Update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html
authorTom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:13:35 -0800
changeset 10244 0e9bb5befb60
parent 10243 e70e3a9899fa
child 10245 9c6b26060422
Update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html
CHANGES.html
RELEASE_NOTES
--- a/CHANGES.html	Tue Nov 12 12:45:25 2013 -0800
+++ b/CHANGES.html	Wed Nov 13 06:13:35 2013 -0800
@@ -51,6 +51,44 @@
 us a note on ns-developers mailing list.</p>
 
 <hr>
+<h1>Changes from ns-3.18 to ns-3.18.1</h1>
+<h2>New API:</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li> It is now possible to randomize the time of the first beacon from an
+  access point.  Use an attribute "EnableBeaconJitter" to enable/disable
+  this feature.
+  </li>
+  <li> A new FixedRoomPositionAllocator helper class is available; it
+  allows one to generate a random position uniformly distributed in the
+  volume of a chosen room inside a chosen building.
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li> Logging wildcards:  allow "***" as synonym for "*=**" to turn on all logging.
+  </li>
+  <li> The log component list ("NS_LOG=print-list") is now printed alphabetically.
+  </li>
+  <li> Some deprecated IEEE 802.11p code has been removed from the wifi module
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Changes to build system:</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li> The Python API scanning system (./waf --apiscan) has been fixed (bug 1622)
+  </li> 
+  <li> Waf has been upgraded from 1.7.11 to 1.7.13
+  </li> 
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Changed behavior:</h2>
+<ul>
+  <li> Wifi simulations have additional jitter on AP beaconing (see above) and some bug fixes have been applied to wifi module (see RELEASE_NOTES)
+  </li> 
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
 <h1>Changes from ns-3.17 to ns-3.18</h1>
 
 <h2>New API:</h2>
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES	Tue Nov 12 12:45:25 2013 -0800
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES	Wed Nov 13 06:13:35 2013 -0800
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Release 3.18.1
 ==============
 
+This release is mainly to provide updated compiler support (clang/LLVM)
+and fix the Python API scanning facility.  A few additional bug fixes
+and new features are described below.
+
 Availability
 ------------
 This release will be available from:
@@ -19,7 +23,14 @@
 
 Supported platforms
 -------------------
-To be determined after testing.
+These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
+- Fedora Core 19 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
+- Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
+- Ubuntu 12.04.3 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
+- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
+- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.0.1 and clang-500.2.79
+- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Xcode 5 and g++-4.2.1
+- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
 
 New user-visible features
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