ndn-cxx version 0.6.5¶

Release date: February 4, 2019

New features¶

More support for NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4527)
- Stop using ChildSelector in NotificationSubscriber (issue #4664)
- Stop using ChildSelector in CertificateBundleFetcher (issue #4665)
Support floating point numbers in TLV-VALUE (issue #4612)
Scoped prefix registration, scoped Interest filter, and scoped pending Interest (issue #3919, issue #4316)
Counters for satisfied and unsatisfied Interests in ForwarderStatus (issue #4720)
random::getRandomNumberEngine() in the public API
MetadataObject class to encode/decode RDR-style metadata (issue #4707)
SegmentFetcher::stop() (issue #4692)

Switch to AES-256 for private key encryption in PKCS #8 export
Use OpenSSL-based routines for PKCS #8 decoding/decryption when exporting keys from the macOS Keychain (issue #4450)
Forbid unrecognized TLVs before Name (issue #4667)
Stop accepting NonNegativeInteger as sequence number in NDNLP (issue #4598)
Add exponential backoff in CertificateFetcherFromNetwork (issue #4718, issue #4712)
Throw exception when loading an orphaned ValidationPolicyConfig (API violation) (issue #4758)
Prevent memory pool size from becoming zero in InMemoryStorage (issue #4769)
Clean up fetchers when destructing nfd::Controller (issue #4775)
Fix SegmentFetcher undefined behavior caused by uncanceled pending interest (issue #4770)
Seed the PRNG with more entropy (issue #4808)
Backport C++17 std::any and std::variant as ndn::any and ndn::variant
Reimplement scheduler::EventId with CancelHandle (issue #4698)

ndn-cxx/util/scheduler-scoped-event-id.hpp header, as it is now sufficient to use ndn-cxx/util/scheduler.hpp header (issue #4698)
Implicit conversion from nullptr to scheduler::EventId (issue #4698)

ndn::ip::address{,V6}FromString
SegmentFetcher::fetch (issue #4464)
{get,set}FinalBlockId()
Headers that were already considered internal implementation details have been explicitly moved to a detail/ subdir to more clearly separate private and public headers