| .. _NFD Release Notes: |
| |
| NFD Release Notes |
| ================= |
| |
| NFD version 0.3.1 (changes since version 0.3.0) |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release date: March 3, 2015 |
| |
| 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`) |
| |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| NFD version 0.3.0 (changes since version 0.2.0) |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release date: February 2, 2015 |
| |
| New features: |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - **Build** |
| |
| + The code now requires C++11. The minimum supported gcc version is 4.6, as earlier versions |
| do not have proper support for C++11 features. |
| |
| - **Faces** |
| |
| + Enable detection of WebSocket connection failures using ping/pong messages (:issue:`1903`) |
| |
| + In EthernetFace: |
| |
| * Avoid putting the NIC in promiscuous mode if possible (:issue:`1278`) |
| |
| * Report packets dropped by the kernel if debug is enabled (:issue:`2441`) |
| |
| * Integrate NDNLP fragmentation (:issue:`1209`) |
| |
| - **Forwarding** |
| |
| + Strategy versioning (:issue:`1893`) |
| |
| + New Dead Nonce List table to supplement PIT for loop detection (:issue:`1953`) |
| |
| + Abstract retransmission suppression logic (:issue:`2377`) |
| |
| + New forwarding strategy for access router (:issue:`1999`) |
| |
| - **Management** |
| |
| + Add config file-based strategy selection (:issue:`2053`) |
| |
| The sample config file now includes strategy selection for ``/``, ``/localhost``, |
| ``/localhost/nfd``, and ``/ndn/broadcast`` namespaces as follows: |
| |
| :: |
| |
| tables |
| { |
| ... |
| strategy_choice |
| { |
| / /localhost/nfd/strategy/best-route |
| /localhost /localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast |
| /localhost/nfd /localhost/nfd/strategy/best-route |
| /ndn/broadcast /localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast |
| } |
| } |
| |
| + Implement Query Operation in FaceManager (:issue:`1993`) |
| |
| + FaceManager now responds with producer-generated NACK when query is invalid (:issue:`1993`) |
| |
| + Add functionality for automatic remote prefix registration (:issue:`2056`) |
| |
| + Only canonical FaceUri are allowed in faces/create commands (:issue:`1910`) |
| |
| - **Tables** |
| |
| + StrategyInfoHost can now store multiple StrategyInfo of distinct types (:issue:`2240`) |
| |
| + Enable iteration over PIT and CS entries (:issue:`2339`) |
| |
| + Allow predicate to be specified in Measurements::findLongestPrefixMatch (:issue:`2314`) |
| |
| + Calculate the implicit digest of Data packets in CS only when necessary (:issue:`1706`) |
| |
| - **Tools** |
| |
| + Publish ``/localhop/ndn-autoconf/routable-prefixes`` from ``ndn-autoconfig-server`` |
| (:issue:`1954`) |
| |
| + Display detailed NFD software verion in ``nfd-status-http-server`` and ``nfd-status`` |
| (:issue:`1916`) |
| |
| + ``nfdc`` now accepts FaceUri in all commands (:issue:`1995`) |
| |
| + Add daemon mode for ``ndn-autoconfig`` to re-run detection when connectivity changes |
| (:issue:`2417`) |
| |
| - **Core** |
| |
| + New scheduler::ScopedEventId class to automatically handle scheduled event lifetime |
| (:issue:`2295`) |
| |
| Updates and bug fixes: |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - **Documentation** |
| |
| + NFD Developer's guide has been updated to reflect changes in the codebase |
| |
| + Installation instruction updates |
| |
| + Update of config file instructions for disabling unix sockets (:issue:`2190`) |
| |
| - **Core** |
| |
| + Use implementations moved to ndn-cxx library |
| |
| + Use Signal from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2272`, :issue:`2300`) |
| |
| + use ethernet::Address from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2142`) |
| |
| + Use MAX_NDN_PACKET_SIZE constant from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2099`) |
| |
| + Use DEFAULT_INTEREST_LIFETIME from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2202`) |
| |
| + Use FaceUri from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2143`) |
| |
| + Use DummyClientFace from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2186`) |
| |
| + Use ndn::dns from ndn-cxx (:issue:`2207`) |
| |
| + Move Network class implementation from ``tools/`` to ``core/`` |
| |
| + Ignore non-Ethernet ``AF_LINK`` addresses when enumerating NICs on OSX and other BSD systems |
| |
| + Fix bug on not properly setting FreshnessPeriod inside SegmentPublisher (:issue:`2438`) |
| |
| - **Faces** |
| |
| + Fix spurious assertion failure in StreamFace (:issue:`1856`) |
| |
| + Update websocketpp submodule (:issue:`1903`) |
| |
| + Replace FaceFlags with individual fields (:issue:`1992`) |
| |
| + Drop WebSocket message if the size is larger than maximum NDN packet size (:issue:`2081`) |
| |
| + Make EthernetFace more robust against errors (:issue:`1984`) |
| |
| + Prevent potential infinite loop in TcpFactory and UdpFactory (:issue:`2292`) |
| |
| + Prevent crashes when attempting to create a UdpFace over a half-working connection |
| (:issue:`2311`) |
| |
| + Support MTU larger than 1500 in EthernetFace (for jumbo frames) (:issue:`2305`) |
| |
| + Re-enable EthernetFace on OS X platform with boost >=1.57.0 (:issue:`1922`) |
| |
| + Fix ``ioctl()`` calls on platforms where libpcap uses ``/dev/bpf*`` (:issue:`2327`) |
| |
| + Fix overhead estimation in NDNLP slicer (:issue:`2317`) |
| |
| + Replace usage of deprecated EventEmitter with Signal in Face abstractions (:issue:`2300`) |
| |
| + Fix NDNLP PartialMessage cleanup scheduling (:issue:`2414`) |
| |
| + Remove unnecessary use of DNS resolver in (Udp|Tcp|WebSocket)Factory (:issue:`2422`) |
| |
| - **Forwarding** |
| |
| + Updates related to NccStrategy |
| |
| * Fix to prevent remembering of suboptimal upstreams (:issue:`1961`) |
| |
| * Optimizing FwNccStrategy/FavorRespondingUpstream test case (:issue:`2037`) |
| |
| * Proper detection for new PIT entry (:issue:`1971`) |
| |
| * Use UnitTestTimeFixture in NCC test case (:issue:`2163`) |
| |
| * Fix loop back to sole downstream (:issue:`1998`) |
| |
| + Updates related to BestRoute strategy |
| |
| + Redesign best-route v2 strategy test case (:issue:`2126`) |
| |
| + Fix clang compilation error in best-route v2 test case (:issue:`2179`) |
| |
| + Use UnitTestClock in BestRouteStrategy2 test (:issue:`2160`) |
| |
| + Allow strategies limited access to FaceTable (:issue:`2272`) |
| |
| - **Tables** |
| |
| + Ensure that eviction of unsolicited Data is done in FIFO order (:issue:`2043`) |
| |
| + Simplify table implementations with C++11 features (:issue:`2100`) |
| |
| + Fix issue with Fib::removeNextHopFromAllEntries invalidating NameTree iterator |
| (:issue:`2177`) |
| |
| + Replace deprecated EventEmitter with Signal in FaceTable (:issue:`2272`) |
| |
| + Refactored implementation of ContentStore based on std::set (:issue:`2254`) |
| |
| - **Management** |
| |
| + Allow omitted FaceId in faces/create command (:issue:`2031`) |
| |
| + Avoid deprecated ``ndn::nfd::Controller(Face&)`` constructor (:issue:`2039`) |
| |
| + Enable check of command length before accessing verb (:issue:`2151`) |
| |
| + Rename FaceEntry to Route (:issue:`2159`) |
| |
| + Insert RIB command prefixes into RIB (:issue:`2312`) |
| |
| - **Tools** |
| |
| + Display face attribute fields instead of FaceFlags in ``nfd-status`` and |
| ``nfd-status-http-server`` output (:issue:`1991`) |
| |
| + Fix ``nfd-status-http-server`` hanging when nfd-status output is >64k (:issue:`2121`) |
| |
| + Ensure that ``ndn-autoconfig`` canonizes FaceUri before sending commands to NFD |
| (:issue:`2387`) |
| |
| + Refactored ndn-autoconfig implementation (:issue:`2421`) |
| |
| + ndn-autoconfig will now register also ``/localhop/nfd`` prefix towards the hub (:issue:`2416`) |
| |
| - **Tests** |
| |
| + Use UnitTestClock in Forwarder persistent loop test case (:issue:`2162`) |
| |
| + Use LimitedIo in FwForwarder/SimpleExchange test case (:issue:`2161`) |
| |
| - **Build** |
| |
| + Fix build error with python3 (:issue:`1302`) |
| |
| + Embed CI build and test running script |
| |
| + Properly disable assertions in release builds (:issue:`2139`) |
| |
| + Embed setting of ``PKG_CONFIG_PATH`` variable to commonly used values (:issue:`2178`) |
| |
| + Add conditional compilation for NetworkInterface and PrivilegeHelper |
| |
| + Support tools with multiple translation units (:issue:`2344`) |
| |
| Removals |
| ^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - Remove ``listen`` option from unix channel configuration (:issue:`2188`) |
| |
| - Remove usage of deprecated ``MetaInfo::TYPE_*`` constants (:issue:`2128`) |
| |
| - Eliminate MapValueIterator in favor of ``boost::adaptors::map_values`` |
| |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| NFD version 0.2.0 (changes since version 0.1.0) |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Release date: August 25, 2014 |
| |
| - **Documentation** |
| |
| + `"NFD Developer's Guide" by NFD authors |
| <http://named-data.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/NFD-developer-guide.pdf>`_ that |
| explains NFD's internals including the overall design, major modules, their |
| implementation, and their interactions |
| |
| + New detailed instructions on how to enable auto-start of NFD using OSX ``launchd`` |
| and Ubuntu's ``upstart`` (see `contrib/ folder |
| <https://github.com/named-data/NFD/tree/master/contrib>`_) |
| |
| - **Core** |
| |
| + Add support for temporary privilege drop and elevation (:issue:`1370`) |
| |
| + Add support to reinitialize multicast Faces and (partially) reload config file |
| (:issue:`1584`) |
| |
| + Randomization routines are now uniform across all NFD modules (:issue:`1369`) |
| |
| + Enable use of new NDN naming conventions (:issue:`1837` and :issue:`1838`) |
| |
| - **Faces** |
| |
| + `WebSocket <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455>`_ Face support (:issue:`1468`) |
| |
| + Fix Ethernet Face support on Linux with ``libpcap`` version >=1.5.0 (:issue:`1511`) |
| |
| + Fix to recognize IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in ``FaceUri`` (:issue:`1635`) |
| |
| + Fix to avoid multiple onFail events (:issue:`1497`) |
| |
| + Fix broken support of multicast UDP Faces on OSX (:issue:`1668`) |
| |
| + On Linux, path MTU discovery on unicast UDPv4 faces is now disabled (:issue:`1651`) |
| |
| + Added link layer byte counts in FaceCounters (:issue:`1729`) |
| |
| + Face IDs 0-255 are now reserved for internal NFD use (:issue:`1620`) |
| |
| + Serialized StreamFace::send(Interest|Data) operations using queue (:issue:`1777`) |
| |
| - **Forwarding** |
| |
| + Outgoing Interest pipeline now allows strategies to request a fresh ``Nonce`` (e.g., when |
| the strategy needs to re-express the Interest) (:issue:`1596`) |
| |
| + Fix in the incoming Data pipeline to avoid sending packets to the incoming Face |
| (:issue:`1556`) |
| |
| + New ``RttEstimator`` class that implements the Mean-Deviation RTT estimator to be used in |
| forwarding strategies |
| |
| + Fix memory leak caused by not removing PIT entry when Interest matches CS (:issue:`1882`) |
| |
| + Fix spurious assertion in NCC strategy (:issue:`1853`) |
| |
| - **Tables** |
| |
| + Fix in ContentStore to properly adjust internal structure when ``Cs::setLimit`` is called |
| (:issue:`1646`) |
| |
| + New option in configuration file to set an upper bound on ContentStore size (:issue:`1623`) |
| |
| + Fix to prevent infinite lifetime of Measurement entries (:issue:`1665`) |
| |
| + Introducing capacity limit in PIT NonceList (:issue:`1770`) |
| |
| + Fix memory leak in NameTree (:issue:`1803`) |
| |
| + Fix segfault during Fib::removeNextHopFromAllEntries (:issue:`1816`) |
| |
| - **Management** |
| |
| + RibManager now fully support ``CHILD_INHERIT`` and ``CAPTURE`` flags (:issue:`1325`) |
| |
| + Fix in ``FaceManager`` to respond with canonical form of Face URI for Face creation command |
| (:issue:`1619`) |
| |
| + Fix to prevent creation of duplicate TCP/UDP Faces due to async calls (:issue:`1680`) |
| |
| + Fix to properly handle optional ExpirationPeriod in RibRegister command (:issue:`1772`) |
| |
| + Added functionality of publishing RIB status (RIB dataset) by RibManager (:issue:`1662`) |
| |
| + Fix issue of not properly canceling route expiration during processing of ``unregister`` |
| command (:issue:`1902`) |
| |
| + Enable periodic clean up of route entries that refer to non-existing faces (:issue:`1875`) |
| |
| - **Tools** |
| |
| + Extended functionality of ``nfd-status`` |
| |
| * ``-x`` to output in XML format, see :ref:`nfd-status xml schema` |
| * ``-c`` to retrieve channel status information (enabled by default) |
| * ``-s`` to retrieve configured strategy choice for NDN namespaces (enabled by default) |
| * Face status now includes reporting of Face flags (``local`` and ``on-demand``) |
| * On-demand UDP Faces now report remaining lifetime (``expirationPeriod``) |
| * ``-r`` to retrieve RIB information |
| |
| + Improved ``nfd-status-http-server`` |
| |
| * HTTP server now presents status as XSL-formatted XML page |
| * XML dataset and formatted page now include certificate name of the corresponding NFD |
| (:issue:`1807`) |
| |
| + Several fixes in ``ndn-autoconfig`` tool (:issue:`1595`) |
| |
| + Extended options in ``nfdc``: |
| |
| * ``-e`` to set expiration time for registered routes |
| * ``-o`` to specify origin for registration and unregistration commands |
| |
| + Enable ``all-faces-prefix'' option in ``nfd-autoreg`` to register prefix for all face |
| (on-demand and non-on-demand) (:issue:`1861`) |
| |
| + Enable processing auto-registration in ``nfd-autoreg`` for faces that existed prior to |
| start of the tool (:issue:`1863`) |
| |
| - **Build** |
| |
| + Enable support of precompiled headers for clang and gcc to speed up compilation |
| |
| - `Other small fixes and extensions |
| <https://github.com/named-data/NFD/compare/NFD-0.1.0...master>`_ |
| |
| **************************************************************************** |
| |
| NFD version 0.1.0 |
| ----------------- |
| |
| Release date: May 7, 2014 |
| |
| This is an incomplete list of features that are implemented in NFD version 0.1.0. |
| |
| - **Packet Format** |
| |
| + `NDN-TLV <http://named-data.net/doc/ndn-tlv/>`_ |
| + LocalControlHeader, to allow apps to set outgoing face and learn incoming face. |
| |
| - **Faces** |
| |
| + Unix stream socket |
| + UDP unicast |
| + UDP multicast |
| + TCP |
| + Ethernet, currently without fragmentation. |
| |
| .. note:: |
| Ethernet support will not work properly on Linux kernels with TPACKET_V3 flexible |
| buffer implementation (>= 3.2.0) and libpcap >= 1.5.0 (e.g., Ubuntu Linux 14.04). |
| Refer to `Issue 1551 <http://redmine.named-data.net/issues/1511>`_ for more |
| detail and implementation progress. |
| |
| - **Management** |
| |
| + Use of signed Interests as commands, with authentication and authorization. |
| + Face management |
| + FIB management |
| + Per-namespace strategy selection |
| + NFD status publishing |
| + Notification to authorized apps of internal events, including Face creation and destruction. |
| |
| - **Tables and forwarding pipelines** support most Interest/Data processing, including |
| selectors. |
| |
| - **RIB Management** that runs as a separate process, ``nrd``. It supports basic prefix |
| registration by applications, but no flags yet. |
| |
| - **Strategies** |
| |
| + ``broadcast`` |
| + ``best-route`` |
| + ``ncc``: based on ccnx 0.7 for experimentation |
| + ``client-control``: authorized application can directly control Interest forwarding |
| |
| - **Name-based scoping** |
| |
| + ``/localhost``: communication only within localhost using "local" Faces |
| (UnixStreamFace, LocalTcpFace). NFD will strictly enforce this scope for Interests |
| and Data packets |
| + ``/localhop``: one-hop communication (e.g., if at least one incoming or outgoing Face |
| in PIT entry is non-local, the Interest cannot be forwarded to any non-local Face) |
| |
| - **Support configuration file**, which is in the Boost INFO format. |
| |
| - **Applications** |
| |
| + Tools to discover hubs on NDN testbed. |
| + peek/poke and traffic generators for testing and debugging. |
| + ``nfdc``, a command-line tool to configure NFD. |
| + ``nfd-status``, a command-line tool to query NFD status. |
| + ``nfd-status-http-server``, which reads the NFD status and publishes over HTTP. |
| |
| |
| Planned Functions and Features for Next Releases |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| - NACK |
| A packet sent back by a producer or a router to signal the unavailability of a requested |
| Data packet. The protocol specification for NACK is in progress. |
| |
| - New strategies |
| Additional strategies, including self-learning that populates the FIB by observing |
| Interest and Data exchange. |
| |
| - Hop-by-hop Interest limit mechanism |
| For congestion control |
| |
| - Face enhancements |
| Add fragmentation support for Ethernet face, may add support for new types such as |
| WiFi direct and WebSockets. |
| |
| - Tables |
| Experiment and evaluate different data structures and algorithms. |
| |
| - RIB management |
| Move to more scalable data structures and support all flags in prefix registrations. |
| |
| - Tunnel management |
| For hub nodes to authenticate incoming tunnel requests and maintain the tunnels. |
| |
| - Extensible name-based scoping |
| Configurable organization-based scoping |