ndn-cxx version 0.6.3

Release date: September 18, 2018

The build requirements have been upgraded to gcc >= 5.3 or clang >= 3.6, boost >= 1.58, openssl >= 1.0.2. This effectively drops support for all versions of Ubuntu older than 16.04 that use distribution-provided compilers and packages.

The compilation now uses the C++14 standard.

New features:

• More support for NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4527)
  • Allow applications to declare a default CanBePrefix setting (issue #4581)
  • Accommodate typed name components in Name::getSuccessor (issue #4570)
  • Support Parameters element (issue #4658)
  • Recognize alternative type representations in URI syntax (issue #4690)
  • Introduce ParametersSha256DigestComponent (issue #4658, issue #4570)
• Prefix announcement object (issue #4650)
• MTU element in ControlParameters and FaceStatus (issue #4005)
• Enable congestion control features in SegmentFetcher (issue #4364)
• _block literal operator (issue #4722)
• Add official support for CentOS 7 (issue #4610)

Improvements and bug fixes

• Fix a segfault in Face::satisfyPendingInterests when Face::put is called in DataCallback (issue #4596)
• Allow specifying passphrase for ndnsec import/export on the command line (issue #4633)
• Fix bug preventing customization of KeyChain’s TPM on macOS (issue #4297)
• Fix bug with handling Sha256-signed Command Interests (issue #4635)
• Eliminate selector usage in SegmentFetcher (issue #4555)
• Improvements in netlink message processing
• Gracefully handle NetworkMonitor backend initialization failure (issue #4668)
• Add support 224-bit and 521-bit NIST elliptic curves, add support for SHA-3 (with openssl >= 1.1.1-pre1), and forbid RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits in security helpers
• Improve and simplify code with modern C++ features
• Properly declare move constructors
• Improve error handling
• Improve test cases
• Correct and improve documentation

Deprecated

• SegmentFetcher::fetch() static functions in favor of start() (issue #4464)

• ndn::ip::address{,V6}FromString as Boost.Asio >= 1.58 has proper implementation of addressFromString

• Selectors (issue #4527)

  NDN Packet Format v0.3 replaces Selectors with CanBePrefix and MustBeFresh elements. CanBePrefix and MustBeFresh are currently mapped to the closest v0.2 semantics and encoded as selectors.

• Data::get/setFinalBlockId() in favor of Data::get/setFinalBlock()

Removed

• Dependency on Boost.Regex in favor of std::regex