Net-SNMP 5.9 released

[Wes H. <ha...@us...>]

We're happy to announce the release of version 5.9 of Net-SNMP!

  The NET-SNMP Development Team

Contents of this announcement
-----------------------------
  - 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?
-------------------------------------------

  The NEWS file snippits from these releases are as follows.  See the
  CHANGES and ChangeLog files for increasing levels of detail.

  Note: this release (5.9) was made from a branch originally intended
  to release a 5.8.1 release, but due to some minor API changes we
  opted to release it as 5.9 instead to meet our published versioning
  numbering policy.  Thus, you might wish to consider it more
  of a bug-fixing release than a more normal new-feature-based
  release.

  The following shows the NEWS file contents for the 5.8 release:

  *5.9*
      snmplib:
        - Add IPv6 support to DTLSUDP transport CHANGES: snmplib: use new
  	netsnmp_sockaddr_storage in netsnmp_addr_pair CHANGES: snmplib: add
  	base_transport ptr for tunneled transports

      snmpd:
        - Security vulnerabilty in the ping MIB reported by Christopher Ertl
  	from Microsoft fixed
        - Changing to a different uid/gid can only be done once
        - The extend mib is now read-only by default

      snmptrap:
        - BUG: 2899: Patch from Drew Roedersheimer to set library
  	engineboots/time values before sending

      unspecified:
        - Add pkg-config support for building applications and sub-agents Use
  	the netsnmp package when building Net-SNMP applications. Use the
  	netsnmp-agent package when building Net-SNMP subagents.


Where can I get it?
------------------

  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?
-----------------------------------------------------------------

  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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