NFD version 0.2.0

Release date: August 25, 2014

Changes since version 0.1.0:

  • Documentation

  • Core

    • Add support for temporary privilege drop and elevation (Issue #1370)
    • Add support to reinitialize multicast Faces and (partially) reload config file (Issue #1584)
    • Randomization routines are now uniform across all NFD modules (Issue #1369)
    • Enable use of new NDN naming conventions (Issue #1837 and Issue #1838)
  • Faces

    • WebSocket Face support (Issue #1468)
    • Fix Ethernet Face support on Linux with libpcap version >=1.5.0 (Issue #1511)
    • Fix to recognize IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in FaceUri (Issue #1635)
    • Fix to avoid multiple onFail events (Issue #1497)
    • Fix broken support of multicast UDP Faces on OSX (Issue #1668)
    • On Linux, path MTU discovery on unicast UDPv4 faces is now disabled (Issue #1651)
    • Added link layer byte counts in FaceCounters (Issue #1729)
    • Face IDs 0-255 are now reserved for internal NFD use (Issue #1620)
    • Serialized StreamFace::send(Interest|Data) operations using queue (Issue #1777)
  • Forwarding

    • Outgoing Interest pipeline now allows strategies to request a fresh Nonce (e.g., when the strategy needs to re-express the Interest) (Issue #1596)
    • Fix in the incoming Data pipeline to avoid sending packets to the incoming Face (Issue #1556)
    • New RttEstimator class that implements the Mean-Deviation RTT estimator to be used in forwarding strategies
    • Fix memory leak caused by not removing PIT entry when Interest matches CS (Issue #1882)
    • Fix spurious assertion in NCC strategy (Issue #1853)
  • Tables

    • Fix in ContentStore to properly adjust internal structure when Cs::setLimit is called (Issue #1646)
    • New option in configuration file to set an upper bound on ContentStore size (Issue #1623)
    • Fix to prevent infinite lifetime of Measurement entries (Issue #1665)
    • Introducing capacity limit in PIT NonceList (Issue #1770)
    • Fix memory leak in NameTree (Issue #1803)
    • Fix segfault during Fib::removeNextHopFromAllEntries (Issue #1816)
  • Management

    • RibManager now fully support CHILD_INHERIT and CAPTURE flags (Issue #1325)
    • Fix in FaceManager to respond with canonical form of Face URI for Face creation command (Issue #1619)
    • Fix to prevent creation of duplicate TCP/UDP Faces due to async calls (Issue #1680)
    • Fix to properly handle optional ExpirationPeriod in RibRegister command (Issue #1772)
    • Added functionality of publishing RIB status (RIB dataset) by RibManager (Issue #1662)
    • Fix issue of not properly canceling route expiration during processing of unregister command (Issue #1902)
    • Enable periodic clean up of route entries that refer to non-existing faces (Issue #1875)
  • Tools

    • Extended functionality of nfd-status

      • -x to output in XML format, see NFD Status XML Schema
      • -c to retrieve channel status information (enabled by default)
      • -s to retrieve configured strategy choice for NDN namespaces (enabled by default)
      • Face status now includes reporting of Face flags (local and on-demand)
      • On-demand UDP Faces now report remaining lifetime (expirationPeriod)
      • -r to retrieve RIB information
    • Improved nfd-status-http-server

      • HTTP server now presents status as XSL-formatted XML page
      • XML dataset and formatted page now include certificate name of the corresponding NFD (Issue #1807)
    • Several fixes in ndn-autoconfig tool (Issue #1595)

    • Extended options in nfdc:

      • -e to set expiration time for registered routes
      • -o to specify origin for registration and unregistration commands
    • Enable all-faces-prefix'' option in ``nfd-autoreg to register prefix for all face (on-demand and non-on-demand) (Issue #1861)

    • Enable processing auto-registration in nfd-autoreg for faces that existed prior to start of the tool (Issue #1863)

  • Build

    • Enable support of precompiled headers for clang and gcc to speed up compilation
  • Other small fixes and extensions