[Ns-developers] ns-3.5 release candidates

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:18 -0700, craigdo at ee.washington.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I still need to add something on:
> 
> - Zipf variable;
> - SetFill methods on UdpEchoClient;
> - SetAddress methods on NetDevice; 
> - TabBridge USE_LOCAL change;
> - Tcp socket shuddown releases endpoint
> - TabBridge USE_LOCAL change.
> 
> and anything else that appears due to remaining bugfixes.

I don't think we should mention all bug fixes. Just nice new
functionality additions. Zipf as well as SetFill fall in that category.
The others don't seem to so, I added only Zipf and SetFill, as well, as
tried to explain some of the nice new things you can do with the new
Ipv4 rework.

Here are the new RELEASE_NOTES I pushed:

Release 3.5
===========

Availability
------------
This release is immediately available from:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.5.tar.bz2

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 4.4.0, 4.3.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.1, 4.1.3, 3.4.6
  - MacOS X ppc and x86 (gcc 4.0.x and 4.2.x)
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only), gcc 4.3.2 (debug and optimized)
  - mingw gcc 3.4.5 (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) 802.11 MAC:
     - EDCA multi-qos-class support (Mirko Banchi)
     - 802.11n initial support for A-MSDU frame aggregation (Mirko Banchi)
     - aarf-cd and cara rate control algorithms (Federico Maguolo)
  b) 802.11 PHY:
     - 802.11b PHY support (Gary Pei)
     - Nakagami propagation loss model (Timo Bingmann)
     - radiotap and prism headers for PCAP output (Nicola Baldo)
  c) RandomVariable:
     - GammaVariable and ErlangVariable (Timo Bingmann)
     - ZipfVariable (Francesco Malandrino)
  d) UdpEcho: allows setting the payload of echo packets
  e) Ipv4/Ipv4RoutingProtocol: allow fine-grained control over
     routing policy and arbitrary composition of routing protocols

API changes from ns-3.4
-----------------------
API changes for this release are documented in the file CHANGES.html.  The
internal API and composition of the IPv4 stack underwent significant
refactoring in this release cycle.

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

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 some smaller features such as a new Global ARP package
and possibly a new Testing and Validation suite.



Mathieu