Release Notes¶

NLSR version 24.08¶

Release date: August 12, 2024

We have moved over to the CalVer versioning scheme to maintain consistency with NFD going forward: 24.08 is the successor to 0.7.0
The minimum build requirements have been increased as follows:
- GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly recommended on Linux; GCC 8.x is also known to work but is not officially supported
- Xcode 13 or later is recommended on macOS; older versions may still work but are not officially supported
- Boost >= 1.71.0 and ndn-cxx >= 0.9.0 are required on all platforms
Added Dockerfile for NLSR. A prebuilt image for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 platforms is available on the GitHub container registry

Defined equality operator for LSA classes and simplified LSA-related code in NamePrefixList (issue #4094)
Standardized on operator<< in LSA classes for printing rather than toString (issue #5308)
Introduced use of Boost bimap and multi_array classes to simplify implementation of NameMap and link-state calculations for RoutingTable respectively (issue #5308)
Removed forward dependency on ConfParameter in SyncLogicHandler (issue #4208)
Split routing calculator code from main class to separate files with shared header to allow for transparent changes to routing code
Additional miscellaneous refactoring
Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12 (issue #5298)
Various miscellaneous improvements to build and CI scripts

Prevent crashes if received segment lacks KeyLocator when LSDB is trying to fetch a certificate
Prevent issues from dereferencing empty optional when link state calculator was passed a non-existent source node (issue #5308)
Hello data freshness has been dropped to 0 seconds; this prevents issues where Hellos can be cached and cause delays in detecting link failures in certain cases (issue #5265)
Removed dead links to tarballs in docs
Various adjustments to match ndn-cxx namespace changes