[Ns-developers] ns-3.3 Release Candidate 5 Posted

[raj bhattacharjea]

I found a regression in third.cc, but then when I ran the regression test
for third.cc by itself, no regression existed!

Craig has reported seeing a similar regression in third.cc one that
disappeared similarly and cannot be replicated.

Shouldn't we understand the issue further before moving forward?

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM, <craigdo at ee.washington.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Release candidate number five for ns-3.3 is immediately available at the
> below location:
> http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.3-RC5.tar.bz2
>
> The last RC all did not go exactly according to plan (we found another P1
> bug this morning); and so we have one more release candidate for your
> enjoyment before the ns-3.3 stable release now due out this coming
> Thursday,
> December 18th, 2008.
>
> We believe this version of ns-3.3 is ready for release, and these bits
> should become ns-3.3, but we want to get some exposure to the
> final code before release.  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."  Any testing you can do will be valuable as was
> demonstrated this morning.
>
> 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-RC4 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.  A new manual chapter
>     on emulation is now available as well.
>
>  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
> ------------
>
> See the bug tracker (http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/) for known problems
> (P1
> bugs against ns-3-dev are considered blockers for the ns-3.3 release and as
> of this writing, no P1 bugs are filed).
>
> Please do not hesitate to file new bugs if you uncover problems; and please
> test, test, test everything in sight.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Craig
>
>
>


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Raj Bhattacharjea
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate
Systems Analyst
404.894.2955