[Ns-developers] Ns-3.2 Release Candidate 1 Posted

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that release candidate number one for ns-3.2 is
available at the below location:

http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.2-RC1.tar.bz2

This is a release candidate, which means that we believe this version of
ns-3.2 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 3.2
===========

New functionality added
-----------------------
- Add learning bridge (IEEE 802.1D) implementation: BridgeNetDevice;
- Python bindings added
- Kernel thread support (class SystemThread) added;
- Kernel mutual exclusion support (class SystemMutex) added;
- Kernel critical section RAII support (class CriticalSection) added;
- Kernel system condition support (class SystemCondition) added;
- Move required methods in helper classes to constructors;
- Change obsolete references to Parameter to Attribute in helpers;
- Split simulator into interface and implementation pieces, make 
  implementation a replaceable component via the 
  "SimulatorImplementationType" global value.
  Hint:  try ./waf --run "udp-echo --PrintGlobals"
- Added multithreaded and real-time simulator implementation;
- implement Packet::PeekHeader and Packet::PeekTrailer to avoid evil 
  workarounds when receiving tcp packets. 

-- Craig