Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.8

25 November 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.8.

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 1.9.8. 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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New Features and Improvements

ZBX-3104	Implemented the screen item API
ZBXNEXT-913	Redesign Configuration->IT Services
ZBXNEXT-907	Redesign Configuration->Applications
ZBX-3271	Implemented the _x() and _xn() function for context dependent translations
ZBX-3498	Removed items from unmonitored hosts from the 'Add graph' and 'Add simple graph' pop-ups in the 'Favourite graphs' widget
ZBX-3498	Removed the 'Status' column from the 'Add simple graph' pop-up
ZBXNEXT-1019	Updated jQuery to 1.7
ZBX-1357	Added initial Greek translation
ZBXNEXT-911	Redesign Configuration->Web
ZBXNEXT-579	Added support for vfs.fs.discovery (with both {#FSNAME} and {#FSTYPE}) on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
ZBXNEXT-580	Added support for {#FSTYPE} for vfs.fs.discovery on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows
ZBX-3074	Moved the 'Status' column in the item list to the left
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators
ZBX-2960	Added example userparameter for partition discovery on Linux

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3104	Fixed screen item "Parameter" field validation and some minor screen item bugs
ZBX-3593	Fixed misaligned server name on top of the page
ZBX-3771	Fixed possible 'Lock wait timeout' while processing lld rules
ZBX-4139	Fixed "Last n issues" widget label ignoring variable that sets the amount of issues
ZBX-4359	Fixed potentially incorrectly named index on node_cksum table
ZBX-4188	Fixed nclob problem for Oracle
ZBX-4279	Added an error message when trying to delete an item, that's being used as a min/max Y axis value for graphs
ZBX-4282	Fixed errors when importing templates with trigger dependencies
ZBX-4108	Updated FSF mailing address
ZBX-4244	Fixed inline-block container resizing in object lists in IE8
ZBX-4297	Fixed error in top 100 triggers report
ZBX-4258	Fixed link to the template prototype item in the caption of the item editing form
ZBX-3510	Fixed discovery and it's prototype cloning when cloning a host or template
ZBX-3674	Fixed possible editing of lld created elements
ZBX-3113	Made nanoseconds patch mandatory for upgrading from 1.8 to 2.0
ZBX-3468	Fixed error messages and warnings with enabled SQLite3 support in front-end
ZBX-4056	Fixed dependencies not added when template linked to host
ZBX-4315	Fixed the 'close' link in the tooltips
ZBX-3675	Fixed items created via API for template have wrong interfaceid on linked host
ZBX-4212	Fixed creation of trigger expression with "])" in item key
ZBXNEXT-675	Reduced surrounding whitespace for Switch, Cloud, Crypto-router, UPS, Hub and Router map icons
ZBX-4305	Removed CREDITS file
ZBX-2504	Replaced 'Groups' by 'Replace host groups' in host mass-update form to avoid confusion
ZBX-2960	Added defaults for example userparameters vfs.dir.size (/tmp) and proc.cpu (zabbix_agentd) to avoid errors in 'zabbix_agentd -p', documented them
ZBX-2960	Clarified what happens if proc.cpu does not match any processes
ZBX-2960	Made mysql.ping example userparameter a but more efficient by avoiding extra 'wc' invocation
ZBX-3710	Renamed "Zabbix Java Proxy" to "Zabbix Java Gateway"
ZBX-4179	Fixed compilation on OpenBSD: `NS_DEFAULTPORT' undeclared
ZBX-3885	Fixed error when update trigger prototype with wrong data
ZBX-3857	Fixed creation and sorting of trigger prototypes
ZBX-4245	Fixed error when add operation condition in action
ZBX-4265	Fixed iconmappig API permission check
ZBX-4283	Fixed template creation being reported as an update
ZBX-3749	Escaped HTML entities in the web step "required" field

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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 1.9.8.

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 1.9 Manual