Release Notes for Zabbix 2.1.9

4 November 2013

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 2.1.9.

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 2.1.9. 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-1477	Added support of Windows eventlog source regex filter Agent Installation Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-544	Moved help_items data to php code Frontend Installation
ZBXNEXT-1827	Improved multiselect full text search Frontend
ZBX-7065	Changed the design of the setup, login and browser warning pages Frontend
ZBX-6983	Renamed the "Latest host group issues" screen element to "Host group issues" and "Latest host issues" to "Host issues" Frontend
ZBX-7215	Improved the design of the search auto suggest Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1776	Added support for java.math.BigDecimal, java.math.BigInteger and some other open types Java gateway
ZBXNEXT-715	Increased the size of sysmaps_elements.label and sysmaps_links.label fields to 2048 characters Frontend Installation

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-7125	Fixed improper reading of configuration files in case there were problems with included files; we now exit with failure Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-7257	Improved config file validation Frontend
ZBX-7249	Changed setup pre-requisites values "yes" to "on" and "no" to "off", fixed numeric value validation and port text alignment Frontend
ZBX-7267	Implement menu popup in trigger top 100 page for hosts and triggers columns Frontend
ZBX-7260	Fixed "Wrong RPC call to JS RPC" error when acknowledging trigger and changing group or host in screen element Frontend
ZBX-6129	Fixed changing the status of triggers and trigger prototype working incorrectly if they no longer exist Frontend
ZBX-7266	Fixed frontend big dropdowns displaying Frontend
ZBX-7248	Fixed frontend initial calendar time Frontend
ZBX-7208	Fixed DB schema generation for "t_shorttext"-type fields Proxy Server
ZBX-7240	Fixed map editing form behaving incorrectly after it has been submitted unsuccessfully Frontend
ZBX-7256	Fixed sorting by hostname in trigger.get API
ZBX-7247	Fixed multiselect allowing to select read only objects in places where write permissions are required Frontend
ZBX-7247	Fixed map.create and map.update not checking permissions to objects used in map elements API
ZBX-7238	Fixed network discovery rule permission checks for admin users API Frontend
ZBX-7251	Corrected multiple page headers and other text strings Frontend
ZBX-7212	Fixed interface macros priorities Frontend
ZBX-7235	Fixed activating and deactivating a web scenarios API Frontend
ZBX-7181	Fixed frontend natural sorting Frontend
ZBX-7236	Removed the sorting indicator from the "Last 20 issues" widget Frontend
ZBX-7224	Fixed host prototype children group deletion API
ZBX-7199	Fixed permission issue in bar report Frontend
ZBX-7215	Fixed search auto suggest always displaying results in lower case Frontend
ZBX-7166	Added database upgrade patches to set status of template triggers to Enabled and state of template items to normal Installation
ZBX-7198	Fixed displaying trigger popup menu relative to mouse cursor in Monitoring > Overview page Frontend
ZBX-7218	Fixed configuration failing with Oracle 12.1 instant client libraries Installation
ZBX-7165	Fixed SNMP field validation in item configuration API Frontend
ZBX-5942	Fixed setup navigation Frontend
ZBX-7137	Fixed macros resolving in inventory host interfaces Frontend
ZBX-7206	Fixed arithmetic expressions in C macros not being wrapped in parentheses Agent Proxy Server
ZBX-7185	Fixed escalations being cancelled by unrelated events Server
ZBX-6244	Fixed setting cookies as secure under https Frontend
ZBX-7171	Fixed displaying correct percentages in item and trigger error messages API Frontend
ZBX-5590	Fixed item multiplier for jmx["java.lang:type=Compilation",TotalCompilationTime] Installation
ZBX-6577	Improved "Template JMX Generic" by adding some interesting items and triggers Installation
ZBX-7189	Fixed web monitoring items not being displayed in Monitoring -> Latest data Frontend
ZBX-7170	Improved performance of item.get method and other API requests with "selectItems" option API Frontend
ZBX-7144	Fixed table column widths in Monitoring -> Latest data Frontend
ZBX-7152	Fixed get method subselects not working correctly if a specific node is selected API
ZBX-7180	Fixed table colours in user right assignment lists Frontend
ZBX-7085	Fixed gettext errors when omitting the number placeholder in singular form translations Frontend

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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 2.1.9.

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