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		ns-3 RELEASE NOTES
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This file contains ns-3 release notes (most recent releases first).  
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All of the ns-3 documentation is accessible from the ns-3 website: 
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http://www.nsnam.org including tutorials: http://www.nsnam.org/tutorials.html
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Consult the file CHANGES.html for more detailed information about changed
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API and behavior across ns-3 releases.
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This release is not yet available.
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Supported platforms
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- (internet) The native TCP implementation has been refactored, for the following
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  improvements:  1) congestion control has been aligned with the Linux
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  architecture, to facilitate easier coding of new congestion control algorithms
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  or porting implementations from the Linux kernel, 2) Fast Retransmit and Fast
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  recovery algorithms, compliant to RFCs, are shared by all TCP variants, unlike
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  previous releases. 3) TCP Hybla and TCP HighSpeed have been added.
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- (routing) The PrintRoutingTable* functions now print the following informations
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  each time they are called: 1) the node ID, 2) the global time, 3) the local time
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  4) the routing protocol type
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- (internet) L4 protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc.) can be demultiplexed by IP
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  according to the incoming interface. In other words, it is now possible to
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  use specialized L4 protocols according to the interface.
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  in the official reserved IPv6 multicast address list.
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  and Realm-Local, Routers for the above plus Site-Local.
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  unless for extremey specific cases. The Ipv6L3protocol handles almost all the
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  packets directed to the host.
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  the interface they are received from (Strong End System Model, RFC 1222).
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- (internet) UDP and Ipv6 RAW sockets can now join Ipv6 multicast groups.
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  Incomin packets will be filtered according to if there's a socket listening to
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  that group. Source filtering is left to the application.
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Bugs fixed
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- Bug 1132 - useless for loops in block-ack-test-suite.cc
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- Bug 1571 - TCP zero-window and flow control window updates by the receiver
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- Bug 1954 - Serialized size of wifi-net-device differ for TX and RX trace
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- Bug 2003 - Missing DSSS short PLCP preamble
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- Bug 1999 - PointToPointRemoteChannel invokes PointToPointChannel constructor
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Known issues
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In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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Release 3.24.1 is a maintenance release that fixes three issues:
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- support for Xcode 7 clang compiler version
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- detection of Python bindings location
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- compilation problem on 32-bit gcc-4.4 machine
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The issues prevented selected systems from being able to successfully
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build ns-3, and prevented the released version from being able to
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detect the presence of pybindgen used for Python bindings.
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This release is available from:
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https://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.24.1.tar.bz2
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Supported platforms
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This release has been tested on the following platforms:
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- Ubuntu 15.04 (64 bit) with g++-4.9.2
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- Fedora Core 22 (32 bit) with g++-5.1.1
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- Fedora Core 21 (64 bit) with g++-4.9.2
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- Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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- Ubuntu 12.04.4 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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- CentOS/RHEL 6.7 (64-bit) with g++-4.4.7
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- OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with Xcode 7 and Apple LLVM version 7.0.0
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- OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with Xcode 6.4 and Apple LLVM version 6.1.0
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- FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.4.1
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New user-visible features
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Features are identical to release 3.24.
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- Bug 1901 - mesh module producing malformed pcaps
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- Bug 2165 - server replies to SYN (with option TS) with a SYNACK (with option TS) also if the attribute Timestamp is false
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  stations now support two-level aggregation.
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.22.tar.bz2
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- Fedora Core 21 (64 bit) with g++-4.9.2
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- (wifi) Support for MPDU aggregation has been added to the wifi model, 
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  as well as a number of related example programs.
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  wifi module.  The new mechanisms, PARF and APARF, are the first in the
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  wifi module to jointly control transmission power and data rate.  Two use 
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  case examples (PowerAdaptationDistance and PowerAdaptationInterference) 
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  and a test case have also been added.
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- (wave) Additional support has been added for WiFi-based vehicular networks, 
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  including the channel-access coordination features of IEEE 1609.4 and a 
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  comprehensive VANET routing example that includes a Basic Safety 
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  counters.  Together, these allow users to evaluate the performance effects 
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- Bug 1405 - RttEstimator improvements
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- Bug 1734 - TcpSocketBase produces spurious delayed ACKs
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- Bug 2029 - new CQI generation approach fix
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- Bug 2030 - provide default values for WifiTxVector
11158
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- Bug 2037 - HT capabilities may print bogus chars
11139
41dffb7d58cf Bug 2038 - Stop method does not stop next wave in WaveformGenerator
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- Bug 2038 - Stop method does not stop next wave in WaveformGenerator
11209
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- Bug 2042 - LTE a3-rsrp-handover-algorithm.cc:  error: overflow in implicit constant conversion
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- Bug 2043 - print-introspected-doxygen crashes when some modules are disabled 
11193
f35b8f7e50f1 Bug 2053 - In tcp-socket-base.cc, NotifyDataSent incorrectly called with retransmits
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- Bug 2044 - Buffer::Iterator::ReadNtohU16() and ReadNtohU32() not implemented correctly
11151
5c9ec4cf871f Bug 2045 - Missing NS_OBJECT_ENSURE_REGISTERED in TcpTxBuffer and TcpRxBuffer
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parents: 11139
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- Bug 2045 - Missing NS_OBJECT_ENSURE_REGISTERED in TcpTxBuffer and TcpRxBuffer
11209
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- Bug 2046 - set Block Ack timeout when SetStandard is called
11165
d390d8eaafe2 Bug 2047 - Ipv6EndPointDemux::Lookup may crash
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parents: 11158
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- Bug 2047 - Ipv6EndPointDemux::Lookup may crash
11186
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parents: 11179
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- Bug 2049 - CQI feedback should always use the same calculation method
11193
f35b8f7e50f1 Bug 2053 - In tcp-socket-base.cc, NotifyDataSent incorrectly called with retransmits
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- Bug 2053 - In tcp-socket-base.cc, NotifyDataSent incorrectly called with retransmits
11195
0c5e9bfa1b48 Bug 2055 - TxBuffer and RxBuffer traces don't work
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parents: 11193
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- Bug 2055 - TCP TxBuffer and RxBuffer traces don't work
11211
c7f9ed853e60 Add nix-vector lazy flush to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html
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- Nix-vector routing implementation now uses a lazy flush mechanism,
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  which dramatically speeds up the creation of large topologies.
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Known issues
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In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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Release 3.21
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This release is available from:
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.21.tar.bz2
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Supported platforms
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10946
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- Fedora Core 20 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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- Ubuntu 14.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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- Ubuntu 12.04.4 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
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- CentOS/RHEL 6.5 (64-bit) with g++-4.4.7
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- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.1.1 and clang-503.0.40
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- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
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New user-visible features
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- The LTE module now supports the transport of the S1-U, X2-U and X2-C
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  interfaces over emulated links via the new helper class EmuEpcHelper.
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- CommandLine can now provide a shorthand argument name for any
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  Attribute.
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- Implemented support for Frequency Reuse algorithms in LTE module, as the 
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  outcome of GSoC 2014 project. 
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  The project also includes several sub-features, such as:
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   - implementation of Downlink Power Control
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   - implementation of Uplink Power Control
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   - new DL-CQI generation approach, which increases throughput if FR algorithms 
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     are used
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   - seven options of Frequency Reuse algorithms: LteFrNoOpAlgorithm, 
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     LteFrHardAlgorithm, LteFrStrictAlgorithm, LteFrSoftAlgorithm, 
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     LteFfrSoftAlgorithm, LteFfrEnhancedAlgorithm, LteFfrDistributedAlgorithm
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   - updated RadioEnvironmentMapHelper. Now RadioEnvironmentMap can be generated 
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     for Data or Control channel and for specified RbId, what is helpful when 
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     using FR algorithms
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- Added a CoDel queue model.  CoDel queues measure and control the queue
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  traversal delay.  The ns-3 implementation is a port of the Linux 
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  implementation.
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- Added support for TCP timestamp and window scale options, and added
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  ability to trace the TCP slow start threshold value.
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- SimpleNetDevice and SimpleChannel (used for adding basic link effects
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  for testing of higher-layer protocols) have been extended to support 
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  the option of broadcast or PointToPoint link semantics.  The bandwidth
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  and link delay can be constrained, and it uses an output queue.
10899
9b501eb7910c Enhancements to SimpleNetDevice and SimpleChannel
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parents: 10892
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- SimpleNetDevice and SimpleChannel can be installed in a node through 
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  a new helper: SimpleNetDeviceHelper.
10902
527fc624722a Bug 1811 - Basic traffic generator for network module
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parents: 10899
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- Implemented new PacketSocketServer and PacketSocketClient applications.
10946
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  The primary use is in tests, to avoid using the ones from the 
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  application module that also bring in a dependency on the internet module.
10899
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Bugs fixed
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10851
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parents: 10847
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- Bug 1673 - Config::Set/Connect does not search for attributes in parent class
10851
674e0a46b808 refined fix for Bug 1762
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10847
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   433
- Bug 1762 - UE stuck in IDLE_CONNECTING because RRC CONN REQ is not transmitted
10902
527fc624722a Bug 1811 - Basic traffic generator for network module
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10899
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   434
- Bug 1811 - basic traffic generator for network module 
10933
7442f5603ef4 Bug 1824 - L4 protocol sockets should support BindToNetDevice over IPv6
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10920
diff changeset
   435
- Bug 1824 - L4 protocol sockets should support BindToNetDevice over IPv6
10855
7ef081ddfc7f Bug 1831 - TcpSocket SlowStartThreshold is not a TraceSource
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10854
diff changeset
   436
- Bug 1831 - TcpSocket SlowStartThreshold is not a TraceSource
10905
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parents: 10902
diff changeset
   437
- Bug 1851 - WifiRadioEnergyModel energy consumption values are taken from a 802.15.4 chip
10879
a9443dfe8b21 fixed Bug 1893 - issue in DoSchedUlTriggerReq with harq
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10876
diff changeset
   438
- Bug 1854 - std::out_of_range Problem
10906
29ef028eae7b Bug 1858 - wireless examples not correctly recording packet reception - reported by Scott Carpenter <scarpen_at_ncsu.edu>
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10905
diff changeset
   439
- Bug 1858 - wireless examples not correctly recording packet reception
10905
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parents: 10902
diff changeset
   440
- Bug 1860 - TCP needs the Window Scale option
10879
a9443dfe8b21 fixed Bug 1893 - issue in DoSchedUlTriggerReq with harq
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10876
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   441
- Bug 1893 - issue in DoSchedUlTriggerReq with harq
10946
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   442
- Bug 1911 - AODV cannot work on nodes with more than one netdevice
10819
f49b201c1884 Bug 1921 - Icmpv6L4Protocol::ForgeEchoRequest returns a malformed packet
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parents: 10818
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   443
- Bug 1921 - Icmpv6L4Protocol::ForgeEchoRequest returns a malformed packet
10816
6f50759f4394 Bug 1930 - Use of invalid reference in OLSR RemoveLinkTuple
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10815
diff changeset
   444
- Bug 1930 - Use of invalid reference in OLSR RemoveLinkTuple
10818
7c905606c90c Bug 1932 - NdiscCache entry is not failsafe on double neighbor probing
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10816
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   445
- Bug 1932 - NdiscCache entry is not failsafe on double neighbor probing.
10823
311e95076ad1 Bug 1937 - FlowMonitor fails to track multiplexed packets
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10819
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   446
- Bug 1937 - FlowMonitor fails to track multiplexed packets
10905
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parents: 10902
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   447
- Bug 1942 - refactoring of lte-sinr-chunk-processor -> lte-chunk-processor
10840
d19c32382a4b Bug 1943 - Waveform generator signal duration calc error
Sascha Alexander Jopen <jopen@informatik.uni-bonn.de>
parents: 10839
diff changeset
   448
- Bug 1943 - Waveform generator signal duration calc error
10846
c45f06192b19 Bug 1951 - AODV does not update nexthop for 1-hop nodes
Roman Naumann <naumann@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
parents: 10840
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   449
- Bug 1951 - AODV does not update nexthop for 1-hop nodes
10847
e72b8f4c25bb Bug 1955 - The IPv4 identification field should be unique per (source, destination, protocol) tuple
Lynne Salameh <l.salameh@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
parents: 10846
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   450
- Bug 1955 - The IPv4 identification field should be unique per (source, destination, protocol) tuple
10853
43b9107a69a3 Bug 1960 - Wrong information on index range, about Node::GetDevice
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10851
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   451
- Bug 1960 - Wrong information on index range, about Node::GetDevice
10854
e6e590450831 Fix for Bug 1961 - planetlab-tap-creator "variable set but not used"
Alina Quereilhac <alina.quereilhac@inria.fr>
parents: 10853
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   452
- Bug 1961 - planetlab-tap-creator "variable set but not used"
10871
56b912891887 Bug 1963 - AODV can tag the same packet twice (and raise an assert).
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10861
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   453
- Bug 1963 - AODV can tag the same packet twice (and raise an assert)
10946
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parents: 10933
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- Bug 1964 - Integer overflow on UniformRandomVariable::GetInteger()
10876
c676856eafa7 Bug 1967 - LL Multicast is not compressed in the right way in IPHC
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parents: 10871
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   455
- Bug 1967 - LL Multicast is not compressed in the right way in IPHC
10920
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parents: 10906
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   456
- Bug 1981 - PyViz shell not compatible with ipython >= 0.11
10892
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Known issues
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10946
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- Bug 1770 - The mesh module will crash if used for g++ version >= 4.8.1
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in optimized mode, on a 32-bit Linux machine.  Lowering the optimization
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level to -O1 in this case can be used as a workaround.
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Release 3.20
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Availability
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This release is available from:
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.20.tar.bz2
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Supported platforms
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- Fedora Core 20 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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- Ubuntu 14.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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- Ubuntu 12.04.4 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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parents: 10787
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   477
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   478
- CentOS/RHEL 6.5 (64-bit) with g++-4.4.7
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   479
- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.1.1 and clang-503.0.40
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   480
- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
10542
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parents: 10540
diff changeset
   481
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parents: 10540
diff changeset
   482
New user-visible features
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parents: 10540
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-------------------------
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parents: 10540
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10796
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   485
- A new LrWpan model, providing initial support for IEEE 802.15.4 networks
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   486
- A new IPv6 routing protocol has been added: RIPng. This protocol is
2ab9d1721613 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   487
  an Interior Gateway Protocol and it is available in the Internet module.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   488
- A new LTE MAC downlink scheduling algorithm named Channel and QoS Aware (CQA) 
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   489
  Scheduler is provided by the new ``ns3::CqaFfMacScheduler`` object.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   490
- The Internet FlowMonitor can now track IPv6 packets.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   491
- FlowMonitor no longer tracks multicast/broadcast packets, reflecting
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   492
  its original design.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   493
- FlowMonitor "SerializeToXml" functions are now directly available 
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   494
  from the helper.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   495
- The SixLowPan model can now use uncompressed IPv6 headers. An option to
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   496
  define the minimum compressed packet size has been added. 
10688
ad36a71c737c Simplify output of Times in a specific unit; see Time::As ()
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parents: 10686
diff changeset
   497
- Simplify output of Times in a specific unit; see Time::As ()
10796
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   498
- Ipv6Extension::m_dropTrace has been removed. Ipv6L3Protocol::m_dropTrace 
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   499
  is now fired when appropriate.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   500
- IPv4 identification field value is now dependent on the protocol field.
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   501
- Fixes to support Python >= 3.3 in ns3 Python bindings
10590
fbc7c02235fb Enable selection of high precision int64x64 implementation at configure time.
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10589
diff changeset
   502
- Enable selection of high precision int64x64_t implementation
fbc7c02235fb Enable selection of high precision int64x64 implementation at configure time.
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10589
diff changeset
   503
  at configure time, for debugging purposes.
10546
cceae875fefa updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10542
diff changeset
   504
10542
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parents: 10540
diff changeset
   505
Bugs fixed
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parents: 10540
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   506
----------
10706
ac80fd74d8cd Bug 1276 - optimize NistErrorRateModel
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10705
diff changeset
   507
- Bug 1276 - optimize NistErrorRateModel
10624
8711242c4fe6 Bug 1294 - New PeekU8 () and Read (Buffer::Iterator start, uint32_t size) methods in Buffer::Iterator
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 10621
diff changeset
   508
- Bug 1294 - New PeekU8 () and Read (Buffer::Iterator start, uint32_t size) methods in Buffer::Iterator
10796
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   509
- Bug 1443 - MinDistance replaced by MinLoss in FriisPropagationLossModel, to
2ab9d1721613 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10787
diff changeset
   510
  better handle conditions outside of the assumed far field region.
10621
c23778df1349 [Bug 1653] Extension of CommandLine interface
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10619
diff changeset
   511
- Bug 1653 - Extension of CommandLine interface: restored operator << (CommandLine)
10710
1c733dcc50b2 Bug 1717 - Detect unsettable attributes
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 10709
diff changeset
   512
- Bug 1717 - Detect unsettable attributes
10775
6d21630060e2 added missing bugs in RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10774
diff changeset
   513
- Bug 1730 - no model library documentation for spectrum module
10575
16f8ac386faf Bug 1739 - The endpoint is not deallocated for UDP sockets
Juan C. Granda <jcgranda@uniovi.es>
parents: 10572
diff changeset
   514
- Bug 1739 - The endpoint is not deallocated for UDP sockets
10558
022157dbf3e1 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10551
diff changeset
   515
- Bug 1786 - os << int64x64_t prints un-normalized fractional values
10619
78c44da5cc94 Bug 1787 - Runtime error when using AnimationInterface::EnablePacketMetadata() to fetch metadata of CSMA packet
Tom Goff <tgoff@tgoff.net>
parents: 10617
diff changeset
   516
- Bug 1787 - Runtime error when using AnimationInterface::EnablePacketMetadata() to fetch metadata of CSMA packet
10625
c3e9a5530654 [Bug 1792] [Bug 1853] Remove inheritance from std::stream in ParameterLogger
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10624
diff changeset
   517
- Bug 1792 - Parameter logger constructor
10597
6e1bd685bcaa [Bug 1786] Fix for os << (int64x64_t) and fractional arithmetic
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10590
diff changeset
   518
- Bug 1808 - FlowMon relies on IPv4's Identification field to trace packets
10707
bc08a6c3350b Bug 1817 - IPv4 Identification field should consider protocol as well.
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10706
diff changeset
   519
- Bug 1817 - IPv4 Identification field should consider protocol as well.
10692
bdf59f5ace93 Bug 1818: FlowMonitor needs IPv6 support
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10689
diff changeset
   520
- Bug 1818 - FlowMonitor needs IPv6 support
10775
6d21630060e2 added missing bugs in RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10774
diff changeset
   521
- Bug 1820 - models library doc: make should not rm -rf figures
10551
e0fa0db84b6b Bug 1821 - Setting an interface to Down state will cause various asserts in IPv6
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10546
diff changeset
   522
- Bug 1821 - Setting an interface to Down state will cause various asserts in IPv6
10698
88c653a2840a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10692
diff changeset
   523
- Bug 1829 - Multiple TCP socket entries
10572
1aa2cad49e4b Bug 1837 - AODV crashes when using multiple interfaces
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10558
diff changeset
   524
- Bug 1837 - AODV crashes when using multiple interfaces
10576
efba60267342 Bug 1838 - FlowMonitorHelper must not be copied.
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10575
diff changeset
   525
- Bug 1838 - FlowMonitorHelper must not be copied.
10585
4e364bc2f1db Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10576
diff changeset
   526
- Bug 1841 - FlowMonitor fails to install if IPv4 is not installed in the node
10668
50137e334cf2 Bug 1842 - FlowMonitor SerializeToXml<Something> should be called by the helper
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10665
diff changeset
   527
- Bug 1842 - FlowMonitor SerializeToXml<Something> should be called by the helper
10669
46c9391bc38b Bug 1843 - IPv6 extensions dropped packets do not fire L3 drop trace
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10668
diff changeset
   528
- Bug 1843 - IPv6 extensions dropped packets do not fire L3 drop trace
10670
d04c750525d7 Bug 1845 - FlowMonitor should discard any broadcast/multicast packet
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10669
diff changeset
   529
- Bug 1845 - FlowMonitor should discard any broadcast/multicast packet
10589
b7800701d3b3 Updated RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10586
diff changeset
   530
- Bug 1846 - IPv6 should send Destination Unreachable if no route is available
10698
88c653a2840a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10692
diff changeset
   531
- Bug 1850 - TCP NewReno loss behavior
10617
e31b0f7602d8 Bug 1855 - SixLowPanNetDevice is not correctly indexed
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10616
diff changeset
   532
- Bug 1852 - cairo-wideint-private.h error cannot find definitions for fixed-width integral types
10625
c3e9a5530654 [Bug 1792] [Bug 1853] Remove inheritance from std::stream in ParameterLogger
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10624
diff changeset
   533
- Bug 1853 - NS_LOG_FUNCTION broken on OSX 10.9
10617
e31b0f7602d8 Bug 1855 - SixLowPanNetDevice is not correctly indexed
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10616
diff changeset
   534
- Bug 1855 - SixLowPanNetDevice is not correctly indexed
10796
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10787
diff changeset
   535
- Bug 1857 - Detect location of installed boost libraries
10626
16bbfc4cb29d [Bug 1862] NS_LOG="Time=*|prefix_time" causes stack overflow
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10625
diff changeset
   536
- Bug 1862 - NS_LOG="Time=*|prefix_time" causes stack overflow
10777
d7b9a2eb73c8 Update RELEASE_NOTE
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10776
diff changeset
   537
- Bug 1868 - Optimized builds are sensitive to -fstrict-overflow
10648
5970605ca894 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10646
diff changeset
   538
- Bug 1870 - Remove unnecessary AsInt functions
10774
1f47a73ab755 Bug 1872 and 1895 - DSR model improvements (credits also to Tomasz Seweryn <tomasz.seweryn7@gmail.com>)
Yufei Cheng <yfcheng0@gmail.com>
parents: 10773
diff changeset
   539
- Bug 1872 - Inside RREQ processing, in case of IP duplication, packet dropped instead of being forwarded
10701
37823f33885f Bug 1873 - Energy source checked to be aggregated to the node
Tomasz Seweryn <tomasz.seweryn7@gmail.com>
parents: 10698
diff changeset
   540
- Bug 1873 - Energy source checked to be aggregated to the node
10646
a68b000ae77b Bug 1874 - Ipv4L3Protocol::ProcessFragment: addressCombination and idProto identifiers not properly computed
Rubén Martínez <rmartinez@deic.uab.cat>
parents: 10626
diff changeset
   541
- Bug 1874 - Ipv4L3Protocol::ProcessFragment: addressCombination and idProto identifiers not properly computed
10709
82c7c2aabbb1 Bug 1876 - enable OLSR HNA table access
Christopher Kosecki <christopher.l.kosecki.ctr@mail.mil>
parents: 10707
diff changeset
   542
- Bug 1876 - enable OLSR HNA table access
10796
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   543
- Bug 1877 - constructors missing for PropagationLossModels
10662
b2a9cfe37c78 [Bug 1882] update RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10648
diff changeset
   544
- Bug 1882 - int64x64 tests trigger valgrind bug
10663
dbc51b515e49 Bug 1883 - IPv6 don't consider the prefix and network when choosing output address
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10662
diff changeset
   545
- Bug 1883 - IPv6 don't consider the prefix and network when choosing output address
10775
6d21630060e2 added missing bugs in RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10774
diff changeset
   546
- Bug 1885 - WifiSpectrumValue5MhzFactory::CreateRfFilter does not align with the used 5Mhz SpectrumModel
10678
cbaefda493be Bug 1887 - Point-to-point traces should contain PPP headers
Eugene Chemeritskiy <echemeritskiy@arccn.ru>
parents: 10670
diff changeset
   547
- Bug 1887 - Point-to-point traces should contain PPP headers
10684
156ee4e1f4aa Bug 1888 - COST231 propagation loss model: corrections
Biljana Bojović <biljana.bojovic@gmail.com>
parents: 10683
diff changeset
   548
- Bug 1888 - COST231 propagation loss model: corrections
10773
04303015c3b5 fix RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10710
diff changeset
   549
- Bug 1889 - PointToPointNetDevice: In some cases MacTxDrop trace is not called
10682
20ce79766233 Bug 1890 - UdpClientTrace: MPEG frame size is squeezed into (insufficient) 16 bit integer
Eugene Chemeritskiy <echemeritskiy@arccn.ru>
parents: 10681
diff changeset
   550
- Bug 1890 - UdpClientTrace: MPEG frame size is squeezed into (insufficient) 16 bit integer
10681
42d060863f5d Bug 1891 - UdpSocketImpl::GetSockName doesn't return the IPv6 address
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10678
diff changeset
   551
- Bug 1891 - UdpSocketImpl::GetSockName doesn't return the IPv6 address
10776
ee392f91fda6 Bug 1894 - CqaFfMacScheduler needs an update
Biljana Bojovic <biljana.bojovic@gmail.com>
parents: 10775
diff changeset
   552
- Bug 1894 - CqaFfMacScheduler needs an update
10774
1f47a73ab755 Bug 1872 and 1895 - DSR model improvements (credits also to Tomasz Seweryn <tomasz.seweryn7@gmail.com>)
Yufei Cheng <yfcheng0@gmail.com>
parents: 10773
diff changeset
   553
- Bug 1895 - IP header Source Address changed while forwarding RREQ
10796
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10787
diff changeset
   554
- Bug 1900 - Avoid floating point differences across platforms in test outputs
10705
2b4472775de6 Bug 1903 - Namespace usage in olsr-state.cc/h
Konstantinos Katsaros <dinos.katsaros@gmail.com>
parents: 10701
diff changeset
   555
- Bug 1903 - Namespace usage in olsr-state.cc/h
10807
330f167e9c60 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10799
diff changeset
   556
- Bug 1907 - Add IsSupportedMcs method in YansWifiPhy
10796
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10787
diff changeset
   557
- Bug 1912 - Avoid multiple Wifi MacTxMiddle instances
2ab9d1721613 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 10787
diff changeset
   558
- Bug 1913 - Avoid crash in Wifi BlockAckManager::GetNextPacket()
10785
e4c5fc7f7f5b Bug 1915 - BRITE channel delay is rounded to an integer
Chris Hood <chood8@gatech.edu>
parents: 10777
diff changeset
   559
- Bug 1915 - BRITE channel delay is rounded to an integer
10787
5f2a338bbf5c Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10785
diff changeset
   560
- Bug 1916 - RandomWalk2dMobilityMode default "Bounds" attribute is not a rectangle
10807
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10799
diff changeset
   561
- Bug 1919 - Strip trailing semi-colons from mobility trace files
330f167e9c60 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10799
diff changeset
   562
- Bug 1920 - Remove DSR attributes so file can be re-loaded by config-store
330f167e9c60 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10799
diff changeset
   563
- Bug 1922 - WAVE GetSsid should not be fatal
10810
b253af519662 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10807
diff changeset
   564
- Bug 1923 - Setting Active Probing to false in Wifi Sta has no effect
10812
26cf5449be0a update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 10810
diff changeset
   565
- Bug 1924 - sensing radius and CCA
10542
b7b6d7a1a79f start new version RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 10540
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   566
10799
6ba6e4674c29 describe bug 1770 issue and workaround
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parents: 10796
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   567
Known issues
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parents: 10796
diff changeset
   568
------------
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parents: 10796
diff changeset
   569
- Bug 1770 - The mesh module will crash if used for g++ version >= 4.8.1
6ba6e4674c29 describe bug 1770 issue and workaround
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10796
diff changeset
   570
in optimized mode, on a 32-bit Linux machine.  Lowering the optimization
6ba6e4674c29 describe bug 1770 issue and workaround
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10796
diff changeset
   571
level to -O1 in this case can be used as a workaround.
6ba6e4674c29 describe bug 1770 issue and workaround
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parents: 10796
diff changeset
   572
10540
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parents: 10533
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   573
Release 3.19
10422
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parents: 10421
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   574
=============
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parents: 10421
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parents: 10421
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   576
Availability
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parents: 10421
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------------
10540
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parents: 10533
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   578
This release is available from:
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   579
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
10422
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parents: 10421
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parents: 10421
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   581
Supported platforms
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parents: 10421
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10540
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   583
These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
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parents: 10533
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   584
- Fedora Core 20 (32 bit) with g++-4.8.2
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   585
- Fedora Core 19 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   586
- Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   587
- Ubuntu 12.04.3 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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parents: 10533
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   588
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
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parents: 10533
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   589
- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.0.1 and clang-500.2.79
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parents: 10533
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   590
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Xcode 5 and g++-4.2.1
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parents: 10533
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   591
- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
10422
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parents: 10421
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10421
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   593
New user-visible features
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parents: 10421
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10519
f7f72f3cc6e3 updated RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html with GSoC 2013 LTE details
Budiarto Herman <budiarto.herman@magister.fi>
parents: 10516
diff changeset
   595
- Extension to UE measurements and improved handover algorithm models in LTE
f7f72f3cc6e3 updated RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html with GSoC 2013 LTE details
Budiarto Herman <budiarto.herman@magister.fi>
parents: 10516
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   596
  module, as the outcome of GSoC 2013 project. The project also includes several
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  sub-features, such as:
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   - implementation of System Information Block Type 1 (SIB1);
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parents: 10516
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   - a new option for automatic UE attachment using Idle mode cell selection
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parents: 10516
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     procedure;
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parents: 10516
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   - improved configurability of UE measurements; and
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parents: 10516
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   - two options of handover algorithms for enabling automatic handover trigger
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parents: 10516
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     in LTE simulation: A2-A4-RSRQ and strongest cell (A3-RSRP).
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- A new FixedRoomPositionAllocator has been added to the buildings
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  module. It allows one to generate a random position uniformly
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parents: 10519
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  distributed in the volume of a chosen room inside a chosen building.  
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parents: 10519
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parents: 10519
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- A new attribute ns3::LteRlcAm::TxOpportunityForRetxAlwaysBigEnough
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parents: 10519
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  allows to overcome the lack for re-segmentation in the RLC AM
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parents: 10519
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  implementation by assuming that the size of a TxOpportunity is
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parents: 10519
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  always big enough for the RLC AM PDU to be retransmitted.
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parents: 10519
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parents: 10519
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- After some profiling, the code of LteMiErrorModel has been optimized
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parents: 10519
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  for speed, resulting in a significantly lower execution time of the
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parents: 10519
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   616
  LTE model when used with the error model enabled.
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parents: 10519
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- A new WiFi extension for vehicular simulation support is available in 
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  the src/wave directory.  The current code represents an interim capability 
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  to realize an IEEE 802.11p-compliant device, but without the WAVE 
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parents: 10528
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  extensions (which are planned for a later patch).  The WaveNetDevice 
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  modelled herein enforces that a WAVE-compliant physical layer (at 5.9 GHz)
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  is selected, and does not require any association between devices (similar 
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  to an adhoc WiFi MAC), but is otherwise similar (at this time) to a 
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parents: 10528
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  WifiNetDevice.  WAVE capabililties of switching between control and 
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parents: 10528
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  service channels, or using multiple radios, are not yet modelled.
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parents: 10528
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parents: 10528
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- A new IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) model
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parents: 10528
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  is available.  Using ns-3's naming convention, the acronym is expanded
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parents: 10528
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  to SixLowPanNetDevice.   The SixLowPanNetDevice is able to act as a 
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parents: 10528
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  shim between IPv6 and a NetDevice, compressing IPv6 headers according 
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parents: 10528
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  to RFCs 4944 and 6262.  The SixLowPanNetDevice is meant to be used over 
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parents: 10528
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  IEEE 802.15.4 NetDevices, but it can be used on other NetDevices as 
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  well (see the manual for full details).  This model precedes the
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parents: 10528
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  general availability of an 802.15.4 model, so must be run in conjunction
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parents: 10528
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  with a wired NetDevice model for now, or with experimental versions of
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parents: 10528
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   637
  802.15.4 models.
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parents: 10528
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parents: 10528
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- It is now possible to use Ipv6PacketInfoTag from UDP applications in the
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parents: 10528
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  same way as with Ipv4PacketInfoTag. See Doxygen for current limitations in
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parents: 10528
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  using Ipv[4,6]PacketInfoTag to set IP properties.
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parents: 10528
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- Ipv[4,6]Interfaces not respecting the minimum MTU requirements (68 octects
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parents: 10528
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  for IPv4 and 1280 octects for IPv6) will be automatically set as Down.
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parents: 10528
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parents: 10528
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   646
- IPv6 addresses and routing tables are printed in a more conventional way,
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parents: 10528
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  closely matching the Linux "route -A inet6" command.
10533
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
   648
0daa97dec8db add to notes regarding null message parallel scheduler and new time units
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
   649
- Additional time units (Year, Day, Hour, Minute) were added to the time
0daa97dec8db add to notes regarding null message parallel scheduler and new time units
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
   650
  value class that represents simulation time; the largest unit prior to 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10530
diff changeset
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  this addition was Second.
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
   652
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
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- A new parallel scheduling algorithm based on null messages, a common 
0daa97dec8db add to notes regarding null message parallel scheduler and new time units
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
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  parallel DES scheduling algorithm, has been added.  The null message 
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parents: 10530
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   655
  scheduler has better scaling properties when running on some scenarios
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
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  with large numbers of nodes since it does not require a global 
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parents: 10530
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  communication.
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parents: 10528
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parents: 10421
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   659
Bugs fixed
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10421
diff changeset
   660
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10516
f70e78d94658 [Bug 1496] Finish the documentation.
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10515
diff changeset
   661
- Bug 1496 - Option to print log level in NS_LOG messages, and documentation.
10526
a69d7ca6e5b4 Bug 1592 - Parsing bug in FlowMonitor example script (fix suggested by Eric Hein)
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10520
diff changeset
   662
- Bug 1592 - Parsing bug in FlowMonitor example script
10520
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10519
diff changeset
   663
- Bug 1756 - RLC AM Mode State Variable Bug
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10519
diff changeset
   664
- Bug 1763 - Message 3 should be sent using the UL GRANT in the RAR
10434
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10422
diff changeset
   665
- Bug 1778 - Implement TapBridge::IsLinkUp() function
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10422
diff changeset
   666
- Bug 1777 - Implement the more direct way of "using" configuration of existing tap interface
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10422
diff changeset
   667
- Bug 1776 - Improve CRC performance for CsmaNetDevice in emulation modes
10520
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10519
diff changeset
   668
- Bug 1788 - unused private field warning
10510
34299825e664 Bug 1789 - missing test condition for sigma in buildings-shadowing-test
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10494
diff changeset
   669
- Bug 1789 - missing test condition for sigma in buildings-shadowing-test
10528
c1e835b43726 Bug 1796 - Ipv6PacketInfoTag is not filled by UdpSocketImpl::ForwardUp6.
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10526
diff changeset
   670
- Bug 1796 - Ipv6PacketInfoTag is not filled by UdpSocketImpl::ForwardUp6
10438
32b7a66dbe7f Bug 1798 - Changing the rate of onOffApplication might stop transmission
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10434
diff changeset
   671
- Bug 1798 - Changing the rate of onOffApplication might stop transmission
10467
c5bf751f8d4e Bug 1802 - FlowMon header deserialization problem with IPv4 fragments
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10459
diff changeset
   672
- Bug 1802 - FlowMon header deserialization problem with IPv4 fragments
10520
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10519
diff changeset
   673
- Bug 1803 - Lookup /NodeList/4/DeviceList/0/LteEnbRrc/UeMap/0 got no matches
10457
299e2483e596 Bug 1807 - Multiple bugs in Ipv4L3Protocol::LocalDeliver
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10438
diff changeset
   674
- Bug 1807 - Multiple bugs in Ipv4L3Protocol::LocalDeliver
10512
f222d52c616f Bug 1810 - IP packets can be sent on NetDevices not respecting the minimum MTU requirements
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10510
diff changeset
   675
- Bug 1810 - IP packets can be sent on NetDevices not respecting the minimum MTU requirements
10515
8238217cb0c3 Bug 1814 - IPv6 Packets with length not multiple of 8 bytes are fragmented incorrectly.
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10514
diff changeset
   676
- Bug 1814 - IPv6 Packet with length not multiple of 8 bytes are fragmented incorrectly.
10540
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10533
diff changeset
   677
- Bug 1815 - Python bindings compilation with clang compiler toolchain
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   678
- Bug 1816 - IPv4 fragmentation loses Packet tags
10686
62079cdaafc4 Bug 1877 - constructor missing for <something>PropagationLossModels
Scott Carpenter <scarpen@ncsu.edu>
parents: 10684
diff changeset
   679
- Bug 1877 - constructor missing for <something>PropagationLossModels
10540
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   680
322102df792e Update RELEASE_NOTES for release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10533
diff changeset
   681
Release 3.18.2
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   682
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   683
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   684
ns-allinone-3.18.2 was released to include a bake configuration file update
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parents: 10533
diff changeset
   685
for Direct Code Execution.  The ns-3 code in this release was unchanged
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parents: 10533
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from that of ns-3.18.1.
10422
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10421
diff changeset
   687
10421
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10401
diff changeset
   688
Release 3.18.1
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parents: 10401
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parents: 10401
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   690
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parents: 10401
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This release is mainly to provide updated compiler support (clang/LLVM)
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parents: 10401
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and fix the Python API scanning facility.  A few additional bug fixes
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parents: 10401
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and new features are described below.
9758
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parents: 9756
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
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Availability
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parents: 9756
diff changeset
   696
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parents: 10401
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This release is available from:
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parents: 10401
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.18.1.tar.bz2
9758
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parents: 9756
diff changeset
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
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   700
Supported platforms
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parents: 9756
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10421
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parents: 10401
diff changeset
   702
These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
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parents: 10401
diff changeset
   703
- Fedora Core 19 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
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parents: 10401
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- Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit) with g++-4.8.1
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parents: 10401
diff changeset
   705
- Ubuntu 12.04.3 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10401
diff changeset
   706
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
f6cfad75eea5 update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html for ns-3.18.1 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10401
diff changeset
   707
- OS X Mavericks 10.9 with Xcode 5.0.1 and clang-500.2.79
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10401
diff changeset
   708
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with Xcode 5 and g++-4.2.1
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10401
diff changeset
   709
- FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE (64 bit) with clang-3.3
10234
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
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New user-visible features
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
   713
- It is now possible to randomize the time of the first beacon from an 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   714
  access point.  Use an attribute "EnableBeaconJitter" to enable/disable 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
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  this feature.
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
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- A new FixedRoomPositionAllocator helper class is available; it
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parents: 10230
diff changeset
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  allows one to generate a random position uniformly distributed in the
10229
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Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10228
diff changeset
   718
  volume of a chosen room inside a chosen building.
4da5979086e8 Logging wildcards: allow "***" as synonym for "*=**"
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10228
diff changeset
   719
- Logging wildcards:  allow "***" as synonym for "*=**" to turn on all logging.
10230
cb1431abab4a Print log component list alphabetically.
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10229
diff changeset
   720
- The log component list ("NS_LOG=print-list") is now printed alphabetically.
10188
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   721
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   722
Bugs fixed
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   723
----------
10234
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   724
- Bug 1779 - NS_UNUSED_GLOBAL not working in attribute test class declaration
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   725
- Bug 1766 - Fixes to wifi-hidden-terminal.cc example
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   726
- Bug 1722 - Avoid transmitting beacons concurrently
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   727
- Bug 1691 - RTS/CTS NAV reset prematurely
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   728
- Bug 1622 - Avoid waf hanging during apiscan
10210
674b7a1cb71e Bug 1616 - WifiPhyStateHelper reports false CCA_BUSY times at State trace source
Karsten Roscher <sfx@rocktale.de>
parents: 10209
diff changeset
   729
- Bug 1616 - WifiPhyStateHelper reports false CCA_BUSY times at State trace source
10234
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   730
- Bug 1552 - Storing log name inside LogComponent class (NS_LOG) as std::string
10211
1af765ed27c8 Bug 1011 - assert failed. file=../src/devices/wifi/dcf-manager.cc
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10210
diff changeset
   731
- Bug 1011 - assert failed. file=../src/devices/wifi/dcf-manager.cc
10234
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   732
- bug 945 - remove deprecated IEEE 802.11p code from wifi module
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   733
- Fix aliasing bug in optimized static builds
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   734
- Fix memory leak due to circular reference in MPI module
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   735
- Make wifi tests more robust to random variable perturbations
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   736
- Fix Time class doxygen
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   737
- Fix compilation with Clang 3.2 and newer versions, including Apple Xcode 5
cef71461175a Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10230
diff changeset
   738
- Miscellaneous NetAnim fixes
10188
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   739
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   740
Release 3.18
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   741
=============
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   742
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   743
Availability
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   744
------------
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   745
This release is available from: 
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   746
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.18.tar.bz2
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   747
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   748
Supported platforms
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   749
-------------------
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   750
These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   751
- Fedora Core 18 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.2
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   752
- Fedora Core 17 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.0
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   753
- Ubuntu 13.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.3
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   754
- Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   755
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   756
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 with g++-4.2.1
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   757
- FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (64 bit) with g++-4.2.1
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   758
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   759
New user-visible features
f2177f4b2cb1 update repository to start work on ns-3.19
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10179
diff changeset
   760
-------------------------
9944
fe52d2eda4e7 Add hash to CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9920
diff changeset
   761
- Time attributes can now be bounded.  See attribute-test-suite.cc for an
fe52d2eda4e7 Add hash to CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9920
diff changeset
   762
  example.
10119
8d243058531d update CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10112
diff changeset
   763
- Data collection components have been added to the stats module.  These
8d243058531d update CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10112
diff changeset
   764
  components can be used to generate time series data in files and plots.
8d243058531d update CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10112
diff changeset
   765
- IPv6 address class 2001:db8::/32 is now dropped by routers (RFC 3849).
9944
fe52d2eda4e7 Add hash to CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9920
diff changeset
   766
- New generic hash function interface.  Two hash functions are provided:
fe52d2eda4e7 Add hash to CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9920
diff changeset
   767
  murmur3 (default), and the venerable FNV1a.  See the Hash Functions
fe52d2eda4e7 Add hash to CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9920
diff changeset
   768
  section in the Manual.
9946
df4a7e93c13d Mac16Address added, Mac64Address refactored, and Mac[16,64]Address can be used in IPv6
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9944
diff changeset
   769
- New Mac16Address has been added, Mac64Address is now in-line with 
df4a7e93c13d Mac16Address added, Mac64Address refactored, and Mac[16,64]Address can be used in IPv6
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9944
diff changeset
   770
  Mac48Address and all the three can be used in IPv6 autoconfigure. 
10101
9658a01ee462 addressed the comments in https://codereview.appspot.com/11374043/#msg2
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9946
diff changeset
   771
- Previously, the use of Building models was limited to the use of the
9658a01ee462 addressed the comments in https://codereview.appspot.com/11374043/#msg2
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9946
diff changeset
   772
  companion BuildingsMobilityModel. Now, any MobilityModel can be
9658a01ee462 addressed the comments in https://codereview.appspot.com/11374043/#msg2
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9946
diff changeset
   773
  used with Building models. 
10103
c6d9b9da1a40 updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10101
diff changeset
   774
- The latest LTE module code by the LENA project has been merged,
c6d9b9da1a40 updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10101
diff changeset
   775
  including the following new features: 
c6d9b9da1a40 updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10101
diff changeset
   776
   - PHY support for UE measurements (RSRP and RSRQ)
c6d9b9da1a40 updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10101
diff changeset
   777
   - RRC support for UE measurements (configuration, execution, reporting)
c6d9b9da1a40 updated RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 10101
diff changeset
   778
   - Automatic Handover trigger based on RRC UE measurement reports
10127
f4cee68de571 Bug 1721 - Path MTU isn't handled properly
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10119
diff changeset
   779
- IPv6 can now detect and use Path-MTU. See 
f4cee68de571 Bug 1721 - Path MTU isn't handled properly
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10119
diff changeset
   780
  examples/ipv6/fragmentation-ipv6-two-MTU.cc for an example.
10129
5d1521685ad9 Bug 1728 - Radvd application is missing an Helper
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10128
diff changeset
   781
- Radvd application have a new Helper. See the updated 
5d1521685ad9 Bug 1728 - Radvd application is missing an Helper
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10128
diff changeset
   782
  examples/ipv6/radvd.cc for an example.
10139
17a71cd49da3 partial 802.11n support
Ghada Badawy <gbadawy@gmail.com>
parents: 10131
diff changeset
   783
- 11n- It is now possible to create a high throughput (HT) node that used the new 11n data rates and preambles.
10143
48f66512ec9b [PATCH] core: Extending public interface of CommandLine class
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 10139
diff changeset
   784
- It is now possible to request printing command line arguments to the
48f66512ec9b [PATCH] core: Extending public interface of CommandLine class
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 10139
diff changeset
   785
  desired output stream using PrintHelp or operator <<
9758
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   786
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   787
Bugs fixed
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   788
----------
10147
52b4fed4e789 Fix Bug 1687: wscript features report doesn't respect NOCOLOR
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10146
diff changeset
   789
- Bug  760 - IP address removal can be painful
10159
4cb133203819 Addendum to bug 1522
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10147
diff changeset
   790
- Bug 1190 - Suppress hello if bcast was sent within the last hello interval
9918
dc9ec9fb4578 Bug 1296 - Enhancement in Ipv[4,6]RoutingHelper
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 9916
diff changeset
   791
- Bug 1296 - Enhancement in Ipv[4,6]RoutingHelper
9849
b3ec74c99612 Bug 1697 - ICMPv6 Redirect trigger contains multiple bugs
Guowang Shi <shiguowang2007@gmail.com>
parents: 9848
diff changeset
   792
- Bug 1390 - ICMPv6 Redirect are handled correctly only for /64 networks
10159
4cb133203819 Addendum to bug 1522
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10147
diff changeset
   793
- Bug 1522 - Hidden node scenario leads to ARP failure
10179
8dc92cb1e737 bug 1584: Association Request Timeouts not canceled. - Fixed copy-paste error in 831ad8abd1c0.
Andrey Mazo <mazo@iitp.ru>
parents: 10170
diff changeset
   794
- Bug 1584 - Old Association Request Timeouts are not canceled
10162
46af8ddb9a53 update release notes
John Abraham <john.abraham.in@gmail.com>
parents: 10159
diff changeset
   795
- Bug 1629 - Make AODV Default to Disable Hello
9815
ffa2ab77b59b Update the RELEASE_NOTE (track fixed bugs)
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9814
diff changeset
   796
- Bug 1643 - NdiscCache creation and existence checks
9835
3efac978b3c9 Bug 1700 - Ipv6RawSocket does not honor the bound address when sending packets
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9817
diff changeset
   797
- Bug 1646 - ICMPv6 Redirect are sent from global address instead of link-local
9815
ffa2ab77b59b Update the RELEASE_NOTE (track fixed bugs)
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9814
diff changeset
   798
- Bug 1662 - m_type not set for Ipv6OptionRouterAlertHeader
9814
f31e38c2614a Bug 1678 - C++11 compliance problem with std::pair
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9758
diff changeset
   799
- Bug 1678 - C++11 compliance problem with std::pair"
9920
e90d966ba939 Bug 1682 - ./waf crashes on FC10
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9919
diff changeset
   800
- Bug 1682 - ./waf crashes on FC10
9815
ffa2ab77b59b Update the RELEASE_NOTE (track fixed bugs)
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9814
diff changeset
   801
- Bug 1683 - IPv6 autoconfigured don't use *infinite* lifetimes
9816
e86da132e7e9 Fix Bug 1669 - ns-3 should support binding two and three (possibly more) arguments
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9815
diff changeset
   802
- Bug 1669 - ns-3 should support binding two and three (possibly more) arguments
9916
725d7c8811b8 Bug 1675 - Throughput computation error in Wireless examples
Junling Bu <linlinjavaer@gmail.com>
parents: 9915
diff changeset
   803
- Bug 1675 - Throughput computation error in Wireless examples
10147
52b4fed4e789 Fix Bug 1687: wscript features report doesn't respect NOCOLOR
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10146
diff changeset
   804
- Bug 1687 - wscript features report doesn't respect NOCOLOR
9848
800877664177 Bug 1688 - Routers should advertise themselves from the link-local address
Guowang Shi <shiguowang2007@gmail.com>
parents: 9837
diff changeset
   805
- Bug 1688 - Routers should advertise themselves from the link-local address
9817
cfb7c304cf2d Bug 1689 - IPv6 shouldn't add a default gateway without checking the Router lifetime
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9816
diff changeset
   806
- Bug 1689 - IPv6 shouldn't add a default gateway without checking the Router lifetime
10170
69d9828c473d update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10162
diff changeset
   807
- Bug 1690 - missing header files from wifi wscript
9849
b3ec74c99612 Bug 1697 - ICMPv6 Redirect trigger contains multiple bugs
Guowang Shi <shiguowang2007@gmail.com>
parents: 9848
diff changeset
   808
- Bug 1697 - ICMPv6 Redirect trigger contains multiple bugs
9914
201715662b32 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9892
diff changeset
   809
- Bug 1698 - mobility.SetPositionAllocator misses prefix "ns3::"
9835
3efac978b3c9 Bug 1700 - Ipv6RawSocket does not honor the bound address when sending packets
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9817
diff changeset
   810
- Bug 1700 - Ipv6RawSocket does not honor the bound address when sending packets
9836
d675eb43a62f Bug 1701 - Ipv6StaticRouting: the source address should match the destination scope
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9835
diff changeset
   811
- Bug 1701 - Ipv6StaticRouting: the source address should match the destination scope
10131
0dc090fc749d Bug 1702 - A router should't aways add itself as the default router
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10129
diff changeset
   812
- Bug 1702 - Ipv6InterfaceContainer::SetRouter should not always add the router as the default router.
9837
9981985e3b3b Bug 1703 - Nodes don't react to a DAD
Guowang Shi <shiguowang2007@gmail.com>
parents: 9836
diff changeset
   813
- Bug 1703 - Nodes don't react to a DAD
9882
a975d133fa12 Bug 1712 - The IP (v4 and v6) forwarding needs a test
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9855
diff changeset
   814
- Bug 1712 - The IP (v4 and v6) forwarding needs a test
9853
5048f46bddd3 Bug 1718 - Ipv4StaticRouting log component is misspelled
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9849
diff changeset
   815
- Bug 1718 - Ipv4StaticRouting log component is misspelled
9855
d478e8a3b66e Bug 1720 - IPv6 Fragmentation cause crashes
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9854
diff changeset
   816
- Bug 1720 - IPv6 Fragmentation cause crashes
10127
f4cee68de571 Bug 1721 - Path MTU isn't handled properly
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10119
diff changeset
   817
- Bug 1721 - Path MTU isn't handled properly
10170
69d9828c473d update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 10162
diff changeset
   818
- Bug 1723 - name clash in ipv4-header.h with <termios.h>
9886
243b172140ca Bug 1727 - Ping6 should use a proper source address
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 9882
diff changeset
   819
- Bug 1727 - Ping6 should use a proper source address
10129
5d1521685ad9 Bug 1728 - Radvd application is missing an Helper
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10128
diff changeset
   820
- Bug 1728 - Radvd application is missing an Helper
9914
201715662b32 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9892
diff changeset
   821
- Bug 1731 - lte-phy-error-model passes unexpectedly
10146
efc260b40738 Update RELEASE_NOTES with Bug 1738
Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <barnes26@llnl.gov>
parents: 10143
diff changeset
   822
- Bug 1738 - strict aliasing compiler bug
10112
fa446d420a4a Bug 1742 - IPv6 HbH and Dst Extension Header size is not correctly calculated
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Roselly <fnavarro@ujaen.es>
parents: 10103
diff changeset
   823
- Bug 1742 - IPv6 HbH and Dst Extension Header size is not correctly calculated
10128
f30c35341c5a Bug 1752 - RadvdInterface m_defaultLifeTime is set to milliseconds instead of seconds
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10127
diff changeset
   824
- Bug 1752 - RadvdInterface m_defaultLifeTime is set to milliseconds instead of seconds
10159
4cb133203819 Addendum to bug 1522
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 10147
diff changeset
   825
- Bug 1753 - Halting Issue with DistributedSimulatorImpl
10143
48f66512ec9b [PATCH] core: Extending public interface of CommandLine class
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 10139
diff changeset
   826
- Bug 1754 - Missing GIL lock in generated callback destructor
9758
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   827
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   828
Known issues
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   829
------------
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   830
In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   831
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
b7f82950d534 prepare for next release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9756
diff changeset
   832
9750
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   833
Release 3.17
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   834
============
9212
294690720935 start CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for next ns-3 version
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   835
294690720935 start CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for next ns-3 version
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   836
Availability
294690720935 start CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for next ns-3 version
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   837
------------
9756
b4a70b99171a update RELEASE_NOTES for availability
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9752
diff changeset
   838
This release is available from: 
b4a70b99171a update RELEASE_NOTES for availability
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9752
diff changeset
   839
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.17.tar.bz2
9212
294690720935 start CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for next ns-3 version
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   840
294690720935 start CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for next ns-3 version
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   841
Supported platforms
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-------------------
9750
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 9745
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These platforms have been tested; others may work also:
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parents: 9745
diff changeset
   844
- Fedora Core 18 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.2
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 9745
diff changeset
   845
- Fedora Core 17 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.0
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   846
- Ubuntu 13.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.3
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   847
- Ubuntu 12.10 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   848
- Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 9745
diff changeset
   849
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 9745
diff changeset
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- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 with g++-4.2.1
d3b64d12f051 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9745
diff changeset
   851
- FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (64 bit) with g++-4.2.1
9212
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parents: 9206
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New user-visible features
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parents: 9206
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-------------------------
9714
e15fefdc07f4 Documentation
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9698
diff changeset
   855
- new TCP Westwood and Westwood+ models
9752
c2c31a5059d4 update changes.html and release notes for FdNetDevice changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9750
diff changeset
   856
- new FdNetDevice model and associated helpers.  The FdNetDevice is able
c2c31a5059d4 update changes.html and release notes for FdNetDevice changes
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parents: 9750
diff changeset
   857
  to read and write from a file descriptor.  Various helpers are provided
c2c31a5059d4 update changes.html and release notes for FdNetDevice changes
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parents: 9750
diff changeset
   858
  to associate this descriptor with underlying devices or sockets on the 
c2c31a5059d4 update changes.html and release notes for FdNetDevice changes
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parents: 9750
diff changeset
   859
  host operating system, including a packet socket for emulation, and
c2c31a5059d4 update changes.html and release notes for FdNetDevice changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9750
diff changeset
   860
  tap devices including a version specialized for use on PlanetLab.
9233
4a9feececbf3 fix RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9232
diff changeset
   861
- ns-3-click: it's now possible to (i) have Click pull random numbers from
4a9feececbf3 fix RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9232
diff changeset
   862
  ns-3 and (ii) have ns-3 set "defines" in Click via the simulation file 
4a9feececbf3 fix RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9232
diff changeset
   863
  (see src/click/examples/nsclick-defines.cc).
9286
acb15be955a9 Update release notes about Waf and create-module.py changes
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9237
diff changeset
   864
- Waf shipped with ns-3 has been upgraded to version 1.7.10 and custom
acb15be955a9 Update release notes about Waf and create-module.py changes
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9237
diff changeset
   865
  pkg-config generator has been replaced by Waf's builtin tool.
acb15be955a9 Update release notes about Waf and create-module.py changes
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9237
diff changeset
   866
- create-module.py script has been updated to work with waf 1.7 and support
acb15be955a9 Update release notes about Waf and create-module.py changes
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9237
diff changeset
   867
  for creating modules with names containing dashes has been added.
9736
da5e3a6c4029 updated CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for LTE module
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9730
diff changeset
   868
- the M5 release of the LTE module by the LENA project has been
da5e3a6c4029 updated CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for LTE module
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9730
diff changeset
   869
  merged; please see src/lte/RELEASE_NOTES for more detailed info 
9212
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parents: 9206
diff changeset
   870
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parents: 9206
diff changeset
   871
Bugs fixed
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parents: 9206
diff changeset
   872
----------
9728
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   873
- bug 1256 - Unnecessary SND.NXT advance, missing ACK for Out of Order segments
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   874
- bug 1318 - Ipv6L3Protocol::LocalDeliver can get stuck in an infinte loop
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   875
- bug 1409 - Add an attribute "SystemId" to configure the ID for MPI
9745
2b69b173a877 fixed bug 1421 - Frequency dependent propagation loss models need uniform Frequency / Lambda attribute
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 9736
diff changeset
   876
- bug 1421 - Frequency dependent propagation loss models need uniform Frequency / Lambda attribute
9728
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   877
- bug 1434 - DSR throughput not comparable to other protocols for manet example
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   878
- bug 1502 - Shutdown on tcp socket seems to misbehave
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   879
- bug 1503 - BlockAckManager infine loop
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   880
- bug 1517 - Waf clean/distclean doesn't remove the doc/html directory
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   881
- bug 1540 - Waf not finding click libraries
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   882
- bug 1549 - Test for NS_LOG
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   883
- bug 1556 - Uses of htonl making OpenFlow's match field error
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   884
- bug 1563 - Reduce valgrind test scope
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   885
- bug 1564 - Packet meta data isn't shown in dumbbell-animation.xml
9235
fd4216b85d46 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Konstantinos Katsaros <dinos.katsaros@gmail.com>
parents: 9233
diff changeset
   886
- bug 1566 - WiFi SNR tag improvements
9728
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   887
- bug 1568 - Deserialized addresses are implicity marked as Mac48Address
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   888
- bug 1569 - droptail_vs_red example doesn't run
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   889
- bug 1570 - Valgrind errors in new test examples
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   890
- bug 1574 - Node color overwritten, by mobility updates in netanim
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   891
- bug 1575 - Invert the y-axis in netanim
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   892
- bug 1576 - Frequency units HERTZ and MEGAHERTZ mix up
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   893
- bug 1577 - Typo in ascii picture in example aodv script
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   894
- bug 1579 - edca-txop-n fragmentation causes segfault
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   895
- bug 1582 - IPv6 raw socket return value is not like Linux socket
9237
db83a668984c Bug 1585 - Length field of A-MSDU subframe header endianness
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 9236
diff changeset
   896
- bug 1585 - Length field of A-MSDU subframe header endianness
9728
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   897
- bug 1586 - Building documentation fails if make runs in parallel
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   898
- bug 1588 - UdpEchoServer::HandleRead logs fail when using Ipv6
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   899
- bug 1589 - Bake - support pre-2.7 version of python
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   900
- bug 1590 - Bake - more autotools version support
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   901
- bug 1595 - Function declarations without implementations cause problems with dsr module's python bindings
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   902
- bug 1596 - Inet TopologyReader is skipping one link and duplicating another one
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   903
- bug 1600 - Icmpv6OptionLinkLayerAddress can only carry 48 bit addresses correctly
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   904
- bug 1601 - RttEstimator doesn't set the m_currentEstimatedRtt to m_initialEstimatedRtt on creation
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   905
- bug 1602 - waf build can break due to file collisions in higher-level directory
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   906
- bug 1603 - random-variable-stream-helper - this unavalable for static member functions
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   907
- bug 1607 - OnOffApplication over TCP with IPv6 support
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   908
- bug 1608 - DSR Network ACK is not handled correctly
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   909
- bug 1609 - Route Request table is needed
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   910
- bug 1612 - pyviz (visualizer) will not be installed
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   911
- bug 1613 - Can't build ns-3-dev with g++ 4.7.2
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   912
- bug 1615 - Adjusting OLSR HelloInterval Attribute results in no links
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   913
- bug 1618 - bake.py not detecting install of libxml2-dev on ubuntu
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   914
- bug 1623 - pybindgen rev809 is not able to build after Ubuntu 1210
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   915
- bug 1625 - ns-3-dev fails to build on Debian wheezy amd64
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   916
- bug 1626 - ipv6-only network can't use UDP or TCP
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   917
- bug 1632 - Prepend bake build directory to the guessed locations
9725
8e5c78e820f2 Update release notes
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 9715
diff changeset
   918
             that waf will look to find libraries
9728
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   919
- bug 1633 - Bake - should not report that it is downloading qt4 when it is already installed
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   920
- bug 1635 - Small bug without Simulator::Destroy()
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   921
- bug 1636 - Compilation error flagged as unmet dependency
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   922
- bug 1637 - Bake calling apt-get for unpriviledged user
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   923
- bug 1639 - bake.py support for linux mint
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   924
- bug 1640 - bake needs to test for g++
649f21865518 Updated bug fixes in RELEASE_NOTES
Brian Swenson <bswenson3@gatech.edu>
parents: 9725
diff changeset
   925
- bug 1641 - bake reports autotools dependency, but needs automake
9730
caa72139e284 bug 1661 - Variable ub1 defined but not used in ipv6-address.cc
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 9728
diff changeset
   926
- bug 1661 - Variable ub1 defined but not used in ipv6-address.cc
9212
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   927
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   928
Known issues
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   929
------------
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   930
In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   931
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9206
diff changeset
   932
9201
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   933
Release 3.16
8846
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   934
============
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   935
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   936
Availability
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   937
------------
9206
49d343e55cae update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9201
diff changeset
   938
This release is available from: 
49d343e55cae update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9201
diff changeset
   939
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.16.tar.bz2
8846
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   940
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   941
Supported platforms
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
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parents: 8840
diff changeset
   942
-------------------
9201
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   943
- Fedora Core 17 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.0
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   944
- Fedora Core 15 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   945
- Ubuntu 12.10 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   946
- Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   947
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   948
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 with g++-4.2.1
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   949
- FreeBSD 8.2 (32 bit) with g++-4.2.1
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   950
- Cygwin 1.7.9-1 with g++-4.5.3
8846
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   951
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   952
New user-visible features
6e874a0fee27 start new release notes for future releases
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8840
diff changeset
   953
-------------------------
9189
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   954
- Support several new LTE MAC schedulers developed in GSoC 2012 project. 
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   955
  Those schedulers include FD-MT, TD-MT, TTA, FD-BET, TD-BET, FD-TBFQ,
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   956
  TD-TBFQ, PSS. Here, FD and TD mean frequency domain and time domain 
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   957
  respectively.
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   958
- It's now possible to use distcc when building ns-3 by using
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   959
  $ CXX='distcc g++' ./waf configure
b6e9f47c260b Document building with distcc in tutorial, add it to RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 9178
diff changeset
   960
  $ ./waf build
9201
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   961
- Support topology generation with the (external) BRITE topology generation 
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   962
  tool
9017
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
   963
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
   964
Bugs fixed
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
   965
----------
9201
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   966
- bug  555 - DCF immediate access
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   967
- bug  976 - wifi-wired-bridging regression test fails because of 
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
diff changeset
   968
             rounding errors in mobility model
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- bug 1055:  Wrong UAN's Thorp absorption loss model formula
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parents: 9189
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   970
- bug 1284 - ./test.py performance tests do not exist
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parents: 9189
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   971
- bug 1324 - ns3tcp-cwnd-test-suite.cc test failing
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1340 - ns3tcp-loss-suite.cc tests failing
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1342 - ns3tcp-cwnd-test-suite.cc tests failing
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parents: 9189
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   974
- bug 1345 - ns-3 builds with clang compiler >= 3.0
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   975
- bug 1359 - TCP cannot receive ICMP
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parents: 9189
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   976
- bug 1361 - Set TOS from Application level (sockets)
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   977
- bug 1463 - ./test.py --example should automatically detect the path
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1479 - When the Ipv4RawSocket "IpHeaderInclude" Attribute set true,
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parents: 9189
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             Ip Checksum error
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parents: 9189
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   980
- bug 1485 - Setting global properties in config file (raw text) does
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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             not have any effect
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parents: 9189
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   982
- bug 1493 - test.py --list should show the test type default tip
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1493 - test.py --list should show the test type 
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1494 - test.py --constrain doesn't work
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1495 - test.py claims test passed when no test was run
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parents: 9189
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   986
- bug 1506:  TCP data segment piggybacking acknowledgment
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1509 - RttEstimator returns invalid value in presence of errors
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1516 - GtkConfigStore does not show read-only attributes
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parents: 9189
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- bug 1520 - Config paths not fully documented (partial fix)
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parents: 9189
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   990
- bug 1524 - Fragmentation Threshold equals to Packet Size at MAC Layer 
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parents: 9189
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   991
             (Data + IP + UDP) crash the reception
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parents: 9189
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   992
- bug 1525 - Linker error with mpi on Mac 10.8
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   993
- bug 1526:  Wrong calculation of pathloss within 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   994
             UanPropModelThorp::GetPathLossDb
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   995
- bug 1527 - Ipv4RawSocket's BindToNetDevice not working
64885f1a6c77 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9189
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   996
- bug 1528 - BindToNetDevice not working for IPv6 sockets
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parents: 9189
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   997
- bug 1531 - Crash when using NS_LOG in destructors of static objects
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parents: 9189
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   998
- bug 1532 - unimplemented LTE Scheduler methods
9017
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parents: 8923
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   999
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Known issues
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parents: 8923
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  1001
------------
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parents: 8923
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In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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parents: 8923
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  1003
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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  1004
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  1005
Release 3.15
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parents: 8923
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  1006
============
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parents: 8923
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  1007
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parents: 8923
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  1008
Availability
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parents: 8923
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  1009
------------
9206
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parents: 9201
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  1010
This release is available from: 
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parents: 9201
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  1011
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.15.tar.bz2
9017
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parents: 8923
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  1013
Supported platforms
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parents: 8923
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  1014
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parents: 8923
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- Fedora Core 17 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.0
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parents: 8923
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- Fedora Core 15 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
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  1017
- Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
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parents: 8923
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  1018
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
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parents: 8923
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  1019
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.7.4 with g++-4.2.1
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parents: 8923
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  1020
- OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with g++-4.2.1 
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parents: 8923
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  1021
- FreeBSD 8.2 (32 bit) with g++-4.2.1
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
  1022
- Cygwin 1.7.9-1 with g++-4.5.3
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
  1023
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parents: 8923
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  1024
New user-visible features
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parents: 8923
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  1025
-------------------------
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parents: 8850
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  1026
- A new random variable base class called 'RandomVariableStream', has been
9017
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parents: 8923
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  introduced.  This base class derives from ns3::Object, unlike the current 
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parents: 8923
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  1028
  'RandomVariable' class which is a special type of object in the ns-3 
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parents: 8923
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  1029
  system to date.  By making this class derive from ns3::Object, it can be 
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parents: 8923
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  1030
  handled with the Ptr class, can carry attributes, and can have its parameters
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parents: 8923
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  1031
  and initial state saved in the config-store subsystem.  A new attribute
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parents: 8923
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  1032
  called "Stream" has been introduced for this class, to allow users to
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parents: 8923
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  1033
  better control the assignment of underlying pseudo-random sequences to
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parents: 8923
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  1034
  the RandomVariableStream objects (bug 101).
8846
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parents: 8840
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  1035
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  1036
Bugs fixed
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  1037
----------
8878
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8850
diff changeset
  1038
 - bug 101 - random variable initialization
9020
200c9dd61e1a bug 1256: Unnecessary SND.NXT advance, missing ACK for Out of Order segments
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9017
diff changeset
  1039
 - bug 1256 - Unnecessary SND.NXT advance, missing ACK for Out of Order segments
9017
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
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  1040
 - bug 1308 - Nix-vector; do not process packets to self
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
  1041
 - bug 1386 - assert if PositionAllocator not provided to 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
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  1042
              RandomWaypointMobilityModel
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
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  1043
 - bug 1399 - TCP not backing off retransmissions properly
ada0e58b1f58 update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
diff changeset
  1044
 - bug 1441 - IPv4 header length handling
8921
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Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 8878
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  1045
 - bug 1464 - ConfigStore Save + Load => Could not set default value 
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Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 8878
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  1046
                  for ns3::UdpSocketImpl::IcmpCallback
9023
f77becf78850 bug 1470 - define default parameter for constructor in .h file
Alexander Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev@ucla.edu>
parents: 9022
diff changeset
  1047
 - bug 1470 - define default parameter for constructor in .h file
9025
0980403d7723 bug 1473 - GetQueue/SetQueue missing from Csma python bindings
Per <per_e_lists@rocketmail.com>
parents: 9023
diff changeset
  1048
 - bug 1473 - GetQueue/SetQueue missing from Csma python bindings
8921
54b4a8f3e214 Update release notes
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 8878
diff changeset
  1049
 - bug 1475 - "test.py --list" should sort the output
54b4a8f3e214 Update release notes
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 8878
diff changeset
  1050
 - bug 1476 - TestCase::GetName () should not be private
9021
4e780b4a0969 bug 1489 - Jakes Log component is missing
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9020
diff changeset
  1051
 - bug 1477 - Click doesn't work with raw sockets
9026
e3475c94c01a bug 1481: openflow example doesn't run
Josh Pelkey <joshpelkey@gmail.com>
parents: 9025
diff changeset
  1052
 - bug 1481 - Openflow example doesn't run
9022
c57bd30c65cf bug 1486 - Segfaults in nix-vector-routing with bridges
Peter J. Scheibel <scheibel1@llnl.gov>
parents: 9021
diff changeset
  1053
 - bug 1486 - Segfaults in nix-vector-routing with bridges
9021
4e780b4a0969 bug 1489 - Jakes Log component is missing
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 9020
diff changeset
  1054
 - bug 1489 - Jakes Log component is missing
9017
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parents: 8923
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  1055
 - fixed bug with multiple LCs in UL BSR
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8923
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  1056
 - fixed bug with lena-dual-stripe crashes with --homeUesHomeEnbRatio=2
8846
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  1057
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Known issues
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  1059
------------
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In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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parents: 8840
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  1061
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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parents: 8840
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  1062
8850
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  1063
Release 3.14.1
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parents: 8846
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  1064
==============
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parents: 8846
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  1065
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parents: 8846
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  1066
Availability
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parents: 8846
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  1067
------------
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  1068
This release is available from:
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parents: 8846
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  1069
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.14.1.tar.bz2
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parents: 8846
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Bugs fixed
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parents: 8846
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  1072
----------
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  1073
This hotfix release contains a fix for the PyViz visualizer and makes it
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parents: 8846
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  1074
easier to add PyViz support to examples; otherwise it is the same as the
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parents: 8846
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  1075
ns-3.14 release.
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  1077
Release 3.14
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parents: 8749
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  1078
============
7698
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Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
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  1079
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Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
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  1080
Availability
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parents: 7653
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  1081
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  1082
This release is available from: 
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  1083
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.14.tar.bz2
7698
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parents: 7653
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  1084
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parents: 7653
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  1085
Supported platforms
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  1087
ns-3.14 has been tested on the following platforms.  Not all features are
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parents: 8749
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  1088
available on all platforms; check the Installation page on the project wiki.
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parents: 8749
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  1089
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parents: 8749
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  1090
- Fedora Core 17 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.7.0
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parents: 8749
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  1091
- Fedora Core 16 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
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parents: 8749
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  1092
- Fedora Core 15 (64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
8840
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parents: 8814
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  1093
- Ubuntu 12.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.3
8814
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parents: 8749
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  1094
- Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit) with g++-4.6.1
8840
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parents: 8814
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  1095
- Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3
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parents: 8814
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  1096
- OS X Lion 10.7.4 with g++-4.2.1
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parents: 8814
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  1097
- OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with g++-4.2.1 
8814
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parents: 8749
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  1098
- FreeBSD 8.2 (32 bit) with g++-4.2.1
8840
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parents: 8814
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  1099
- Cygwin 1.7.9-1 with g++-4.5.3
7698
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Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1100
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Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
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  1101
New user-visible features
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Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
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8814
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parents: 8749
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  1103
- Transport protocol implementations (TCP, UDP) have been refactored to
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
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parents: 8749
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  1104
  support also IPv6 connections. Dual-stacked IPv6 sockets are implemented. 
8840
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parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1105
  An IPv6 socket can accept an IPv4 connection, returning the sender's 
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1106
  address as an IPv4-mapped address (IPV6_V6ONLY socket option is not 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1107
  implemented).
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1108
- The LTE code from the LENA project has been merged, bringing in a
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1109
  significant redesign of the LTE module as well as many new features.
7847
411299d94e07 updated CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7793
diff changeset
  1110
- An antenna module is now included, which includes different
411299d94e07 updated CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7793
diff changeset
  1111
  radiation pattern models. See the corresponding new section of the
7880
f5c22d8411e6 Update CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for QueueMode and ErrorUnit.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 7870
diff changeset
  1112
  ns-3 models library documentation for details.
8749
4462ac63d4cf merge of the code from the LENA project into ns-3-dev
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7884
diff changeset
  1113
- A new buildings module is introduced which allows to model the
4462ac63d4cf merge of the code from the LENA project into ns-3-dev
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7884
diff changeset
  1114
  presence of buildings in a wireless network topology.  
4462ac63d4cf merge of the code from the LENA project into ns-3-dev
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7884
diff changeset
  1115
- New propagation models (OkumuraHata, ITU-R P.1411, ITU-R P.1238)
4462ac63d4cf merge of the code from the LENA project into ns-3-dev
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7884
diff changeset
  1116
  have been added
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1117
- The Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) MANET routing protocol for IPv4 was added.
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1118
- A Random Early Detection (RED) queue model has been added.
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1119
- Ipv6RoutingHelper is now in-line with Ipv4RoutingHelper concerning the RT 
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1120
  print functions. Various minor changes were made in Ipv6RoutingProtocol and 
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1121
  derived classes to make this possible.
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1122
- New "SendIcmpv6Redirect" attribute (and getter/setter functions) to 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1123
  Ipv6L3Protocol. The behavior is similar to Linux's conf "send_redirects",
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1124
  i.e., enable/disable the ICMPv6 Redirect sending.
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1125
- Longer and more descriptive names are used for error units in RateErrorModel
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1126
  class and queue mode in Queue class. Attributes in those classes are also
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1127
  changed for consistency. See API documentation for details.
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1128
- The netanim animator is now bundled with the release.
7880
f5c22d8411e6 Update CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for QueueMode and ErrorUnit.
Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com>
parents: 7870
diff changeset
  1129
7698
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1130
Bugs fixed
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1131
----------
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1132
 - bug 603 - Simulator::Next is useless
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1133
 - bug 631 - RealtimeSimulatorImpl does not handle Ctrl-C with python bindings
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1134
 - bug 962 - list of paths to reach objects contains bogus entries
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1135
 - bug 1000 - Make RealtimeSimulatorImpl last until stop
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1136
 - bug 1053 - Need better error diagnostics in ns2-mobility-trace example
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1137
 - bug 1109 - Point out the effects of ArpCache::PendingQueueSize
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1138
 - bug 1179 - Add LTE trace hooks for supporting visualizer
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1139
 - bug 1180 - LTE: Add TX/RX trace support
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1140
 - bug 1273 - Better error message on missing Python development files
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1141
 - bug 1282 - Sleep state and CCA
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1142
 - bug 1283 - PacketSocket::SendTo should return number of bytes 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1143
 - bug 1302 - Flow monitor bug
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1144
 - bug 1304 - Tag information changed after transmission
7863
5a610391f3f1 Bug 1392 - Modules built report does not clarify C++ or Python
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7847
diff changeset
  1145
 - bug 1313 - Stddev (average.h) returning NaN
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1146
 - bug 1318 - Asserts for IPv6 malformed packets
7698
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1147
 - bug 1319 - Fix Ipv6RawSocketImpl Icmpv6 filter
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1148
 - bug 1325 - Python examples get valgrind errors when build subdirectories 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1149
              are specified in waf
7863
5a610391f3f1 Bug 1392 - Modules built report does not clarify C++ or Python
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7847
diff changeset
  1150
 - bug 1339 - test.py uses the old name for the test runner
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1151
 - bug 1348 - python bindings: deprecated conversion from string constant 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1152
              to ‘char*’
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1153
 - bug 1349 - TypeId.LookupAttributeByName Python bindings missing
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1154
 - bug 1350 - Simulator.ScheduleWithContext Python binding missing
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1155
 - bug 1351 and 1333 - TCP not able to take RTT samples on long delay network
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1156
 - bug 1352 - Fixed MapAttributes, previously was mapped to a vector in 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1157
              ObjectPtrContainer and (and key information was dropped). 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1158
              Now the container is a map.
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1159
 - bug 1354 - Building scratch subdir programs is broken
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1160
 - bug 1355 - Visualizer dependencies not detected at buildtime
7701
c96a01de2973 Bug 1357 - IPv6 fragmentation fails due to checks about malformed extensions
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7698
diff changeset
  1161
 - bug 1357 - IPv6 fragmentation fails due to checks about malformed extensions
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1162
 - bug 1362 - ICMPv6 does not forward ICMPs to upper layers (and minor 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1163
              fixes to ICMPv6)
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1164
 - bug 1376 - wrong wind variable's name
7749
7458a10a17d1 Fix bug 1378 (UdpEchoClient::SetFill() does not set packet size correctly) (fix from jesse1013000@gmail.com)
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7717
diff changeset
  1165
 - bug 1378 - UdpEchoClient::SetFill () does not set packet size correctly
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1166
 - bug 1379 - lte-multiple-flows example crashes
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1167
 - bug 1380 - lte-phy-uplink example crashes
7866
5d044e7085b8 Updated Release Notes
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7863
diff changeset
  1168
 - bug 1391 - .ns3rc does not allow comments as expected
7863
5a610391f3f1 Bug 1392 - Modules built report does not clarify C++ or Python
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7847
diff changeset
  1169
 - bug 1392 - Modules built report does not clarify C++ or Python
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1170
 - bug 1393 - IPv6 Routing Helper RT Print functions
7792
e3d19bee62e8 Bug 1395 - AODV DeferredRouteOutputTag missing constructor
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7791
diff changeset
  1171
 - bug 1395 - AODV DeferredRouteOutputTag missing constructor
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1172
 - bug 1396 - ARP with hardware addresses longer than 6 bytes
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1173
 - bug 1399 - TCP not backing off retransmissions properly
8814
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1174
 - bug 1404 - Bound user input in tutorial third.cc program
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1175
 - bug 1406 - waf exits with maximum recursion depth exceeded 
01281f707570 update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8749
diff changeset
  1176
 - bug 1415 - examples-to-run.py doesn't work with command line arguments
8840
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1177
 - bug 1420 - no python bindings for csma-layout
c4f51afe00db Finalize release notes for ns-3.14
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 8814
diff changeset
  1178
 - bug 1441 - IPv4 header length handling
7792
e3d19bee62e8 Bug 1395 - AODV DeferredRouteOutputTag missing constructor
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7791
diff changeset
  1179
 
7698
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1180
Known issues
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1181
------------
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1182
In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1183
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
db9d8003b3cf Update Changes.html and Release_notes with the latest -dev info
Tommaso Pecorella <tommaso.pecorella@unifi.it>
parents: 7653
diff changeset
  1184
7505
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1185
Release 3.13
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1186
==============
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1187
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1188
Availability
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1189
------------
7652
170c47366532 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7651
diff changeset
  1190
This release is available from: 
170c47366532 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7651
diff changeset
  1191
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.13.tar.bz2
7505
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1192
7653
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1193
Supported platforms
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1194
-------------------
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1195
ns-3.13 has been tested on the following platforms.  Not all features are
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1196
available on all platforms; check the Installation page on the project wiki.
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1197
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1198
- Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit) with g++-4.5.2
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1199
- Ubuntu 11.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.5.2 
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1200
- Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3, g++-3.4.6 
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1201
- OS X Lion with g++-4.2.1
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1202
- OS X Snow Leopard with g++-4.2.1 
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1203
- Fedora Core 16 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.2
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1204
  --  however, g++-3.4.6 fails on Fedora 16 i686 
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1205
- Fedora Core 14 (64 bit) with g++-4.5.1
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1206
- FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 (AMD64) with g++-4.2.1
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1207
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1208
New user-visible features
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1209
-------------------------
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1210
- IPv6 address generator with support for duplicate address detection
c78cc7e78b3f fix order of items in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7652
diff changeset
  1211
7505
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1212
Bugs fixed
99f36c5bce64 Seed the CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.13
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7472
diff changeset
  1213
----------
7637
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1214
 - bug 962 - list of paths to reach objects contains bogus entries
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1215
 - bug 1001 - Buffer::CopyData() doesn't return the number of bytes copied
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1216
 - bug 1010 - Uan model sleep patch
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1217
 - bug 1020 - Wrong usage of the originator sequence number in HWMP PREP
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1218
 - bug 1021 - Beacon collision avoidance in Mesh module works incorrectly
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1219
 - bug 1039 - Nagle's algorithm in TCP 
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1220
 - bug 1055 - Wrong UAN's Thorp absorption loss model formula
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1221
 - bug 1059 - Unable to load trace files created from SUMO and TraNS Lite
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1222
 - bug 1112 - Advance m_nextTxSequence upon retransmit after RTO 
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1223
 - bug 1137 - mpi module is hard-coded for openmpi
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1224
 - bug 1166 - IPV4 TCP failed to send a RST when connect arrives before listen
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1225
 - bug 1186 - Ipv4Header lacks DSCP and ECN
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
diff changeset
  1226
 - bug 1204 - Can't Parse Time +100000000.0ns
c02084912508 add bug fix list and supported platforms to RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 7505
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  1228
 - bug 1257 - waf install __init__ Python files even with --disable-python
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  1229
 - bug 1263 - waf configure fails on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 amd64
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parents: 7505
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  1230
 - bug 1266 - gdb cannot be loaded
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parents: 7505
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  1231
 - bug 1227 - Spurious RTO due to low min RTO
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parents: 7505
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  1232
 - bug 1229 - Multiplication overflow in WaypointMobilityModel::EndMobility
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parents: 7505
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  1233
 - bug 1242 - m_lastRtt in tcp-socket-base.cc not implemented
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 - bug 1256 - TCP unnecessary snd.nxt advance
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parents: 7505
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  1235
 - bug 1265 - Make ns-3 directory "movable"
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  1236
 - bug 1269 - sqlite3 not found on FreeBSD
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parents: 7505
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  1237
 - bug 1270 - "Checking boost includes" weirdness
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parents: 7505
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  1238
 - bug 1278 - Ipv4ClickRouting::HandleScheduleFromClick bug
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1239
 - bug 1281 - Checksum not calculated when doing IP fragmentation
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parents: 7505
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  1240
 - bug 1285 - IPv6 Localhost is marked as GLOBAL instead of HOST
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1241
 - bug 1290 - buffer-test.cc gets a valgrind error
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
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  1242
 - bug 1295 - Missing const qualifiers in TopologyRead 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1243
 - bug 1299 - EnableAsciiIpv4All tracing doesn't show transmitted/recvd packets
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1244
 - bug 1300 - HalfDuplexIdealPhy notify SpectrumInterference of AbortRx 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1245
 - bug 1301 - Ns2MobilityHelper causes Node GetPosition() to return NaN
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1246
 - bug 1305 - do not list modules built upon exiting waf shell
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parents: 7505
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  1247
 - bug 1312: TopologyRead Assert condition fix
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parents: 7505
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  1248
 - IPv4 packets double fragmentation was broken 
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parents: 7505
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  1249
 - Fix wifi-clear-channel-cmu.cc example
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7505
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  1250
 - NetAnim: fix for bcast packet reuse
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parents: 7505
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  1251
 - Missing PropagationLossModel.CalcRxPower in Python bindings
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parents: 7505
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  1252
 - Corrected compilation behavior in Ubuntu 11.10 due to ldd behavior change
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  1253
 - Added required PTHREAD dependency to RT library check.
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Known issues
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at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.12.1.tar.bz2
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Bugs fixed
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This release fixes PyViz visualizer's python bindings; otherwise, it
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  1273
Release 3.12
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ns-3.12 has been tested on the following platforms.  Not all features are
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available on all platforms; check the Installation page on the project wiki.
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- Fedora Core 15 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.6.0 
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- Ubuntu 11.04 (32/64 bit) with g++-4.5.2 
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- OS X Lion with g++-4.2.1 
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  1289
- Fedora Core 14 (64 bit) with g++-4.3.4, g++-4.5.3, g++-4.4.6 
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- Fedora Core 12 (64 bit) with g++-4.4.4 
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  1291
- OS X Snow Leopard with g++-4.2.1 
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  1292
- Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS (64 bit) with g++-4.4.3, g++-3.4.6 
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  1294
New user-visible features
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
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  1297
- SpectrumChannel models now support the usage of single-frequency
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
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  1298
  propagation loss models based on the PropagationLossModel
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
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  1299
  class. These model can be used in conjunction with
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
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  1300
  the frequency-dependent propagation loss model based on the
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7322
diff changeset
  1301
  SpectrumPropagationLossModel class already supported by
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7322
diff changeset
  1302
  SpectrumChannel. 
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Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
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  1303
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  1304
- Extend the attribute system extend the attribute system to store map
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  1305
  container objects in addition to vector containers.  The ObjectMap
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  1306
  and related classes are patterned after ObjectVector.
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- Support for IPv4 fragmentation has been added.
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  1310
- Significant performance improvement for AODV in dense mobile scenarios
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  1311
  due to a fixed bug in RERR processing.
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  1312
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  1313
- WiFi traces that were named promiscuous are now renamed monitor, and
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  1314
  a separate flag for setting the interface to promiscuous mode has been
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  introduced.  This disambiguates monitor mode from promiscuous mode.
7343
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  1316
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- Monolithic Python bindings have been removed
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  1318
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  1319
Bugs fixed
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  1320
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  1321
 - bug 845  - fix ConfigStore output for changing default values
7447
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  1322
 - bug 1010 - Uan model Sleep patch
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parents: 7287
diff changeset
  1323
 - bug 1033 - Mesh airtime-metric fixed
7447
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diff changeset
  1324
 - bug 1043 - lte-spectrum-value-helper.cc file swapped uplink/downlink freq.
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diff changeset
  1325
 - bug 1050 - ISO C++ forbids variable length array; remove all instances
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diff changeset
  1326
 - bug 1057 - LTE bearers differentiation issue
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diff changeset
  1327
 - bug 1082 - Check that log component names are correct when taken from NS_LOG
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diff changeset
  1328
 - bug 1100 - IPv6 fragmentation enhancements
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parents: 7287
diff changeset
  1329
 - bug 1102 - IPv4 header fragment offset field not set correctly
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7287
diff changeset
  1330
 - bug 1123 - class MinMaxAvgTotalCalculator does not implement all methods
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diff changeset
  1331
 - bug 1134 - Fix LiIonEnergySource attribute spelling for InitialCellVoltage
7447
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diff changeset
  1332
 - bug 1139 - Broadcast packets issue in uan cw mac
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diff changeset
  1333
 - bug 1141 - MeshWifiInterfaceMac adds supported modes to wrong remote station
7447
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diff changeset
  1334
 - bug 1163 - Ipv4EndPointDemux::AllocateEphemeralPort forget to increment port
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  1335
 - bug 1164 - IPV4 TCP Bind already used port failed, but without setting errno
7456
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diff changeset
  1336
 - bug 1168 - BridgeNetDevice: default expiration time not realistic
7447
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  1337
 - bug 1174 - Ns-3 does not generate static libraries
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  1338
 - bug 1175 - shared libraries are not versioned
7447
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  1339
 - bug 1193 - AODV Hello timers scheduling skewed when RREP, RREQ are processed
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  1340
 - bug 1194 - AODV Incorrect RERR processing
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diff changeset
  1341
 - bug 1201 - UDP sockets need to set connected state before notifying the ConnectionSucceeded callback
7447
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  1342
 - bug 1208 - Spectrum module example causing valgrind errors
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  1343
 - bug 1209 - ns-3-click fails to build on Fedora 15 when tests are enabled
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  1344
 - bug 1220 - FdReader always stops with NS_FATAL_ERROR
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  1345
 - bug 1222 - Incomplete PointToPointNetDevice Python bindings
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  1346
 - bug 1224 - ns-3-allinone fails to compile on OS X Lion
7456
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diff changeset
  1347
 - bug 1226 - Incomplete YansWifiChannel Python bindings
7447
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diff changeset
  1348
 - bug 1234 - GetAttributeChecker is not defined anymore but still used
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  1349
 - bug 1239 - Add assertion that reference count never overflows
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  1350
 - bug 1244 - Seg Faults in optimized builds due to missing Logging components
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  1351
 - Fix ARP issue in nsclick-ip-router.click and static route in nsclick-routing-node2.click
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  1352
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  1353
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In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
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at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
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Release 3.11
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===========
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Availability
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------------
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This release is available from: 
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http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.11.tar.bz2
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Supported platforms
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-------------------
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ns-3.11 has been tested on the following platforms.  Not all features are
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available on all platforms; check the Installation page on the project wiki.
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- Linux x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04
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  - g++-4.5.2
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- Linux i686 Ubuntu 11.04
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parents: 7254
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  - g++-4.5.2, g++-4.4.5
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- Linux x86_64 Fedora Core 15
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  - g++-4.6.0
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- Linux x86_64 Fedora Core 14
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parents: 7254
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  1378
  - g++-4.5.3, g++-4.4.6, g++-4.3.4
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parents: 7254
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  1379
- Linux x86_64 Fedora Core 10
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parents: 7254
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  1380
  - g++-3.4.6, 4.0.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.4, 4.3.2, 4.4.0
7283
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parents: 7261
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  1381
- OS X Snow Leopard
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  - g++-4.2.1 
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  1384
New user-visible features
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-------------------------
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7254
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  - The build system has been modularized, and the source code reorganized,
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  1388
    to allow for modular libraries instead of a single monolithic ns-3
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parents: 7206
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  1389
    library.   User programs now link a number of smaller, per-module
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parents: 7206
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  1390
    libraries depending on the dependencies expressed to the build system.  
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  1391
    Source code is now being maintained in individual modules with
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parents: 7206
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  1392
    consistent directory structures.
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1393
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parents: 7206
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  1394
  - Python bindings have also been modularized, and the bindings are now
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1395
    generated into a 'ns' namespace instead of 'ns3' for the old
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1396
    (monolithic) bindings.  By default the bindings are now modular, with
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1397
    a backward compatibility layer for older programs.  
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parents: 7206
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  1398
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  1399
  - By default, example and test programs are disabled from the build.
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parents: 7206
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  1400
    Users can enable them via the use of a waf command at configure time,
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parents: 7206
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  1401
    or automatically through the use of a new .ns3rc file.
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parents: 7206
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  1402
7059
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@inria.fr>
parents: 7030
diff changeset
  1403
  - int64x64_t is a new type which allows portable and easy to write arithmetic
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@inria.fr>
parents: 7030
diff changeset
  1404
    calculations that require a high degree of fractional precision.
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parents: 7030
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  1405
7254
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1406
  - An interface to the Click Modular Router and an Ipv4ClickRouting
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1407
    class has been added, to allow a node to use Click for external routing.
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1408
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1409
  - An interface to an OpenFlow software implementation distribution has
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1410
    been added to allow the simulation of OpenFlow switches in ns-3.
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1411
7254
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1412
  - ns-3 coding style requirements have been applied to the entire coding
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1413
    base, resulting in a large number of whitespace changes.  The coding 
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1414
    style has been automatically enforced by running a style checking 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1415
    program (utils/check-style.py) that uses the uncrustify (v. 0.58)
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1416
    program to apply changes. 
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1417
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1418
  - Some documentation reorganization to split documentation between
feab45c3c6c6 Update RELEASE_NOTES
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parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1419
    the ns-3 manual (primarily focusing on the ns-3 core) and a new 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7206
diff changeset
  1420
    "model library" document has been started.
7206
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parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1421
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parents: 6781
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  1422
Bugs fixed
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parents: 6781
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  1423
----------
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parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1424
The following lists many of the bugs fixed or small feature additions
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parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1425
since ns-3.10, in many cases referencing the Bugzilla bug number.
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
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parents: 6781
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  1426
7206
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1427
   - bugfix: CsmaNetDevice ErrorModel not discarding packet
7095
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1428
   - bugfix: do not call RouteOutput() twice 
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1429
   - Workaround gccxml bug scanning Seconds(0) as default value 
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1430
   - Copy a bug fix from ns3modulescan.py into ns3modulescan-modular.py 
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1431
   - Modular Python bindings work (many bug fixes, more modules tested) 
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1432
   - Modular bindings: bug fixes, more verbose scanning 
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1433
   - ./waf --apiscan: fix bug in detection of whether the per-module
43aa31575968 updated list of fixed bugs for ns-3.11
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 7060
diff changeset
  1434
   - Remove the 'Modules to build' debug print 
6786
17f9a64dd4f6 bugfix: CsmaNetDevice ErrorModel not discarding packet (reported by Rafal Mielniczuk)
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6783
diff changeset
  1435
   - CsmaNetDevice ReceiveErrorModel was not dropping the packet
7261
e48ed3aabca6 update RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7254
diff changeset
  1436
   - Several "set but not used" bugs for newer compilers quick-fixed
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1437
7060
f08a90113dd5 bugs fixed
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@inria.fr>
parents: 7059
diff changeset
  1438
   - bug 445 - Is the class name Scalar in nstime.h appropriate?
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1439
   - bug 699 - TestCase::DoRun probably should not return a bool
7287
9843c12351cb update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7283
diff changeset
  1440
   - bug 823 - Need finer-grained control over what goes into libns3
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1441
   - bug 957 - Issue with test.py
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1442
   - bug 1017 - node --> internet-stack --> node
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1443
   - bug 1018 - mobility --> helper --> mobility circular dependency
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1444
   - bug 1019 - common --> node --> common circular dependency
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1445
   - bug 1038 - Time::Get*Seconds () return signed integer while actually returning unsigned.
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1446
   - bug 1040 - Olsr and multiple interfaces
7159
009cd4e1b486 bug 1042: AODV RERR implosion (missing RERR_RATELIMIT)
Elena Buchatskaya <sunnmy@iitp.ru>
parents: 7158
diff changeset
  1447
   - bug 1042 - AODV RERR implosion (missing RERR_RATELIMIT) 
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1448
   - bug 1044 - Seconds (1e-9) creates Time that is not IsPositive ()
7161
7cc4506fb853 bug 1047: Multicast routes on nodes with >16 interfaces
Ken Renard <kenneth.renard@arl.army.mil>
parents: 7160
diff changeset
  1449
   - bug 1047 - Multicast routes on nodes with >16 interfaces
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1450
   - bug 1048 - suggested MatrixPropagationLossModel::SetLoss() API change
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1451
   - bug 1049 - Issues with OLSR HNA messages sent by multiple gateways
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1452
   - bug 1052 - olsr::RoutingProtocol::LinkTupleUpdated incorrect detection of asymetric link with multiple interface nodes
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1453
   - bug 1054 - ipv6 InternetStackHelper EnablePcapIpv6All() broken
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1454
   - bug 1056 - CSMA: padding not handled correctly for LLC encapsulation
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1455
   - bug 1058 - InternetStackHelper pitfall: calling Install before adding routing protocols
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1456
   - bug 1060 - Setting NqStaWifiMac Active Probing true, crashes simulation
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1457
   - bug 1061 - Title level inconsistent in click.rst
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1458
   - bug 1062 - rescale-pdf not working
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1459
   - bug 1064 - Correct Friis propagation loss equation in spectrum module
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1460
   - bug 1066 - Set Radiotap modulation type flags correctly
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1461
   - bug 1069 - ApWifiMac unduly calls RegularWifiMac::Receive and crashes
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1462
   - bug 1070 - csma/ipv6 examples duplicate NS_LOG_COMPONENT_DEFINE
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1463
   - bug 1072 - crash upon call to Packet::AddAtEnd of fragmented packets 
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1464
   - bug 1075 - Python examples fail when static built is enabled
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1465
   - bug 1076 - Waf gives an error if you enable only a single module
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1466
   - bug 1078 - PacketTagList::Add performs NS_ASSERT counting one byte too few
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1467
   - bug 1079 - MPI code doesn't compile
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1468
   - bug 1081 - wutils.py refers to the old directory for visualizer module
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1469
   - bug 1083 - scratch doesn't work when only some modules are enabled
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1470
   - bug 1085 - Build failed: list index out of range
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1471
   - bug 1086 - sanity check for not calling Object::Dispose () twice
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1472
   - bug 1087 - Call MPI_Finalize to exit MPI environment
7201
61140caa6f71 Update bug fixed list
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7161
diff changeset
  1473
   - bug 1088 - Code in scratch directory assumes all modules are enabled
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1474
   - bug 1089 - lwip build issue
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1475
   - bug 1090 - WifiMacQueue is not accessible through the attribute path
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1476
   - bug 1092 - Problem building FreeBSD stack with g++ 4.5.2 (Ubuntu)
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1477
   - bug 1094 - Object::GetObject upon dlopen 
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1478
   - bug 1097 - AODV routing entry set to be VALID mistakenly.
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1479
   - bug 1098 - when to show users which modules are enabled?
7261
e48ed3aabca6 update RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7254
diff changeset
  1480
   - bug 1101 - Sqlite stats disappeared from configuration file src/wscript
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1481
   - bug 1103 - Useless assignment in omnet-data-output.cc
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1482
   - bug 1105 - Move topology helpers into separate per-device modules
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1483
   - bug 1106 - Remove "CanvasLocation" dependencies in p2p helpers
7201
61140caa6f71 Update bug fixed list
Mitch Watrous <watrous@u.washington.edu>
parents: 7161
diff changeset
  1484
   - bug 1108 - test.py -e option needs repair
7206
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1485
   - bug 1110 - Sort alphabetically and display "Modules built" in columns
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1486
   - bug 1117 - bindings failures on selected platforms
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1487
   - bug 1122 - spectrum-value test should check tolerance on a per-value basis
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1488
   - bug 1125 - ./waf --enable-modules fails
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1489
   - bug 1131 - Bug in Ipv4L3Protocol::RemoveAddress()
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1490
   - bug 1133 - DSDV: Possible bug in settling time calc
a6da68275fa9 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7201
diff changeset
  1491
   - bug 1142 - Wrong 802.11p Slot time
7261
e48ed3aabca6 update RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 7254
diff changeset
  1492
   - bug 1146 - help string for test.py with disabled tests
6783
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1493
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1494
Known issues
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1495
------------
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1496
In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1497
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1498
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1499
Release 3.10
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1500
===========
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1501
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1502
Availability
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1503
------------
6783
51e2cab823d4 start RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.11
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6781
diff changeset
  1504
This release is available from: 
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  1505
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.10.tar.bz2
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1506
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1507
Supported platforms
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1508
-------------------
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1509
ns-3.10 has been tested on the following platforms.  Not all features are
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1510
available on all platforms; check the Installation page on the project wiki.
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1511
6748
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1512
- Linux i686 Ubuntu 10.10
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1513
  - g++-4.4.5
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1514
- Linux x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04.4
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1515
  - g++-3.4.6, g++-4.2.4
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1516
- Linux x86_64 Fedora Core 12
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1517
  - g++-4.4.4
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1518
- Linux x86_64 Fedora Core 10
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1519
  - g++-3.4.6, 4.0.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.4, 4.3.4, 4.4.0
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1520
- OS X Snow Leopard
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1521
  - g++-4.2.1 
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1522
- OS X powerpc Leopard 
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1523
  - g++-4.0, g++-4.2
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1524
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1525
New user-visible features
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1526
-------------------------
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1527
6678
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1528
   - NS-3 PyViz, a live simulation visualizer, has been added.  The 
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1529
     visualizer interacts with a running simulation, such that it uses no
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1530
     trace files. It can be most useful for debugging purposes, i.e. to
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1531
     figure out if mobility models are what you expect, where packets are
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1532
     being dropped, etc. There is also a builtin interactive python console
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1533
     that can be used to debug the state of the running objects. Although
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1534
     it is mostly written in Python, it works both with Python and pure C++
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1535
     simulations.
be3da7f1f82a Bring CHANGES.html and RELEASE_NOTES up to date
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6673
diff changeset
  1536
6673
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1537
   - Wi-Fi MAC high classes have been reorganised in attempt to
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1538
     consolidate shared functionality into a single class. This new
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1539
     class is RegularWifiMac, and it derives from the abstract
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1540
     WifiMac, and is parent of AdhocWifiMac, StaWifiMac, ApWifiMac,
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1541
     and MeshWifiInterfaceMac. The QoS and non-QoS class variants are
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1542
     no longer, with a RegularWifiMac attribute "QosSupported"
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1543
     allowing selection between these two modes of
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1544
     operation.
ec22aa763e2d Bug 978: Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6667
diff changeset
  1545
6601
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1546
   - Support for IEEE 802.11g (specifically, rates with Modulation
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1547
     Class ERP-OFDM) has been added to the wifi module. The new
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1548
     WifiModes have names of the form ErpOfdmRatexxMbps, where xx is
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1549
     the rate in Mbps (one of 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54), and a
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1550
     WifiPhyStandard enumeration WIFI_PHY_STANDARD_80211g has been
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1551
     added to allow configuration of a Wi-Fi STA supporting ERP-OFDM,
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1552
     HR/DSSS, and DSSS rates (which some call an "802.11b/g" station).
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1553
6614
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1554
   - Two attributes were added to WaypointMobilityModel.  The first
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1555
     "LazyNotify" (default false), if enabled to true, will suppress
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1556
     course change notifications if there are no position updates.
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1557
     The second, "InitialPositionIsWaypoint" (default false), if enabled,
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1558
     will allow an initial call to SetPosition () (before any waypoints
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1559
     have been added) to be treated as the first waypoint.
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1560
6652
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1561
   - Regression testing is now completely performed within test.py
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1562
     rather than a separate "./waf --regression" that consults
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1563
     reference traces in the ns-3.x-ref-traces directory.  In most
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1564
     cases, the example programs whose traces were included in 
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1565
     ns-3.x-ref-traces have a corresponding test called from the
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1566
     test.py program.  It is still possible to write trace-based
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1567
     regression tests but they are now called from the test.py
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1568
     program.
2d8de9b3be74 clarify the status of ./waf --regression removal
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6614
diff changeset
  1569
6690
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1570
   - New BulkSendApplication sends data as fast as possible up to 
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1571
     MaxBytes or unlimited if MaxBytes is zero.  Think OnOff, but 
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1572
     without the "off" and without the variable data rate. This 
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1573
     application only works with SOCK_STREAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET 
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1574
     sockets, for example TCP sockets and not UDP sockets.
3fab9a03dacd Add BulkSendApplication
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6678
diff changeset
  1575
6699
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1576
   - Extensions to the energy models:  1) a new Rakhmatov Vrudhula 
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1577
     non-linear battery model, 2) additional support for modeling 
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1578
     energy consumption in WiFi devices, 3) an example for how to add 
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1579
     energy models to a WiFi-based simulation (in examples/energy/ 
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1580
     directory).
d8909a1fd0ff RV battery model and WiFi energy example
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6690
diff changeset
  1581
6703
1204fcdb71c2 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6699
diff changeset
  1582
   - New methods to print IPv4 routing tables to an output stream.
1204fcdb71c2 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6699
diff changeset
  1583
6725
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1584
   - A replacement implementation for TCP for IPv4.  TcpSocketBase
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1585
     now replaces TcpSocketImpl.  There are subclasses defined for
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1586
     TCP Tahoe, Reno, NewReno, and the original RFC793 without
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1587
     congestion control.
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1588
6715
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1589
   - Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model.
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1590
     Now each network node can have an associated energy source
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1591
     from which it consumes energy. The user can specify a custom
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1592
     energy model for the underwater transducer, with default values
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1593
     set for WHOI acoustic transducer. Li-Ion battery model added
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1594
     into energy models folder.
ba60c821ad35 Energy support for UAN module and Li-Ion energy model
Andrea Sacco <andrea.sacco85@gmail.com>
parents: 6703
diff changeset
  1595
6717
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1596
   - Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) routing protocol 
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1597
     is a proactive, table-driven routing protocol for MANETs 
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1598
     developed by Charles E. Perkins and Pravin Bhagwat in 1994. 
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1599
     This implementation is for IPv4 routing and was contributed 
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1600
     by ResilNets Research Group.
e041eb593928 DSDV routing protocol
Hemanth Narra <hemanth@ittc.ku.edu>
parents: 6715
diff changeset
  1601
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1602
   - A novel model to simulate LTE networks has been added.  It focuses 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1603
     mainly on modeling the E-UTRA part of the system, with a particular 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1604
     attention on the aspects related to the channel, PHY and MAC layers. 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1605
     The most important features available at this moment are (i) a basic 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1606
     implementation of both the UE and the eNB devices, (ii) RRC and 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1607
     entities for both the UE and the eNB, (iii) an Adaptive Modulation 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1608
     and Coding (AMC) scheme for the downlink, (iv) the management of the 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1609
     data radio bearers (with their QoS parameters), the MAC queues and 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1610
     the RLC instances, (v) Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) management, 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1611
     (vi) support for both uplink and downlik packet scheduling, 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1612
     (vii) a PHY layer model with Resource Block level granularity, and 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1613
     (viii) a channel model with the outdoor E-UTRAN propagation loss 
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1614
     model.
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1615
6760
9e4859305744 update release notes and CHANGES.html file
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6748
diff changeset
  1616
   - Project documentation has been converted from GNU Texinfo to Sphinx. 
9e4859305744 update release notes and CHANGES.html file
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6748
diff changeset
  1617
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1618
Bugs fixed
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1619
----------
6601
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1620
The following lists many of the bugs fixed or small feature additions
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1621
since ns-3.9, in many cases referencing the Bugzilla bug number
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1622
6725
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1623
   - bug 824 - TCP should implement FastRecovery by default
6601
b121de3717d2 Bug 852: Update RELEASE_NOTES to note this new feature
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6598
diff changeset
  1624
   - bug 852 - Add support for 802.11g devices
6614
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1625
   - bug 892 - WaypointMobilityModel incompatible with MobilityHelper::Install
87c065a7bd8a update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6604
diff changeset
  1626
   - bug 893 - Lazy CourseChange notification for WaypointMobilityModel
6748
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1627
   - bug 903 - TapBridge does not shut down properly
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1628
   - bug 953 - WiMAX channel scanning overflow
6725
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1629
   - bug 967 - Need to decouple Ipv4L4Protocols from Ipv4L3Protocol
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1630
   - bug 978 - Consolidate Wi-Fi MAC high functionality
6604
81c69049bdab Bug 979: Update RELEASE_NOTES to indicate this is fixed
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6601
diff changeset
  1631
   - bug 979 - Multi-octet fields in Wi-Fi headers have wrong endianness
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1632
   - bug 981 - use a cache to keep track of received MPDUs under block ack
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1633
   - bug 983 - handle correctly ADDBA response action frames in QadhocWifiMac
6662
04fb02cefe2a bug 984: change EmuNetDevice encapsulation default to DIX
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6661
diff changeset
  1634
   - bug 984 - EmuNetDevice should use DIX encapsulation by default
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1635
   - bug 985 - WiMAX Invalid management message type on wimax-simple
6658
f322d66a8f94 added fixed wifi bugs to release notes for ns-3.10
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6657
diff changeset
  1636
   - bug 988 - MacRxMiddle::SequenceControlSmaller method
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1637
   - bug 990 - Error with an NS_ASSERT at uan-phy-gen.cc
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1638
   - bug 991 - InterferenceHelper assertion failure
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1639
   - bug 992 - Unusual (possibly incorrect assertion) in Packet::Deserialize
6658
f322d66a8f94 added fixed wifi bugs to release notes for ns-3.10
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6657
diff changeset
  1640
   - bug 993 - MinstrelWifiManager::UpdateStats useless if clause
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1641
   - bug 994 - PointToPointGridHelper useless if clauses
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1642
   - bug 995 - Useless (possibly incorrect) comparison of unsigned int
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1643
   - bug 1004 - module header not rebuilt
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1644
   - bug 1005 - GetSocket() methods for OnOffApplication and PacketSink
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1645
   - bug 1009 - decouple m_finSequence (TcpSocketImpl) from tx sequence numbers
6725
62511407485d Update release notes and changelog
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6717
diff changeset
  1646
   - bug 1012 - UAN Throp propagation model bug
6658
f322d66a8f94 added fixed wifi bugs to release notes for ns-3.10
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6657
diff changeset
  1647
   - bug 1015 - GetChannelFrequencyMhz() does not match with standard
6667
3e7336abae57 bug 1022: inappropriate ASSERT in tcp-socket-impl.cc
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6662
diff changeset
  1648
   - bug 1022 - inappropriate ASSERT in tcp-socket-impl.cc
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1649
   - bug 1025 - wimax-ipv4 script exists with signal SIGSEGV when nbSS>20
6661
567a2a9fb792 Bug 1027 - RocketfuelTopologyReader is not working at all
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6658
diff changeset
  1650
   - bug 1027 - RocketfuelTopologyReader is not working at all
6748
d1e3630ba7c4 Update release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6735
diff changeset
  1651
   - bug 1029 - v4Ping application endian issues
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1652
   - bug 1030 - routing/aodv example fixed
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1653
   - bug 1031 - Wifi hidden terminal example does not work
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1654
   - bug 1032 - Unable to specify multiple Compiler/Linker flags
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1655
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1656
Known issues
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1657
------------
6735
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1658
In general, known issues are tracked on the project tracker available
8fda47c85df2 update release notes and changes.html
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6725
diff changeset
  1659
at http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/
6598
7459bc9f1a3b Start tracking ns-3.10 changes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6586
diff changeset
  1660
6769
9e86794fe917 Document cygwin limitation in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6760
diff changeset
  1661
Windows XP 32 bit Cygwin 1.7.7 does not seem to work because of a
9e86794fe917 Document cygwin limitation in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6760
diff changeset
  1662
problem (reported elsewhere) in linking large libraries.
9e86794fe917 Document cygwin limitation in RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6760
diff changeset
  1663
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1664
Release 3.9
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1665
===========
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1666
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1667
Availability
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1668
------------
6586
8ddf25211f89 Final nits for 3.9 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6578
diff changeset
  1669
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  1670
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.9.tar.bz2
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1671
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1672
Supported platforms
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1673
-------------------
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1674
ns-3.9 has been tested on the following platforms:
6578
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1675
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32/64-bit gcc-4.4.3
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1676
- Fedora Core 12 64-bit gcc-4.4.3
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1677
- Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit gcc-4.4.1
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1678
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64-bit gcc-4.2.4
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1679
- Fedora Core 5 32-bit gcc-4.1.1
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1680
- Mac OS X Leopard powerpc gcc-4.0.1
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1681
- Windows Cygwin 1.7.5
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1682
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1683
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1684
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  1685
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1686
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1687
New user-visible features
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1688
-------------------------
6360
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1689
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1690
   - A reorganisation of the construction of Wi-Fi transmit rates has
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1691
     been undertaken with the aim of simplifying the task of
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1692
     supporting further IEEE 802.11 PHYs. This work has been completed
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1693
     under the auspices of Bug 871. A consequence of this work is that
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1694
     WifiModes have a new (hopefully future-proof) naming, and
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1695
     simulations which specify rates by name will need updating. The
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1696
     list of new rate names is given in the error message produced
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1697
     when an attempt is made to use any invalid rate name (including
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1698
     those that were previously valid).
d8975477ff6a Bug 871: Rework construction of Wi-Fi rates
Dean Armstrong <deanarm@gmail.com>
parents: 6358
diff changeset
  1699
6358
5205e0dde26a Add NistErrorRateModel for wifi
Gary Pei <guangyu.pei@boeing.com>
parents: 6335
diff changeset
  1700
   - A new OFDM error rate model for WiFi (NistErrorRateModel); this model
5205e0dde26a Add NistErrorRateModel for wifi
Gary Pei <guangyu.pei@boeing.com>
parents: 6335
diff changeset
  1701
     has been validated in clear-channel testbed tests.  For 802.11b, it
5205e0dde26a Add NistErrorRateModel for wifi
Gary Pei <guangyu.pei@boeing.com>
parents: 6335
diff changeset
  1702
     uses the same underlying model as the YansErrorRateModel, but it differs
6459
d5cfe99001f0 Change default OFDM error rate model to NistErrorRateModel (issue 944)
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6444
diff changeset
  1703
     from YansErrorRateModel for OFDM modes (802.11a/g).  The default
d5cfe99001f0 Change default OFDM error rate model to NistErrorRateModel (issue 944)
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6444
diff changeset
  1704
     YansWifiPhyHelper has been changed to use this model.
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1705
6586
8ddf25211f89 Final nits for 3.9 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6578
diff changeset
  1706
   - A new NS-2 mobility trace reader supports BonnMotion, SUMO, TraNS, 
6367
702cb83d0e1c RELEASE_NOTES updated
Martín Giachino <martin.giachino@gmail.com>
parents: 6360
diff changeset
  1707
     etc. traces.
702cb83d0e1c RELEASE_NOTES updated
Martín Giachino <martin.giachino@gmail.com>
parents: 6360
diff changeset
  1708
6429
5ee11b58989d Initial import of energy model
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6383
diff changeset
  1709
   - An energy model for nodes and devices, including an energy source
5ee11b58989d Initial import of energy model
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6383
diff changeset
  1710
     model and device energy models allowing energy-aware devices
5ee11b58989d Initial import of energy model
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6383
diff changeset
  1711
     to notify the energy source about energy consumption.  
5ee11b58989d Initial import of energy model
He Wu <mdzz@u.washington.edu>
parents: 6383
diff changeset
  1712
6529
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1713
   - Rocketfuel topology dataset support for existing topology reader
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1714
     Rocketfuel project: 
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1715
     http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/rocketfuel/
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1716
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1717
   - Underwater Acoustic Network (UAN) model, split in to three parts, the 
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1718
     channel, PHY, and MAC models to enable researchers to model a variety 
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1719
     of underwater network scenarios.
dd982eaf6026 release notes and changes updates
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6528
diff changeset
  1720
6657
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1721
   - the Spectrum framework, which provides support for spectrum-aware
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1722
     Channel and PHY layer modeling. It features a set of classes that
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1723
     allows the mathematical representation of frequency dependent
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1724
     phenomena. Some example channel, propagation and device
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1725
     implementations that make use of this framework are also
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1726
     included.  
4cb83cfdb335 added spectrum to release notes for ns-3.9
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 6652
diff changeset
  1727
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1728
Bugs fixed
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1729
----------
6586
8ddf25211f89 Final nits for 3.9 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6578
diff changeset
  1730
The following lists many of the bugs fixed or small feature additions 
8ddf25211f89 Final nits for 3.9 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6578
diff changeset
  1731
since ns-3.8, in many cases referencing the Bugzilla bug number
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1732
6306
283c83f1f7be Update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html since ns-3.8
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6300
diff changeset
  1733
   - IPv4 global routing code; stub networks were assumed to be /24
283c83f1f7be Update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html since ns-3.8
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6300
diff changeset
  1734
     and added as /24 networks even if the mask is actually different
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1735
   - OLSR was generating messages on non-OLSR interfaces
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1736
   - ICMPv4 objects not properly registered; affected serialization code
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1737
   - bug 231 - SocketAddressTag needs to be removed from a packet before 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1738
               forwarding the packet to the user
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1739
   - bug 385 - Add a generic "sequence number" class
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1740
   - bug 473 - [PATCH] Alternative ns-2 trace reader
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1741
   - bug 665 - Need Tutorial Sectino on Config Path and Tracing Use
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1742
   - bug 671 - add packet-info-tag.cc for IP_PKTINFO/IPV6_PKTINFO
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1743
   - bug 702 - Global routing doesn't respond to interface events
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1744
   - bug 799 - Interference helper is too slow
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1745
   - bug 800 - Erroneous packet sender while using aloha or cw mac in uan module
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1746
   - bug 802 - Minstrel algorithm causes segmentation fault
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1747
   - bug 826 - Using uint64_t instead of Time in DcfManager
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1748
   - bug 828 - PacketSocket::Close does not unregister protocol handler
6306
283c83f1f7be Update RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES.html since ns-3.8
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6300
diff changeset
  1749
   - bug 842 - ns-3-dev crashes using block acks
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1750
   - bug 843 - Most wifi examples change BeaconInterval to unrealistic values
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1751
   - bug 844 - YansWifiPhy::GetPowerDbm off-by-one problem when calculating Tx 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1752
               power
6553
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1753
   - bug 846 - packet.cc triggers deprecated warning
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1754
   - bug 853 - Rates for Wi-Fi control responses are incorrectly selected
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1755
   - bug 854 - Support DROP_QUEUE reason-code in Ipv4FlowProbe
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1756
   - bug 858 - support MSG_PEEK in IPv4/IPv6 raw socket
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1757
   - bug 861 - Forwarding drops (due to no route found) were not being logged 
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1758
               in IPv4 or IPv6 ascii traces
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1759
   - bug 869 - suggested test framework enhancements
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1760
   - bug 871 - naming for WifiPhyStandard
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1761
   - bug 873 - Queue occupancy counter not decremented in WifiMacQueue::Remove()
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1762
   - bug 874 - wrong modulation type is selected in the forwardBurst method
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1763
   - bug 875 - "frame includes FCS" flag should be set in Radiotap frame header
6553
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1764
   - bug 879 - source address selection for AODV using DeferredRouteRequest
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1765
   - bug 881 - Reorganise to allow wider use of WifiInformationElement
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1766
   - bug 890 - several rate adaptation algorithms not tested by test.py
6322
d36455b47a34 update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6319
diff changeset
  1767
   - bug 900:  RawTextConfigLoad::Default does not load configurations
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1768
   - bug 901 - Optimize Mac48Address < != and ==
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1769
   - bug 902 - TCP: handle out-of-order packets during connection shutdown
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1770
   - bug 905 - WimaxNetDevice loses packet uid, tags, and memory optimization
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1771
   - bug 906 - NSC TCP socket fork did not copy txbuffersize over
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1772
   - bug 908 - test.py should exit if waf dies
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1773
   - bug 910 - Change Wi-Fi "AccessClass" to something closer to the standard
6536
2666c1d862ef [bug 911] Ipv4 multicast forwarding not going to all output interfaces in route
Ken Renard <kenneth.renard@arl.army.mil>
parents: 6529
diff changeset
  1774
   - bug 911 - IPv4/v6 multicast forwarding not going to all output interfaces
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1775
   - bug 913 - Queue Enqueue/Drop trace sources behavior unintuitive
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1776
   - bug 916 - EnableAsciiAll ("prefix") does not work for YansWifiPhyHelper
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1777
   - bug 918 - samples/main-packet-header.cc is broken
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1778
   - bug 919 - minstrel does not pass valgrind tests
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1779
   - bug 921 - Inconsistent declaration of class/struct Object in object.h
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1780
   - bug 922 - Inconsistent declaration of class/struct in 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1781
               wifi-remote-station-manager.h
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1782
   - bug 923 - Inconsistent declaration of class/struct in mac-low.h
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1783
   - bug 924 - Inconsistent declaration of class/struct in <xxx>-wifi-managers 
6553
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1784
   - bug 925 - Various IPv6 cc files trigger deprecated warning
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1785
   - bug 926 - olsr handling of multicast packets 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1786
   - bug 927 - SimpleOfdmWimaxChannel RxPower computation
6553
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1787
   - bug 930 - examples/topology-read/topology-example-sim.cc uses variable 
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1788
               length array
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1789
   - bug 931 - Abnormal exit reports SIGSEGV on failure
6335
069840de4fac update RELEASE_NOTES
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6322
diff changeset
  1790
   - bug 932 - Support IP_HDRINCL option for Ipv4RawSocket
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1791
   - bug 933 - Flushing ostream and files on abnormal program exit 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1792
               (ASSERT, ABORT and FATAL_ERROR)
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1793
   - bug 936 - Waf build error for python bindings on "AccessClass"
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1794
   - bug 937 - bugs in ns-3 wimax
6578
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1795
   - bug 939 - EmuNetDevice uses too much memory when reading packet bursts
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1796
   - bug 940 - AODV fails to set up a correct path
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1797
   - bug 941 - Wifi Dcf attributes not reachable through configuration namespace
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1798
   - bug 943 - Add a SO_BROADCAST socket option
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1799
   - bug 944 - change default ErrorRateModel from YansErrorRateModel to 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1800
               NistErrorRateModel
6374
787aef59db0b Bug 946 - Rocketfuel topology dataset support for topology reader
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6367
diff changeset
  1801
   - bug 946 - Rocketfuel topology dataset support for topology reader
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1802
   - bug 949 - Node::NonPromiscReceiveFromDevice reports a meaningless 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1803
               destination address to user callbacks 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1804
   - bug 950 - PointToPointNetDevice says promisc support is not implemented 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1805
               but it is
6553
fb5ad9c7755a update release notes and fix doxygen warnings
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6536
diff changeset
  1806
   - bug 955 - Install NSC for NS3 in a Itanium Architecture (ia64) with Linux 2.6.16.6
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1807
   - bug 956 - Bindings failure in core (traced-value) with older gcc
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1808
   - bug 958 - WiFi uses wrong default values for MTU, FragmentationThreshold 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1809
               and RtsCtsThreshold
6578
14019c625ab8 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6553
diff changeset
  1810
   - bug 959 - Simulation never finishes when using RealtimeSimulatorImpl
6528
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1811
   - bug 960 - V4Ping does not generate checksum
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1812
   - bug 961 - Problem with MPI activation 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1813
   - bug 964 - AODV does not work with host addressed interfaces
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1814
   - bug 965 - Problem building /src/core/callback.cc
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1815
   - bug 966 - AODV originates new RREQ on each packet, when doesn't have 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1816
               valid route
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1817
   - bug 969 - No SocketList is present in UdpL4Protocol class
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1818
   - bug 971 - fix AODV header Print functions 
6316b3d54f81 add bug fixes to RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6459
diff changeset
  1819
   - bug 972 - [flow monitor] assertion fails in pv4-flow-probe.cc
6300
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1820
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1821
Known issues
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1822
------------
bd1da3a75496 bug 861: Log drop traces for forwarding failures into IPv4 and IPv6 ascii traces
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6286
diff changeset
  1823
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1824
Release 3.8
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1825
===========
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1826
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1827
Availability
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1828
------------
6286
d46e65c1595b fix release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6284
diff changeset
  1829
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  1830
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.8.tar.bz2
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1831
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1832
Supported platforms
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1833
-------------------
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1834
ns-3.8 has been tested on the following platforms:
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1835
  - linux x86 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2, 4.1.1, 4.1 and 3.4.6 (debug and optimized)
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1836
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.4, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6 (debug and optimized)
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1837
  - MacOS X ppc gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x (debug and optimized)
6284
0ef062c0897e update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6282
diff changeset
  1838
  - cygwin gcc 4.3.4 (debug and optimized)
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1839
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1840
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1841
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  1842
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1843
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1844
New user-visible features
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1845
-------------------------
6111
0b22ae082153 Merge WiMAX module
Mohamed Amine Ismail <amine.ismail@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5933
diff changeset
  1846
  a) WiMAX net device: Allow to simulated IEEE 802.16 point to multi-point based networks 
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1847
6113
0ce37bf4f1c1 Merge distributed simulation code
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6111
diff changeset
  1848
  b) Distributed simulation for point-to-point networks using the Message 
0ce37bf4f1c1 Merge distributed simulation code
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6111
diff changeset
  1849
     Passing Interface (MPI) standard.
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1850
    
6165
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1851
  c) Matrix propagation loss model uses a two-dimensional matrix of path loss indexed 
6117
bf5e05fe051b Changes and release notes updated
Pavel Boyko <boyko@iitp.ru>
parents: 6113
diff changeset
  1852
     by source and destination nodes.
bf5e05fe051b Changes and release notes updated
Pavel Boyko <boyko@iitp.ru>
parents: 6113
diff changeset
  1853
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1854
  d) Topology read system: Allows quick and easy creation of large topologies by reading 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1855
     Inet or Orbis files
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1856
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1857
  e) Gauss-Markov mobility model: Adds 3-d adaptation of Gauss-Markov mobility model which 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1858
     has both memory and variability
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1859
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1860
  f) Steady-state random waypoint mobility model: Based on random waypoint mobility (RWM) model for case when 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1861
     speed, pause and position are uniformly distributed random variables. However, initial values of these 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1862
     parameters are not from uniform distribution but from stationary distribution of RWM model.
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1863
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1864
  g) Two-ray ground propagation loss model: Calculates the crossover distance under which Friis is used. 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1865
     The antenna height is set to the nodes z coordinate, but can be added to using the model parameter 
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1866
     SetHeightAboveZ, which will affect ALL stations
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1867
5933
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1868
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parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1869
API changes from ns-3.7
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1870
-----------------------
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parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1871
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html. 
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parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1872
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1873
Bugs fixed
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1874
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parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1875
The following lists many of the bugs that were fixed since ns-3.7, in
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1876
many cases referencing the Bugzilla bug number
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1877
   - bug 155 - std::ostream & os" parameters not Python friendly
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1878
   - bug 184 - GtkConfigStore do not support ConfigureDefault
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1879
   - bug 407 - OLSR is missing HNA support
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1880
   - bug 414 - No ReceiveErrorModel in SimpleNetDevice
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1881
   - bug 602 - WifiRemoteStation lacks information about the access class of outgoing packets
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1882
   - bug 622 - [PATCH] Friendly names for pcap traces
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1883
   - bug 683 - Helper methods for pcap tracing with explicit filenames
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1884
   - bug 706 - Backoff counting when starting NS.
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1885
   - bug 720 - TapBridge creation fails from a script outside the ns3 tree
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1886
   - bug 731 - Send function in point-to-point-net-device fails to check the return value of the Dequeue function
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1887
   - bug 747 - Listening TCP socket closes on RST
6165
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1888
   - bug 748 - Cloned TCP socket uses wrong source address
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1889
   - bug 772 - AODV is unable to correctly buffer packets waiting for route reply
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1890
   - bug 777 - AODV ignores specified outgoing interface in RouteOutput()
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1891
   - bug 778 - OLSR ignores specified outgoing interface in RouteOutput()
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1892
   - bug 787 - Addition of Two Ray Ground model to propagation loss model and tests
5933
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1893
   - bug 788 - OLSR_NEIGH_HOLD_TIME should be 3 times OLSR_REFRESH_INTERVAL 
6165
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1894
   - bug 789 - [PATCH] Globalrouting externalroutes to use the new GetRootExitDirections()
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1895
   - bug 794 - Ipv4Mask constructor for "/yy"-notation is wrong
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1896
   - bug 796 - TCP bug in ns-3-dev branch : Crash detected during retesting of Chord on ns-3-dev branch
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1897
   - bug 797 - Enhancements to src/core/random-variable.cc/h
6258
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1898
   - bug 801 - ns-3.7 and SVN not coexisting nicely
6276
3b7ec0d36079 update fixed bug list
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1899
   - bug 802 - Minstrel algorithm causes segmentation fault
6165
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1900
   - bug 804 - null-pointer references in 3.7 internet stack
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1901
   - bug 806 - TCP doesn't work over a CSMA link
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1902
   - bug 807 - ns2-mobility-helper.cc: node id parsed wrong
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1903
   - bug 809 - Missing Python binding for Ipv4GlobalRouting::GetRoute
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1904
   - bug 810 - In TCP, Socket::GetSockName() does not return the local socket address
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1905
   - bug 812 - Assert when getting socket in RecvReply for AODV
6258
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1906
   - bug 813 - Nqos AP sends packet to non associated STA
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1907
   - bug 814 - Function logging causing assert in wireless examples
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1908
   - bug 815 - waf shell file descriptor leak
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1909
   - bug 816 - tap-creator deadlock when python bindings enabled
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1910
   - bug 817 - Pareto rng constructors using scale and shape instead of mean and shape
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1911
   - bug 818 - TCP Socket implementation does not set ACK flag on retransmits
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1912
   - bug 819 - Build break when gtk not installed
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1913
   - bug 820 - Bad things happen in test.py when logging is enabled
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1914
   - bug 821 - AODV asserts with function logging enabled
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1915
   - bug 822 - Move Mtu attribute from NetDevice base class to subclasses
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1916
   - bug 825 - UDP-Client-server's packet loss counter not properly reset
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1917
   - bug 828 - PacketSocket::Close does not unregister protocol handler
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1918
   - bug 829 - TCP unbound memory problem (pending data)
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1919
   - bug 833 - OnOffApplication with PacketSocket: sniffs all traffic
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1920
   - bug 834 - Incorrect signature of Ipv4FlowProbe::DropLogger
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1921
   - bug 835 - Unlimited receive queues in sockets == evil
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1922
   - bug 836 - Delay is incremented over time with BsUplinkSchedulerSimple and BsUplinkSchedulerRtps
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1923
   - bug 838 - ns-3 can't compile on MacOS with 32bit processor
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1924
   - bug 839 - TestSuite wimax-ss-mac-layer crashes on Darwin 9.8.0 Power Macintosh
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1925
   - bug 840 - BS scheduler does not support fragmentation for UGS flows
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1926
   - bug 841 - Multicast transmission breaks with QoS Wifi
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1927
   - bug 844 - YansWifiPhy::GetPowerDbm off-by-one problem when calculating Tx power
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1928
   - bug 847 - Segfaults on BaseStationNetDevice with OnOffApplication and rtPS sched
6165
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1929
   - bug 849 - stray patch files in lwip directory
55762ca33a99 update CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6117
diff changeset
  1930
   - bug 850 - Ipv4GlobalRouting::LookupGlobal bug
6276
3b7ec0d36079 update fixed bug list
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1931
   - bug 855 - waf dies badly when switching from debug to optimized build or vice versa
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1932
   - bug 856 - initialize vbl
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1933
   - bug 857 - Link-Local Multicast handle in Ipv4 Output processing 
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1934
   - bug 859 - Output interface estimation for the source address bound socket in IPv4 Raw socket
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1935
   - bug 860 - waf sometimes dies while executing ns3header or gen_ns3_module_header tasks in case of 
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1936
               parallel jobs
6236
ac110d28c441 update AUTHORS, RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6207
diff changeset
  1937
   - bug 862 - NotifyInterfaceUp() Adds network route even when netmask is /32
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1938
   - bug 863 - Wrong Scalar arithmetics
6171
c8eba37db847 update RELEASE_NOTES
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6165
diff changeset
  1939
   - bug 864 - Invalid return value in UdpSocketImpl::Send and Ipv4RawSocketImpl::Send
c8eba37db847 update RELEASE_NOTES
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6165
diff changeset
  1940
   - bug 865 - Ipv4RawSocketImpl::RecvFrom does not return from address all the time.
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1941
   - bug 866 - WiMAX mobility models not aggregated to Node
6236
ac110d28c441 update AUTHORS, RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6207
diff changeset
  1942
   - bug 867 - Minor bug in Ipv4L3Protocol::Send()
6182
9e060dd421fa bug 868 - invalid packet size after Ipv4L3Protocol::Send
Hajime Tazaki <tazaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
parents: 6181
diff changeset
  1943
   - bug 868 - invalid packet size after Ipv4L3Protocol::Send
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1944
   - bug 872 - ns3::PcapFileWrapper::Write explodes stack
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1945
   - bug 873 - Queue occupancy counter not decremented in WifiMacQueue::Remove()
6207
a6ee8748aee7 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 6182
diff changeset
  1946
   - bug 876 - Tcp socket does not handle ShutdownRecv correctly
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1947
   - bug 877 - python bindings broken with multiple inheritance ?
6236
ac110d28c441 update AUTHORS, RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6207
diff changeset
  1948
   - bug 880 - Node sending a packet to itself via 127.0.0.1 aborts
6258
4556d543c345 update release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6236
diff changeset
  1949
   - bug 885 - Error in Ascii tracing in Python examples
6280
d588e7fe6cb0 update bug list for release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6276
diff changeset
  1950
   - bug 888 - Writing ascii trace to addtional tests fails
6276
3b7ec0d36079 update fixed bug list
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1951
   - bug 891 - WiMAX device helper does not include propagation loss model by default 
3b7ec0d36079 update fixed bug list
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1952
   - bug 894 - ./waf --run error message upon segfault
6282
533be42b3c7f Bug 895 - SimpleOfdmWimaxPhy SNR computation
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 6280
diff changeset
  1953
   - bug 895 - SimpleOfdmWimaxPhy SNR computation
6280
d588e7fe6cb0 update bug list for release notes
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 6276
diff changeset
  1954
   - bug 899 - EmuNetDevice::SetPromiscReceiveCallback not implemented
5933
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1955
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1956
Known issues
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1957
------------
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1958
ns-3 builds have been known to fail on the following platforms:
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1959
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1960
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1961
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
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Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1962
2fc170de5400 Update release notes and changes for ns-3.8
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5926
diff changeset
  1963
5527
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1964
Release 3.7
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1965
===========
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1966
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1967
Availability
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1968
------------
5926
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1969
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  1970
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.7.tar.bz2
5527
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1971
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1972
Supported platforms
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1973
-------------------
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1974
ns-3.7 has been tested on the following platforms:
5926
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1975
  - linux x86 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2, 4.1.1, 4.1 and 3.4.6 (debug and optimized)
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1976
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.4, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6 (debug and optimized)
c1bb479d73ff Update RELEASE_NOTES
Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1977
  - MacOS X ppc gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x (debug and optimized)
5527
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1978
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only), gcc 4.3.2 (debug and optimized)
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1979
5926
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1980
Unofficially supported platform
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1981
-------------------
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1982
- mingw gcc 3.4.5 (debug only)
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Faker Moatamri <faker.moatamri@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5915
diff changeset
  1983
5527
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1984
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1985
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  1986
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
5527
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1987
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1988
New user-visible features
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  1989
-------------------------
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  1990
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  a) Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing model (RFC 3561)
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  1992
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  1993
  b) IPv6 extensions support to add IPv6 extensions and options.  Two 
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  1994
     examples (fragmentation and loose routing) are available.
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  c) NetAnim interface: Provides an interface to the Qt-based NetAnim 
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parents: 5812
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  1997
     animator, which supports static, point-to-point topology-based 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  1998
     packet animations.
5776
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parents: 5742
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  1999
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parents: 5812
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  d) New topology helpers have been introduced
5776
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parents: 5742
diff changeset
  2001
     - PointToPointDumbbellHelper
aae948449722 Moved net-anim from contrib
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5742
diff changeset
  2002
     - PointToPointGridHelper
aae948449722 Moved net-anim from contrib
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5742
diff changeset
  2003
     - PointToPointStarHelper
aae948449722 Moved net-anim from contrib
Josh Pelkey <jpelkey@gatech.edu>
parents: 5742
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  2004
     - CsmaStarHelper
aae948449722 Moved net-anim from contrib
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parents: 5742
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  2005
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parents: 5812
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  2006
  e) Equal-cost multipath for global routing: Enables quagga's equal 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2007
     cost multipath for Ipv4GlobalRouting, and adds an attribute that
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parents: 5812
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  2008
     can enable it with random packet distribution policy across 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2009
     equal cost routes.
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2010
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2011
  f) Binding sockets to devices:  A method analogous to a SO_BINDTODEVICE
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2012
     socket option has been introduced to class Socket
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parents: 5812
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  2013
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2014
  g) Object::DoStart: Users who need to complete their object setup at 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
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     the start of a simulation can override this virtual method, perform their 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2016
     adhoc setup, and then, must chain up to their parent.
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2017
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2018
  h) Ipv4::IsDestinationAddress method added to support checks of whether a 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2019
     destination address should be accepted as one of the host's own 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2020
     addresses.  
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2021
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2022
  i) UniformDiscPositionAllocator added; distributes uniformly the nodes 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2023
     within a disc of given radius. 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2024
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2025
  j) ChannelNumber attribute added to YansWifiPhy. Now it is possible to 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2026
     setup wifi channel using WifiPhyHelper::Set() method.
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2027
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2028
  k) WaypointMobilityModel provides a method to add mobility as a set of 
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2029
     (time, position) pairs
5742
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Pavel Boyko <boyko@iitp.ru>
parents: 5527
diff changeset
  2030
5926
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parents: 5915
diff changeset
  2031
  l) 802.11p WiFi standards 
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parents: 5915
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  2032
  
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parents: 5915
diff changeset
  2033
  m) UDP Client/Server application
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parents: 5915
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  2034
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parents: 5915
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  2035
  n) Support transactions in the SQLite output interface, making it usable for larger amounts of data
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parents: 5915
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  2036
5742
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parents: 5527
diff changeset
  2037
API changes from ns-3.6
5527
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parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2038
-----------------------
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parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2039
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html. 
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parents: 5496
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  2040
5915
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2041
Bugs fixed
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2042
----------
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2043
The following lists many of the bugs that were fixed since ns-3.6, in
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2044
many cases referencing the Bugzilla bug number
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2045
   - bug 752: Object::DoStart is not executed for objects created at t > 0
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2046
   - bug 767:  Incorrect modulation for 802.11a modes
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2047
   - bug 725: wifi fragmentation and RTS cannot be used at the same time
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2048
   - bug 782: CreateTap () requires IP address in modes other than 
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2049
     CONFIGURE_LOCAL.
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2050
   - bug 769: Queue::GetTotalReceived{Bytes,Packets}() broken
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2051
   - bug 738 ReceiveErrorModel called too late
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2052
   - Fix NSC improper response to FIN
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2053
   - Fixed bug in serialization of PbbAddressBlock.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2054
   - Fix bug 780 (problem in RoutingTableComputation with asymetric links), 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2055
     while adding debugging methods to OLSR.  
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2056
   - bug 759: Ipv6 uses wrong outgoing interface.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2057
   - bug 770: IPv6 size calculation for unknown options is wrong.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2058
   - bug 771: Radvd does not set ttl value.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2059
   - Fix bug 606:  Arp depends on IP routing system
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2060
   - pad out CSMA payloads to 46 bytes if needed
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2061
   - Drop CSMA packets with CRC errors, rescan, dox tweaks
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2062
   - Add FCS capability to CSMA
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2063
   - Mesh:Dot11s: fixed airtime metric
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2064
   - Get emu working again:  Add Dix/Llc option, add and use contextual 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2065
     realtime schedule ops, don't refcount realtime simulator impl
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2066
   - bug 695 - DcfManager::UpdateBackoff () uses slow HighPrecision::Div()
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2067
   - bug 674 - EIFS is not handled correctly in DcfManager::GetAccessGrantStart
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2068
   - bug 739 -  OLSR: Strange HTime value in HELLO messages 
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2069
   - bug 746 -  UDP source address is not set to bound address
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2070
   - bug 735 Update Olsr for local delivery
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2071
   - bug 740 OLSR MprCompute () works wrong: fixed
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2072
   - bug 729 Enable IPv6 over PPP.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2073
   - bug 645: fixes for opening stats file with OMNeT++
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2074
   - bug 689: default energy detection and CCA thresholds are changed to be 
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2075
     more realistic.
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2076
   - bug 733: OLSR MPR Computation give incorrect result
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2077
   - Mesh: HWMP: fixed proactive routes
feff99f292d5 Update RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2078
   - Mesh: fixed FLAME PATH_UPDATE procedure, fixed mesh.cc 
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Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2079
5527
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parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2080
Known issues
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2081
------------
5915
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parents: 5812
diff changeset
  2082
ns-3 builds have been known to fail on the following platforms:
5527
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parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2083
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2084
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2085
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2086
83f5730e3dc6 start RELEASE_NOTES for 3.7
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 5496
diff changeset
  2087
5476
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2088
Release 3.6
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2089
===========
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2090
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2091
Availability
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2092
------------
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2093
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2094
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.6.tar.bz2
5476
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2095
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2096
Supported platforms
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2097
-------------------
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2098
ns-3.6 has been tested on the following platforms:
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2099
  - linux x86 gcc 4.4.1, 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2100
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2101
  - MacOS X ppc and x86 (gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2102
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only), gcc 4.3.2 (debug and optimized)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2103
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2104
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2105
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2106
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
5476
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2107
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2108
New user-visible features
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2109
-------------------------
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2110
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2111
  a) 802.11 models:
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2112
     - Add an implementation of the minstrel rate control algorithm 
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2113
       (Duy Nguyen for gsoc)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2114
     - AthstatsHelper: enables the wifi device to produce periodic 
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2115
       reports similar to the ones generated by madwifi's
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2116
       athstats tool (Nicola Baldo)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2117
     - 10MHz and 5MHz channel width supported by 802.11a model 
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2118
       (Ramon Bauza and Kirill Andreev)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2119
     - Channel switching support. YansWifiPhy can now switch among 
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2120
       different channels (Ramon Bauza and Pavel Boyko)
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2121
  
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2122
  b) IPv6 models:
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2123
    - IPv6 interface;
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2124
    - IPv6 layer;
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2125
    - IPv6 raw socket;
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2126
    - Static IPv6 routing;
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2127
    - ICMPv6 layer;
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2128
    - Some ICMPv6 error messages (destination unreachable, ...);
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2129
    - Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NS/NA, RS/RA, redirection);
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2130
    - Ping6 application (send Echo request);
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2131
    - Radvd application (send RA);
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2132
    - Examples (ping6, simple-routing-ping6, radvd, radvd-two-prefix,
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2133
      icmpv6-redirect).
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2134
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2135
  c) Wireless Mesh Networking models:
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2136
    - General multi-interface mesh stack infrastructure (devices/mesh module).
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2137
    - IEEE 802.11s (Draft 3.0) model including Peering Management Protocol and HWMP.
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2138
    - Forwarding Layer for Meshing (FLAME) protocol.
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2139
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2140
  d) Nix-vector routing:  
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2141
    - Ipv4NixVectorHelper
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2142
    - Examples (nix-simple, nms-p2p-nix)
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2143
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2144
  e) New Test Framework
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2145
    - Use test.py instead of ./waf check or ./waf --regression
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2146
    - Previous unit tests have been ported to new framework.
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2147
    - Examples are tested for run-ability.
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2148
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2149
  f) A new Flow Monitor module
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2150
   - To very easily measure flow metrics in a simulation
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2151
   - No need to use trace callbacks or parsing trace files
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2152
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2153
API changes from ns-3.5
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2154
-----------------------
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2155
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html. 
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2156
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2157
Known issues
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2158
------------
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2159
ns-3.6 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2160
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2161
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2162
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
4704
84b36a63dc23 stub release notes for 3.6
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4661
diff changeset
  2163
4412
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2164
Release 3.5
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2165
===========
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2166
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2167
Availability
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2168
------------
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2169
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2170
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.5.tar.bz2
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2171
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2172
Supported platforms
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2173
-------------------
5476
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2174
ns-3.5 has been tested on the following platforms:
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2175
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2176
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2177
  - MacOS X ppc and x86 (gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x)
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2178
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only), gcc 4.3.2 (debug and optimized)
5476
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2179
  - mingw gcc 3.4.5 (debug only)
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2180
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2181
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2182
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2183
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
4412
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2184
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2185
New user-visible features
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2186
-------------------------
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2187
4471
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2188
  a) 802.11 MAC:
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2189
     - EDCA multi-qos-class support (Mirko Banchi)
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2190
     - 802.11n initial support for A-MSDU frame aggregation (Mirko Banchi)
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2191
     - aarf-cd and cara rate control algorithms (Federico Maguolo)
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2192
  b) 802.11 PHY:
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2193
     - 802.11b PHY support (Gary Pei)
ef1730710767 update RELEASE_NOTES
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4412
diff changeset
  2194
     - Nakagami propagation loss model (Timo Bingmann)
4492
3ebeb7bf3c15 added support for radiotap and prism headers
Nicola Baldo <nbaldo@cttc.es>
parents: 4475
diff changeset
  2195
     - radiotap and prism headers for PCAP output (Nicola Baldo)
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2196
  c) RandomVariable:
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2197
     - GammaVariable and ErlangVariable (Timo Bingmann)
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2198
     - ZipfVariable (Francesco Malandrino)
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2199
  d) UdpEcho: allows setting the payload of echo packets
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2200
  e) Ipv4/Ipv4RoutingProtocol: allow fine-grained control over
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2201
     routing policy and arbitrary composition of routing protocols
4412
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2202
 
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2203
API changes from ns-3.4
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2204
-----------------------
4475
a232dcbbe7a8 api changes and release notes for IPv4 routing rework
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 4471
diff changeset
  2205
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html.  The
a232dcbbe7a8 api changes and release notes for IPv4 routing rework
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 4471
diff changeset
  2206
internal API and composition of the IPv4 stack underwent significant
a232dcbbe7a8 api changes and release notes for IPv4 routing rework
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 4471
diff changeset
  2207
refactoring in this release cycle.
4412
d567b96b88e6 Added new ns-3.5 wifi features in RELEASE_NOTES
Mirko Banchi <mk.banchi@gmail.com>
parents: 4303
diff changeset
  2208
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2209
Known issues
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2210
------------
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2211
ns-3 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2212
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2213
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2214
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2215
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2216
Future releases
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2217
---------------
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2218
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2219
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development including
5476
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2220
fuller IPv6 support, some smaller features such as a new Global ARP 
f410b023d472 swap in released 3.6 release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 5475
diff changeset
  2221
package, and possibly a new Testing and Validation suite.
4612
0053aa3d8c22 update RELEASE_NOTES in preparation of rc2
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 4492
diff changeset
  2222
4303
cf08bd85770d RELEASE_NOTES shouldn't refer to past releases as future releases
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4302
diff changeset
  2223
Release 3.4
cf08bd85770d RELEASE_NOTES shouldn't refer to past releases as future releases
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4302
diff changeset
  2224
===========
3466
cbf5120f5eb6 more details for 3.2 release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3465
diff changeset
  2225
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2226
Availability
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2227
------------
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2228
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2229
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.4.tar.bz2
4081
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2230
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2231
Supported platforms
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2232
-------------------
4302
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2233
ns-3.4 has been tested on the following platforms:
4081
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2234
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2235
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2236
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2237
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2238
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2239
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2240
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2241
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
4081
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2242
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2243
New user-visible features
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2244
-------------------------
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2245
  a) Wifi models: Timo Bingman contributed a ThreeLogDistance and a Nakagami
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2246
     propagation loss model based on the ns-2 models. Fabian Mauchle contributed
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2247
     multicast support.
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2248
4302
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2249
  b) Object Name Service:  A facility allowing ns-3 Objects to be assigned
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2250
     names has been added.
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2251
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2252
  c) Tap Bridge:  A second option for integrating ns-3 with real-world hosts
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2253
     has been added.  This allows for real hosts to talk over ns-3 net devices
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2254
     and simulated networks.
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2255
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2256
  d) A new build option (ns-3-allinone) has been provided to make it easier for
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2257
     users to download and bulid commonly used ns-3 configurations.
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2258
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2259
  e) The ns-3 calendar queue scheduler has been ported to ns-3.
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2260
5791e06dc1d1 RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.4
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4081
diff changeset
  2261
  f) XML support has been added to the ConfigStore.
4081
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2262
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2263
API changes from ns-3.3
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2264
-----------------------
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2265
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2266
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2267
Known issues
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2268
------------
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2269
ns-3 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2270
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2271
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2272
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2273
  - optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc4.3.2
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2274
  - MinGW
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2275
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2276
The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes 
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2277
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2278
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2279
Future releases
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2280
---------------
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2281
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2282
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development including
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2283
fuller IPv6 support, and IPv4 and routing protocol refactoring, and some smaller
4303
cf08bd85770d RELEASE_NOTES shouldn't refer to past releases as future releases
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4302
diff changeset
  2284
features such as a new Global ARP package and possibly a new Testing and Validation
cf08bd85770d RELEASE_NOTES shouldn't refer to past releases as future releases
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4302
diff changeset
  2285
suite,
4081
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2286
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2287
Release 3.3
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2288
===========
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2289
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2290
Availability
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2291
------------
74180c1a3af9 add wifi features to release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3982
diff changeset
  2292
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2293
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-3.3.tar.bz2
3967
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2294
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2295
Supported platforms
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2296
-------------------
4303
cf08bd85770d RELEASE_NOTES shouldn't refer to past releases as future releases
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 4302
diff changeset
  2297
ns-3.3 has been tested on the following platforms:
3967
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2298
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2299
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2300
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2301
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2302
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2303
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2304
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2305
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
3967
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2306
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2307
New user-visible features
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2308
-------------------------
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2309
  a) Emulated Net Device
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2310
     A new net device has been added as enabling technology for ns-3 emulation
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2311
     scenarios.  See src/devices/emu and examples/emu-udp-echo.cc for details.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2312
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2313
  b) ICMP Support
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2314
     Support for several ICMP messages has been added to ns-3.  See 
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2315
     src/internet-stack/icmpv4.h for details.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2316
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2317
  c) IPv6 Address Support
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2318
     New clases to support IPv6 addresses has been added to the system.  This
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2319
     is enabling technology for fuller IPv6 support scheduled for ns-3.4.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2320
3982
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2321
  d) A flow-id tag has been added to the contributed code section
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2322
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2323
  e) Star topologies can be created from the topology helper functions
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2324
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2325
  f) The global routing code has been made dynamic (not just limited to
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2326
     (pre-simulation computation) and supports stub network interfaces and 
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2327
     bridge net devices 
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2328
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2329
  g) A MatchContainer has been added to the configuration subsystem
4f370a1b637c add some things to release notes and changes.html; revise README
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3967
diff changeset
  2330
3967
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2331
API changes from ns-3.2
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2332
-----------------------
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2333
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2334
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2335
Known issues
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2336
------------
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2337
ns-3 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2338
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2339
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2340
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2341
  - optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc4.3.2
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2342
  - MinGW
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2343
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2344
The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes 
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2345
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2346
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2347
Future releases
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2348
---------------
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2349
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2350
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development including
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2351
fuller IPv6 support, and IPv4 and routing protocol refactoring, and some smaller
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2352
features such as an object naming facility and a new Global ARP package.
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2353
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2354
Release 3.2
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2355
===========
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2356
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2357
Availability
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2358
------------
f33cbf6b051c update RELEASE_NOTES for ns-3.3
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3706
diff changeset
  2359
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2360
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-3.2.tar.bz2
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2361
3687
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2362
Supported platforms
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2363
-------------------
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2364
ns-3.2 has been tested on the following platforms:
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2365
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2366
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2367
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2368
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2369
3687
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2370
Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2371
wiki for more information:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2372
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation
3466
cbf5120f5eb6 more details for 3.2 release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3465
diff changeset
  2373
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2374
New user-visible features
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2375
-------------------------
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2376
  a) Learning bridge (IEEE 802.1D)
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2377
    It is now possible to bridge together multiple layer 2 devices to
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2378
    create larger layer 2 networks. The Wifi and Csma models support
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2379
    this new mode of operation. (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro)
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2380
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2381
  b) Python bindings
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2382
    It is now possible to write simulation scripts in python using our 
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2383
    python bindings (contributed by Gustavo Carneiro).
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2384
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2385
  c) Real-time simulator
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2386
    It is now possible to run simulations synchronized on the real-world
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2387
    wall-clock time (contributed by Craig Dowell).
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2388
3706
4eba9967700e mispeeling in RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3692
diff changeset
  2389
  d) Network Simulation Cradle
4eba9967700e mispeeling in RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3692
diff changeset
  2390
    It is now possible to use the Network Simulation Cradle 
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2391
    (http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/nsc/) in ns-3 and run simulations 
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2392
    using various versions of kernel TCP network stacks. (contributed
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2393
    by Florian Westphal as part of his Google Summer of Code work)
3466
cbf5120f5eb6 more details for 3.2 release notes
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3465
diff changeset
  2394
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2395
  e) A statistics framework
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2396
    Joseph Kopena contributed a statistics framework which can be used
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2397
    keep track of simulation data in persistent storage across multiple 
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2398
    runs (database and ascii file backends are available).
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2399
    More information on the wiki:
10401
6e9d4ceb880b Update ns-3 wiki URL
Daniel Lertpratchya <nikkipui@gmail.com>
parents: 10234
diff changeset
  2400
    http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Statistical_Framework_for_Network_Simulation
3465
a1d2a8165500 Add release notes.
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt>
parents: 3426
diff changeset
  2401
3687
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2402
API changes from ns-3.1
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2403
-----------------------
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2404
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html
3465
a1d2a8165500 Add release notes.
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt>
parents: 3426
diff changeset
  2405
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2406
Known issues
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2407
------------
3687
bef19c2939f2 some release notes edits
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2408
ns-3 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2409
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2410
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2411
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
3684
d783a951f8f5 update RELEASE_NOTES known issues
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2412
  - optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc4.3.2
d783a951f8f5 update RELEASE_NOTES known issues
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3652
diff changeset
  2413
  - MinGW
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2414
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2415
The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes 
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2416
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.
3465
a1d2a8165500 Add release notes.
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt>
parents: 3426
diff changeset
  2417
3652
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2418
Future releases
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2419
---------------
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2420
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2421
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development: IPv6, 
f17da31d6081 update release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 3593
diff changeset
  2422
emulation, and synchronous posix sockets.
3465
a1d2a8165500 Add release notes.
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt>
parents: 3426
diff changeset
  2423
3357
93218ac0d373 Prepare for 3.1
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3279
diff changeset
  2424
Release 3.1 (2008/06/30)
3279
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3196
diff changeset
  2425
========================
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2426
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2427
The first ns-3 stable release
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2428
-----------------------------
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2429
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Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2430
This release is immediately available from:
7459
167fc2274f53 update for ns-3.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 7456
diff changeset
  2431
http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-3.1.tar.bz2
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2432
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2433
We dedicate this initial ns-3 release to our late contributor and friend, 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2434
Federico Maguolo.
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2435
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2436
What is ns-3 ?
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2437
--------------
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2438
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2439
ns-3 is a new discrete-event network simulator designed for supporting network
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2440
research and education. ns-3 features a solid, well documented C++ core and 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2441
models for TCP/IP (IPv4), several link types including WiFi, and mobility 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2442
models.
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2443
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2444
ns-3 is an open source project released under the GNU GPLv2 license which 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2445
allows anyone to use ns-3 without having to pay any license fee or royalties. 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2446
ns-3 is actively seeking new contributors to extend the range of supported 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2447
models and/or to maintain existing models.
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2448
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2449
Where to get more information about ns-3
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2450
----------------------------------------
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2451
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2452
All the ns-3 documentation, is accessible from the ns-3 website: 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2453
http://www.nsnam.org
3279
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3196
diff changeset
  2454
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2455
Including, tutorials:
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2456
http://www.nsnam.org/tutorials.html
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2457
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2458
Supported platforms
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2459
-------------------
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2460
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2461
ns-3 is regularly tested on the following platforms:
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2462
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2463
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 3.4.6
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2464
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2465
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2466
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2467
Known issues
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2468
------------
3279
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3196
diff changeset
  2469
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2470
ns-3 is known to fail on the following platforms:
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2471
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2472
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2473
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2474
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2475
The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2476
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2477
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2478
Future releases
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2479
---------------
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2480
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2481
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2482
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development: python 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2483
scripting, IPv6, emulation, a statistics framework and synchronous posix 
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2484
sockets.
3279
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3196
diff changeset
  2485
3194
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2486
Release 3.0.13 (2008/06/02)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2487
===========================
3194
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2488
- point to point links generate ppp pcap traces
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2489
- point to point links support asymmetrical data rates.
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2490
- generate doxygen documentation for all attributes and trace sources
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2491
- add ConfigStore and GtkConfigStore to contrib module
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2492
- socket API now support tx and rx buffers: implemented for UDP and TCP
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2493
- ARP cache now supports per-entry pending queues
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2494
- lots of bugfixes and implementation and API cleanups
79dba133b5f8 update RELEASE_NOTES and a few other files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2891
diff changeset
  2495
3196
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2496
Warning: among API changes in this release, Application::Start and 
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2497
Application::Stop now interprets the time argument as a relative
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2498
instead of absolute simulation time, to align with how Simulator::Schedule
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2499
behaves.  Any code that calls these APIs in the middle of the simulation 
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2500
will need to be adapted.  
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2501
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2502
The API of Simulator::StopAt (time) has also changed.  Now it is 
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2503
called Simulator::Stop (time), and takes a relative time, instead of 
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2504
absolute.
539a710e5cf9 Gustavo's API warnings
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 3194
diff changeset
  2505
2891
aeca90b95bf5 nits for 3.0.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2842
diff changeset
  2506
Release 3.0.12 (2008/04/07)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2507
===========================
2842
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2508
    - Add Attribute support to the TypeId metadata system and add
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2509
attribute support to all in-tree models
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2510
    - Add a mid-level helper API to build simulation topologies 
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2511
and perform simple ascii and pcap link-level tracing.
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2512
    - Large amount of structural changes to accomodate the needs
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2513
of the upcoming python bindings
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2514
    - new rate control algorithm (RRAA) and a jakes propagation model
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2515
in the 802.11 model (Federico Maguolo).
2891
aeca90b95bf5 nits for 3.0.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2842
diff changeset
  2516
    - regression test framework added
aeca90b95bf5 nits for 3.0.12 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2842
diff changeset
  2517
    - TCP delayed acknowledgements and multitasking server
2842
d6a128110975 initial draft of release notes.
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2337
diff changeset
  2518
2337
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2519
Release 3.0.11 (2008/02/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2520
===========================
2337
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2521
    - Initial port of GTNetS TCP implementation (initial version 
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2522
that does not support multitasking or delayed acknowledgments yet, 
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2523
but supports a reliable stream service)
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2524
    - Changes to the ns-3 object model to create a TypeId-based 
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2525
metadata system
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2526
    - lots of bug fixes throughout the system
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2527
    - tutorial updates
604a3bc1fbb3 initial release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 2219
diff changeset
  2528
2219
b5bf2588cde2 bump version and add release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 2194
diff changeset
  2529
Release 3.0.10 (2008/01/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2530
===========================
2219
b5bf2588cde2 bump version and add release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 2194
diff changeset
  2531
   - Add tutorial document content;
b5bf2588cde2 bump version and add release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 2194
diff changeset
  2532
   - Valgrind option for "waf" tool;
b5bf2588cde2 bump version and add release notes
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 2194
diff changeset
  2533
   - Doxygen organization changes.
2194
25bad6958d13 update release_steps.txt
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2192
diff changeset
  2534
2185
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2535
Release 3.0.9 (2007/12/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2536
==========================
2185
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2537
   - A 802.11 model ported from Yans. This model supports:
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2538
       * a rather extensive PHY model
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2539
       * log-distance and friis propagation model
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2540
       * a simple set of rate control algorithms (ARF, Ideal, 
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2541
         AARF, constant-rate)
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2542
       * adhoc and infrastructure mode (beacon+assoc)
2192
4db981a0d9eb bump VERSION and finish RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
  2543
   - Use smart pointer for Packet in the APIs
4db981a0d9eb bump VERSION and finish RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
  2544
   - A new contrib directory with helper classes: 
4db981a0d9eb bump VERSION and finish RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
  2545
     EventGarbageCollector, Gnuplot
4db981a0d9eb bump VERSION and finish RELEASE_NOTES
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
  2546
   - Tracing support for Applications
2185
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2547
   - many bugs fixed
d3582be30902 initial release notes for upcoming release
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 1850
diff changeset
  2548
1850
560a5091e0e6 release files
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 1785
diff changeset
  2549
Release 3.0.8 (2007/11/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2550
==========================
1850
560a5091e0e6 release files
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 1785
diff changeset
  2551
   - A simple error model
560a5091e0e6 release files
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 1785
diff changeset
  2552
   - Source files for ns-3 tutorial
560a5091e0e6 release files
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 1785
diff changeset
  2553
1785
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2554
Release 3.0.7 (2007/10/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2555
==========================
1785
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2556
  - OLSR routing protocol
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2557
  - A timer class
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2558
  - Additional mobility models (random waypoint, random 2D walk)
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2559
  - A mobility visualization tool 
04704f042c03 Release notes for 3.0.7
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1516
diff changeset
  2560
1516
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2561
Release 3.0.6 (2007/09/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2562
==========================
1516
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2563
  - Static multicast IPv4 routing
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2564
  - Logging overhaul (NS_LOG macros)
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2565
  - Refactoring of tracing subsystem
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2566
  - Tutorial document started
6c4850dc539e release notes for 3.0.6
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 1284
diff changeset
  2567
 
1284
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2568
Release 3.0.5 (2007/08/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2569
==========================
999
a3c715562d79 start filling release notes with merged items
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 929
diff changeset
  2570
1284
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2571
  - Refactoring to support win32-based unix environments (Cygwin, mingw)
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2572
  - "Packet socket" for allowing applications to access NetDevices directly
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2573
  - Generalized, polymorphic Address class
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2574
  - Add CSMA NetDevice model (from Emmanuelle Laprise)
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2575
  - Modularize IPv4 routing support (from Gustavo Carneiro)
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2576
  - Add mobility framework and basic mobility models 
e201ec8a248f Release notes updated
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 999
diff changeset
  2577
  - Global unicast centralized routing 
999
a3c715562d79 start filling release notes with merged items
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 929
diff changeset
  2578
929
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2579
Release 3.0.4 (2007/07/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2580
==========================
929
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2581
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2582
  - Enable waf as the default build system.
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2583
  - Per-packet metadata:  a system to track which headers and trailers 
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2584
    are added to a packet
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2585
  - Simplifications to point-to-point devices and channel
9394956b7fc4 changes for 3.0.4 release
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 759
diff changeset
  2586
759
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2587
Release 3.0.3 (2007/06/15)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2588
==========================
759
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2589
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2590
  - Enable Waf for release tarballs: users can now build ns-3
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2591
    with the "waf" tool. See doc/build-waf.txt.
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2592
  - Add support for variable time precision: it is now possible
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2593
    to run a simulation with an accuracy which is higher or lower
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2594
    than a nanosecond: seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, 
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2595
    femtoseconds and picoseconds are supported.
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2596
  - Optimize and rework the COM framework, solidify the component 
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2597
    manager
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2598
  - Many small API cleanups
8d6562ea21a4 add release notes
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 657
diff changeset
  2599
657
be551a3b07c6 minor changes due to documentation review
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 635
diff changeset
  2600
Release 3.0.2 (2007/05/18)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2601
==========================
635
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2602
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2603
  - Implement a new memory management infrastructure based
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2604
    on reference counting and smart pointers (the latter being
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2605
    optional)
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2606
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2607
  - Implement a COM-like framework with support for QueryInterface
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2608
    to provide object extensibility
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2609
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2610
  - Add support for a BSD-style socket API for user applications
71b92dfe5f55 write README, contributing.txt, reorganize the other documentation files
Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@sophia.inria.fr>
parents: 421
diff changeset
  2611
657
be551a3b07c6 minor changes due to documentation review
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents: 635
diff changeset
  2612
Release 3.0.1 (2007/03/31)
3361
b8db6cd10444 update RELEASE_NOTES
Craig Dowell <craigdo@ee.washington.edu>
parents: 3357
diff changeset
  2613
==========================
421
56928998e05c Final pre-release files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents:
diff changeset
  2614
56928998e05c Final pre-release files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents:
diff changeset
  2615
  - First public release; not yet pre-alpha.
56928998e05c Final pre-release files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents:
diff changeset
  2616
56928998e05c Final pre-release files
Tom Henderson <tomh@tomh.org>
parents:
diff changeset
  2617
  - Simple UDP-based simulation script (examples/simple-p2p.cc)