ndn-cxx version 0.3.0

Release date: February 2, 2015

Changes since version 0.2.0:

New features:

  • Build
    • The code now requires C++11. The minimum supported gcc version is 4.6, as earlier versions do not have proper support for C++11 features.
  • Base
    • Enable detailed version information when built from shallow clone or tarball (issue #1915)
    • Make default transport configurable (issue #2189)
    • Add ability to do partial Name comparison (issue #2090)
  • Security
    • Add support for KeyDigest key locator (issue #1426)
    • Add a method to get KeyDigest from a PublicKey instance (issue #1964)
    • Add support for KeyChain to sign Interest using SHA256 digest (issue #2218)
    • Add ndnsec-dsk-gen tool to generate a pair of Data-Signing-Key (DSK) for the specified identity (issue #2246)
    • Pair-up PIB and TPM in KeyChain: PIB remembers the last used TPM type/location, which is used during KeyChain construction (unless overriden) (issue #2242)
  • Wire encoding
    • Add support for application-defined meta information blocks (issue #2021)
    • Introduce new name::Component::is* methods to allow checking if the name component follows the specific naming convention without relying on the exception handling (issue #2088)
    • Add definition of producer-generated NACK (issue #2111)
    • Add std::hash<Name> specialization to support unordered_map container (issue #2147)
    • Add support for ImplicitSha256DigestComponent (issue #1640)
    • Allow tagging Interest and Data packets with arbitrary information (issue #2336)
  • Management
  • Miscellaneous tools
    • Add a new helper to calculate digests over dynamic inputs (issue #1934)
    • Add DNS resolver helper (issue #1918)
    • Import and re-license Ethernet and FaceUri classes from NFD codebase, add FaceUri canonization support for udp, tcp, and ether schemas (issue #1994)
    • Add per-application in-memory storage with LRU, LFU, and FIFO replacement policies (issue #1940)
    • Add ability to specialize system and steady clocks (e.g., for unit tests and simulation purposes) (issue #2158)
    • Expose DummyClientFace as public API
    • New IndentedStream helper class to simplify writing to streams with the specified indents or prefixes (issue #2238)
    • New Signal class template as an enhanced version of the deprecated EventEmitter (issue #2279)
    • New scheduler::ScopedEventId helper to automatically cancel scheduled events upon destruction (issue #2442)
    • New NetworkMonitor helper to detect network state changes (issue #2443)

Updates and bug fixes:

  • Base
    • Prevent flags being set for rib/unregister command (issue #1945)
    • Fix segfault caused by Face::unregisterPrefix when registeredPrefixId does not exist
    • Add explicit internal KeyChain to Face class. KeyChain previously existed in the Face as part of NFD controller class. (issue #2039)
    • Properly disable assertions in release builds (issue #2135)
    • Connect to Transport during construction of Face instance (issue #2318)
  • Wire encoding
    • Fix segfault when decoding empty Exclude element (issue #1970)
    • Provide EqualityComparable concept for Exclude element
    • Correct Marker in Name::appendVersion() (issue #2086)
    • Ensure that wire-encoding errors are inherited from tlv::Error (issue #1983)
  • Management
    • Replace FaceFlags with individual fields in face management data structures (issue #1992)
    • ndn::nfd::Controller extended to allow generating ControlCommand for remote prefix registration (issue #2039)
    • Change ForwarderStatus.NfdVersion to string (issue #2003)
  • Security
    • Fix ndnsec-cert-gen to correctly infer prefix before KEY component (issue #2052)
    • Help message corrections in ndnsec-cert-dump, ndnsec-cert-gen, and ndnsec-key-gen (issue #2052)
    • Accept --sign-id and --cert-prefix in ndnsec-cert-revoke (issue #2058)
    • Changes output format of ndnsec-cert-revoke to base64 encoding (issue #2059)
    • Add a new (safer) option to ndnsec-cert-gen allowing inclusion of additional information blocks into the certificate. The new --signed-info parameter makes minimum assumptions, treating text before first space as OID and the rest as the associated string with this OID.
    • Make Face optional in Validator class (issue #2124)
    • Display signature information when printing a certificate (issue #2196)
    • Handle certificate decoding error in validation process (issue #2212)
    • Fix segmentation fault in ndnsec-sign-req (issue #2211)
    • Allow verbose option in ndnsec-list (issue #2197)
    • Allow generation of DSK using ndnsec-key-gen (issue #2247)
    • Allow ndnsec-key-gen to generate ECDSA keys (issue #2248)
    • Fix memory leak in SecPublicInfoSqlite3 (issue #2253)
    • Properly report status of ndnsec-delete execution (issue #2275)
  • Miscellaneous tools
    • Fix incorrect tag map in tlvdump tool
    • Change to default resolver behavior in util::dns::Resolver (issue #2415)
  • Documentation
    • Update of tutorials and installation instructions
    • Rename manpage of client.conf to ndn-client.conf (issue #1967)
    • Updated and extended ndn-cxx code style:
      • add rules for some C++11 constructs
      • prefer BOOST_ASSERT and static_assert
    • Improve example applications (issue #1976)
  • Tests
    • Improve security unit test cases (issue #1683)
    • Embedding CI build and test running scripts into the repository
    • Partial unit test coverage for Face class (previously covered only by integration tests) (issue #1947)
    • Improve stability of unit tests by using UnitTestTime (wall clock independent time) (issue #2152)
  • Build
    • Redesign the way default compiler flags are determined (issue #2209)
    • Support tools and examples with multiple translation units (issue #2344)
    • Disable installation of internal headers and headers of the disabled components (issue #2266, and issue #2269)
    • Enable conditional compilation based on presence of getpass() function
  • Other minor fixes and corrections

Deprecated:

  • ndn::ptr_lib and ndn::func_lib namespace aliases
  • The following nfd::Controller methods:
    • Controller::start overloads, except the overload taking CommandOptions
    • Controller::Sign typedef
    • Controller::getDefaultCommandTimeout
    • ControlCommand::getPrefix
    • ControlCommand::getRequestName(ControlParameters)
    • Controller::Controller(Face&)
  • MetaInfo::TYPE_* constants
  • EventEmitter is deprecated in favor of Signal

Removed:

  • FaceFlags APIs (issue #1992)
  • ControlCommand::makeCommandInterest (issue #2008)
  • namespace ndn::Tlv (issue #2079)
  • shared_ptr<io_service> constructor and getter in Face class
  • tlv::ConentType (typo in the name)
  • Selectors::Selectors(int, int, Exclude, int, bool) constructor
  • Interest::Interest(Name, int, int, Exclude, int, bool, int, time::milliseconds, uint32_t) constructor
  • signature-sha256.hpp file
  • unused encryption-manager.hpp file
  • unused openssl dependency