Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.2

16 January 2009

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.2.

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 1.6.2. 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-653	fixes for postgresql
DEV-137	fixed compilation warnings
ZBX-652	improved support of SNMP items
ZBX-589	added processing of quoted numbers ("0.5" => float 0.5)
DEV-275	changed value processing. Multiplier after delta
DEV-274	added overflow check for uint64 for incoming values
ZBX-506	fixed duplicate UnavailableDelay in zabbix_server.conf
ZBX-428	added internal check zabbix[requiredperformance]
ZBX-639	fixed numeric snmp oid for ifOutOctets. Thanks to Alexandr Kovalenko.
DEV-268	added support of net.tcp.listen under FreeBSD
ZBX-651	fixed possible memory leak in autodiscovery actions
DEV-268	added support of system.boottime under Solaris
DEV-268	added support of system.cpu.load under Solaris 2.6
ZBX-650	DM: fixed memory leak in synchronization of node configuration
ZBX-650	fixed rare race condition in DBimplode_exp
ZBX-650	fixed cleanup of open file descriptor
ZBX-649	fixed problem with "Too many open files" by agent under Solaris and AIX
DEV-268	added support of system.swap.size under FreeBSD
DEV-276	added support of HTML text in plaintext view in screens
ZBX-395	fixed item list for simple graph
ZBX-334	added sorting to group list in elements copy form
ZBX-509	fixed problem with user rights to hostgroup without any host
ZBX-564	added more descriptive message on conflict of templates
ZBX-443	removed excess space after detail messages
ZBX-526	fixed graphs on screens not getting refreshed issue
ZBX-531	fixed plain text line wrapping
ZBX-551	updated German language file
ZBX-554	added proxy host info in export/import
ZBX-638	fixed deleting applications on host remove
ZBX-636	removed "Keep trends (in days)" from Item Configuration form if "Type of information" is Character, Log or Text
ZBX-608	added sorting to templates column in hosts screen
ZBX-635	improved escalations to stop if host, item or trigger is disabled
ZBX-632	fixed sql query in map elements configuration form
ZBX-631	fixed incorrect incoming string values if using dbcache
ZBX-630	improved log files view in BB theme
ZBX-629	fixed sql error in popup window
DEV-271	fixed graphs out of bounds problem
ZBX-628	fixed memory leak in proxy module
ZBX-611	fixed undefined variables in installation wizard
ZBX-612	fixed possible incorrect value for host
ZBX-627	fixed items update
ZBX-625	fixed possible incorrect processing of delta for integers if using dbcache
DEV-273	added mass update for IPMI fields
DEV-272	added support of {HOSTNAME}, {HOST.CONN}... macros for "IPMI IP address"
ZBX-623	fixed incorrect processing of function abschange() for integers
ZBX-622	fixed broken autocreation of SQLite database
ZBX-621	fixed bad performance of the graph related screen due to missing index
ZBX-620	fixed jstree error in IT Services
ZBX-619	fixed agent crash for system.uptime under Solaris 2.5.1
ZBX-618	fixed cast problem with oracle9
ZBX-613	fixed possible incorrect evaluating of trigger functions if using dbcache
ZBX-610	fixed memory leak in external checks
DEV-254	improved server side logging
ZBX-602	fixed possible incorrect trigger evaluation if value stored as "delta"
DEV-268	added support of net.if.in/out/total under AIX
DEV-268	added support of system.cpu.num/util/load/intr/switches, system.uptime under AIX
ZBX-595	improved performance of export screen
DEV-269	added permission check when sending notifications
DEV-270	improved trigger configuration view; error string moved to description column
DEV-263	added support of a new map element - simple image
DEV-260	support of macro TRIGGER.NSEVERITY
DEV-255	added support of #num for function last()
ZBX-593	fixed stop escalations if action is disabled
ZBX-592	fixed incorrect {TRIGGER.STATUS} value in recovery message
DEV-250	added support of vm.memory.size under AIX
DEV-250	added full support of proc.num/mem under Linux 2.4/2.6, Solaris and AIX
ZBX-588	fixed undefined variable in trigger status page
ZBX-587	fixed LDAP test functionality

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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 1.6.2.

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 1.6 Manual