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+Release Notes
+==============
+
+.. toctree::
+..
+
+Version 0.1.0 is the initial release of NLSR, a routing protocol for NDN.
+
+The main design goal of NLSR is to provide a routing protocol to
+populate `NFD`_’s FIB. NLSR calculates the routing table using link-state
+or hyperbolic routing and produces multiple faces for each reachable
+name prefix in a single authoritative domain.
+
+The current features include:
+
+- **Produce a list of ranked forwarding options for each name prefix to facilitate NDN’s adaptive forwarding strategies**
+
+- **Name Prefix advertisement**
+
+  + Advertise availability of data through the configured router
+
+- **Use ChronoSync to synchronize routers' LSA sequence numbers and Interest/Data to retrieve LSAs**
+
+- **Limit faces per prefix**
+
+  + Configure maximum number of faces per prefix in NFD's FIB
+
+- **Automatic NFD tunnel configuration and maintainance to neighbors**
+
+- **Routing protocol**
+
+  + Link State routing
+  + **Hyperbolic routing**
+
+    + Calculates route cost based on a node's polar coordinates
+
+- **Use a hierarchical trust model for routing within a single administrative domain**
+
+- **NFD Forwarding Information Base (FIB) consistency**
+
+  + Provides shortest path next hops for efficient forwarding
+  + Keeps NFD's FIB updated on node failure and recovery
+
+.. _NFD: http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/
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