Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.7

27 October 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.7.

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 1.9.7. 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-1346	Add example user parameter to monitor mail queue length from mailq
ZBXNEXT-429	Make range select work in a more intuitive fashion
ZBXNEXT-910	Redesign Configuration->Maintenance
ZBX-4222	Added more clear labels 'Escalation period' and 'Default escalation period' in configuration of actions
ZBXNEXT-485	Improved simple checks key syntax as in other item keys
ZBXNEXT-916	Redesign Administration->Users, Users groups, User Profile
ZBXNEXT-951	Added possibility to calculate CPU load per processor: system.cpu.load[percpu,avgX]
ZBXNEXT-965	Added redirect to a special warning page when user browser is not supported by Zabbix
ZBX-4167	Updated requirements screen for frontend
ZBXNEXT-918	Redesign Administration->Media types
ZBXNEXT-915	Redesign Administration->Authentication
ZBXNEXT-966	Update jQuery to 1.6.4
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Slovak and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-3892	Added support for low-level discovery template to action condition check
ZBX-4169	Fixed filter reset after timeline change in Monitoring->latest data->History of log item
ZBX-3753	Fixed possibility to remove host interface that is in use
ZBX-4238	Fixed resolving of discovery macros in 'Formula' field for calculated items, 'Executed script' for SSH and Telnet items and 'Additional parameters' for Database monitor items
ZBX-4153	Fixed links to acknowledge and returning back to requester page
ZBX-4174	Made database monitor items not require interface
ZBX-3881	Fixed delay being set to 0 when changing item type from trapper to agent in item update form
ZBX-4115	Added support for $(DESTDIR) for installing Zabbix Java proxy
ZBX-1020	Added support for --sysconfdir, changed default installation directories
ZBX-3912	Fixed popup object selection for IE
ZBX-4132	Fixed checkbox cookie work
ZBX-3635	Fixed situation when templated trigger can reference items from another template not linked to a host
ZBX-4107	Fixed map element configuration form layout
ZBX-4219	Replaced {HOSTNAME} by {HOST.NAME} in data.sql
ZBX-3540	Removed unused node properties: timezone, history keeping, trend keeping
ZBX-3275	Fixed deleting of master node, it shouldn't delete other nodes
ZBX-4209	Fixed warning in latest data when navigating from monitoring->hosts page
ZBX-4208	Fixed Brazilian Portuguese being reported as just Portuguese in locale code
ZBX-4151	Fixed timer crash due to heap memory corruption
ZBX-3755	Fixed latest values in cloned items
ZBX-3165	Fixed layout of item prototypes form
ZBX-3342	Fixed translation of graphs "Generated in x sec" stamps
ZBX-3926	Fixed "Hide/Show selected" filter in history of log items
ZBX-4119	Fixed items like simple check require agent interface on host, now any interface is enough
ZBX-3745	Fixed error message when link template with discovery rule to host that does not have needed interface
ZBX-3896	Fixed broken triggers after removed item that is used in trigger
ZBX-4106	Fixed layout of "Status of host triggers" screen element
ZBX-4061	Fixed errors when try to delete already deleted regular expression
ZBX-4058	Fixed working time updating in Administration->General->Working time
ZBX-4060	Fixed error when save map with link updated to connect new element
ZBX-4166	Fixed error in dashboard when configured to show unacknowledged only
ZBX-4003	Fixed error when try to use not existing host group as group for discovered hosts
ZBX-4165	Fixed failing insert into proxy_dhistory queries on the proxy side
ZBX-2882	Fixed wrong item vfs.file.cksum[/vmlinuz] for some templates
ZBX-3870	Fixed data deletion order in proxy configuration synchronization
ZBX-3707	Fixed possible empty action conditions
ZBX-4171	Fixed server crash in add_value_suffix() under DebugLevel=4
ZBX-3930	Fixed errors when return to some specific screens from profile screen
ZBX-3400	Fixed calculation of graph header font size, Zabbix will decrease it to fit graph width
ZBX-4105	Fixed removal of host groups in configuration of dashboard, thanks to Pustovalov Alexey
ZBX-3939	Fixed warning messages when looking at the history of several selected log items
ZBX-3493	Fixed warnings when removing and clearing a template
ZBX-4143	Fixed cases with upgrade patch sometimes attempting to reference tables that were not created yet
ZBX-3618	Extended allowed syntax for host interface DNS names
ZBX-3999	Fixed map border
ZBX-3946	Fixed errors when create trigger with dependencies
ZBX-3921	Fixed change link shown for maps in slide show
ZBX-4082	Fixed error in Monitoring->Triggers when acknowledges are disabled
ZBX-4080	Fixed host header info shown for creation form
ZBX-3987	Fixed errors when change host in Monitoring->Graphs
ZBX-4114	Fixed icon maps form height on dragging
ZBX-4101	Fixed excess borders in screen cell configuration form
ZBX-3786	Fixed incorrect inheritance of items when template is linked to another template linked to host
ZBX-1207	Fixed host full clone with custom graphs

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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 1.9.7.

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

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References

Zabbix 1.9 Manual