NFD version 22.02¶

Release date: February 17, 2022

Note that starting with this release, NFD switched to a date-based versioning scheme: YEAR.MONTH[.PATCH] (YY.0M[.MICRO] in CalVer syntax).

Notable changes and new features¶

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

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 retx suppression in ASF strategy (issue #5140)
Use typed name components for (versioned) strategy names (issue #5044)
DeadNonceList improvements
- Code cleanup/modernization
- Prevent duplicate entries (issue #5167)
- Increase initial and minimum capacity
- Improve logging (issue #5165)
Use the default dataset expiration in ForwarderStatusManager
Handle error when calling remote_endpoint on a TCP socket (issue #5158)
Various build system and documentation extensions and fixes