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Previous refactoring of MODULE-IDENTITY revision setting code had a bug that could lead to a crash or corrupted revisions due to reading from the wrong pointer. The problem is fixed in this patch release.

• Source port/address of received messages are no longer checked versus where the request was sent. In many cases, multi-IP systems will send responses from a different address, legally, and in those cases a background error would occur. Most SNMP stacks don’t do this check so it was somewhat non-standard. This checking can still be done manually using the -address and -port fields provided to callbacks.
• Two new chapters were added to the SDK Developer’s Guide on mapping Tnm/Scotty APIs to native MIB Smithy SDK APIs.
• The MIB Smithy SDK package now requires Tcl 8.4 or later rather than 8.1 or later. In reality, it has required at least 8.3 for some time due to use of Tcl APIs added in that version. The SDK could crash on load in earlier versions because of the missing stubs table entries for these APIs.

An unhandled Windows-specific 64-bit integer format code in buffer size allocation could lead to crashes in converting internal integer data to Tcl_Objs and was corrected in this patch release.

• Bundled MIB files were updated through RFC 4002.
• Size/range endpoints in a pair are now automatically sorted in the appropriate order, including with hex and binary values.
• Bugs were fixed that could lead to crashes in setting certain types of properties with invalid strings and due to miscalculation of the buffer space required to return some property strings.
• Various HTML errors were corrected in the documentation.

Significant Changes (MIB Smithy)

• Moved User’s Guide into app bundle and fixed launching of help Under MacOS X.
• Tcl versions of command-line SNMP tools should now work regardless of the location of tclsh, provided it’s in your path, where previously they expected /usr/local/bin/tclsh.
• Command-Q will now exit the application under MacOS X.
• The MIB Smithy GUI should now have a much more platform-specific look and feel to it, especially under MacOS X Aqua.
• Additional cosmetic changes such as the addition of icons to workspace tabs and alternating list colors and numerous GUI code optimizations were made.
• A new Location bar and close button were added to the top of each record workspace. The graphical close button functions the same as the textual “Close” button but may be more conveniently located. The Location bar lists the location of a record in the hierarchy of records (e.g. IF-MIB.mib / IF-MIB / ifTable) and can be clicked to open a parent record’s properties.
• Comboboxes now support inline auto-completion as you type.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy)

• Tooltips on MacOS X took focus when they shouldn’t, which made them more of a nuisance than a helpful feature.
• An error could occur when creating new compliance groups or variations.
• Drag & drop in the Files and Project trees was broken by an incompatible change in the third-party tree library and has been fixed.

Significant Changes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• Numerous changes were made to the SNMP library for improved speed, memory usage, thread safety.
• Made ASN.1 parse error messages more consistent in their capitalization and hyphenation.
• Added -modified flag for file records set on new, set or destroy which can keep track of whether or not a file has been changed.
• Added interfaces for key generation from passwords, key localization and KeyChange encoding

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes (MIB Smithy SDK)

• A crash could occur when specifying a command line option to nmtrapd without its corresponding value.
• Short-read conditions and bad headers from the straps/nmtrapd interface could cause the SDK to crash due to attempting to allocate more memory than is available.
• snmplib config -localengid “” failed due to being shorter than the minimum length.