NFD Release Notes

NFD version 0.7.0

Release date: January 13, 2020

New features

• Support only NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4805, issue #4581, issue #4913)
• Initial support for PitToken (issue #4532)
• Random Forwarding Strategy that chooses a random outgoing face, excluding the incoming face of an Interest packet (issue #4992)

Improvements and bug fixes

• Avoid cs::Entry construction during Content Store lookup (issue #4914)
• Make use of ndn-cxx’s RttEstimator in LpReliability, AsfStrategy, and AccessStrategy (issue #4887)
• Increase pcap buffer size in Ethernet faces (issue #2441)
• Make congestion marking less aggressive (issue #5003). The updated implementation is closer to the CoDel algorithm (RFC 8289)
• Pull FaceTable construction out of Forwarder class (issue #4922, issue #4973)
• Enable direct certificate fetch in RibManager (issue #2237)
• Refuse to start NFD if both localhop_security and auto_prefix_propagate are enabled in the configuration file (issue #4989)
• Fix crash in self-learning strategy when the out-record of a PIT entry does not exist (issue #5022)
• Use a separate validator and a separate configuration section in nfd.conf for prefix announcements (issue #5031). The default configuration will accept any prefix announcement.
• Documentation improvements