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Bug fixes in this release:

• The third-party widget used for trees and tables in the GUI was updated to fix a crash that primarily affected Solaris at startup.
• Memory leaks in the MIB Smithy SDK core were fixed.

New Features

• Added the ability to configure SNMP sessions during creation by including the configure options in the “snmplib new” command.

Bugs fixed in this release:

• SMI Database and SNMP Session commands now behave properly when renamed, including reflection in the “$db get” and “$session mpds” commands.
• Secondary databases and sessions now take the form “smi” and “snmp” rather than “smilib#” and “snmplib#”. Using the pointer value for the hexstring allows for uniqueness without having to scan the list every time a session or database is created.
• Changed error messages resulting from incorrect argument counts for commands to be of a somewhat more standard form. Also corrected some bugs in handling invalid arguments in some APIs.
• The SNMP session “wait” command was causing the process to use up to 99% of the CPU load and now yields to the system properly when there are no events.
• A missing break would cause incorrect results for Tnm snmp session’s “cget -transport” option. Added support for Tnm snmp session “cget -straps” option.
• Tnm snmp session’s “configure” command, when given no arguments in order to return all current settings, returned an unscaled value for timeout (the SDK uses milliseconds, Tnm uses seconds).
• snmplib bind without any arguments was returning the list of scripts for each bound event rather than the list of events that have scripts bound, as it should/is documented.
• Tnm “mib info access” and “mib info status” included the internal-only value “undefined” in results.
• The error given by Tnm “mib walk” with an unknown node name included the variable name in the error rather than the node name.
• The Tcl_Obj for the default SMI database log channel did not have its reference count incremented initially, which could potentially lead to a crash.
• The “snmplib mpds” and “snmp info” commands, which return lists of known SDK native and Tnm compatible SNMP sessions will now only return those sessions of the appropriate type. e.g., “snmplib mpds” will no longer list sessions created with the Tnm “snmp generator” command.
• The snmpTrapOID parameter of the Tnm trap interface was not being included in the variable bindings for the trap.

Bugs fixed in this release:

• An error would occur regarding an undefined bitmap “table.ico” when launching the Table Wizard, due to path changes introduced in MIB Smithy 3.3.
• The rewrapping of text labels in the Table Wizard when the window is resized could get stuck rewrapping continuously.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy)

• Opening the README.RTF and LICENSE.RTF files from the Help menu would result in an error under Windows, as MS Word didn’t recognize the %20’s for spaces.
• The Window|Maximize command did not restore a previously maximized window to normal under Mac OS X. It would do so momentarily, and then return to the maximized (zoomed) state.
• The Aqua “Window” menu could show a “menu” item where the list of open windows were shown that should not be there.
• A focus race condition in the popup calendar used for timestamps in MODULE-IDENTITY’s LAST-UPDATED and REVISIONS fields could lead to a hang, at least under Windows.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• When receiving traps under Unix with the nmtrapd/straps daemon, MIB Smithy could become partially hung by a short read condition until another trap was received.
• Added missing “-straps” option to the “$session cget” command. This option returns the current value for the -straps option, which allows disabling use of the nmtrapd/straps daemon under Unix.

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