NFD version 0.3.1

Release date: March 3, 2015

Changes since version 0.3.0:

New features:

  • nfd and nrd daemons are now merged into a single process using separate threads (Issue #2489)
  • Core
    • Extend ConfigFile to support passing a parsed ConfigSection (Issue #2495)
    • Allow customization of Logger and LoggerFactory (Issue #2433)
    • Make global io_service, scheduler, and global random generator thread-local, and logger thread-safe (Issue #2489)
  • Forwarding
    • Introduce exponential back-off interest retransmission suppression mechanism and enable its use in the best-route strategy (Issue #1913)
    • Strategies are now registered with a macro, making it simpler to introduce new strategies to NFD codebase (Issue #2410)
  • Tables
    • ContentStore now recognizes CachingPolicy-NoCache from LocalControlHeader (Issue #2185)

Updates and bug fixes:

  • Faces
    • Remove Tcp|UdpChannel::connect overloads that perform DNS resolution (Issue #2422)
    • Properly handle error conditions in UdpChannel::newPeer (Issue #2516)
    • Fix inconsistency of UDP face timeouts in sample nfd.conf and actual defaults (Issue #2473)
    • Introduce Face-specific logging macros (Issue #2450)
    • Refactor handling of LinkType face trait and fix FaceStatus reporting: the link type was not properly propagated (Issue #2563)
    • Avoid exceptions in NDNLP PartialMessageStore (Issue #2261)
    • Update websocketpp to version 0.5.1
  • Tables
    • Reduce priority of DeadNonceList log messages from DEBUG to TRACE
  • Management
    • Change register/unregister logging in RibManager to INFO level (Issue #2547)
  • Tools
  • Tests
    • Change naming conventions for unit test files and test suite names (Issue #2497)
    • Fix segfault in TableNameTree test suite when all test logs are enabled (Issue #2564)