Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.5rc1

1 April 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.5rc1.

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 1.8.5rc1. 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-3672	fixed possible hang of history syncers when a zabbix[log] message is added while processing history data
ZBX-3644	fixed API permission checks for applications, items and triggers
ZBX-3673	fixed processing of operators & and | in trigger and calculated items expressions
ZBX-3660	fixed macro resolving in map labels
ZBX-3659	API exists() methods now return true/false instead of true/error
ZBX-2997	added global regular expression to be sent to proxies (for use with log, logrt and eventlog items)
ZBX-1907	changed logging - when a proxy fails to connect to the server it logs "Still unable to connect" message max once a minute
ZBX-3548	added IPV6_V6ONLY flag (where defined) for binding IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces separately
ZBX-3626	fixed bugs on map export: duplicate image decoding and inserting duplicate map elements; thanks to Takanori Suzuki
ZBX-3453	improve performance of cpu collector
ZBX-3610	fixed active agent full buffer bug - stop processing active checks till the buffer is sent
ZBX-3566	fixed error in administration->notifications and added a hint when no mediatypes are defined
ZBX-3628	fixed server crash while processing notification messages with an already deleted trigger
ZBX-3075	fixed a regex bug with zero-length strings
ZBX-3621	changed the maximum number of processes for Zabbix daemons
ZBXNEXT-448	added trigger function logeventid that matches the last event ID to a regex
ZBX-1419	improve and fix database upgrade patches for older versions
ZBX-3576	fixed showing triggers with disabled items in monitoring
ZBX-3483	added missing fields in items mass update
ZBX-3435	fixed error that sometimes appear after profile edit
ZBX-2616	bundled DejaVu font upgraded from 2.32 to 2.33
ZBX-1557	changed process_ping logic to return an error if fping doesn't give a value (or '-') for any of the hosts but outputs something
ZBX-3430	fixed disappeared hints for "SSH", "Telnet" and "Database Monitor" item types in item form
ZBX-3578	added arguments to the output when using agent with '-p' or '-t', modified default arguments in win32.c and common.c
ZBX-3514	removed non "regexp" triggers from item log-form menu
ZBX-3584	fixed allowed_hosts set to 'localhost' for items by default
ZBX-3568	fixed processing of trigger functions with macros in item key parameters in notifications
ZBX-3076	disabled generation of events in case if some items or hosts in trigger expression are not active
ZBX-3562	fixed user macros in map element label expressions
ZBXNEXT-508	added dayofmonth to trigger functions
ZBX-3352	made item Y axis min/max items also change when used in screen with Dynamic enabled
ZBX-3523	fixed error when open monitoring->maps and last viewed map was removed
ZBX-3557	fixed possible incorrect usage of internal array pointers in frontend
ZBX-2979	fixed trigger function time() test
ZBX-3563	fixed host group filter in graph selection popup
ZBX-3544	fixed user login method resetting attempts
ZBX-3555	fixed possible pollers hang while processing ssh.run[] checks
ZBXNEXT-408	added zabbix[process,...] internal checks
ZBX-2262	added `hosts_templates_2' index
ZBX-3537	trigger events are now sorted by timestamp
ZBX-3472	changed item and discovery rule form to display SSH and SNMPv3 auth fields correctly when changing item type
ZBX-3542	reduced the amount of debugging output for configuration cache
ZBX-3536	made SNMP checks work when DNS resolves to IPv6 address; thanks to Marc Dequènes
ZBX-3541	fixed processing of nodata() function
ZBX-3126	all checkboxes in map and screen import are now "on" by default
ZBX-3158	improved links in map element menu
ZBX-3532	fixed add item to trigger expression from popup menu
ZBX-1357	fixed confusing date format in network maps
ZBX-3516	fixed items and hosts disappearing from configuration cache indexes
ZBX-3479	fixed possible hang of agents while processing scripts or net.tcp.service* checks
ZBX-3514	fixed log trigger wizard
ZBX-3515	fixed names of SNMPv3 security levels, again
ZBX-3411	fixed trigger filter update when changing host
ZBX-3431	fixed severity for log and eventlog or mixed
ZBX-2913	fixed timeout handling in processing of web.page.* checks
ZBX-3176	removed navigation dropdown from applications screen
ZBX-3494	added database monitor items to the queue calculation
ZBX-3454	fixed clearing item edited using by Trigger-wizard
ZBX-3481	fixed massAdd for applications
ZBX-3480	fixed possible crash of server after shutdown of ORACLE server
ZBX-3457	in trigger wizard, use double symbol references past 26 entries
ZBX-983	fixed error when updating trigger
ZBX-974	recompress some images with pngcrush
ZBX-3446	fixed possible hang of pollers - added timeout handler for external scripts
ZBX-1690	fixed undefined index when creating action with name that already exists
ZBX-3461	fixed names of IPMI pollers in debug output and the number of items they take
ZBX-3100	fixed messages in popup when no proxies or discovery checks defined
ZBX-3138	fixed bug when disabling application, webitems were disabled too
ZBX-2951	made interval hidden for trapper items
ZBX-2867	changed order of "Discovery" and "IT services" in configuration menu
ZBX-3460	forbid saving host with enabled IPMI but without IPMI address
ZBX-3047	fixed Zapcat compatibility for trigger expressions
ZBX-2912	added check for valid UTF-8 characters in the incoming data
ZBX-1346	add more user parameter examples
ZBX-2922	changed log level from warning to debug for some messages
ZBX-3440	Added pagination to slide and discovery configuration
ZBX-3433	fixed removing deleted passive proxies from queue
ZBX-416	fixed PostgreSQL errors in configuration sender module when using DM setup
ZBX-3346	fixed items being polled more frequently than necessary
ZBX-3409	fixed semaphore and shared memory access permissions
ZBX-3173	made server-side JSON parser ignore whitespace better
ZBX-3425	updated Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to Murilo Moreira de Oliveira
ZBX-3403	fixed SQL statements for auto registration and discovery operations
ZBX-3403	removed UNIQUE constraint for autoreg_host_1 index
ZBX-3414	expressions for triggers with web items are marked as error in trigger wizard
ZBX-3406	better API validation
ZBX-3413	added escaping of parameters used in LIKE SQL statements
ZBX-3391	fixed wrong comparison operators used for strings
ZBX-1346	document LogSlowQueries configuration parameter
ZBXNEXT-612	added mapname URL parameter for monitoring->maps
ZBX-886	remove duplicate translation strings
ZBX-3384	fixed server crash in a distributed monitoring setup with PostgreSQL
ZBX-3274	fixed SQLite3 semaphore errors while starting server or proxy
ZBXNEXT-614	add Slovak translation; thanks to Marcel Hecko
ZBX-2914	add Ubuntu upstart files; thanks to S. Canchon
ZBX-3381	negative multipliers for items with value type "numeric (float)" are now allowed
ZBX-1357, ZBX-3462	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-3385	fixed trigger status change record in audit log
ZBX-2825	make profiles form redirect to the last visited page on save or cancel
ZBX-3383	fixed error in audit log when filtering by Macro or Template
ZBX-3378	updated Russian translation; thanks to dotneft and zalex_ua
ZBX-3350	fixed minor interface bug and it is now not possible to add host name longer than 64 chars
ZBX-3341	fixed host export - valuemap property is now exported as expected
ZBX-3338	updated Ukrainian translation; thanks to zalex_ua
ZBX-954	fix minor typos
ZBX-1419	don't print an informative message during upgrade if no orphan hosts were found

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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 1.8.5.

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
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References

Zabbix 1.8 Manual