Net-SNMP 5.7.rc1, the first release candidate for the 5.7 line, has been
released and is now available for testing. Please let us know of any
show stoppers by mailing critical issues to the -coders list.
Where can I get it?
===================
Grab it from:
http://www.net-snmp.org/download.html
Important Announcement
======================
About the same time as the 5.7 release, we'll be moving our source code
control from SVN to GIT. More details will be distributed near the time
of the final 5.7 release.
A list of NEWS worthy items to date:
====================================
*5.7*
snmpd:
- Delivery of data via regularily scheduled notifications.
(see "Data Delivery via Notfiications" in snmpd.conf)
- Many time-based config options can take (m)ins, (h)ours, ... arguments
(see the snmpd.conf manual page)
- The PING and TRACEROUTE MIBs now compile and work-ish on linux
http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/DISMAN
- Mib handlers can now implement a data_clone function for
cloning the myvoid structure variable to avoid dangling pointers
- Fixed persistent storage of VACM MIB configuration
- Multi-homed agents send UDP responses from the proper IP address
- the hrStorageTable implementation now supports large filesystems better
- optimizations for large route tables
- Added a deliveryByNotify config token for regular data delivery
(see the snmpd.conf manual page and the NET-SNMP-PERIODIC-NOTIFY-MIB)
- Patch 3141462: fix agentx subagent issues with multiple-object requests
- [PATCH 3057093]: linux uses libpci for creating useful ifDescr strings
- patch 3131397: from takevos: huge speedups of the TCP/UDP Tables
libnetsnmp:
- Removed the older CMU compatibility support
- the SSH transport is now configurable
TLS/DTLS support:
- The SNMP over DTLS transport now properly supports IPv6
- Introduced new configuration tokens: localCert/peerCert
(deprecating serverCert, clientCert, defX509ServerPub, defX509ClientPub)
- Various fixes for the TLS/DTLS transports
apss:
- Added a per-variable timed output support to snmpwalk using -CT
- snmpinform now correctly uses the local engineID for informs
- A number of mib2c bug fixes
- new snmp.conf tokens for timeouts and retries
building:
- New flags to reduce the amount of compiled code to bare minimums.
This is provided by a new generic feature marking/selection mechanism.
http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Feature_Marking_and_Selection
- It's now possible to build without SNMPv3/USM
(e.g., if you only want TLS/DTLS with SNMPv3/TSM)
- It's possible to build the suite with no SET support
configure using --enable-read-only
- It's possible to build the agent as a notify-only agent
configure using --enable-notify-only
- Added a script to test memory usage with various config options
(see the local/minimalist/sizetests script)
- Net-SNMP can now be built to perform local DNSSEC validation
(install DNSSEC-Tools' libval and use --with-local-dnssec-validation)
testing:
- a number of new API unit-tests have been added to the suite
(to run the tests: cd testing && ./RUNFULLTESTS -g unit-tests)
- The unit tests can be more easily run under valgrind
(See http://bit.ly/jsgRnv for details)
openbsd:
- Support for updating the routing table via SNMP
win32:
- the testing suite works better under win32 environments
- Many building fixes for the win32 environment(s)
solaris:
- Net-SNMP now supports the SCTP-MIB
DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD8
- Net-SNMP should now work on DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD8
And of course:
- Many other bug fixes. See the CHANGES and ChangeLog for details.
--
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions
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