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

[Mathieu Lacage]

Since I got no feedback or comments, I pushed this.


On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:44 -0700, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> I had forgotten to mention joe's stats stuff.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:11 -0700, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> > I would like to suggest the following set of changes to the
> > RELEASE_NOTES file to be consistent with the format used for ns-3.1 and
> > to be more focused on user-visible changes (API changes are already
> > documented in CHANGES.html so, I see little point in repeating them
> > here).
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:21 -0700, craigdo at ee.washington.edu wrote:
> > > 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
> > > 
> > >