Release Notes for Zabbix 1.8.12rc2

17 April 2012

Zabbix Team is pleased to announce the availability of Zabbix 1.8.12rc2.

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 1.8.12rc2. Download it from 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-4793	fixed processing of quoted strings in dynamic SNMP indexes Proxy Server
ZBX-4709	fixed processing of quoted strings in SNMP items Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-584	added support of multiple servers in active check mode; thanks to Takanori Suzuki Agent Installation
ZBX-4635	added support for optional first parameter to vfs.dev.* on Solaris Agent
ZBX-4795	fixed group creation for child nodes Frontend
ZBX-4195	fixed memory leak while processing unsupported performance counters by Windows agent Agent
ZBX-4813	fixed incorrect exception handling in maps when checking for circularity API Frontend
ZBX-2873	fixed colors in dark theme Frontend
ZBX-3152	fixed global messages being shown even if all severities are unchecked Frontend
ZBX-4801	fixed processing of proc.num[] and proc.mem[] checks with process names longer than 15 characters Agent
ZBX-4253	fixed menu link inconsistency in tr_status.php Frontend
ZBX-4749	fixed proxy crash on exit when deleting trend cache Proxy Server
ZBXNEXT-744	added support of {ITEM.ID} and {TRIGGER.EXPRESSION} macros in notifications and commands Server
ZBX-4761	fixed "&" encoding in input fields Frontend
ZBX-4697	fixed error when mass-updating group for hosts that belong to different groups API Frontend
ZBX-4777	added information in the Zabbix sender manpage about values being sent in a sequential manner and the need to have ordered timestamps Documentation

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Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Zabbixマニュアル for full details.

アップグレードサービス

See Upgrade procedure for upgrade options and instructions. For version specific upgrade notes, see Upgrade notes for 1.8.12.

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 営業への問い合わせ for pricing and more details.

• Zabbix Enterprise Support
• Zabbix トレーニング
• Zabbix Development Services

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References

Zabbix 1.8 Manual