Release Notes

Version 0.5.6

  • The build dependencies have been increased as follows:

    • GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly recommended on Linux; GCC 8.x is also known to work but is not officially supported
    • Xcode 13 or later is recommended on macOS; older versions may still work but are not officially supported
    • Boost >= 1.71.0 and ndn-cxx >= 0.9.0 are required on all platforms

  • Fix compilation against the latest version of ndn-cxx

  • Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12

  • Upgrade waf to version 2.0.27

Version 0.5.5

  • The minimum build requirements have been increased as follows:

    • Either GCC >= 7.4.0 or Clang >= 6.0 is required on Linux
    • On macOS, Xcode 11.3 or later is recommended; older versions may still work but are not officially supported
    • Boost >= 1.65.1 and ndn-cxx >= 0.8.1 are required on all platforms
    • Sphinx 4.0 or later is required to build the documentation

  • Switch to C++17

  • Fix compilation against the latest version of ndn-cxx

  • Stop using the gold linker on Linux; prefer instead linking with lld if installed

  • Upgrade waf to version 2.0.24

Version 0.5.4

  • The build requirements have been increased to require Clang >= 4.0, Xcode >= 9.0, and Python >= 3.6. 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 packages; ChronoSync may still work on this platform, but we provide no official support for it.

  • Exceptions are now thrown using NDN_THROW instead of BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION

  • The private header files config.hpp, common.hpp, bzip2-helper.hpp, mi-tag.hpp, and tlv.hpp have been moved to a detail subdirectory

  • Fix compilation against the latest version of ndn-cxx

  • Fix incompatibility with the C++20 <version> header

  • Upgrade waf to version 2.0.21

Version 0.5.3

  • Schedule sync Interest when receiving a NACK with reason NoRoute (Issue #5012)

  • Use properly seeded pseudorandom number generator from ndn-cxx

  • Fix compilation against the latest version of ndn-cxx

  • Upgrade waf to version 2.0.14 and other build system improvements

Version 0.5.2

  • The build requirements have been upgraded to gcc >= 5.3 or clang >= 3.6. This effectively drops support for all versions of Ubuntu older than 16.04 that use distribution-provided compilers and packages.

  • Transition to v0.3 packet format (Issues #4691 and #4684)

Version 0.5.1

  • Fix forceful shutdown of Face when destructing Logic instance (Issue #4525)

  • Fix compilation against the latest version of ndn-cxx

  • Upgrade waf to version 2.0.6 and other build system improvements

Version 0.5.0

  • Breaking change: Use bzip2 compression of sync Data payload (Issue #4140)

  • Disallow Interest loopback on sync prefix (Issue #3979)

  • Avoid ABI differences between debug/optimized modes (Issue #4496)

  • Extend Socket and Logic API:

    • Allow customization of sync Interest lifetime (Issue #4490)
    • Limit the size of created sync Data and enable ability to customize the maximum packet size through environment variable (Issue #4140)
    • Allow override of the session number

  • Disable use of Exclude filter (preparation for Exclude deprecation in NDN and implementation was only partially correct)