Release Notes

ndn-cxx version 0.7.0

Release date: January 13, 2020

Breaking Change

This release features support of only NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4527, issue #4567, issue #4709, issue #4913). The library encodes and interprets Interest and Data packets only in 0.3 format; support for version 0.2 has been completely removed. In addition, the URI representation of Interest packets has also been changed following the packet format updates.

New features

  • HMAC signing support (issue #3075)

  • Support for ParametersSha256DigestComponent in Name and Interest classes (issue #4658)

  • Encoding/decoding of HopLimit field in Interest (issue #4806)

  • PIT token (issue #4532).

    PIT token is a hop-by-hop header field that identifies an Interest-Data exchange. The downstream node can assign an opaque token to an outgoing Interest, and the upstream node is expected to return the same token on the Data or Nack in reply to that Interest. This would allow the downstream node to accelerate its processing, especially in PIT lookup.

  • io::loadBuffer and io::saveBuffer helper functions

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Various improvements in the Linux implementation of NetworkMonitor class
  • Rework of RttEstimator class:
    • split into two classes: RttEstimator and RttEstimatorWithStats (issue #4887)
    • add a getter for the smoothed RTT value (issue #4892)
    • switch to use time::nanoseconds (issue #4887)
  • Make use of attributes in logging facilities and generalize logger backend support (issue #4969, issue #3782)
  • Silently accept an empty validation policy instead of throwing an exception (issue #5049)
  • Introduce alternative URI syntax for component types used in naming conventions, with ability to choose between canonical and alternate format (issue #4777)
  • Don’t force the generation of an Interest nonce during decoding (issue #4685)
  • Various documentation improvements

Removals

  • ndn::util::Scheduler (use ndn::Scheduler or ndn::scheduler::Scheduler) and ndn::EventId (use ndn::scheduler::EventId) (issue #4883)
  • Unused KeyClass and AclType enums
  • Unused v2::PublicKey alias of transform::PublicKey
  • HmacFilter class, use SignerFilter and VerifierFilter instead
  • Ill-defined equality operators for Interest, MetaInfo, Signature (issue #4569)
  • Implicit conversion from the xyzHandle types to const xyzId* (where xyz is PendingInterest, RegisteredPrefixId, and InterestFilterId)
  • Deprecated KeyLocator::Type enum
  • Private header files of concrete PIB, TPM, and KeyHandle implementations are no longer installed (issue #4782)
  • Renamed util/backports-ostream-joiner.hpp to util/ostream-joiner.hpp