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+NFD version 22.12
+-----------------
+
+Release date: December 31, 2022
+
+Important changes and new features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- NFD now uses the C++17 standard to build
+
+- 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 is required on all platforms
+  - Sphinx 4.0 or later is required to build the documentation
+
+- CentOS Stream 9 is now officially supported; CentOS 8 has been dropped (:issue:`5181`)
+
+- macOS 12 (Monterey) and 13 (Ventura) running on arm64 are now officially supported
+  (:issue:`5135`)
+
+- The ASF, BestRoute, and Multicast strategies gained support for fine-grained configuration
+  of the retransmission suppression parameters (:issue:`4924`)
+
+Improvements and bug fixes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Prevent Ethernet faces from hanging NFD when a network interface goes down
+
+- Refactor the ``EndpointId`` implementation using ``std::variant`` (:issue:`5041`)
+
+- Better support for the new signed Interest format in management
+
+- Extend and optimize the use of precompiled headers (:issue:`5212`)
+
+- Stop using the ``gold`` linker on Linux; prefer instead linking with ``lld`` if installed
+
+- Update waf build system to version 2.0.24
+
+- Various documentation improvements