Release Notes

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)