Release 4.4.6

CHANGES.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Revision 4.4.6, released 2018-08-XX
+Revision 4.4.6, released 2018-09-13
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 - Improved package build and dependency tracking
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Revision 4.4.6, released 2018-08-XX
   would fail.
 - Fix to tolerate possible duplicate enumerations in `Bits` and `Integer`
   SMI types.
+- Fix to tolerate non-initialised entries in SNMP community table. Once a
+  bad entry sneaked into the SNMP community table, all the subsequent
+  SNMP v1/v2c operations failed. The fix ignores incomplete SNMP community
+  table entries in the course of building indices.
 
 Revision 4.4.5, released 2018-08-05
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pysnmp/proto/rfc1902.py

@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ class Bits(OctetString):
 
     def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         if 'namedValues' in kwargs:
-            Bits = cls.withNamedBits(**kwargs.pop('namedValues'))
+            Bits = cls.withNamedBits(**dict(kwargs.pop('namedValues')))
             return Bits(*args, **kwargs)
 
         return OctetString.__new__(cls)