[Ns-developers] ns-3.0.9 development release available

[Tom Henderson]

Hi all,
Our monthly ns-3 development releases is available at the below location:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.0.9.tar.bz2

Please see this "getting started" page if you are new to ns-3:
http://www.nsnam.org/getting_started.html

The most significant changes are the addition of Mathieu's ns-3-wifi 
code, and the change to the API related to Packet objects that was 
extensively discussed on the list.  From the release notes:

Release 3.0.9 (2007/12/15)
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    - A 802.11 model ported from Yans. This model supports:
        * a rather extensive PHY model
        * log-distance and friis propagation model
        * a simple set of rate control algorithms (ARF, Ideal,
          AARF, constant-rate)
        * adhoc and infrastructure mode (beacon+assoc)
    - Use smart pointer for Packet in the APIs
    - A new contrib directory with helper classes:
      EventGarbageCollector, Gnuplot
    - Tracing support for Applications
    - many bugs fixed

The next release is scheduled for mid-January.  The next major module 
planned for merging is the TCP code, which we felt was not sufficiently 
ready for this release; we'll try again for January.  At the developers 
  meeting, we agreed on the need to finalize the APIs and the main piece 
that is still missing is the set of APIs relating to large simulation 
topologies, so expect to see some list discussion on that topic.  We'll 
also progress the tutorial and the manual during the next release cycle.

- Tom