Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.8

28 September 2011

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.8.

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 1.8.8. 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

ZBX-1909	fixed keyparser to allow keys like "key,{$USERMACRO}"
ZBX-4157	fixed possible truncating of queries while preparing a configuration data for sending to a proxy
ZBX-4150	fixed processing of quoted function parameters
ZBX-4141	fixed possible cycling of server/proxy processes after unsuccessful execution of SQL statement
ZBX-4135	fixed item selection in trigger expression
ZBX-3676	fixed item selection in bar report
ZBX-4070	improved performance of handling of trigger functions
ZBXNEXT-921	added option to show items without data in latest data
ZBX-2457	changed "type" to "ENGINE" in MySQL upgrade patches for MySQL 5.5 compatibility
ZBX-4099	fixed possible crash when processing of functions sum(), min(), max() or diff() in triggers, aggregated checks or calculated items
ZBX-3030	fixed event durations in monitoring
ZBXNEXT-902	changed API search wildcard from "%" to "*"
ZBX-3967	fixed alerter hang on long running alert scripts
ZBX-3970	fixed proxy crash after database connection to postgresql is recovered
ZBX-3175	fixed value type for 'vfs.fs.size[/var,used]' in data.sql
ZBX-4068	updated French translation; thanks to Joseph Bueno
ZBX-4066	fixed macros saving in administration
ZBXNEXT-900	added support of {TRIGGER.ID} macro in a trigger url
ZBX-4045	added check for duplicate hosts or proxies - if found, configuration syncer logs a warning and exits
ZBX-4059	fixed a potential buffer overflow in item parameter parsing

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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 1.8.8.

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 1.8 Manual