Net-SNMP 5.8 released

We're happy to announce the release of version 5.8 of Net-SNMP!

  The NET-SNMP Development Team

Important Announcement About the Net-SNMP Project's GIT Server
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  The Net-SNMP project admins have been considering moving its primary
  authoritative source hosting from SourceForge to GitHub.  In fact,
  we had every intention of making this move by the 5.8 release
  date.  However, after the purchase of GitHub by MicroSoft, we opted
  to halt our plans while the dust settles.  If you have opinions
  about whether we should continue the move to GitHub or consider
  something else, please speak your mind on the net-snmp-coders
  mailing list.

  If we do decide to move our primary repository to GitHub, we'll send
  another announcement in the future with the details of the change
  and how it may impact you.

Contents of this announcement
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  - What has Changed recently?
  - Where can I get it?
  - Are there binaries available?
  - What operating systems does it run on?
  - Which versions of the SNMP protocol are supported in this package?
  - I've found a bug or have a suggestion, how do I tell you about it?

What has Changed recently?
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  The NEWS file snippits from these releases are as follows.  See the
  CHANGES and ChangeLog files for increasing levels of detail.  The
  following shows the NEWS file contents for the 5.8 release:

*5.8*
    snmplib:
      - TLS/DTLS fixes
      - fix usm keychanges for new algorithms and longer keylengths
      - IP address formatting fixes
      - BUG: 2592: from Stuart Kendrick - increase MAXTC to 16384
      - add new sha2 auth protocols
      - Restore AES-192 and AES-256 privacy protocols - from
        draft-blumenthal-aes-usm-04 (precursor to RFC 3826)
        - Use OIDs from http://www.snmp.com/eso/esoConsortiumMIB.txt
        - Some code borrowed from PATCH 1346, thanks to
          Alexander Ivanov and Vladimir Sukhorukov.
      - BUG: 2622: Fix excessive indents in log file
      - new config tokens:
        - sendMessageMaxSize
        - disableSNMPv1 / disableSNMPv2c
      - new api for dynamic debug log level (netsnmp_set_debug_log_level)

    snmpd:
      - SNMP-TARGET-MIB: Fix snmpTargetAddrTAddress
      - Com2sec and com2sec6 SOURCE values may deny sources as well as
        permit.
      - allow trap sinks to set Target-MIB characteristics (name, tag, profile)
      - add source addr/port option to trapsink/trap2sink/informsink
      - packet filtering by source ip (enableSourceFiltering/filtersource)
      - several getbulk handling improvements
      - several new APIs introduced for run-time configuration of agent:
        - netsnmp_vacm_simple_usm_add/del
        - usm_create_usmUser_*
        - netsnmp_udp_com2SecEntry_create/netsnmp_udp_com2SecList_remove
        - netsnmp_agent_listen_on to open agent port

    Win32:
      - Add support for the DTLS-UDP and TLS-TCP transports

    scripts:
      - A new 'checkbandwidth' script to check host min/max bandwidth

    snmptranslate:
      - Introduce bulk translation mode The special argument "-" causes
        snmptranslate to enter bulk translation mode, in which it expects
        one OID per line.  Whitespace is treated as the end of the OID, and
        only that portion of the line is replaced, meaning that this can be
        used to translate, e.g., "snmpwalk" output without the proper MIBs
        loaded: snmptranslate -m all -OX < numeric.txt > symbolic.txt

    building:
      - Add Travis and Appveyor CI support
      - IPv6 support is now compiled by default.  If you need an IPv4-only
        agent, use --disable-ipv6.
      - Fixed/improved support for several non-Linux platforms
      - Many fixes found by Coverity anf Fortify scans


Where can I get it?
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  Download:
    - http://www.net-snmp.org/download.html
  Web page:
    - http://www.net-snmp.org/
  Sourceforge Project page:
    - http://www.net-snmp.org/project/net-snmp/

Are there binaries available?
----------------------------

  - Binaries do appear on our download site, but often are published a
    bit later than the normal source code.  Most of the binaries that
    are available have been linked with the OpenSSL package so you'll
    need a copy of it installed in order to use them.  If you don't
    have OpenSSL installed and don't want it installed, please get the
    net-snmp source release instead and built it yourself (but you'll
    loose support for SNMPv3 with SHA1 authentication and both DES and
    AES encryption).

What operating systems does it run on?
-------------------------------------

  Both the applications and the agent have been reported as running
  (at least in part) on the following operating systems for at least
  one version of Net-SNMP:

	* Linux (kernels 4.17 to 1.3)
	* Solaris/SPARC (11 to 2.3), Solaris/Intel (10, 9) -- see 
	  README.solaris
	* HP-UX (11.31 to 9.01) -- see README.hpux11
	* Mac OS X (10.5 to 10.1) -- see README.osX
	* NetBSD (2.0 to 1.0)
	* FreeBSD (7.0 to 2.2)
	* OpenBSD (4.0 to 2.6)
	* BSDi (4.0.1 to 2.1)
	* AIX (6.1, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 4.3.3, 4.1.5, 3.2.5) -- see README.aix
	* IRIX (6.5 to 5.1)
	* OSF (4.0, 3.2 and Tru64 Unix 5.1B) -- see README.tru64
	* SunOS 4 (4.1.4 to 4.1.2)
	* Ultrix (4.5 to 4.2)
	* Dynix/PTX 4.4
	* QNX 6.2.1A

  See our FAQ at http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ for more
  details on portability of the Net-SNMP package.

Which versions of the SNMP protocol are supported in this package?
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  SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3, including:

    * user-based (USM) support
    * TLS and DTLS-based support
    * an alpha implementation of kerberos-based and ssh-based support
    * HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols (RFC 7860) SHA-224, SHA-256,
      SHA-384 and SHA-512
    * AES-192 and AES-256 privacy protocols from draft-blumenthal-aes-usm-04

I've found a bug or have a suggestion, how do I tell you about it?
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  Please submit the bug to our bug-tracking system at:

    http://www.net-snmp.org/bugs/

  Please submit patches (for features or bugs) to our patch-tracking
  system.  (You don't need to submit a big report as well, just a patch)

    http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/

 


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Wes Hardaker                                     
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