ndn-cxx version 0.6.6

Release date: April 27, 2019

Note

This is the last release to support the NDN packet format version 0.2.1. The next release will be able to encode and decode only the v0.3 packet format.

New features

  • More support for NDN packet format version 0.3 (issue #4527)

    • Support new naming conventions to encode/decode segment numbers, byte offsets, versions, timestamps, and sequence numbers based on typed name components (issue #4777)

    • Stop using ChildSelector in CertificateBundleFetcher (issue #4665)

  • NDN_THROW macro to throw exceptions including file position and runtime context of the throw statement (issue #4834)

  • Ensure that a Block with TLV-TYPE zero is treated as invalid (issue #4726, issue #4895)

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Avoid directly using memory address as PendingInterestId to prevent potential false removal of an entry (issue #2865)

  • Follow up packet specification changes to rename the Parameters element to ApplicationParameters and to change its number to be a non-critical element type (issue #4658, issue #4780)

  • Add an option to disable the infrastructure Interest in CertificateFetcherDirectFetch (issue #4879)

  • Fix compilation against recent versions of Boost libraries and issues with Xcode 10.2 and older versions of Boost libraries (issue #4890, issue #4923, issue #4860)

  • Improve the “CanBePrefix unset” warning (issue #4581)

  • Improve documentation

Deprecated

  • PendingInterestId, RegisteredPrefixId, and InterestFilterId types in favor of PendingInterestHandle, RegisteredPrefixHandle, and InterestFilterHandle (issue #4316, issue #3919)

  • Block::empty in favor of Block::isValid (with inverted semantics)

  • Scheduler::scheduleEvent and Scheduler::cancelEvent in favor of Scheduler::schedule and EventId::cancel (or use ScopedEventId to automatically cancel the event when the object goes out of scope) (issue #4883)

  • ndn::util::Scheduler (use ndn::Scheduler or ndn::scheduler::Scheduler) and ndn::EventId (use ndn::scheduler::EventId) (issue #4883)