[Ns-developers] ns-3.3 Release Candidate 1 Posted

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce that release candidate number one for ns-3.3 is
available at the below location:

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.3-RC1.tar.bz2

This is a release candidate, which means that we believe this version of
ns-3.3 is close to ready for release, but we want to make sure that nothing
has snuck in that could cause serious problems.  We would appreciate it if
you all could find time to look at this candidate with an eye to finding
problems before we call it "golden."

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

Supported platforms
-------------------
ns-3.3-RC1 has been tested on the following platforms:
  - Linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
  - Linux x86_64 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
  - Cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Not all ns-3 options are available on all platforms; consult the wiki for
more information:
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Installation

New user-visible features in ns-3.3
-----------------------------------
  a) Emulated Net Device
     A new net device has been added as enabling technology for ns-3
emulation
     scenarios.  See src/devices/emu and examples/emu-udp-echo.cc for
details.

  b) ICMP Support
     Support for several ICMP messages has been added to ns-3.  See
     src/internet-stack/icmpv4.h for details.

  c) IPv6 Address Support
     New classes to support IPv6 addresses has been added to the system.
This
     is enabling technology for fuller IPv6 support scheduled for ns-3.4.

API changes from ns-3.2
-----------------------
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html

Known Issues
------------

A number of reported bugs have been fixed in this release, but some known
bugs do remain ...

There is a memory leak in the wifi-wired-bridging example that will be
reported if you valgrind it;
The wifi-wired-bridging example fails regression tests on Cygwin and OS/X
Intel;
The tutorial (in the doc/ directory) is inconsistent with respect to wifi
phy changes recently implemented.

See the bug tracker (http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/) for other known
problems (P1 bugs against ns-3-dev are considered blockers for the release).

-- Craig