docs: improve release history page
And also fix the date and a few typos in the release notes
Change-Id: Ia5d8325b78c9819f6be0b27729bc13d6d6f1e403
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
index dc9bb5e..f7d634b 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.5.0.rst
@@ -1,30 +1,33 @@
PSync version 0.5.0
-------------------
-*Release date: July XX, 2024*
+*Release date: August 9, 2024*
Important changes and new features
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The build dependencies have been increased as follows:
+
- GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly *recommended* on Linux; GCC 8.x is also known
- to work but is not officially supported
+ to work but is not officially supported
- Xcode 13 or later is *recommended* on macOS; older versions may still work but are not
- officially supported
- - Boost >= 1.71.0 is *required* on all platforms
-- We have officially moved to a modified FullSync algorithim originally designed by Ashlesh
- Gawande as part of `his thesis work
+ officially supported
+ - Boost >= 1.71.0 and ndn-cxx >= 0.9.0 are *required* on all platforms
+
+- We have moved to a modified FullSync algorithm originally designed by Ashlesh Gawande
+ as part of `his thesis work
<https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3162&context=etd>`__.
These changes are intended to lower delay and overhead when using FullSync
Improvements and bug fixes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-- Constructor options are now passed in as single ``Options`` object (:issue:`5069`)
-- :psync:`FullProducer` no longer appends the hash of the IBF to the data name; this had no functional
- purpose (:issue:`5066`)
+- Constructor options are now passed in as a single ``Options`` object; the old constructor
+ API is considered deprecated (:issue:`5069`)
+- :psync:`FullProducer` no longer appends the hash of the IBF to the data name; this had no
+ functional purpose (:issue:`5066`)
- Refactoring of IBLT implementation (:issue:`4825`)
- Various adjustments to match ndn-cxx namespace changes
-- Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
- Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12 (:issue:`5298`)
-- Miscellanous CI and build improvements
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+- Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
+- Miscellanous CI and build improvements