Release Notes for Zabbix 1.6.3

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.6.3.

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 1.6.3. 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-815 fixed month representation in seconds in most busy triggers report
DEV-267 improved item template-update
ZBX-814 fixed bad performance of the string functions - added two database indexes
ZBX-804 added support of text items for functions str, regexp and iregexp
ZBX-668 "Cannot open Json object" message replaced with a better one in agent log
ZBX-812 fixed Windows agent crash when using incorrect third parameter in proc_info metric
ZBX-809 fixed memory leak while processing proc.num metric under Win2008
ZBX-26 added support of iowait,interrupt,softirq and steal for system.cpu.util under Linux
ZBX-806 fixed data loss of text values processed by proxy
ZBX-805 fixed problem with lost actions when upgrading database to 1.6.x
ZBX-772 trailing newline added in the end of exported xml
DEV-315 when graph shows current time values, ">>" character is shown near end time
DEV-311 added caching of dynamic SNMP indexes
ZBX-685 fixed "System status" cell colours with 0 active triggers
ZBX-799 fixed hosts massupdate with "new group" and "use profile"
ZBX-673 fixed problem with adding the graphs on an autodiscovered hosts
ZBX-795 fixed SQL error when try to activate auto-login in profile
ZBX-794 fixed SQL error on login screen when postgre is used, small GUI typos fix
ZBX-702 events duration now counts weeks instead of months, small GUI typos fix
ZBX-537 Distributed monitoring: PostgreSQL related fixes
ZBX-792 fixed server memory leak in processing remote commands in actions
ZBX-537 Distributed monitoring: added update of Last check and Last value fields
ZBX-537 Distributed monitoring: fixed deadlocks
ZBX-760 historical data is now available for "not supported" items
ZBX-789 fixed error when try to remove trigger comment
ZBX-782 added host name of depending trigger
ZBX-786 fixed undefined argument on graph delete
ZBX-776 changed disabled auto-logout indication
ZBX-784 added extension to hosts when importing graph to template
ZBX-774 display correct error message if file import fails
ZBX-777 default autologout time is set to 900
DEV-268 added support of vfs.dev.read/write under FreeBSD
ZBX-448 fixed Zabbix server status when frontend and backend are on different servers
ZBX-660 fixed screen clock set to server time showed local time
ZBX-603 fixed min autologout value to 90 seconds
ZBX-762 improved performance of processing of log and text items
ZBX-749 details box is open by default if any error occurred
ZBX-751 expanded details box added for triggers copying messages
DEV-268 added support of <mode> for system.cpu.util under Solaris
ZBX-737 the behaviour of the agent's key "vfs.fs.size" improved to be similar to the "df" command
ZBX-599 the purpose of the configuration parameter StartAgents clarified
ZBX-756 added tooltip in "status of ZABBIX" report for number of items and triggers parameter
ZBX-740 fixed wrong aggregate graph drawing
ZBX-747 fixed template linkage not working properly
ZBX-746 fixed incorrect processing of net.tcp.listen
ZBX-745 fixed "invalid URL" when use small popup menus like ping etc
ZBX-744 fixed "invalid URL" when add user to user group
ZBX-743 fixed problem with "Too many open files" by agent under Solaris 2.5, 2.6
ZBX-728 fixed displaying "no status update" error for template triggers
ZBX-738 fixed processing of existing data when -n parameter is used for zabbix_server
ZBX-736 fixed "Undefined index error" during frontend installation
ZBX-735 fixed filter in audit filtering only logs
ZBX-734 fixed evaluation of {ITEM.LASTVALUE} if the trigger expression consists of several items
ZBX-732 fixed wrong action count in audit log
ZBX-731 fixed resetting of web graph periods
ZBX-730 fixed possible Windows agent crash when processing eventlog[]
ZBX-555 added entity counts on interfaces
ZBX-724 improved queries in "Graphs" page
ZBX-725 added new default user group "Disabled"
ZBX-723 fixed Wrong URL when add rights to user group
ZBX-720 edited configure.in file to make some error messages more sensible
ZBX-665 corrected some typos in misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf
corrected some typos in test/env/standalone/conf/template_server.conf
ZBX-615 fixed processing of four-character-long item keys
ZBX-697 trigger description in "Last 20 issues" is link to the URL defined in trigger parameters + minor GUI typos fix
ZBX-473 fixed SNMP-related compilation problem with undefined 'localname' under some platforms
ZBX-718 fixed web graphs start time not changing
ZBX-699 fixed recursion detection in Include directive for config files
ZBX-301 fixed minor GUI text errors
ZBX-716 fixed wrong caption for graph item editing form
ZBX-717 all templates linked to group Templates in default config
ZBX-715 fixed "Invalid URL" error when choose History from history submenu
ZBX-713 fixed "values per second" having too many decimal places
ZBX-710 fixed duplicating entries in hosts groups after import
ZBX-709 improved item graph exporting
ZBX-712 fixed simple/advanced item filter switch
ZBX-707 fixed sql error when filter items by host group
ZBX-706 fixed element validation in sysmap elements
ZBX-705 improved {ESC.HISTORY} macro in recovery notifications
ZBX-647 fixed audit log record for graph update action "added" -> "updated"
ZBX-700 fixed possible server crash when using {TRIGGER.NAME} for notifications
DEV-286 improved Zabbix main menu
ZBX-311 fixed PostgreSQL errors with out of range string data
ZBX-696 fixed import of triggers with {HOSTNAME} macro
ZBX-677 fixed handling of -c parameter in zabbix_sender. Thanks to Jakov Sosic
ZBX-693 fixed timeout handling for SNMP connect
ZBX-690 fixed memory leak if trigger evaluation fails
DEV-285 added configurable the first dropdown selection
ZBX-689 allowed processing of non-agent based checks for unreachable hosts
ZBX-683 removed "Step" field for recovery messages from Event details
ZBX-680 fixed login while entering any page with HTTP auth enabled
ZBX-678 default number of HTTP pollers was decreased to one
ZBX-676 fixed sql problem with deletion of many hosts
ZBX-675 fixed wrong result of function "nodata" after server restart
ZBX-672 added polish locale
ZBX-671 removed net-snmp debug messages from server logs
ZBX-662 fixed support of quotation marks in command in UserParameter's
ZBX-658 fixed deadlocks in dbcache module
ZBX-659 added define for menu caching
ZBX-581 fixed latest data auto-refresh cripples filter viewing issue
ZBX-657 improved performance of the graph related screen due to missing index
ZBX-656 fixed warning zbx_malloc: allocating already allocated memory in json.c
DEV-282 fixes frontend vulnerabilities

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 1.6.3.

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

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