Changes since version 0.1.0:
- Documentation
- "NFD Developer's Guide" by NFD authors that explains NFD's
internals including the overall design, major modules, their
implementation, and their interactions
- New detailed instructions on how to enable auto-start of NFD
using OSX launchd and Ubuntu's upstart (see contrib/ folder)
- Core
- Add support for temporary privilege drop and elevation (Issue
#1370)
- Add support to reinitialize multicast Faces and (partially)
reload config file (Issue #1584)
- Randomization routines are now uniform across all NFD modules
(Issue #1369)
- Faces
- WebSocket Face support (Issue #1468)
- Fix Ethernet Face support on Linux with libpcap version >=1.5.0
(Issue #1511)
- Fix to recognize IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in FaceUri (Issue
#1635)
- Fix to avoid multiple onFail events (Issue #1497)
- Fix broken support of multicast UDP Faces on OSX (Issue #1668)
- On Linux, path MTU discovery on unicast UDPv4 faces is now
disabled (Issue #1651)
- Added link layer byte counts in FaceCounters (Issue #1729)
- Face IDs 0-255 are now reserved for internal NFD use (Issue
#1620)
- Serialized StreamFace::send(Interest|Data) operations using
queue (Issue #1777)
- Forwarding
- Outgoing Interest pipeline now allows strategies to request a
fresh Nonce (e.g., when the strategy needs to re-express the
Interest) (Issue #1596)
- Fix in the incoming Data pipeline to avoid sending packets to
the incoming Face (Issue #1556)
- New RttEstimator class that implements the Mean-Deviation RTT
estimator to be used in forwarding strategies
- Tables
- Fix in ContentStore to properly adjust internal structure when
Cs::setLimit is called (Issue #1646)
- New option in configuration file to set an upper bound on
ContentStore size (Issue #1623)
- Fix to prevent infinite lifetime of Measurement entries (Issue
#1665)
- Introducing capacity limit in PIT NonceList (Issue #1770)
- Fix memory leak in NameTree (Issue #1803)
- Management
- RibManager now fully support CHILD_INHERIT and CAPTURE flags
(Issue #1325)
- Fix in FaceManager to respond with canonical form of Face URI
for Face creation command (Issue #1619)
- Fix to prevent creation of duplicate TCP/UDP Faces due to async
calls (Issue #1680)
- Fix to properly handle optional ExpirationPeriod in RibRegister
command (Issue #1772)
- Added functionality of publishing RIB status (RIB dataset) by
RibManager (Issue #1662)
- Tools
- Extended functionality of nfd-status
- -x to output in XML format, see nfd-status xml schema
- -c to retrieve channel status information (enabled by
default)
- -s to retrieve configured strategy choice for NDN
namespaces (enabled by default)
- Face status now includes reporting of Face flags (local
and on-demand)
- On-demand UDP Faces now report remaining lifetime
(expirationPeriod)
- -r to retrieve RIB information
- Improved nfd-status-http-server
- HTTP server now presents status as XSL-formatted XML page
- Several fixes in ndn-autoconfig tool (Issue #1595)
- Extended options in nfdc:
- -e to set expiration time for registered routes
- -o to specify origin for registration and unregistration
commands
- Build
- Enable support of precompiled headers for clang and gcc to speed
up compilation
- Other small fixes and extensions