Release Notes for Zabbix 1.4.2

20 August 2007

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.4.2.

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 1.4.2. 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

	fixed validation of trigger expression
	fixed '{HOSTNAME}' macros using for actions
	fixed e-mail sending to the pedantic qmail
	fixed communication between systems with different byte orders
	fixed frontend to accept trigger function time()
	ignore trigger FALSE state if it depends on another trigger
	added new templates: Template_Cisco_PIX_525,
	improved per cpu 'system.cpu.util[]' for linux/solaris
	added support of 'system.cpu.num'
	added automatic resolution of DNS names for auto-discovery
	fixed processing of triggers on delta items. Thanks to Palmertree.
	updated German translation. Thanks to Beam.
	changed help string for parameter '-s' of zabbix_sender
	fixed displaying of text data (EOL) in screens
	added missing { and } when displaying trigger expressions
	fixed processing of negative SNMP integers
	fixed processing of MM in format of log timestamps
	added missing index on items_applications.itemid
	fixed processing of SNMP octet strings
	fixed division by zero in ZABBIX server
	support of parameters NodeNoEvents and NodeNoHistory
	developed data monitoring of multiple nodes
	support of new parameter for count(period,value,operator)
	new trigger function iregexp(), non case-sensitive regexp
	fixed upgrade script to correctly process host-template linkage
	fixed synchronisation of delete operation between nodes
	fixed problem with libresolv under Solaris 8
	improved SMS sender
	improved item and trigger filtering
	added dotted drawing type for links of map
	fixed links drawing type of map
	fixed items,graphs,hostgroups deletion
	fixed permissions for maps
	fixed filtering of items by status
	fixed collector for WinXX
	fixed definition of serial columns to allow use of older MySQL
	decreased required version of libcurl
	added timeout handler for http monitoring
	more informative report for configuration script
	changed installation directory to '$sbin'
	fixed "Reset" button for Web screens
	fixed graph items limitation for IE6
	added availability of using spaces for trigger expressions
	improved inheritance of template graphs
	fixed permissions for logfile
	changed syntax of keys for external checks
	changed syntax of keys for aggregate items
	fixed DM configuration exchange in 32-bit environments
	fixed agent library dependencies
	fixed reset button for graph
	fixed item multiple cleaning on mass update
	fixed error 'undefined function delete_service'
	fixed internal logging system
	added non-persistent connection for PostgreSQL to avoid problems with unfinished transactions
	fixed housekeeper to process history_text
	added availability of using ":," character for key
	improved zabbix_get for receiving large data
	fixed shared memory allocation
	added server-side transactions for PostgreSQL
	fixed housekeeper to run as multiple transations
	added support of NOT IN operator for time periods
	fixed processing of macro {TRIGGER.VALUE} on 32 bit systems
	changed priorities of '|' and '&' in trigger expressions
	fixed no graphs for PostgreSQL
	fixed and improved eventlog monitoring
	improved not supported values processing
	fixed processing of user parameters and remote commands having character '%'

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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 1.4.2.

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 1.4 Manual