ndn-cxx version 0.4.0¶

Release date: December 31, 2015

Note

Version 0.4.0 introduces several breaking changes to API and wire format of management protocols

Changes since version 0.3.4:

New features¶

(breaking change) LocalControlHeader for special signaling between application and NFD has been replaced with NDNLPv2 signaling (issue #2879, issue #2930)
NDNLPv2 Network NACK support in Face abstraction (issue #2930)
(breaking change) FacePersistency field added to API and wire format of ControlParameters abstraction (issue #2991)
(breaking change) NACK counters added to ForwarderStatus and FaceStatus datasets (issue #3174)
Backport C++14 std::make_unique (issue #3093)
Emulate std::to_string on platforms that do not provide it (issue #2743)
New API in Face class to remove all pending Interests (issue #3300)
Ability to choose signing parameters (a specific certificate, the default certificate for a key, or the default certificate for the default key) using a specially URI string (issue #3281)
Ability to create Face with custom IO service and default transport (issue #2500)

(breaking change) SegmentFetcher helper changed to use asynchronous data validation (issue #2734)
Support Interest Nack in nfd::Controller (issue #3264)
Fix bug causing failure of Face if there is a large delay between construction of Face and calling processEvents (issue #2742, issue #2526)
Cache Link object after the first call to getLink (issue #3158)
Minor documentation updates (issue #3207, issue #3210, issue #3221)

Overloads of Face::registerPrefix and Face::setInterestFilter that do not accept SigningInfo parameter (issue #2932)
tlvdump tool (issue #3196). Use ndn-dissect program from ndn-tools repository https://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools
ndn::util::makeDummyClientFace, use ndn::util::DummyClientFace constructors directly (issue #3146)
ndn::util::DummyClientFace::sentDatas, use ndn::util::DummyClientFace.sentData instead (issue #3146)

Introduce new API to simplify security transformations (issue #3009)
NDN trust schema as a description of application trust model, which can help automate data and interest packet signing and authentication (issue #2829)
Refactored KeyChain abstraction (issue #2926)