NFD Release Notes

NFD version 0.7.1

Release date: October 8, 2020

The build requirements have been increased to require Clang >= 4.0, Xcode >= 9.0, and Python 3. Meanwhile, it is recommended to use GCC >= 7.4.0 and Boost >= 1.65.1. This effectively drops official support for Ubuntu 16.04 when using distribution-provided Boost packages – NFD may still work on this platform, but we provide no official support for it. Additionally, this release drops support for CentOS 7.

New features

  • Allow Ethernet face MTU to adjust to changes in underlying interface MTU (issue #3257)
  • Allow face MTU to be overriden via management (issue #5056)
  • Deduplicate received link-layer packets when link-layer reliability is enabled (issue #5079)
  • Add support for the HopLimit Interest element (issue #4806)
  • Add counter for unsolicited data

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Fix PIT entry rejection in MulticastStrategy upon receiving the same Interest (issue #5123)
  • If no face exists when a route is added via nfdc, nfdc will attempt to create it (issue #4332)
  • Attach PIT tokens after CS hit (issue #5090)
  • nfdc cs erase will now erase up to the specified count (issue #4744)
  • Improve LpReliability logging (issue #5080)
  • Use standard path for Unix stream socket on Linux (issue #5039)
  • Adjust timeout sensitivity and avoid ignoring additional probe responses in ASF strategy (issue #4983, issue #4193)
  • Bug fixes in config file processing (issue #4489)
  • Fix incompatibility with version header in C++20
  • Fix integer overflow in PIT FaceRecord (issue #4979)
  • Various improvements to documentation, test suites, and authors list

Removals