Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.7

9 October 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.7.

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 2.1.7. 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

ZBXNEXT-1851	Hid Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Persian, Spanish and Turkish translations from the frontend Frontend
ZBX-2008	Added support of Windows Eventing 6.0 Frontend Agent
ZBXNEXT-1942	Added Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows Agent
ZBXNEXT-935	Changed Zabbix sender exit status to better reflect the operation result - success:0, partial success:2, failure:1 Agent
ZBXNEXT-935	Improved readability of server response to sender/agent data Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-1633	Improved VMware virtual machine monitoring performance Proxy Server
ZBX-6911	Added functionality to save positions of block on dashboard page in profiles table Frontend

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-6953	Fixed Apache server crashing on Windows due to huge memory consumption when using preg_match() function in Configuration > Host > edit API Frontend
ZBX-7079	Fixed undefined index in map configuration page for map without icon mapping Frontend
ZBX-7111	Fixed host importing from 1.8 to trunk Frontend
ZBX-7074	Fixed incorrectly parsed trigger expression in trigger wizard Frontend
ZBX-7082	Fixed not being able to create dependencies between template triggers Frontend
ZBX-7053	Fixed errors when deleting a script linked to action operation and fixed type-specific operation command properties not being reset when changing type API Frontend
ZBX-7058	Fixed repeated global search with same value Frontend
ZBX-7061	Fixed warnings produced by clang static analyzer Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBX-6873	Fixed pagination issue after deleting an object through form Frontend
ZBX-7050	Fixed output of empty HTML attributes Frontend
ZBX-7051	Fixed bug, to not make updates to hosts applications, items, and triggers, if "Save" button was pressed in edit form, with no changes API Frontend
ZBX-7091	Fixed SQL injection vulnerabilities in page filtering; thanks to Bernhard Schildendorfer from SEC Consult for the report API Frontend
ZBX-7091	Fixed SQL injection vulnerabilities in dashboard favourite managing; thanks to Lincoln, a member of Corelan Team, for the report API Frontend
ZBX-6994	Fixed logic of SQL creation, removed unneeded i.flags IN (0,4) from SQL, if i.flags is set from filter or is null Frontend
ZBX-6993	Fixed JS errors in various pages having a child node with high ID value Frontend
ZBX-7032	Fixed possibility to add "ICMP ping" check in Configuration > Discovery Frontend
ZBX-6904	Fixed ESC.HISTORY macro to create the same message content within the same escalation step when notification is sent to multiple recipients Server

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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 2.1.7.

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 2.1 Manual