NFD version 0.6.0¶
Release date: October 16, 2017
Changes since version 0.5.1:
New features¶
- Generic prefix readvertise capability with specific support of readvertise-to-NLSR (Issue #3818)
- Unicast Ethernet faces, including close-on-idle, persistency change, fragmentation and reassembly features (Issue #4011, Issue #4012)
- Capability to create permanent TCP faces (Issue #3167)
- Configuration option to make UDP multicast and Ethernet multicast faces “ad hoc” (Issue #4018, Issue #3967)
- Replace
Link
withForwardingHint
as part of Interest processing (Issue #4055) ForwardingHint
stripped when Interest reaches producer region (Issue #3893)- New capabilities in multicast strategy:
- Nack support (Issue #3176)
- Consumer retransmission (Issue #2062)
- Per-upstream exponential suppression of retransmissions (Issue #4066)
- Wildcard matching on interface names for whitelist/blacklist (Issue #4009)
- Optional best-effort link-layer reliability feature in NDNLPv2 (Issue #3931)
- Support for
LpReliability
flag in faces/create and faces/update (Issue #4003) - Advisory limit of
NameTree
depth (Issue #4262) - Contributing guide and code of conduct (Issue #3898)
Updates¶
- Allow forwarding of Interest/Data to ad hoc face regardless if the Interest/Data came from the same face (Issue #3968)
- Interpret omitted
FreshnessPeriod
as “always stale” (Issue #3944) - Duplicate nonce from same face is no longer considered “loop” (Issue #3888)
- Refactor nfdc command-line tool (Issue #3864, Issue #3866)
- Accept
LocalUri
inProtocolFactory
andFaceManager
(Issue #4016) - Abstract
Nack
processing out ofBestRouteStrategy2
(Issue #3176) - Rework
FacePersistency
handling in faces/create and faces/update (Issue #3232)- Enable changing persistency in faces/update command
- Reject faces/create request if the face already exists
- RIB updates to follow API changes in ndn-cxx library (Issue #3903)
- Switch to V2 security framework (Issue #4089)
- Use
NetworkMonitor
,NetworkInterface
,lp::isLessSevere
from ndn-cxx (Issue #4021, Issue #4228) - Move
Channel
and subclasses intonfd::face
namespace - Improve consistency of logging in channels (Issue #2561)
- Change
ndn-autoconfig
tool to register/
prefix instead of/ndn
(Issue #4201) - Documentation improvements
Bugfixes¶
- In ASF strategy add check for FaceInfo existence before using it (Issue #3968)
- Avoid setting TransportState to FAILED if connection is closed cleanly (Issue #4099)
- Fix regression
ndn-autoconfig
continue proceeding with existing face (Issue #4008) - Decode
CachePolicy
without requiringallowLocalFields
(Issue #3966) - Fix support for link-local IPv6 addresses (Issue #1428)
- Fix potential misaligned memory accesses (Issue #4191)
Deletions¶
Deprecated code, including
faces/enable-local-control
andfaces/disable-local-control
management commands (Issue #3988)NetworkInterfaceInfo
class, replaced byndn::net::NetworkInterface
from ndn-cxx (Issue #4021)Legacy nfdc and nfd-status invocations
The following legacy nfdc sub-commands are deleted, use the corresponding
nfdc face ...
,nfdc route ...
,nfdc strategy ...
commands:register
unregister
create
destroy
set-strategy
unset-strategy
add-nexthop
remove nexthop
nfd-status
no longer accepts command line arguments (Issue #4198). Individual datasets can be requested usingnfdc channel list
,nfdc face list
,nfdc fib list
,nfdc route list
, andnfdc strategy list
commands.nfdId
fromnfdc status
output (Issue #4089)Prohibited endpoint set, making it possible to create faces that connect NFD to itself (Issue #4189)