[Ns-developers] Announcing release of ns-3.4

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

The latest release of the ns-3 software is available immediately at
the following locations:

Tarball:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.4.tar.bz2

Mercurial:
http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3.4

Supported platforms
-------------------
ns-3.4 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
-------------------------
  a) Wifi models: Timo Bingman contributed a ThreeLogDistance and a Nakagami
     propagation loss model based on the ns-2 models. Fabian Mauchle contributed
     multicast support.

  b) Object Name Service:  A facility allowing ns-3 Objects to be assigned
     names has been added.

  c) Tap Bridge:  A second option for integrating ns-3 with real-world hosts
     has been added.  This allows for real hosts to talk over ns-3 net devices
     and simulated networks.

  d) A new build option (ns-3-allinone) has been provided to make it easier for
     users to download and bulid commonly used ns-3 configurations.

  e) The ns-3 calendar queue scheduler has been ported to ns-3.

  f) XML support has been added to the ConfigStore.

API changes from ns-3.3
-----------------------
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html

Known issues
------------
ns-3 build is known to fail on the following platforms:
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x
  - optimized builds on Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 x86 gcc4.3.2
  - MinGW

The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.

Future releases
---------------
Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now, will
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development including
fuller IPv6 support, and IPv4 and routing protocol refactoring, and some smaller
features such as a new Global ARP package and possibly a new Testing
and Validation
suite,

Special thanks to Craig for preparing these release notes.  ns-3-dev
is now open for business;  if you've had changes you wanted to push,
the tree is open once again!  Enjoy ns-3.4

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