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+NLSR version 0.4.0
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**New features**:
+
+- **breaking change** Discover Faces from NFD (:issue:`2954`)
+
+- **breaking change** Accommodate n-Dimensional HR coordinates (:issue:`3751`)
+
+**Changes**:
+
+- **breaking change** Make chronosync a dependency (:issue:`2400`)
+
+- **breaking change** Use separate name prefix and sequence number
+  for each LSA type (:issue:`3964`)
+
+- **breaking change** Convert to ``v2::security`` and adapt to ndn-cxx changes (:issue:`3964`)
+
+- Use unix timestamp as default (:issue:`4187`)
+
+**Bug Fixes**:
+
+- Add support for sources to NamePrefixList (:issue:`4177`)
+
+- Fix incorrect error on face-dataset-fetch-interval valid values (:issue:`4211`)
+
+- Fix prefix advertise runtime error (:issue:`4215`)
+
+- Fix heap buffer overflow error (:issue:`4217`)
+
+**Code Changes**:
+
+- LSA getData() now uses ostream instead of manually building the string (:issue:`2346`)
+
+- Refresh FIB entries independently of routing table calculation (:issue:`2778`)
+
+- Change configuration parameter output level to info (:issue:`2850`)
+
+- Updates to name prefixes are more efficient (:issue:`2864`)
+
+- Implement statistics collector/recorder (:issue:`2956`)
+
+- Implement ``NameLsa::isEqualContent`` (:issue:`2962`)
+
+- Refactor ``Fib::removeOldNextHopsFromFibEntryAndNfd()`` for simplicity, readability. (:issue:`3820`)
+
+- Improve logging throughout lsdb.cpp and others (:issue:`3934`)
+
+- Enable dispatcher for LOCALHOST_PREFIX (:issue:`3938`)
+
+- Don't use ndn aliases provided by ndn-cxx/common.hpp (:issue:`3983`)
+
+- Canonize Adjacent FaceURIs on startup (:issue:`4063`)
+
+- Refactor AdjacencyList to use iterators instead of bare ptrs (:issue:`4068`)
+
+- Merge redundant functions (:issue:`4105`)
+
+- Remove writeLog in NamePrefixList (:issue:`4131`)
+
+- Check for self in ChronoSync updates (:issue:`4134`)
+
+- Install nlsr.conf as sample in the system (:issue:`4197`)
+
+- Enable AddressSanitizer and LeakSanitizer for unit tests (:issue:`4206`)
+
+- Resolve all ASan errors in unit tests (:issue:`4230`)
+
+- Simplified LSDB dataset interest handler. (:issue:`4235`)
+
+- Made map more container-agnostic (:issue:`4239`)
+
+- Improved routing map data structure. (:issue:`4240`)
+
+- Increased independence of SyncLogicHandler (:issue:`4264`)
+
+- Use unique_ptr for signal container (:issue:`4268`)
+
+- Use network name in sync prefix to avoid sync leaks from other networks (:issue:`4101`)