Release Notes for Zabbix 1.7.4

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.7.4.

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 1.7.4. 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-1400 updated patches for DB
ZBX-1415 fixed problem displaying bar graphs
DEV-440 fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return data in bytes for all OS
DEV-439 fixed vfs.fs.size[] to return available disk space for normal users
ZBX-1246 fixed processing of results from items checks when character data must be interpreted like numeric data
ZBX-1408 fixed adding images for postgresql
ZBX-1410 fixed user profile update
ZBX-1371 shrinked API get results
ZBX-1411 fixed group and host selection in status of triggers
ZBX-1391 fixes for map permission checks
ZBX-1412 fixed graphs in web scenarios
ZBX-790 added protection of using special characters in user parameters of Zabbix Agent
ZBX-1375 fixed graphs losing link with template after update
ZBX-137 added patch for Oracle
ZBX-1372 applied patches for localization
ZBX-1378 allowed using months in age view
ZBX-1301 fixed discovery hosts view in dashboard
ZBX-1370 fixes in items copy
ZBX-1398 fixed advanced icons selection
ZBX-1357 updated French translation. Thanks to alixen
ZBX-1380 improved performance viewing inventory host
ZBX-1334 improved performance of template edit form
DEV-438 added support of suffixes (K,M,G) in configuration parameters
DEV-369 item check "log.regexp" was renamed to "logrt" to specify "log rotation"
DEV-339 added more internal checks zabbix[wcache,*] and zabbix[rcache,*]
ZBX-1209 fixed new node not shown in the list after adding
ZBX-1221 fixed node adding mechanizm
ZBX-1400 changed none working time highlight colour for default graph themes
ZBX-1404 fixed undefined variable in screens
ZBX-1324 replaced more user visible strings ZABBIX with Zabbix
DEV-411 added configuration parameters for dbcache module
ZBX-1090 fixes for returned values from API calls
ZBX-1356 fixed undefined errors on user group deletion
ZBX-1403 fixed discovery widget to show only discovery from selected node
ZBX-1397 make 'History' string in page header translatable, thanks to Alexey Pustovalov
ZBX-1381 performance improvements for maps view
ZBX-1325 fixed error when add host or hostgroup with postgre
DEV-137 removed "IF NOT EXISTS" clauses from Sqlite DB schema
ZBX-1395 fixed map elements highlighting option
ZBX-1396 fixes in map element selection
ZBX-1394 fixed compilation of checks_db.c with enabled iODBC
DEV-137 minor fix for PostgreSQL patch

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 1.7.4.

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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