NFD version 0.6.6¶

Release date: April 29, 2019

Note

This is the last release to support the NDN packet format version 0.2.1. The next release will support only the v0.3 packet format.

New features¶

Initial code changes for self-learning for broadcast and ad hoc wireless faces (issue #4281)
- EndpointId field in PIT in-record and out-record (issue #4842)
- FaceEndpoint parameter in Forwarding and Strategy API (issue #4849)

Fix to properly handle consumer retransmission in AsfStrategy (issue #4874)
Fix compilation error when dropping privileges is not supported, e.g., on Android platform (issue #4833)
Replace all uses of BOOST_THROW_EXCEPTION with NDN_THROW, and custom nfd::getExtendedErrorMessage with standard boost::diagnostic_information for error message formatting (issue #4834)
Fix compilation against recent versions of Boost libraries (issue #4890, issue #4923)
Fix display of satisfied/unsatisfied Interests in nfd-status-http-server (issue #4720)
Move NFD_VERSION{,_BUILD}_STRING to version.cpp to avoid re-compilation when the git commit hash changes
Code optimizations, modernizations, and deduplications:
- Switch to use ndn-cxx’s getRandomNumberEngine()
- Switch to std::thread and thread_local
Code reorganization:
- Move entire rib subdir to daemon/rib, except for RibManager, which is moved to daemon/mgmt (issue #4528)
- Move NFD-specific files from core/ to daemon/ folder (issue #4922)
- Eliminate scheduler::{schedule,cancel} wrappers
- Merge ManagerBase with NfdManagerBase (issue #4528)
- Introduce and make use of NullLinkService and NullTransport (issue #4528)
Test suite refactoring
- IdentityManagementFixture renamed to KeyChainFixture and no longer derives from BaseFixture
- Introduce ClockFixture
- unit-tests-{core,tools} no longer require a global io_service
- Eliminate use of Selectors in CS tests (issue #4805)
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