[Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Release Candidate 1 Posted

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Greetings from your friendly neighborhood ns-3 release manager.

A couple of problems in the build and test environments of ns-3.1-RC1 have
been reported and fixed in an interim release.  It turned out that
ns-3.1-RC1 in the MinGW environment did not build correctly and there was a
problem with getting correct regression trace files in non-Mercurial
environments.

No changes have been made to ns-3 proper, but both of these problems have
been fixed and a new tarball has been made available.  If either of these
issues have affected you, you can find the latest tarball at

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.1-RC1.5.tar.bz2

Again, no changes to the ns-3 code proper have been made, so there is no
need to upgrade unless you are trying to build in MinGW or need to run
regression tests in non-mercurial environments.

We are currently considering the timing and content of ns-3.1-RC2 since
there have been four new bugs reported (thanks to all who took the time to
test RC1).

We encourage everyone interested in ns-3 to download our release candidates
and try to uncover problems.

Again, thanks to everyone who is downloading and trying ns-3.1 release
candidates.

-- Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ns-developers-bounces at ISI.EDU 
> [mailto:ns-developers-bounces at ISI.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> craigdo at ee.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:27 PM
> To: 'ns-developers'
> Subject: [Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Release Candidate 1 Posted
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm happy to announce that release candidate number one for 
> the initial
> release of ns-3 is available at the below location:
> 
> http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.1-RC1.tar.bz2
> 
> This is a release candidate, which means that we believe this 
> version of
> ns-3.1 is ready for release, but we want to make absolutely 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
> 
> >From the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...
> 
> Release 3.1 (2008/06/30)
> ========================
> First supported ns-3 release.
> 
> - TCP bugfixes and support for packet tags
> - CSMA NetDevice cleanup and documentation
> - internet-node renamed to internet-stack
> - Socket::RecvFrom added; "flags" argument added to Send calls
> - updated doxygen
> - several bugs and open issues closed out
> - revised tutorial
> 
> Note:  Some API in class ns3::Ipv4 and ns3::Ipv4RoutingProtocol is 
> deprecated and may be removed and replaced in future releases.
> 
> -- Craig
> 
> 
>