Release Notes for Zabbix 1.5.3

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.5.3.

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 1.5.3. Download here.

The following sections describe the release in details and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements its main documentation.


Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-380 added support of directories for Include in configuration file
DEV-171 added support of notification escalations on frontend side
DEV-173 added support of macros {EVENT.DATE},{EVENT.TIME},{EVENT.AGE} and {ESC.HISTORY}
DEV-173 added support of notification escalations on server side
DEV-172 added support of Apache authentication
DEV-170 improved charts period & start time selection
DEV-163 added support of perf_counter[path<,period>]
DEV-169 improved msg functionality in GUI
DEV-149 added hosts mass update functionality
DEV-167 added support of Host Template=<template> in actions
DEV-168 added more supported items in FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
DEV-161 changed greeting message
DEV-157 added fullscreen icon to monitoring screens

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 1.5.3.

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.

References

Zabbix 1.5 Manual

Get started in 10 minutes - absolutely FREE

Download Zabbix

Zabbix is a professionally developed open-source software with no limits or hidden costs.