Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> writes: > On 5/21/21 12:28 AM, Thommandra Gowtham wrote: > > We have been using net-snmp 5.7.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 for the last 3 > > years. We are planning to upgrade to 20.04 and along with it > > upgrade net-snmp as well for picking up new features. > > > > May I know which is the latest LTS version of net-snmp? Is it 5.9 rc1 > > or 5.8.1 rc1? Curious as we want to pick a stable version and need to > > support it. > > The v5.8 branch is no longer maintained so please select the v5.9 > branch.
At this point heavy development of new features in Net-SNMP has greatly slowed (the SNMP protocol is rather stable, no new work in the IETF is doing SNMP design/development). I'll release 5.9.1 likely later today (yay work deadlines are past), and I'd suggest you strongly consider using this one. When we were under very heavy development, we had LTS branches specifically marked with lots of parallel development. These days the most recent patches branch (the 5.9 series) will likely stick around and be supported the longest until eventually 5.10 comes out. As a open source project, we should re-evaluate now what we want to do with the LTS markings given that we're no longer releasing super-new features on a rapid fire basis. IMHO, we should switch to the latest patch branch being supported for as long as possible with the main branch eventually triggering a new release as necessary. Other opinions (very) welcome. -- Wes Hardaker USC/ISI _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
