test code from Zabbix agent
ZBX-887	fixed typo in "Not accessible resources"
DEV-329	fixed server crash if PostgreSQL transaction fails
ZBX-902	fixed wrongly updated operation in action in several circumstances
ZBX-779	removed PostgreSQL warning message "nonstandard use of ..."
ZBX-901	fixed possible bug on trigger creation
ZBX-900	fixed adding several user to group with Oracle DB
ZBX-894	fixed processing of {HOSTNAME} for trigger name if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-894	fixed processing of {ITEM.NAME},{HOSTNAME},{IPADDRESS} and {TRIGGER.KEY} for alerts if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-897	fixed user groups rights adding for host groups
ZBX-896	improved performance of processing of IT services. Added database index
DEV-137	fixed incorrect comment for TrapperTimeout option in zabbix_server.conf
ZBX-894	fixed processing of {ITEM.LASTVALUE} for alerts if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-893	fixed error creating trigger when in Host dropdown selected All
ZBX-888	more supported GSM modems (ignoring AT+CMEE command)
ZBX-884	fixed sudden stop of Jabber notifications
ZBX-884	added subject field for Jabber notifications
ZBX-460	fixed processing `distclean' target of `Makefile' for zabbix_proxy
ZBX-882	fixed template linkage form
ZBX-879	fixed maximum 30 issues shown in Dashboard system status
ZBX-876	removed unused files
ZBX-872	fixed group selected in another section of Hosts affects shown proxy members, and proxies shown in Items host dropdown
ZBX-874	fixed evaluation of items nextcheck for flexible intervals
ZBX-868	fixed incorrect processing of not supported internal checks
ZBX-867	added php sockets check to installation wizard
ZBX-865	fixed displaying templates without groups in template linkage page
ZBX-857	changed queue details timestamp to timestamp defined in locale file
ZBX-864	fixed problem when saving screen item without selected item
ZBX-856	fixed email sending if TCP packets from SMTP server are segmented
ZBX-855	fixed processing of eventlogs timestamps on server side
ZBX-851	changed sorting of users to alias in popup
ZBX-849	fixed permissions problem for users in dashboard
ZBX-797	fixed possible manual deletion of web items
ZBX-847	fixed error in "Status of ZABBIX" when server is not running
ZBX-846	fixed node names instead of group names

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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 1.6.5.

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