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A doubly-freed pointer issue was introduced in MIB Smithy 1.4’s new OID indexing scheme and could cause the application to crash. This issue is fixed in the 1.4.1 release.

Version 1.4 of MIB Smithy is a significant update, adding many additional tests for SMI compliance and many changes for general application robustness. In particular, this version of MIB Smithy contains a newly redesigned internal OID indexing scheme that addresses inadequacies in its ability to do conflict checking that existed in the old scheme. The new scheme will also make several future enhancements that are under development possible, as well as other tools/products based on the core library, including built-in SNMP request/MIB Browser type tools and complete support for the more obscure forms of inter-module relationships (e.g. ‘modulereference DOT valuereference’ form). You can expect some of these features to begin appearing very soon.
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Significant Changes:

• Detect and report missing object identifier values (as might occur if a record is created but no OID is assigned) when loading MIB modules.
• Additional checks/automatic corrections to IMPORTS upon output generation to make sure that each module is listed only once, and symbols are unique, where might not already be automatically corrected in some cases.
• Corrected additional geometry manager conflicts that could cause hanging crashes. Added failsafe to perform a clean shutdown if any more conflicts of this type exist.
• Fixed Tcl error upon right-clicking on a file in the Files tab of the Project Panel.
• Fixed “path does not exist” Tcl error creating modules.
• Corrected false error report on missing INDEX clause when AUGMENTS is used, introduced in 1.2 when these were split internally into separate properties.
• Corrected false warning on missing SIZE constraint for OCTET STRING types, intorudced in 1.2 when size and range were split internally into separate properties for SIZE keyword preservation.
• Corrected “can’t read “db”: no such variable” error that could occur when closing a project or opening a file as a new project.

Version 1.2 of MIB Smithy is patch-level release containing a number of bug fixes for version 1.1. Significant changes are listed below. Please contact technical support if you have any questions or difficulties with the new version.
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Several updates and new sections have been added to the MIB Smithy Documentation. This includes updates to reflect changes between version 1.0 and 1.1, additional details for several sections, a complete list of compiler messages, and a chapter on many of the most common MIB design errors and pitfalls.

We will be continuing to expand the MIB Smithy documentation to provide more complete details and information on how to get the most out of the application. If you have any questions, it is important that you contact Technical Support so that we may assist you in anyway possible. We look forward to your feedback.

Read the MIB Smithy User’s Guide here.