NFD Release Notes¶

NFD version 22.02¶

Release date: February 17, 2022

Note that starting with this release, NFD switched to a new versioning convention: YEAR.MONTH[.REVISION].

Remove NACKs from multicast strategy (issue #5146)
Dispatch pending interests when a new next hop is created in MulticastStrategy (issue #4931)
Reorder function parameters in Strategy classes to make the API more uniform (issue #5173)
Add default HopLimit to Interests when missing (issue #5171)
Allow batch command processing by nfdc to accomodate case when nfdc is used to create multiple faces/routes at once (issue #5169)
Update Interest::ForwardingHint format (issue #5187)
Rename the ASF strategy parameter n-silent-timeouts to max-timeouts
Allow setting default UDP face MTU in nfd.conf (issue #5138)

Execute pcap_activate as root for Ethernet faces (issue #4647)
Update the validation examples in nfd.conf.sample to accept a certificate name in KeyLocator in addition to a key name (issue #5114)
Fix and simplify enumeration logic in Forwarder::onNewNextHop()
Use per-upstream suppression in ASF strategy (issue #5140)
Use typed name components for (versioned) strategy names (issue #5044)
Avoid extending the dataset expiration in ForwarderStatusManager
DeadNonceList improvements
- Code cleanup/modernization
- Prevent duplicate entries (issue #5167)
- Improve logging (issue #5165)
- Increase initial and minimum capacity
Handle error when calling remote_endpoint on a TCP socket (issue #5158)
Various build system and documentation extensions and fixes

Eliminate Forwarder::dispatchToStrategy() (use direct call to StrategyChoice::findEffectiveStrategy(PitEntry))
NCC strategy (legacy)
Best-route strategy version 1 (legacy)