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+NFD version 0.3.1
+-----------------
+
+Release date: March 3, 2015
+
+Changes since version 0.3.0:
+
+New features:
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- ``nfd`` and ``nrd`` daemons are now merged into a single process using separate threads
+ (:issue:`2489`)
+
+- **Core**
+
+ - Extend ConfigFile to support passing a parsed ConfigSection (:issue:`2495`)
+
+ - Allow customization of Logger and LoggerFactory (:issue:`2433`)
+
+ - Make global io_service, scheduler, and global random generator thread-local, and logger
+ thread-safe (:issue:`2489`)
+
+- **Forwarding**
+
+ - Introduce exponential back-off interest retransmission suppression mechanism and enable
+ its use in the best-route strategy (:issue:`1913`)
+
+ - Strategies are now registered with a macro, making it simpler to introduce new strategies
+ to NFD codebase (:issue:`2410`)
+
+- **Tables**
+
+ - ContentStore now recognizes CachingPolicy-NoCache from LocalControlHeader (:issue:`2185`)
+
+Updates and bug fixes:
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- **Faces**
+
+ - Remove Tcp|UdpChannel::connect overloads that perform DNS resolution (:issue:`2422`)
+
+ - Properly handle error conditions in UdpChannel::newPeer (:issue:`2516`)
+
+ - Fix inconsistency of UDP face timeouts in sample `nfd.conf` and actual defaults
+ (:issue:`2473`)
+
+ - Introduce Face-specific logging macros (:issue:`2450`)
+
+ - Refactor handling of LinkType face trait and fix FaceStatus reporting: the link type was
+ not properly propagated (:issue:`2563`)
+
+ - Avoid exceptions in NDNLP PartialMessageStore (:issue:`2261`)
+
+ - Update websocketpp to version 0.5.1
+
+- **Tables**
+
+ - Reduce priority of DeadNonceList log messages from DEBUG to TRACE
+
+- **Management**
+
+ - Change register/unregister logging in RibManager to INFO level (:issue:`2547`)
+
+- **Tools**
+
+ - Change prefix for :ref:`the local hub prefix discovery <local-prefix-discovery>` to be
+ under ``/localhop/nfd`` (:issue:`2479`, :issue:`2512`)
+
+- **Tests**
+
+ - Change naming conventions for unit test files and test suite names (:issue:`2497`)
+
+ - Fix segfault in TableNameTree test suite when all test logs are enabled (:issue:`2564`)