ezsnmp Files

This release focuses on stabilizing Windows native wheel builds, hardening SNMPv3/EngineID handling, adding SNMPv1 trap coverage, and introducing an option for hex-formatted OCTET STRING output, alongside substantial documentation cleanup and routine CI/dependency maintenance.

Compared to: v2.3.0

Install / Upgrade

:::bash
pip install ezsnmp==2.4.0

Or browse this release on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ezsnmp/2.4.0/

Features / Enhancements

• Adds an -Ox-backed hex string output option for OCTET STRING values (#1100)
• Adds Windows platform support metadata and expanded keywords to setup.cfg (#1093)
• Extracts build helpers into build_utils.py for cleaner, more testable setup.py builds (#992)

Bug Fixes

• Fixes recurring Windows native wheel build failures across several follow-up hotfixes (#1258, [#1256], [#1053], [#1052], [#1051], [#1050], [#1047], [#1041], [#999], [#998], [#997])
• Fixes Session.get_next string OID dispatch to prevent character-splitting and invalid OID parsing (#991)
• Fixes Session.get/get_next crashes on empty OIDs and ensures coverage comments post even on test failures (#1067)
• Fixes ModuleNotFoundError by running pytest from the python_tests directory (#1022)

Runtime / Core Library

• Serializes SNMPv3 setters and strengthens EngineID regression coverage for thread-safety (#1117)

Tests

• Adds SNMPv1 branch coverage for snmptrap plus a gap-analysis script (#1261)
• Adds coverage tests for previously uncovered C++ branches (#1174)
• Adds unit tests for netsnmp/session exception-handling branches (#1124)
• Adds snmptrap null and stat_error shim tests for coverage (#1164)
• Adds shim tests for snmp_perror_exception and connection error variants (#1125)
• Splits test_session.py into focused files and expands Docker CI to 10 test groups (#1107)
• Moves integration test results into an analysis/ folder with a data/ sub-folder for CSVs (#1114)

Containers / Packaging

• Stabilizes the Docker image workflow by serializing tarball cache population (#1094)
• Fixes an invalid actions/cache SHA in build_and_publish_docker_images.yml (#1104)
• Fixes macOS Homebrew CI to always build from local source (#1092)
• Handles new macOS runner versions in wheel builds (#1064)
• Hardens Docker cache download for OpenSSL 1.0.2u in CI (#976)
• Updates Python patch versions in Dockerfiles (#1167, [#996])

CI / Workflows

• Aligns report tooling docs and workflow exit-code handling (#1253)
• Scopes Dependabot away from agentic workflow artifacts using path exclusions (#1105)
• Adds copilot-requests permission for Agentic Workflows (#1091)
• Implements auto-PR formatting fixes for black and clang-format (#1030)
• Updates agentic workflow models to sonnet 5 / opus 4.8 over the release cycle (#1252, [#989])

Documentation

• Adds a feature-grouped Software Requirements document to Sphinx (#1181)
• Improves Session.bulk_get and Session.set docstrings (#1168)
• Clarifies bulk_get/bulk_walk v2c/v3 requirements and fixes GETBULK terminology (#1127)
• Fixes numerous typos, grammar, and formatting issues across RST docs and docstrings (#1116, [#1101], [#1026], [#1019], [#1015], [#1009], [#1006], [#994], [#987])
• Fixes a method name typo and broken line-continuation in the SWIG example (#1260)

Dependencies

• Bumps cibuildwheel, codecov-action, setuptools, coverage, pytest, actions/*, github/codeql-action/*, docker/*, and other CI/toolchain dependencies to their latest versions across the release cycle

Chores / Misc

• Prepares versioned documentation and Homebrew formula updates for each prerelease (v2.4.0a1 through v2.4.0b0)
• Various changelog updates and release-prep housekeeping (#1222, [#1187], [#1048])

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/carlkidcrypto/ezsnmp/compare/v2.3.0...v2.4.0

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