NFD Release Notes¶
NFD version 0.7.0¶
Release date: January 13, 2020
New features¶
- Support only NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4805, issue #4581, issue #4913)
- Initial support for
PitToken
(issue #4532) - Random Forwarding Strategy that chooses a random outgoing face, excluding the incoming face of an Interest packet (issue #4992)
Improvements and bug fixes¶
- Avoid
cs::Entry
construction during Content Store lookup (issue #4914) - Make use of ndn-cxx’s
RttEstimator
inLpReliability
,AsfStrategy
, andAccessStrategy
(issue #4887) - Increase pcap buffer size in Ethernet faces (issue #2441)
- Make congestion marking less aggressive (issue #5003). The updated implementation is closer to the CoDel algorithm (RFC 8289)
- Pull
FaceTable
construction out ofForwarder
class (issue #4922, issue #4973) - Enable direct certificate fetch in
RibManager
(issue #2237) - Refuse to start NFD if both
localhop_security
andauto_prefix_propagate
are enabled in the configuration file (issue #4989) - Fix crash in self-learning strategy when the out-record of a PIT entry does not exist (issue #5022)
- Use a separate validator and a separate configuration section in
nfd.conf
for prefix announcements (issue #5031). The default configuration will accept any prefix announcement. - Documentation improvements