[Ns-developers] ns-3.3 Release Candidate 6 Posted

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Hi All,

Release candidate number six for ns-3.3 is immediately available at the below location:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.3-RC6.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 that 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 again 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