[Ns-developers] ns-3.4 Daily Status for Monday, March 23, 2009

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

Dear All,

Here is your daily update regarding the upcoming release.  The bulk
of the information will be kept up-to-date here:

http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.4

I will keep emailing out this link along with status changes.
Note that this link might be a little stale right now.  I'll update
it tomorrow.  This email, however, will be accurate to the best
of my knowledge.


News:
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ns-3.4-RC2 has been made!  It is available at the following locations:
All-in-one Tarball:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.4-RC2.tar.bz2
Mercurial:
http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3.4-RC2/

We are on course to making the release schedule; the slated date is
April 1st.

Bugs:
=====

There are now 6 P1 bugs in the tracker, and 5 lower priority P2 bugs.  Note that
the wiki buglist is not up to date, so I won't include it here.  Three
of the remaining involve the Cygwin build; these are (according to Craig)
non-fatal errors for the build, i.e. ns-3.4 builds on Cygwin, BUT it spits out
error messages. Please beat on RC2 to make sure things work, and then
file bugs in the tracker if you find any errors.

The three TCP bugs are still P1, and being worked on through the RC process.
I have decided to leave them this way and make the RC anyway, with minimal P1
bugs in the tracker.

Progress / Closed Bugs:
=======================

One P2 bug was closed out (458 socket attributes not hooked into the config
namespace).  A P1 bug was found in the Craig's new trace sources (526), and
also fixed.

New Bugs:
=========

Bug 526 was filed, fixed, and closed already.  Also, an non-reproducible
bug (527) was filed, but closed out as INVALID.

Next Steps:
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The next release candidate is slated for Thursday;
A full schedule of upcoming milestones can be found here:
http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/Ns-3.4#The_ns-3.4_Release_Schedule

The TCP bugs and Cygwin issues need to be resolved before the final
release can be made.
Thanks everyone!

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