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)