Release Notes for Zabbix 1.9.9

1 二月 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.9.9.

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 1.9.9. Download it from 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-4558	Added audit logging when udpating and creating triggers Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1066	Removed the "Monotoring - Hosts" page Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1066	Remade the "Search" page layout Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1066	Added the host pop up menu to the "Events", "Event details", "Latest data" and "Overview" pages Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1066	Added the "Host screens" link to all of the host pop up menus Frontend
ZBXNEXT-814	Added support of disabling media types API Frontend Server
ZBXNEXT-1024	Added support for more vm.memory.size modes for various platforms Agent Installation
ZBXNEXT-1019	Updated jQuery to 1.7.1 and jQuery-ui to 1.8.17 Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1058	Added an item lifetime indicator icon in the item configuration Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1058	Changed the default discovery rule 'lifetime' field value to 30 days Frontend
ZBX-4479	Added possibility to add a dependency from a template to a host API Server
ZBX-4483	Added transparency support for image resizing Frontend
ZBXNEXT-905	Redesign Configuration->Triggers Frontend
ZBXNEXT-912	Redesign Configuration->Slide shows Frontend
ZBXNEXT-406	Replaced an older 'status' check to an internal 'zabbix[host,<type>,available]' check Frontend Installation Server
ZBX-4009	Added new option in map configuration which enables macros expanding Frontend Installation
ZBX-3286	Added ability to automatically delete low level discovered resources Frontend Installation Server
ZBX-2806	Improved processing of escalations Server
ZBX-1357	Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Greek, Latvian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian translations; thanks to Zabbix translators Frontend
ZBX-3527	Improved host form to allow selection of default interface API Frontend
ZBX-4262	Added support of item prototypes for graph y axis min/max API Frontend Server
ZBX-4311	Fixed graph prototype name validation API Frontend
ZBXNEXT-906	Redesign Configuration->Host groups API Frontend
ZBX-4024	New build process for database schema and data, also new location of database related files; db data file uses transactions now Installation

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Bug Fixes

ZBX-4586	Implemented item's application validation in the Item.update and Item.create API methods API
ZBX-4577	Fixed possible SQL errors when updating a configuration on a proxy Proxy
ZBX-4106	Fixed "Status of triggers" screen element layout Frontend
ZBX-4558	Fixed deleting child template triggers when moving a trigger to a template API Frontend
ZBX-4558	Fixed child template trigger attributes being reset when updating a template trigger API
ZBX-4558	Fixed trigger form "type" field value being inverted Frontend
ZBX-4520	Removed possibility to create dependencies from hosts to templates API
ZBX-4467	Removed the warning message when setting the zoom to "All" in screen monitoring Frontend
ZBX-4434	Fixed validation of duplicated user macros; fixed some error messages Frontend
ZBX-4555	Fix compilation error on Solaris (get rid of INT_MAX dependency) Installation Server
ZBX-4523	Fixed impossibility to correctly translate some parts of Zabbix Frontend
ZBX-4513	Refactored value mappings form Frontend
ZBX-4477	Fixed new expressions created on each Zabbix regexp update Frontend
ZBXNEXT-1058	Fixed confirmation pop-up showing up on auto refresh in latest data Frontend
ZBX-2701	Removed empty value mappings from a default data Installation
ZBX-4505	Fixed global macro recreation instead of updating API Frontend
ZBX-4505	Fixed audit message appearing when saving an unchanged global macro Frontend
ZBX-4519	Fixed impossibility to delete template : Unknown column 'h.name' API
ZBX-4468	Removed possibility to add to value mappings few items with same name Frontend
ZBX-4483	Added proper icon image resizing Frontend
ZBX-4456	Fixed error position in IT services form Frontend
ZBX-4470	Fixed node initialization in DM setup Frontend
ZBX-4407	Fixed import hosts from 1.8 version Frontend
ZBX-4425	Fixed item prototype interface mapping when cloning a discovery rule API
ZBX-4459	Fixed values are cleared when try to add incorrect value mapping, negative values now allowed Frontend
ZBX-4458	Fixed js error in global macro form, changed layout to be consistant with other places Frontend
ZBX-4449	Fixed IT services SLA graph permission checks Frontend
ZBX-4448	Fixed proxy interface validation API
ZBX-4455	Fixed the 'sortorder' field validation in the IT services form Frontend
ZBX-4427	Fixed map element host group highlighting Frontend
ZBX-4446	Fixed event duration calculation Frontend
ZBX-2806	Fixed possible double notification messages Server
ZBX-4425	Fixed unsetting interface when performing Item::udpate requests API
ZBX-4436	Fixed wrong sql query in discovery popup Frontend
ZBX-4429	Fixed problem with wrong mysql comment tag and warning in mysql function when update to 1.9.8 Installation
ZBX-4418	Fixed possible SQL errors while processing of time functions Server
ZBX-4336	Fixed problem with item status clearing when changing to active in frontend Frontend
ZBX-4260	Replaced event sorting by 'clock' with 'eventid' API Frontend
ZBX-4381	Fixed permission check in SLA reports Frontend
ZBX-4411	Remade the zbx_stripos() function whithout the use of mb_stripos() Frontend
ZBX-4015	Fixed multiple XSS issues Frontend
ZBX-4334	Changed disabled triggers and scenarios to be shown by default Frontend
ZBX-4403	Fixed low level discovery rule creation API
ZBX-3832	Removed support of aggregated graph items Frontend Installation Server
ZBX-4235	Fixed operations with decimal numbers for certain locales Frontend
ZBX-4382	Fixed missing dates in the midle of graph axis API Frontend
ZBX-3366	Fixed API sorting API Frontend

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbix指导手册。 for full details.

版本升级

See 升级指南 for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.9.9.

Commercial support

Zabbix Company provides a full range of Professional Services. We also provide trouble-free 升级服务 for easy migration from earlier versions of Zabbix. Please 联系我们 for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix 认证培训
• Zabbix 二次开发

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References

Zabbix 1.9 Manual