Notes de publication pour Zabbix 1.8.3rc4

10 Août 2010

L’équipe Zabbix a le plaisir d’annoncer la sortie de Zabbix 1.8.3rc4.

Zabbix est une solution open source de supervision distribuée destinée aux entreprises. Zabbix est distribué sous licence publique générale (GPL). Il est donc gratuit pour les usages commerciaux et non commerciaux. Les conditions complètes de cette licence sont disponibles sur http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.

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Fixes and minor improvements

ZBX-2226	fixed template item update, when linked to host with existing item with same key
ZBX-2853	updated Ukrainian translation; thanks to zalex_ua
ZBX-1324	replaced more user visible strings ZABBIX with Zabbix
ZBX-2836	fixed text items history not displaying all spaces in text
ZBX-2835	improved screen permission checks in frontend
ZBX-2829	fixed web item graphs favourites
ZBX-2812	updated French translation; thanks to Alixen
ZBX-2823	updated Russian translation; thanks to Pustovalov Alexey
ZBX-2817	fixed history links for history and media types
ZBX-2833	fixed JS error in monitoring events screen
ZBX-2819	fixed showing trends for symbolic items
ZBX-2825	made profile form redirect to the last visited page on successful save
ZBX-2809	fixed login problem in case of guest user being disabled
ZBX-2807	fixed email notifications being broken when their subjects have line breaks
ZBX-2203	fixed superfluous line breaks for values returned by eventlog[]
ZBX-2803	added detection of the proper type to use in place of socklen_t
ZBX-2822	fixed js error on node selection
ZBX-2821	fixed reference to removed icons
ZBX-2784	changed icons style
ZBX-2820	fixed minor visual bugs
ZBX-2766	fixed triggers info in status of triggers page in fullscreen mode
ZBX-2799	fixed map element host in maintenance
ZBX-2781	fixed timeline in case of usertime going over possible period
ZBX-2803	fixed agent compilation on HP-UX with the native HP-UX C compiler
ZBX-2745	improved performance of screen element "History of events"
ZBX-2774	fixed GUI messaging in DM setup
ZBX-2786	fixed errors in trigger dependency mass update popup
ZBX-2536	fixed agent crash when processing proc.mem[] and proc.num[] on NetBSD
ZBX-2671	fixed detection of various system headers during ./configure
ZBX-2800	fixed undefined variable if updating a trigger with incorrect function
ZBX-2789	forbid active agent items to have 0 interval
ZBX-2794	fixed sorting in configuration web
ZBX-2792	fixed status sorting in maintenances
ZBX-2726	fixed statuses for discovery events
ZBX-2785	creation of empty slideshows prohibited
ZBX-2791	fixed host menu in "top 100 triggers" in ie7
ZBX-2790	fixed maintenance times reset while configuring maintenance
ZBX-2773	changed buttons css for Dark orange theme
ZBX-2777	fixed map labels when "status only" option is set
ZBX-2775	updated Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to Murilo Moreira de Oliveira
DEV-468	improved theme colouring in IE
ZBX-2767	fixed time stamp in German locales
ZBX-2764	fixed database monitor values not being accepted from proxy
ZBX-2752	improved text colouring
ZBX-2748	fixed compilation on OpenBSD 4.7 due to undefined KERN_PROC
ZBX-2758	fixed underlined filter label in Opera
ZBX-2763	fixed saving user profile
ZBX-2759	fixed item form not saving params field
ZBX-2762	fixed sql error when "all" hosts is selected in application popup
ZBX-2757	fixed calendar colours in Dark orange theme
ZBX-2754	fixed possible undefined variables in frontend
ZBX-2761	improved performance in search page
ZBX-2683	minor updates for the Latvian translation
ZBX-2741	updated French translation; thanks to Alixen
ZBX-2700	updated Czech translation; thanks to Jakub Kalas
ZBX-2739	fixed empty list of items when "all" selected in items popup
ZBX-2747	improved sql when saving triggers
ZBX-2750	fixed undefined index when deleting graph
ZBX-2742	fixed item deletion with postgre
ZBX-2738	fixed problems with Ukrainian locales
ZBX-2740	fixed js errors in items section in IE
DEV-468	added new frontend theme - Dark orange
ZBX-2731	fixed permissions problem with hostgroup names containing '[]'
ZBX-2733	fixed the timer process so that it does not recalculate extraneous triggers for an item
ZBX-2729	improved host-group and host filter selection
DEV-465	added messaging system
ZBX-2697	forbid creation of maintenance without hosts/groups
ZBX-2711	added links to host profile in dashboard "last 20 issues" host menu
ZBX-2719	fixed events delay for one minute in frontend
ZBX-2720	in actions conditions trigger host is now displayed
ZBX-2685	fixed map elements not always change position when coords are manually set
ZBX-2664	fixed viewed period and filter status reset in web monitoring
ZBX-2683	removed dead entries and added some translated strings for the Latvian translation
ZBX-2682	added Czech translation; thanks to Jakub Kalas
ZBX-2669	fixed not showing map label when background image is used
ZBXNEXT-436	added unacknowledged problem display for maps
ZBX-2561	refactored usergroups api, improved item deletion
ZBX-2634	fixed instability of Zabbix processes on Solaris due to them crashing in signal handlers
ZBX-2670	make it clear in the 'configure' help output that full path to odbc_config should be specified
ZBX-2666	fixed detection of resolv.h and net/if.h
ZBX-2657	fixed bugs with non closing item select popups in bar reports
ZBXNEXT-425	added new macros for acknowledged events count
ZBX-2642	fixed items multiplier field
ZBX-2639	now when do full clone template, linkage list is cleared
ZBX-2598	fixed labels with linebreak in maps
ZBXNEXT-426	added dashboard option to show unack problems
ZBX-2555	fixed simple checks for FTP, POP, and NNTP protocols so that they close sessions properly
ZBX-2553	fixed simple checks ignoring server replies
ZBX-2612	fixed system.stat showing cpu idle and I/O wait time over 100% on AIX
ZBX-1324	replaced more user visible strings ZABBIX with Zabbix
ZBX-2616	bundled DejaVu font upgraded from 2.30 to 2.31
ZBX-2562	improved sessions store
ZBXNEXT-424	enhanced status of trigger filter
ZBX-2599	fixed processing of hexadecimal or octal data by proxy
ZBX-2597	fixed processing of telnet results with long prompts
ZBX-2595	fixed logformat field showing
ZBX-2593	fixed possibility to copy item between templates that are linked to same host
ZBX-2585	removed spaces from charts title & fixed date format for chart4.php
ZBX-2592	added support of comma character (,) for scripts in action remote commands
ZBX-2575	removed outdated and undocumented environment variables from alert scripts
ZBX-2574	improved fixed graph Y axis measurement
ZBX-2576	small text changes in administration/audit
ZBX-1857	fixed item form correct processing, removed refreshing when item type is changed
ZBX-2528	fixed default language loading before using phrases, warning messages removed which were displayed after login
ZBXNEXT-343	added possibility to unlink and clear templates when mass update hosts templates
ZBX-1930	all top indents of icon labels now is equal
ZBX-2152	fixed names of SNMPv3 security levels
ZBX-2563	fixed warnings in m4/libunixodbc.m4 with newer autotools
ZBX-2543	fixed password reset when edit user profile and auth type is not internal
ZBX-2524	fixed deleting media types
ZBX-2557	fixed incorrect message when add proxy with name that already exist
ZBX-2492	fixed Japanese translation, all sprintf and their placeholders have been removed from phrases from all languages
ZBX-2551	fixed not shown errors in configuration/triggers
ZBX-2552	fixed multiple events for triggers with complicated expressions
ZBX-2532	fixed outdated information in "server info" screen element
ZBXNEXT-377	added support of passive mode for proxies
ZBX-2556	added dropdown length limit in frontend
ZBX-2548	fixed sorting in items popup when adding items to simple graph, disabled dropdown with tooltip showing filtration added as well
ZBX-2547	fixed errors in installation
ZBX-2277	fixed menu position on screen
ZBX-2339	fixed height of row in resource "Plain text" in screens
ZBX-2459	fixed setting trigger value to unknown on disabling
ZBX-2414	added PHP session module check as requirement in dashboard and installation
ZBX-2526	fixed graph refresh problem when referred from screens page
ZBX-2525	improved actions API code
ZBX-2324	fixed guest user settings not being stored
DEV-461	improved map creation/editing by adding align option
ZBX-2518	fixed new map saving
ZBX-2469	fixed screen API
ZBXNEXT-396	added optional parameters 'from' and 'to' to zabbix[queue]
ZBX-2511	fixed compilation on FreeBSD with IPv6 due to FD_SETSIZE being undefined
ZBX-2503	fixed server and proxy crash with Oracle in cases DBUser and DBPassword parameters were not specified
ZBX-2074	fixed web scenarios showing incorrect speed
ZBX-2486	fixed syntax error in 1.6 PostgreSQL upgrade script
ZBX-2336	fixed 'system.hostname' being empty on Windows hosts with names longer than 15 characters
ZBX-2251	removed error displaying in area of graphics
ZBX-1327	page is now remembered correctly after performing actions
ZBX-1211	fixed cell spacing in empty cells
ZBX-2372	fixed bug with date in local language, now short and long month names shown correctly
ZBX-2385	added macro {TRIGGER.PROBLEM.EVENTS.PROBLEM.UNACK}
ZBX-2040	annoying "double check" popups removed from copy to & mass update actions of items and triggers
ZBX-2482	fixes in chart graphs avg calc
ZBX-1477	fixed moving screen elements with spans
ZBXNEXT-279	added links to parent elements for item and trigger form
ZBX-2376	port parameter to tcp and tcp_perf is now mandatory
ZBX-2376	added ldap, ldap_perf, ntp, and ntp_perf simple checks
ZBX-808	renamed service.ntp parameter of net.tcp.service{.perf} to ntp
ZBX-2011	plain ASCII subjects are no longer base64-encoded, fixes issues with email to SMS gateways
ZBXNEXT-319	multirow inserts are now used for PostgreSQL 8.2 and higher
ZBXNEXT-392	our daemons no longer crash after "strace -p"
ZBXNEXT-138	our daemons can now listen on multiple IPs, see ListenIP configuration parameter
ZBX-2031	fixed comparison of empty strings with Oracle that led to duplicate rows in dservices
ZBX-2409	fixed server crash when deleting unreachable hosts in discovery
DEV-461	changes in GUI configuration menu
ZBX-2473	fixed timescroll most right position when "now"
ZBX-1193	improved macros form
ZBX-2035	fixed host full cloning
ZBX-1986	fixed empty Y axis if item values are zeros
ZBX-2492	updated Japanese translation; thanks to Kodai Terashima
ZBX-1357	update Hungarian translation; thanks to Laszlo Szabo
ZBX-2489	fixed server crash when receiving data using the old protocol
ZBX-2474, ZBXNEXT-378	fixed page refresh on filter change, now all filters hiding and showing works without refresh
ZBX-2488	changed filter from Web Monitoring to External Check
ZBX-2483	fixed showing latest data by filter when clicking from dashboard with GUI option 'Dropdown first entry' -> None
ZBX-1529	fixed macros expand to nothing in templates
ZBX-2461	fixed complex bugs with trigger expressions
ZBX-1357	updated German translation; thanks to Peter Schultz
ZBX-2319	fixed escaping locales on download
ZBX-2460	fixed auto adding host group to updated host
ZBX-2367	improved using DISTINCT rule in queries in API
ZBX-2408	fixed mute button in status of triggers page
ZBX-2477	fixed dynamic graphs disappear from screens
ZBX-1346	clarify some parameter values in the example configuration files
ZBX-2471	fix location of the space in a translatable string
ZBX-954	fix Hungarian language name
ZBX-2457	change 'type' keyword to 'ENGINE' for table creation in MySQL schema
ZBX-2466	fixed item filter form
ZBX-1607	now trigger line is visible in all Zabbix themes in all states and severity in corresponding severity colour mixed with opposite colour which stored in defines in hex
ZBX-2105	fixed acknowledging events from dashboard for different nodes
ZBX-2441	fixed handling of begin/commit/rollback statements with temporarily unavailable SQL server
ZBX-2432	fixed warning message in templates when template has linked templates
ZBX-2325	improved groups/hosts selecting for filter dropdowns
ZBX-2433	fixed time not updated on slides when now is selected
ZBX-2452	fixed parsing of integer values from SNMP's Hex-STRING
ZBX-2313	forbid to add graph from templates to screen
ZBX-1503	added information message after host delete action, about host being deleted
ZBX-2418	fixed bug with JavaScript URL parser, anchor was recognized as part of file
ZBXNEXT-323	improved bad performance of the trends for large number of items
ZBXNEXT-327	more intuitive load balancing of pollers with a single item queue
ZBXNEXT-326	more efficient synchronization of configuration data
ZBX-2153	fixed server crash due to unaligned memory access
ZBX-2092	fixed label line height in maps, now all lines have the same line height
DEV-377	improved global search
ZBX-1510	fixed history view bound by minute issue
ZBX-2339	fixed row height for type of information "text"
ZBX-2201	improved history page
ZBX-2359	fixed graph lines for fixed Y axis with items draw functions "All"
ZBXNEXT-335	links starting with http(s) are now clickable in hosts inventory
ZBX-1537	fixed multiple displaying of same host, from which were deleted graph, when deleting mass graphs
ZBX-1263	fixed misleading log messages that referenced agent for any kind of unsupported item
ZBXNEXT-58	added zabbix[{history_log,history_text,history_uint,trends_uint}] internal checks
ZBX-2446	fixed compilation on AIX 5.3 with OS level 5300-05 or earlier
ZBX-2027	fixed selecting wrong host after cancelling trigger comment
ZBX-2253	fixed delete confirmation dialogue referring to empty element
ZBX-2370	fixed duration value in monitoring events for multiple problem triggers
ZBX-507	made UserParameters work with zabbix_agent(d) -p and -t
ZBX-2326	fixed XSS vulnerability in triggers page; later independently discovered by VUPEN Security
ZBX-2326	fixed dynamic chart titles, now all symbols are rendered correctly
ZBX-2250	value mapping is now applied for {ITEM.LASTVALUE} macro inside triggers description
ZBX-1436	fixed trigger events display after next steps monitoring -> triggers -> click on any event time
ZBX-1532	added screen name to visual screen editing form (when adding screen rows and cols)
ZBX-2438	fixed configuration of ssh2 on FreeBSD. Thanks to Alex Deiter
ZBX-2423	added custom colour input for link elements
ZBX-2100	fixed group with templates but without hosts breaks map editing issue
ZBX-1591	fixed "advanced icons" for image type map elements
ZBX-2379	fixed trigger expression editing with trigger builder
ZBX-1882	fixed selecting items from disabled hosts for graphs
ZBX-1126	fixed large numbers processing for values stored as 'Delta'
ZBXNEXT-241	extended proxy screen to show proxy vps and item count
DEV-460	improved host-group and maps icons info in Zabbix maps
ZBXNEXT-338	added caching of eventids
ZBX-1438	fixed not deleting data from trends_uint table when deleting an item
ZBX-2276	fixed dashboard discovery status header
ZBX-2377	fixed converting html special chars in graphs' legend
ZBX-2311	fixed Host group empty value selection for items filtering
ZBXNEXT-313	implemented string pool for configuration cache
ZBX-2417	fixed timeout handling for passive checks on agent side
ZBX-1873	added slideshow delay multiplier and fixed slides not showing graphs
ZBX-2282	fixed availability updating of IPMI hosts, monitored by proxy
ZBX-2412	fixed deleting maps with API
ZBX-2341	fixed cutting 20 bytes instead of 20 symbols in char/log/text item values
ZBX-2407	fixed repeated message on cookie size limit
ZBX-2406	removed filter from plaintext history
ZBX-2263	fixed permission checks in bar reports
ZBX-2270	fixed item filtering
ZBX-2401	fixed host name in dynamic graphs in screens
ZBXNEXT-325	added StartDBSyncers parameter for parallel writing to DB
ZBX-1906	fixed possibility to add identical checks for discovery
ZBX-2384	fixed status of triggers elements in screens
ZBX-1824	fixed parsing map labels containing item references with user macros
ZBXNEXT-321	decreased number of selects from DB while processing trends data
ZBX-1505	fixed user macros not resolved in frontend
ZBX-1902	fixed some possibilities to create incorrect linkage
ZBX-2386	rows per page limit increased
ZBX-2306	fixed zoom position
ZBX-2306	improved starting zoom on edges
ZBX-2132	added date format constants to locales, changed zbx_date2str function to meet regional formats and date translation
ZBXNEXT-311	improved speedup dbconfig synchronization
ZBX-2360	added multiple acknowledging for OK>UNKNOWN>OK and PROBLEM>UNKNOWN>PROBLEM events
ZBX-2374, ZBX-2633	updated Ukrainian translation; thanks to zalex_ua
ZBX-2347	fixed last 20 issues in event details showing less than 20 issues
DEV-459	made improvements in discovery page generation
ZBX-2148	added preview button in graphs form
ZBX-2337	fixed error when selecting a web item in trigger configuration
ZBX-2306	fixed links for graphs in screens
ZBX-633	removed linkage of OpenIPMI library to Agents in "configure" script
ZBX-633	more debug information in checks_ipmi.c module
ZBX-2362	fixed processing of logrt[] checks under Windows
ZBX-2356	fixed error while performing group actions when creating an item
ZBX-2355	fixed error when trying to massupdate trigger severity
ZBX-2354, ZBX-2635, ZBX-2648	updated Russian translation; thanks to dotneft and zalex_ua
ZBX-2352	fixed typo in the default locale
ZBX-2312	fixed event order in "monitoring triggers" and "last 20 events"
ZBX-2264	added opportunity to translate class.cuser.php and config.inc.php
ZBXNEXT-311	improved the speed of dbconfig synchronization
ZBX-2378	renamed calculated item field 'Expression' to 'Formula', changed trigger option 'Multiple TRUE events' to use 'PROBLEM' instead
ZBX-2329	fixed screen renaming
ZBX-2315	fixed multiple issues with JS scrollbar
ZBX-2321	fixed log items appearing in the wrong order
DEV-458	added marks on maps if elements trigger changed status recently
ZBX-2290	added export/import of map images
ZBX-2290	fixed image update with oracle db
ZBX-2317	updated French translation; thanks to alixen
ZBX-2283	fixed incorrect time calculating in slidebar
ZBX-2261	fixed username hiding in acknowledge comments
ZBX-2305	fixed actions getting lost in an event-busy environment
ZBX-2303	fixed GET/POST methods in processing web scenario steps. Thanks to Hannu Ylitalo
ZBXNEXT-293	processes now provide more information on why they terminate
ZBX-2304	fixed "no permission" error when screen contains simple graphs with web item
ZBX-2268	denied creation of pie/exploded graphs with more than one sum item
ZBX-2298	added constant to defines to be able configure default Y axis position: left or right
ZBX-2174	fixed a small memory leak in SNMP checks
ZBX-1648, ZBX-2300	fixed caching of "Database monitor" items. Thanks to Kirill Fateev
ZBX-2290	fixed screen cells moving
ZBX-2301	fixed "configure" script with libssh2-1.0.0 library
ZBX-2296	fixed possible heavy loaded server crash when using internal checks
ZBX-2295	added additional units to graphs Y axis
ZBX-2285	fixed sending of active items multiple times
ZBX-2266	fixed server crash when processing malformed calculated items
ZBX-1346	use single quotes in example frontend configuration file
ZBX-2274	fixed trigger expression corruption with trigger wizard
ZBX-2273	add support of macro {TRIGGER.EVENTS.UNACK} for map labels
ZBX-2279	fixed error when changing graph name case
ZBX-2252	fixed server crash and infinite looping in telnet checks
ZBX-2275	fixed loss of the log-data if Zabbix server is unavailable
DEV-457	improved dashboard favourite selection
DEV-457	improvements in dynamic map link indicators form
ZBX-2258	fixed applications import
ZBX-1357, ZBXNEXT-376, ZBXNEXT-412	update Brazilian Portuguese translation; thanks to edson
ZBX-2254	added update time for monitoring triggers screen
ZBX-1886	added js translations
ZBX-2245	added missing functions in trigger expression builder
ZBX-2190	fixed trigger expression check for syntax
ZBX-2242	fixed agent crash on HP-UX when processing logrt[] items
ZBXNEXT-288	improved server performance by not storing function lastvalue in database
ZBX-1753	added permission check for trigger sound notifications
ZBX-2246	added trigger wizard for logrt item
ZBX-2241	fixed graph X axis for big periods
ZBX-2241	fixed text collide in graphs
ZBX-2232	fixed bug with last event duration time in event details
ZBX-2243	fixed bug when cannot select template for item filter by host
ZBX-2240	fixed "undefined index" in monitoring latest data
ZBX-954	fix minor typos

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Références

Zabbix 1.8 Manual