Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.4

4 December 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.4.

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 1.7.4. 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-1400	updated patches for DB
ZBX-1415	fixed problem displaying bar graphs
DEV-440	fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return data in bytes for all OS
DEV-439	fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return available disk space for normal users
ZBX-1246	fixed processing of results from items checks when character data must be interpreted like numeric data
ZBX-1408	fixed adding images for postgresql
ZBX-1410	fixed user profile update
ZBX-1371	shrinked API get results
ZBX-1411	fixed group and host selection in status of triggers
ZBX-1391	fixes for map permission checks
ZBX-1412	fixed graphs in web scenarios
ZBX-790	added protection of using special characters in user parameters of Zabbix Agent
ZBX-1375	fixed graphs losing link with template after update
ZBX-137	added patch for Oracle
ZBX-1372	applied patches for localization
ZBX-1378	allowed using months in age view
ZBX-1301	fixed discovery hosts view in dashboard
ZBX-1370	fixes in items copy
ZBX-1398	fixed advanced icons selection
ZBX-1357	updated French translation. Thanks to alixen
ZBX-1380	improved performance viewing inventory host
ZBX-1334	improved performance of template edit form
DEV-438	added support of suffixes (K,M,G) in configuration parameters
DEV-369	item check "log.regexp" was renamed to "logrt" to specify "log rotation"
DEV-339	added more internal checks zabbix[wcache,*] and zabbix[rcache,*]
ZBX-1209	fixed new node not shown in the list after adding
ZBX-1221	fixed node adding mechanizm
ZBX-1400	changed none working time highlight colour for default graph themes
ZBX-1404	fixed undefined variable in screens
ZBX-1324	replaced more user visible strings ZABBIX with Zabbix
DEV-411	added configuration parameters for dbcache module
ZBX-1090	fixes for returned values from API calls
ZBX-1356	fixed undefined errors on user group deletion
ZBX-1403	fixed discovery widget to show only discovery from selected node
ZBX-1397	make 'History' string in page header translatable, thanks to Alexey Pustovalov
ZBX-1381	performance improvements for maps view
ZBX-1325	fixed error when add host or hostgroup with postgre
DEV-137	removed "IF NOT EXISTS" clauses from Sqlite DB schema
ZBX-1395	fixed map elements highlighting option
ZBX-1396	fixes in map element selection
ZBX-1394	fixed compilation of checks_db.c with enabled iODBC
DEV-137	minor fix for PostgreSQL patch

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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 1.7.4.

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 1.7 Manual