[Ns-developers] New Release: ns-3.2.1

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

Release 3.2.1
=====================
This release is a "hotfix" release, forked from version ns-3.2, with
bugfixes pulled in from the main development branch.

Availability
------------
This release is immediately available from:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.2.1.tar.bz2
Or via Mercurial:
http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3.2.1/

Supported platforms
-------------------
ns-3.2.1 has been tested on the following platforms:
  - linux x86 gcc 4.3.2, 4.2.4, 4.1.1
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.2.3
  - MacOS X ppc and x86 *
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

* There is a known issue with python bindings not building on MacOS X.
  The issue is being tracked in our bug database:
  http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=413
  The workaround to the issue is to not enable python bindings, e.g.:
  ./waf configure --disable-python

Bugfixes included in this release
---------------------------------
  - Some example scripts (simple-error-model, csma-bridge, and
csma-one-subnet)
    did not properly start their PacketSink applications
  - The opmimized build no longer fails on adress.cc on Ubuntu 8.10;
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=337
  - Example simple-alternate-routing now stops
      * http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-users/
        thread title "Yet another weird ns-3 execution time"
  - Wifi fragmentation issue fixed
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=372
  - Wifi AP mode works correctly now
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=371
  - The utils/bench-packets utility no longer asserts
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=343
  - Wifi stations no longer receive rebroadcast copies of their own
broadcasts
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=352
  - Optimizing out asserts was formerly causing unused variable error
  - Packet unit test was failing due to a compiler bug in pre 4.2.4 versions
of
    gcc; compiler bug was worked around
      * http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=349
  - Python bindings were missing wrapper registration for objects created
    directly via the python constructor

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