ns-3-dce RELEASE NOTES

This file contains Direct Code Execution release notes (most recent releases first).  

Please refer the page http://www.nsnam.org/projects/direct-code-execution/ for detailed instructions

Release dce-1.4

===============

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3-1.4

   or

 % bake.py configure -e dce-linux-1.4

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-------------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 13.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 14.04 64bit (new)

- Fedora 18 32bit

- CentOS 6.2 64bit

New user-visible features

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- A simple bash example is now added for DCE. You can use a shell script to run on your simulation.

- add Dockerfile for dce-linux-dev

- add emulation version of dce-iperf.cc

Bugs fixed

----------

- Bug 1949 - iproute build failed

- Bug 1952 - DCE can't parse envp argument of main function

- Bug 1953 - add bash-4.1 build for DCE

- avoid python bindings build for static build 

Release dce-1.3

===============

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3-1.3

   or

 % bake.py configure -e dce-linux-1.3

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-------------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

- Ubuntu 13.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 13.10 64bit (new)

- Fedora 18 32bit

- CentOS 6.2 64bit

New user-visible features

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- DCE now requires an additional option to LDFLAGS for applications running on DCE (Bug 1773).

  - we only needed to add '-pie' option to build PIE (Position Independent Executable) binary

  - (new) but we need '-rdynamic' option from now to resolve symbols defined in PIE applications.

- LinuxStackHelper now can configure IPv6 addresses with the support of Ipv6AddressHelper

- DCE Cradle now support IPv6 sockets (TCP6, UDP6, RAW6, DCCP6, SCTP6)

- Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) support, DCE Cradle as well

  you need to install lksctp-dev/lksctp-tools-devel to run example.

- FreeBSD version of network stack is now supported (Bug 1878).

- support socket option (Get/Set sockopt) for DCE Cradle

- Support for tmpfile, timer_create, timer_settime and timer_gettime functions

- Support for Python bindings. The bindings do not exactly match the C++ API 

Bugs fixed

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- Bug 1713 - Ipv6 address configuration support for LinuxStackHelper

- Bug 1827 - Linux SCTP support over DCE

- Bug 1828 - Tests and examples do not compile when sctp-tools is not enabled 

- Bug 1825 - IpL4Protocol not declared in this scope in ipv6-linux.cc

- Bug 1773 - DCE doesn't run on Fedora 19, Ubuntu 13.10 (64bits) (temporal fix)

- Bug 1875 - Memory leak: LinuxSocketImpl:Send()/Sendto() with DCE Cradle

- Bug 1878 - FreeBSD version of network stack for DCE

- Bug 1892 - Support for tmpfile function

- Bug 1806 - CcnClientHelper m_files is never cleared

Release dce-1.2

=============

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3-1.2

   or

 % bake.py configure -e dce-linux-1.2

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-------------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

- Ubuntu 13.04 64bit

- Fedora 18 32bit

- CentOS 6.2 64bit

- CentOS 6.4 64bit

New user-visible features

-------------------------

(none)

Bugs fixed

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- Bug 1759 - dce httpd example stops working with big files (~1MB)

- Bug 1765 - DCE can't use TapBridge if built via bake

- Bug 1804 - dce-ns3-1.1/dce-linux-1.1 can't built with ns3-3.18.1

- Bug 1806 - CcnClientHelper m_files is never cleared

- Bug 1800 - ns-3-dce can't build on debian testing

Known issues

------------

In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available

at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/

In particular, the following bugs are not fixed in this release.

- Bug 1773 - DCE doesn't run on Fedora 19 (64bits)

Release dce-1.1.1 (hotfix)

=========================

This release includes a hotfix for the combination with ns3-18.1.

Bugs fixed

----------

Bug 1804 - dce-ns3-1.1/dce-linux-1.1 can't built with ns3-3.18.1

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3-1.1.1

   or

 % bake.py configure -e dce-linux-1.1.1

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-------------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

- Ubuntu 13.04 64bit

- Fedora 18 32bit

- CentOS 6.2 64bit

- CentOS 6.4 64bit

Release dce-1.1

=============

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3-1.1

   or

 % bake.py configure -e dce-linux-1.1

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-------------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

- Ubuntu 13.04 64bit

- Fedora 18 32bit

New user-visible features

-------------------------

- LTE (LteUeNetDevice) Support with multipath TCP

- early version: Bug 1598 - include tracing system for kernel code

Bugs fixed

----------

- Bug 1709 - dce_select don't clear fds when returning 0

- Bug 1711 - Allow DCE cradle to support ns-3 based bulk send application

- Fix static/optimized build

Known issues

------------

In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available

at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/

Release 1.0

===========

Availability

------------

In order to use DCE, please use bake tool to install DCE.

The followings are the basic steps to use DCE.

 % bake.py configure -e dce-ns3

 % bake.py download

 % bake.py build

For more information, please refer the document.

Tested platforms

-----------------

- Ubuntu 10.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 10.10 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 11.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 11.10 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.04 32bit/64bit

- Ubuntu 12.10 64bit

- Fedora 14 32bit/64bit

- Fedora 15 32bit/64bit

- Fedora 16 32bit/64bit

- Fedora 18 32bit

New user-visible features

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- gcov coverage test support (Bug 1594)

- DCE Cradle (Bug 1593)

- Tested applications

-- ccnx

-- quagga

-- umip

-- iperf

-- ping/ping6

-- iproute (ip command)

-- thttpd

-- wget

Bugs fixed

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- Bug 1624 - glibc-2.15/2.16 on 32bit oses broke dce-iperf

Known issues

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- elf-loader with PthreadFiberManager crashes (Bug 1513)

- no python binding (Bug 1455)

- the lack of IPv6 support with LinuxStackHelper