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This file contains a list of specific bugs that have been fixed, and patches
that have been applied in released versions.  Please see the NEWS file for
a summary of the major changes, and the ChangeLog file for a comprehensive
listing of all changes made to the code.


*5.5*

    snmplib:
      - [BUG 1171904]: fix recvfrom hangs (already closed)
      - [BUG 1345296]: fix recvfrom hangs (already closed)
      - [BUG 1600171]: Support longer community strings in VACM config.
      - [BUG 1619827]: improve handling of link dependencies
      - [BUG 1660061]: Validate engineIDs more strictly.
      - [BUG 1795840]: Signed 32-bit truncation logged as debug message
      - [BUG 1866655]: Handle parsing invalid OID subidentifiers
      - [BUG 1898198]: Avoid a segfault when parsing broken mibs.
      - [BUG 1958041]: Ensure IDs are not truncated.
      - [BUG 1976772]: Changed mib parser to handle long binary/hex strings.
      - [BUG 2001124]: Allow embedded NUL characters in usmUserPublic
      - [BUG 2027834]: Extend string print buffer by the minimum necessary.
      - [BUG 2099985]: Added const qualifiers to time conversion routins
      - [PATCH 2827722]: Improve strtoull to be less MSVC-specific
      - [BUG Coverity #183]: fix memory leak if IP_PKTINFO fails
      - [PATCH  700681]: limited support for UDPv4 broadcast addresses
      - [PATCH 1548670]: Fix range checks for unsigned integers
                         (Debian bug #383380)
      - [PATCH 1592706]: Fix memory leak when cloning varbinds.
      - [PATCH 1616912]: fix memory leak in snmp_udp_transport
      - [PATCH 1620424]: Honor NETSNMP_DS_LIB_DEFAULT_PORT over the default system
      - [PATCH 1627049]: New API to handle large numbers of file descriptors.
      - [PATCH 1634620]: Fix leaks from create_user_from_session failure.
      - [PATCH 1640114]: Don't store trailing null character.
      - [PATCH 1641895]: Extend short view masks (as per RFC specs)
      - [PATCH 1641972]: add missing const
      - [PATCH 1642071]: Don't fiddle with the storage of pre-existing users.
      - [PATCH 1645698]: fix 64-bit signed integer encoding
      - [PATCH 1653670]: Consistent SNMPv3 behaviour when opening sessions.
      - [PATCH 1665543]: Handle VACM checks correctly.
      - [PATCH 1681030]: Better handling of empty apptype configs.
      - [PATCH 1681977]: Add callbacks prior to reading config.
      - [PATCH 1687316]: Don't drop const from casts.
      - [PATCH 1687317]: Remove an unused local variable
      - [PATCH 1687318]: Make _sess_selpol_info static.
      - [PATCH 1687319]: Declare snmp_sess_read_extd()
      - [PATCH 1687325]: Fix problem with operator precedence.
      - [PATCH 1687337]: Implement _sess_open in terms of snmp_sess_add
      - [PATCH 1728247]: Clean up int64 type checking and usage for building packets
      - [PATCH 1737085]: fix the -M switch for mib parsing vs defaults
      - [PATCH 1768285]: Count MIB files correctly in add_mibdir()
      - [PATCH 1775124]: Fix clientaddr functionality
      - [PATCH 1806336]: fix -LS option parsing
      - [PATCH 1807489]: fix ignoring of display hints.
      - [PATCH 1811469]: read_config_files_in_path() reads past malloc'd buffer
      - [PATCH 1875022]: improve callback locking mechanisms
      - [PATCH 1882069]: Add token for specifying an exact SNMPv3 engineID
      - [PATCH 1895927]: change obsolete recv/send to recvfrom/sendto
      - [PATCH 1898204]: Avoid a segfault when parsing broken mibs.
      - [PATCH 1916840]: new config option to set SNMPv1 trap agent address
	[PATCH 1916840]: introduce netsnmp_gethostbyname_v4
      - [PATCH 1921861]: Avoid endless loop after truncating 64bit int
      - [PATCH 2003450]: Fix a couple of 64-bit problems.
      - [PATCH 2043018]: fix recvfrom hangs
      - [PATCH 2258229]: Remove misleading comment
      - [PATCH 2479700]: Fix zoned IP address used as table indices
      - [PATCH 2492377]: Fix typo/bug in snmp_enable_callback()
      - [PATCH 2505488]: Fix alarms not triggered due to large clock skews.
      - [PATCH 2538169]: Prevent infinite retries for an invalid error-index.
      - [PATCH 2689362]: Fix handling of IPv6 hostnames.
      - [PATCH 2713841]: Fix runtime errors triggered by high-ASCII chars
      - [PATCH 2772787]: Cleaner approach to handling large fd_sets.
      - [PATCH 2780411]: Fix compiler warnings
      - [FEATURES  454028]: Detect empty MIB index files.
      - [FEATURES  851887]: Report range information for invalid SET requests.
      - [FEATURES 1041888]: Check directory paths for config files.
      - [FEATURES 1407476]: Rename 'strictCommentTerm' to reflect actual behaviour.
      - Add GCC format checking attributes to the debug functions.
      - Add iterator for singly linked lists
      - Correct MAX_ENGINEID_LENGTH to 32 (as per SnmpEngineID TC)
      - Correct registration of multiple premib config handlers.
      - Deallocate various resources in shutdown_mib
      - Do not leak memory whenever an udp address is formatted.
      - Do not try to look up empty strings as hostnames for IPv6
      - Fix forwarding encoding
      - Fix potential buffer overflow in sprintf for UDP/IPv6
      - Handle mapping complex transport strings to simple name definitions
      - Hardcode default port numbers (rather than use getservbyname)
      - Implement RFC5343 contextEngineID probing.
      - Improve CONTAINER_INSERT handling of partial failure with multiple indexes
      - Improve netsnmp_watcher_info to handle statically allocated data.
      - Introduce printf-like versions of config_perror and config_pwarn
      - Library layering improvements
      - Read def{Target,Domain} from snmp.conf as well as <app>.conf
      - rename MIB macro to NETSNMP_MIB2_OID, MIB is too generic and may
	conflict with applications.   The old MIB macro is kept for
	backward compatibility, unless NETSNMP_NO_LEGACY_DEFINITIONS is
	defined.

    snmpd:
      - [BUG  902610]: Don't discard pending data following a TRAP.
      - [BUG  902801]: Fix ordering of SMUX-registered subtrees.
      - [BUG 1046327]: Reset "includeAllDisks" flag when reloading.
      - [BUG 1102058]: Skip non-mounted disks (e.g. swap partitions)
      - [BUG 1397895]: include missing interface declarations
      - [BUG 1400101]: remove deleted interfaces from ifTable
      - [BUG 1413728]: Reference index values in debug output correctly.
      - [BUG 1416276]: Handle dependency on MIB parsing API.
      - [BUG 1546817]: Fix snmpEnterprise varbind when forwarding v1 traps.
      - [BUG 1558823]: fix ipAddressTable memory leak
      - [BUG 1600261]: Handle non-x86 /proc/cpuinfo format
      - [BUG 1600432]: Handle signals properly when restarting the agent.
      - [BUG 1602286]: Don't let table holes block later rows.
      - [BUG 1628613]: Restore memTotalFree.0 on Solaris
      - [BUG 1633595]: Fix AgentX handling of Counter64 values
      - [BUG 1677063]: Check for failed malloc calls.
      - [BUG 1685067]: More precise handling of SNMPv3-admin MIB tables.
      - [BUG 1685081]: Check for valid OID on Free/Undo passes.
      - [BUG 1693039]: be silent when insert fails.
      - [BUG 1712988]: default/configurable max # varbinds returned by GETBULK
      - [BUG 1745113]: Handle single-line output in UCD compatability mode.
      - [BUG 1748206]: Protect against failures to open /etc/mtab (or equiv)
      - [BUG 1758212]: Handle missing variable types (IpAddress,Counter,Opaque)
      - [BUG 1760633]: fix typo in debug message
      - [BUG 1771221]: Retain ifLastChange information on data reload.
      - [BUG 1792890]: include CIFS mounts when skipping remote filesystems
      - [BUG 1822360]: Fix spinlock helper error handling.
      - [BUG 1912647]: Fix memory leak following failed requests.
      - [BUG 1931391]: Fix reporting of Memory buffers and cached memory.
      - [BUG 2001124]: Allow embedded NUL characters in usmUserPublic
      - [BUG 2003144]: Increase size of AgentX packet build buffer
      - [BUG 2006786]: Interface name can have more than 8 characters.
      - [BUG 2018031]: Don't probe engineID in internal monitor sessions.
      - [BUG 2693670]: Don't open (& clobber) AgentX socket if other transports fail
      - [BUG 2822355]: Fix memory leaks on udpEndpointTable (linux) Patch
	supplied by Frank Lichtenheld
      - [PATCH 1225440]: Delay sighup till it is safe.
      - [PATCH 1257347]: Non-fixed size connection buffer
      - [PATCH 1550730]: Report errors from iterator-based handlers.
      - [PATCH 1585146]: Extend range of available error codes
      - [PATCH 1595568]: fix delegated SET requests from agentx subagents
      - [PATCH 1601188]: Handle signals properly when restarting the agent.
      - [PATCH 1601453]: Dynamic Memory failure handling improvements
      - [PATCH 1617255]: fix length of the history array to match code.
      - [PATCH 1620424]: Fix default port for sending notification
      - [PATCH 1625069]: speed improvements for solaris routing table access
      - [PATCH 1639282]: Save persistent snmpTargetParamsTable settings correctly.
      - [PATCH 1639726]: Report physical memory correctly on *BSD
      - [PATCH 1641332]: Include missing agent config definitions.
      - [PATCH 1641685]: Handle unresponsive AgentX subagents more reliably.
      - [PATCH 1641865]: Don't double check snmpTrapOID in the filter table.
      - [PATCH 1642255]: Handle saving long snmpNotifyFilterTable entries.
      - [PATCH 1644280]: Don't automatically probe for v3 EngineIDs.
      - [PATCH 1644280]: Use the correct engineID when sending v3 traps.
      - [PATCH 1644714]: replace last use of deprecated copy_word by copy_nword
      - [PATCH 1654424]: Handle row deletion issues in dataset tables
      - [PATCH 1657741]: Handle 64-bit types via pass mechanism.
      - [PATCH 1659623]: Handle SMUX peers with an empty password.
      - [PATCH 1665543]: Handle VACM checks correctly.
      - [PATCH 1665549]: Handle creating VACM entries correctly.
      - [PATCH 1665985]: Implement ipReasmTimeout
      - [PATCH 1666737]: include IPv6 traffic in various UDP counters.
      - [PATCH 1668193]: Fix check for v6 ReasmMaxSize support.
      - [PATCH 1668193]: Update registration of ReasmMaxSize support.
      - [PATCH 1668952]: Ignore zombie processes.
      - [PATCH 1669048]: Add support for ipv6InterfaceIdentifier
      - [PATCH 1676478]: fix udpEndpointRemoteAddress
      - [PATCH 1678301]: Deallocate domain registry at shutdown
      - [PATCH 1678305]: Deallocate cache in hardware/cpu/cpu on shutdown
      - [PATCH 1678306]: Deallocate log in notification-log-mib/notification_log
      - [PATCH 1678788]: Better handling of SMUX socket descriptors.
      - [PATCH 1681043]: clean up helper includes
      - [PATCH 1683054]: set udpEndpointInstance to identify different processes.
      - [PATCH 1687336]: Start using the enhanced read_config interface
      - [PATCH 1692768]: Fix copying of non-octet-aligned IP address prefixes.
      - [PATCH 1692817]: Improved RFC 4293 support (inc. non-unicast/random IP addresses)
      - [PATCH 1698184]: Register non-default context integers as writable.
      - [PATCH 1700157]: Fix ordering of exec tokens in MIB output
      - [PATCH 1700730]: Remove unused extern declaration.
      - [PATCH 1700732]: Fix debug output statements.
      - [PATCH 1700737]: Tidy up setSerialNo implementations.
      - [PATCH 1702361]: Read stats from /proc/net/snmp6
      - [PATCH 1702366]: Support for icmpStatsTable
      - [PATCH 1703004]: Consolidate snmp6 handling.
      - [PATCH 1710632]: fix memory leak on broken container insertions for the ipAddressTable
      - [PATCH 1715395]: fix icmp table errors in new icmp code
      - [PATCH 1715406]: registration ordering fixes for icmpStatsTable
      - [PATCH 1716548]: Fix help output so no space is printed between -D and arguments.
      - [PATCH 1719253]: fix skipNFSInHostResources for multiple walks
      - [PATCH 1721096]: remove unused variable stats from kernel extraction for better portability.
      - [PATCH 1723611]: New implementation of the RMON alarmTable
      - [PATCH 1729629]: Fix memory leak in disman agent.
      - [PATCH 1737439]: automatic link up/down traps on a walk
      - [PATCH 1744157]: Report duplicate "extend/exec" identifiers.
      - [PATCH 1746831]: fix process checking race condition under Linux and platform #ifdefs
      - [PATCH 1752934]: Fix off-by-one qsort error in table utilities.
      - [PATCH 1753437]: Fix error index on failing SET requests
      - [PATCH 1753449]: Fix AgentX error propagation
      - [PATCH 1753463]: Fix AgentX subagent ping alarm handling
      - [PATCH 1758208]: Fix memory leak
      - [PATCH 1783733]: Put the package version number into the hrSWInst table for solaris.
      - [PATCH 1784747]: Fix long usage for ip adresses on 64 bit systems in various MIB-II tables.
      - [PATCH 1797111]: implement IP-MIB::ipIfStatsTable
      - [PATCH 1804445]: High order bits of HCInOctets not set on Solaris
      - [PATCH 1806501]: Add API for sending traps with a snmpv3 context
      - [PATCH 1823465]:  fix icmp cache registration
      - [PATCH 1823800]: release and reload all trap destinations on SIGHUP
      - [PATCH 1826088]: Use the right interface to read the netmask
      - [PATCH 1828839]: to provide better handling of disks mounted on paths with embedded spaces
      - [PATCH 1849903]: do not spam log with asserts when XEN is used
      - [PATCH 1866823]: truncate 32 bit counter values on 64 bit machines to avoid bogus warnings.
      - [PATCH 1879261]: Add in inactive memory to the cached report for freebsd
      - [PATCH 1882621]: Add LVM support to the partition table
      - [PATCH 1893468]: fixed registration of OIDs with ranges
      - [PATCH 1901764]: for supporting logwatch files that are date based
      - [PATCH 1909813]: fix table_iterator handling of SORTED hint
      - [PATCH 1916840]: new config option to set SNMPv1 trap agent address
      - [PATCH 1944581]: Protect against core dumps with long string index values.
      - [PATCH 1967194]: Recognise NFS4 mounts
      - [PATCH 1977439]: Fix pass/_persist bug with SET oid value
      - [PATCH 1995753]: minor cleanup agent/auto_nlist.c
      - [PATCH 2012402]: don't fail on failure to look up interface error counters.
      - [PATCH 2014204]: Support -g {groupname}
      - [PATCH 2022936]: Fix AgentX Counter64 decoding on 64-bit architectures
      - [PATCH 2082726]: correctly report NIC speeds higher than 4Gbit/s
      - [PATCH 2103492]: implement RMON-MIB::etherStatsJabbers
      - [PATCH 2124288]: Fix setting of usmUserPrivProtocol at creation.
      - [PATCH 2162652]: patch to fix simple hrfs checks when NFS is in use.
      - [PATCH 2384779]: Fix handling of GetBulk with N>0,M==0
      - [PATCH 2406378]: Fix hrSWRunPerfMem on 64-bit Solaris systems
      - [PATCH 2431353]: Make some C++ compilers happier
      - [PATCH 2435681]: Enable if-mib rewrite (with sysctl backend) on NetBSD
      - [PATCH 2435793]: Support 64-bit IF-MIB counters on sysctl (*BSD) system.
      - [PATCH 2449210]: add 64-bit disk usage statistics to UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskTable
      - [PATCH 2564552]: provide libnetlink support for loading the tcp table
      - [PATCH 2686280]: Report duplicate registrations as an error
      - [PATCH 2791417]: fix snmpd segfault when run with -DALL Patch
      - [PATCH 2822337]: Fix memory leak in ipAddressPrefixTable
      - [FEATURES 1019429]: Set supplementary groups via initgroups(3)
      - Add missing function declarations & include files.
      - Add support for a user provided length variable
	   and C string values to the watcher helper.
      - Allow "monitor" to handle negative threshold values.
      - Automatically reregister sysORTable entries from AgentX subagents.
      - Clean up notification registrations during Event MIB cleanup
      - Enforce the lower limit on scalar_groups
      - Fix CVE-2008-4309 (GETBULK issue reported by Oscar Mira-Sanchez)
      - Fix memory leak when multiple interfaces have the same IPv6 address
      - Fix two bugs with smux password support.
      - Handle device names with embedded spaces in UCD-SNMP-MIB::dskDevice
      - Implement ipNetToPhysicalLastUpdated
      - Implement ipAddressSpinLock
      - Improve efficiency of scalar_group helper.
      - Improve parsing of -LS command line argument
      - Register CPU/memory hardware modules with nsCacheTable.
      - Reimplementation of LM-SENSORS-MIB
      - Reimplementation of snmpMPDStats.
      - Reimplementation of usmStats.
      - Remove unused variables.
      - Suppress annoying "registration != duplicate" warning for root oids
      - Unify all snmpd statistic variables with a common handler.
      - Use the worker helpers from the register_*_instance helpers and
	schedule the instance helpers for removal in 5.6
      - Use static watcher_info for all watched variables and in int_watch.
      - fix possible crash when 64-bit counters in ipSystemStatsTable get
	bigger than 2^32

    snmptrapd:
      - [BUG 1638225]: Fix interpretation of transport address data.
      - [BUG 1955227]: Memory leak for embedded Perl on x86_64
      - [PATCH 1746992]: Improve snmptrapd access-control error messages.
      - [PATCH 1767725]: Close all non standard file handles
      - [PATCH 1908288]: Run perl END block on termination
      - [PATCH 2726302]: Pass results of Perl trap handlers to trap daemon
      - [PATCH 1225440]: Delay sighup till it is safe.
      - [FEATURE  741375]: Extend -F flag to cover syslog/execute format strings.
      - [FEATURE 1159947]: Allow control of traphandle data format
      - Add trap handler for logging traps to a mysql database
      - Support for forwarding traps by OID subtree.
      - Support per-trap format specifications
      - Withdraw deprecated options.

    apps:
      - [BUG 1964136]: Drop NULL type from snmpset usage message.
      - [BUG 2811577]: Fix bug in GetBulk handling. Don't get confused by
	index values that contain a ':' character.
      - [PATCH 1529523]: Close SNMP session on failure.
      - Improve parsing of -LS command line argument

    snmpnetstat:
      - [PATCH 2564538]: Support GETBULK in v2c+ snmp versions

    snmpusm:
      - [PATCH 1591355]: Allow cloning to arbitrary engineIDs

    snmpwalk:
      - [PATCH 1723620]: Specify an explicit end-point for the walk.

    build:
      - [BUG 1096166]: Handle --without-logfile correctly.
      - [BUG 1567324]: Clarify prompting for user-supplied values.
      - [BUG 1600093]: autoconf 2.60 breaks the build
      - [BUG 1647976]: Cygwin/MinGW Windows build fails due to libtool error
      - [BUG 1707469]: Win32: snmpv3-security-includes.h not installed
      - [BUG 1802833]: Ensure snmptrapd builds with --disable-snmpv1/2c
      - [BUG 1823381]: Use a sensible default MIBDIR path on Cygwin/MinGW
      - [BUG 1823381]: Valid MIB directory search path on Windows
      - [BUG 1872266]: PERLCC check fails for CC with options
      - [BUG 1995172]: fix --without-elf configure usage message
      - [BUG 2014526]: Win32: snmpv3-security-includes.h not installed
      - [BUG 2023803]: Compilation problems on HP-UX 11.31
      - [BUG 2095983]: fix syntax/permissing error in find-requires helper script
      - [BUG 2168180]: Improve handling of various --enable/--disable options.
      - [BUG 2782700]: build failure when using --with-pkcs on Solaris
      - [PATCH 1577917]:Simplify makefile target references (patch from Apple)
      - [PATCH 1600453]: Fix cross-compile builds in apples build environment.
      - [PATCH 1624406]: option to hardcode location of mount table
      - [PATCH 1625135]: configure location of python interpreter 
      - [PATCH 1678300]: compile-subagent doesn't call shutdown_ methods
      - [PATCH 1681073]: #ifdef based config_error instead of special cases
      - [PATCH 1728241]: Add configure check for <sys/uio.h>
      - [PATCH 1728230]: add configure check for gai_strerror()
      - [PATCH 1728233]: make sure type nfds_t is defined
      - [PATCH 1728237]: Move variable declaration at the top of netsnmp_udp_sendto
      - [PATCH 1728244]: Add configure check for sin6_scope_id
      - [PATCH 1728247]: Add type check for int??_t and uint??_t
      - [PATCH 1899762]: Tweak embedded_perl configure checks.
      - [PATCH 2000874]: Cleanup transport selection.
      - [PATCH 2091156]: correctly declare dependencies in Makefile. 'make -j <N>' should work now.
      - [PATCH 2184039]: Fixes for freeing memory during error conditions.
      - [PATCH 2797251]: Support multiple initialisation/shutdown, fix memory leaks
      - Add a variation of AC_SEARCH_LIBS where the result is settable.
      - Add "BuildRequires: perl-ExtUtils-Embed" to the spec file
      - Add '--with-temp-file-pattern' configure option
      - Assume target platform supports mem{cpy,move,set} & str{,r}chr
      - Disable inlining on solaris (due to linking errors)
      - Disable MIB-specific tests if the agent omits the necessary modules.
      - '--disable-as-needed' reverts to linking system libs into applications
      - Do not config_require(util_funcs) if nothing from util_funcs is used
      - Do not require use of --with-endianness when cross-compiling.
      - Fix build issues with ethtool (on RH9).
      - Fix checks for support of static inline functions
      - Fix compilation on IRIX
      - Fix macro for '--with-features-of'
      - Improve library layering & dependency handling when linking apps
      - Improve robustness of sed/grep/etc commans (using autoconf macros)
      - Improve RPM spec files, for consistency with vendor-provided packages.
      - Mechanism for selecting build environment based on version
      - New NETSNMP_ARG_WITH/ENABLE macros to catch incorrect 'with/enable' usage
      - '--enable-ipv6' should only enable 'mibII/ipv6' on supported systems
      - Remove Net-SNMP special-case handling of standard functionality.
      - Restructure configure template
      - Stricter checks on '--with-persistent-mask' values
      - Update to autoconf 2.63 & libtool 2.2.6
      - Use 'config_error' to generate error messages at configure time.
      - Use LDFLAGS when building agent, helpers and mib lib
      - Use "libtool clean" to ensure removal of all libtool temp files.
      - allow building with Perl versions that lack PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END
      - build fix for Tru64 Unix and IRIX: move _XOPEN* definitions to
	where they are in 5.4.x and earlier

    documentation:
      - [BUG 1247164]: Document use of OID macros
      - [BUG 1407476]: Clarify MIB parsing toggle options & comment handling.
      - [BUG 1614104]: broken snmpd(8) manual page in 5.4
      - [BUG 2027129]: fix typo in snmpcmd.1
      - [PATCH 1604580]: SNMP(3) manual page corrections
      - [PATCH 1644735]: Add gcc build instructions for IRIX
      - Fix minor documentation bugs (patch from Apple)

    mib2c:
      - [BUG  833673]: More focused size checks.
      - [BUG 1429472]: Protect against missing instances (and invalid objects)
      - [BUG 1582972]: Handle @while@/@end@ properly.
      - [BUG 1737068]: Handle MIB objects with embedded hyphens
      - [BUG 1874059]: Handle MIB objects with embedded hyphens
      - [PATCH 1668171]: skip unknown cols in min/max range for tables
      - [PATCH 1719244]: Fix mfd generating map function
      - [PATCH 1914398]: install mib2c.perl.conf
      - [PATCH 2136437]: Improve FLAG defines for huge tables on 64bit systems
      - [PATCH 2316127]: Fix bug in iterate_access generated code.

    misc:
      - [PATCH 1737727]: Add a NETSNMP_OLDAPI_ prefix to old-api access macros.
      - [PATCH 1737727]: Replace NETSNMP_CLEAN_NAMESPACE with NETSNMP_NO_LEGACY_DEFINITIONS
      - Add config reread support to "net-snmp-config --compile-subagent" code.
      - Avoid calling debug macros with wrong number of arguments.
      - Don't use the legacy symbol SNMPTRAPD_DISABLE_AGENTX
      - Preliminary (alpha) support for SNMP over SSH and DTLS/UDP.
      - Preliminary (alpha) support for the TSM security model
      - Separate user management into new net-snmp-create-v3-user script

    unspecified:
      - [BUG 1596638]: memory leak in ipCidrRouteTable, inetCidrRouteTable
      - [BUG 1611524]: fix tcp connection table fd leak
      - [BUG 1793545]: Take the name from the sockaddr_un in order to avoid
	               transport specifiers and other decorations.
      - [BUG 1801835]: Multiple default transports for an application.
      - [BUG 1851047]: Don't continue to process a corrupt watched value.
      - [PATCH 1601453]: Dynamic Memory failure handling improvements
      - [PATCH 1674298]: Remove unused sinkport variable
      - [PATCH 1674299]: Lessen scope of zone variable in dump_realloc_oid_to_inetaddress
      - [PATCH 1674302]: Lessen scope of len variable in convert_v2pdu_to_v1
      - [PATCH 1678298]: compile-subagent checks for bad HAVE_SIGNAL_H
      - [PATCH 1678302]: netsnmp_mibindex_load leaks memory
      - [PATCH 1681035]: Improve net-snmp-config /bin/sh compatibility
      - [PATCH 1902105]: Hide and improve debug log messages
      - [PATCH 1902113]: Fix error log in inetNetToMediatable
      - Fix for refs to OBJECT-GROUP in another MIB
      - Initalize log subsystem
      - Remove support for use of varargs.h.

    perl:
      - [BUG 1450669]: a perl agentx consumes memory
      - [BUG 1554817]: Fix class assigment so getRootOID works properly.
      - [BUG 1606062]: perl bulkwalk (async) coredump
      - [BUG 1619827]: improve handling of link dependencies
      - [BUG 1747733]: More robust handling of undefined values.
      - [BUG 1834539]: Consistent handling of OID parsing.
      - [PATCH 1627949]: a perl agentx consumes memory
      - [PATCH 1725049]: Fix bulkwalk in cases of non-repeater usage.
      - [PATCH 1811463]: perl async callback coredump
      - [PATCH 1834983]: Consistent handling of OID parsing.
      - [PATCH 1914393]: registerAgent can now be run multiple times
      - [PATCH 1914643]: fix issues with embedded perl
      - [PATCH 1914645]: better end of mib support
      - [PATCH 1920390]: fix registration of tables with .0 as IIDs
      - [PATCH 1956193]: beta threadable perl module code for SNMPv1/2c usage.
      - [PATCH 2021444]: Support SNMPv2c in gettable processing
      - [PATCH 2022948]: Fix for Counter64 in perl subagent
      - [PATCH 2182079]: Fix various perl warnings & allow use of "use strict"
      - [PATCH 2272347]: Implement "implied" in MIB hash
      - [PATCH 2361712]: Fix getbulk optimization during walks
      - [PATCH 2709705]: Retrieve src/target IP address in Perl-based agents
      - [PATCH 2763717]: Allow perl to use OPAQUEs
      - [PATCH 2793857]: Report failed asynchronous requests.
      - fix SNMP SET for IP addresses on 64-bit
      - fix prerequisites for NetSNMP::TrapReceiver
      - fix syntax error in NetSNMP::agent::Support
      - install embedded perl init files with correct permissions

    python:
      - [BUG 1826174]: Check for buffer overflow when printing values.
	               Addresses CVE-2008-2292
      - [BUG 1868278]: Python segfault
      - [BUG 2258935]: Python Extension Module fails on Solaris
      - [PATCH 1716114]: Let python build in source tree  (Debian patch#38)
      - [PATCH 1862177]: made code more windows/cygwin compiler friendly
      - [PATCH 1877840]: Fix MIB label and indexing due to sl, broken regexp
      - [PATCH 2074817]: Fix regexp engine CPU performance issues
      - [PATCH 2260828]: Fix python snmpwalk memory leak
      - [PATCH 2580979]: Fix python session pointers on 64-bit systems.
      - [PATCH 2667415]: Support "UseNumeric" option.
      - [PATCH 2775800]: Allow threading to continue when a request is sent

    test:
      - enhance snmpnetstat test to check tcpTable in TCP mode
      - support a -n flag to RUNTESTS to print the test number found in the
	test file as opposed to the numerical count
      - Do not terminate on SIGCHLD since dash and soume bourne shells will
	exit the main shell when a subshell terminates in that case.

    Ports:
      - [BUG 1710910]: initial support for DragonFly BSD
      - [PATCH 1623874]: add GNU/kFreeBSD support

    AIX:
      - [PATCH 1665079]: AIX patches for cpu stats and process monitoring
      - Add support for AIX 6.x
      - Build fixes for embedded Perl
      - Fix default shared library building instead of forcing static
      - Use "-Wl,-brtl" when compiling with gcc

    FreeBSD:
      - [BUG 1073782]: Restore PerfStat values for FreeBSD 5.x systems.
      - [BUG 1633483]: Support CPU HAL on FreeBSD4.x
      - [PATCH 1951996]: Fix for CPU stats on FreeBSD
      - [PATCH 2507249]: sctp-mib support for FreeBSD.
      - Add initial support for upcoming FreeBSD 7
      - Fix configure warning for sys/conf.h
      - patch from Cezary Morga to fix a make test on freebsd

    HP-UX:
      - [BUG 2779472]: Filesystems missing in hrStorage table
      - [PATCH 2088726]: Fix an issue reporting memory in negative values.
      - Needs _REENTRANT defined to pick up strtok_r.

    IRIX:
      - [PATCH 1675869]: CPU statistics for IRIX based on PCP
      - [PATCH 1709748]: Optimized IRIX cpu stats

    Linux:
      - [BUG 1666005]: Fail to walk ipv6InterfaceTable on Linux
      - [PATCH 1581294]: host-resources improvements
      - [PATCH 1969627]: Handle install with empty /etc/sysconfig/network file 
      - [PATCH 1704105]: Add IPv6 support to the inetNetToMediaTable
      - [PATCH 1705594]: Various fixes to ipAddressPrefixTable reporting
      - [PATCH 1708243]: Implement ipDefaultRouteTable
      - [PATCH 1715405]: Implement ipv6ScopeZoneIndexTable
      - [PATCH 1719254]: update HRFS_ignore list to current linux likelyhoods
      - [PATCH 1724602]: MfD-based ipDefaultRouterTable implementation
      - [PATCH 1783423]: return a correct ipv6InterfaceIdentifier of loopback
      - [PATCH 1826102]: support longer interface names
      - [PATCH 1828602]: Support ipDefaultTTL and ipForwarding SETs
      - [PATCH 1896118]: Fix ifTable 32bit counters
      - [PATCH 1927751]: Implement icmpMsgStatsTable
      - [PATCH 2023633]: Implement SCTP-MIB
      - [PATCH 2053273]: Implement EtherLike MIB

    MacOSX:
      - [PATCH 1600453]: OS X compile-time endian determination
      - [PATCH 1600522]: CPU HAL implementation for mach/darwin
      - Improve memory reporting (patch from Apple)

    Solaris:
      - [BUG 1626153]: No hrSWRun informations on Solaris zones
      - [BUG 1810814]: tcpTable missing entries and wrong ports
      - [BUG 1819189]: {ifOperStatus,ipAdEntIfIndex} reported incorrectly
      - [BUG 1822275]: {ifOperStatus,ipAdEntIfIndex} reported incorrectly
      - [PATCH 1623447]: Fix hrSWRun for terminated processes
      - [PATCH 1719730]: Support for ipSystemStatsTable and ipAddressTable
      - [PATCH 1824196]: {ifOperStatus,ipAdEntIfIndex} reported incorrectly
      - [PATCH 1834699]: Fix 1833294: DLPI problems on Solaris 2.6
      - [PATCH 2012404]: Deal with more than 10 interfaces.
      - [PATCH 2751588]: Inconsistent data can be reported on Solaris 10U4+
      - #define NEW_MIB_COMPLIANT to support Solaris 10U4+
      - IF-MIB fix: add missing return at end of get_if_stats

    Win32:
      - [BUG 1662987]: compile error on Cygwin
      - [BUG 2779541]: Fixed handle leak in pass_persist.
      - [PATCH 1622080]: A: pass Win32 handles remain open.
      - [PATCH 1706344]: Fix compilation with cygwin
      - [PATCH 2686248]: Fix several winExtDLL bugs.
      - [PATCH 2688342]: Fix VS2005 various compiler warning
      - [PATCH 2691876]: Allow compiling the services using unicode.
      - [PATCH 2693746]: improved socket startup support
      - Add support for winExtDLL to build.bat
      - Build fixes for MSVC 2008.
      - fix AES support
      - fix win32/Configure --with-ipv6

*5.4*

    build:
      - [BUG 1416481]: Support specifying an explicit linker.
      - enable-as-needed will try to link built libraries against needed
	libraries at library link time, rather than application link time.

    snmplib:
      - [PATCH 1282566]: to rework transport creation to allow for
	alternative interpretations of the address and a more flexible
	transport registration system
      - [BUGS: 1537459, BUGS: 1540745] Fix missing MIB parsing tokens
      - [PATCH 1562168]: check for a sock fd less than 0.
      - [PATCH 1570650]: create a logging shutdown function to propelry
	clean up log registrations if needed.
      - [PATCH 1565293]: UDPIPv6 transport reports wrong port number
      - rename init_mib to netsnmp_init_mib to avoid symbol clash with
	HP-UX's libnm
      - [PATCH 1509943]: responses will get sent from the original dest IP
	address when possible.

    snmpd:
      - [PATCH 1550725]: A new uint instance helper to match the existing
	int, long and ulong helpers
      - [BUG 1527930]: fix smux authentication
      - [PATCH 1561277]: use net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time_ms
	instead of deprecated base_reachable_time
      - [BUG 1474468]: ifConnectorPresent always returns 0
      - [PATCH 1524755]: to better support the UDPTable for unknown address
	types
      - [PATCH 1534877]: to add support for skipping NFS entries in the
	host resources hrStorageTable.	See the skipNFSInHostResources
	token in the snmpd.conf file for details.
      - [PATCH 1557514 ]: Do not attempt to collect data during SET
	processing.
      - [BUG 1535903]: Support spaces within security names
      - Agent builds default module list from a default_mibs.h rather than
	a hard coded configure list
      - [BUG 1559358]: check scanf results for diskio scanning
      - [BUG 1564233]: Have configure test for rpm headers not just the
	libraries
      - [PATCH 1579364]: Updated darwin patch to fix compilation on Tiger
	and Leapord
      - [PATCH 1565703]: patch to fix rapid registrations/deregistration
	issues
      - [PATCH 1562688]: fix ping/reattach agentx code
      - [PATCH 1551948]: Make pass_persist usable on uClinux
      - [PATCH 1568150]: Extend pass_persist error messages that can be
	passed back from the script
      - [PATCH 1570650]: make delete table function public
      - [PATCH 1575984]: block SIGHUP during reconfig
      - [PATCH 1570982 ]: Solaris IF-MIB: Support for IPv6-only interfaces
      - memTotalFree should report total virtual instead of physical memory
      - build fix for --without-kmem-usage
      - [BUG 1585815]: fix mfd bits length calculation
      - [BUG 1427410]: Set auth engineID for SNMPv3 traps.
      - [BUG 1502267]: Build access list in the correct order.
      - [PATCH 1554827]: from rtyle: fix handling of failed proxy SET
	requests
      - [PATCH 1598966]: Fix bug #1598927: #elif build fix

    snmptrapd:
      - the traphandle directive now supports a -t switch to indicate
	matching any OID in the tree below the specified OID
      - [PATCH 1536773]: support partial oid matching
      - [PATCH 1598968]: Fix bug #1587759: snmptrapd doesn't recognize -A
	option

    snmpdf:
      - [BUG 1515507]: Handle failed requests better

    perl:
      - Fixed the perl bulkwalk function
      - [PATCH 1575937]: fix usenumeric output in async varbinds so they
	return OIDs instead of empty strings.
      - update default_store module to latest default_store c-binding
	tokens
      - make perltest fixes for Solaris 2.6 and earlier
      - fixes for 64-bit platforms
      - make perltest fixes for HP-UX
      - make perltest fixes for IRIX

    mib2c:
      - [BUG 1479916]: Restore consistency in row creation code.
      - [BUG 2827269]: Suppress non-ordered TODO comments.

    misc:
      - Most net-snmp specific defines are now (also) available under a
	proper NETSNMP_ prefix. The older, potentially conflicting names as
	well as the autoconf variables can now be turned off by a special
	define.
      - [BUG 1585250]: don't use deprecated options in start script
      - "make test" fixes for non-UDP transports
      - [BUG 1577913]: add missing manual pages for executables, supplied
	by Debian
      - [PATCH 1596028]: from "Stephen J. Friedl": const fixes for the
	mib_api(3) manual page
      - RPM spec file fixes for 64-bit platforms

    MacOSX:
      - [PATCH 1566777]: build fixes for memory_darwin.c
      - build fix for mibII/udpTable

    Tru64:
      - fix "auto_nlist failed on arptab_size at location 0" errors

    IRIX:
      - proper implementation for UCD-SNMP-MIB::laTable (avoiding nlist)

    Solaris:
      - [PATCH 1569537,1569539]: new UDP-MIB and TCP-MIB implementation
	(enable through --with-mib-modules=udp-mib,tcp-mib)

    AIX:
      - use correct ARPTAB_SYMBOL and ARPTAB_SIZE_SYMBOL
      - [BUG 1205300]: nlist err: neither nproc nor _nproc found (same for
	rt_table, rthashsize, rthost, rtnet)




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