Changes since version 0.3.4
**NOTE**
Version 0.4.0 introduces several breaking changes to API and wire
format of management protocols
New features:
- (BREAKING CHANGE) Refactored implementation of face system (Issues 3088,
3104, 3165, 3168, 3225, 3226)
The abstraction to send/receive NDN packets has been split into
Transport, LinkService, and Face:
- _Transport_ provides delivery of the data blocks over specific
underlying channels (raw ethernet packets, unicast/multicast UDP
datagrams, TCP and WebSocket streams)
Implemented: UnixStreamTransport,
UnicastUdpTransport, MulticastUdpTransport.
- _LinkService_ provides an "adaptation" layer to translate
between NDN packets and data blocks communicated
through Transport. For example, LinkService can provide packet
fragmentation and reassembly services.
Implemented: GenericLinkService
- _Face_ provides combines Transport and LinkServices, providing
high-level interface to work with Interest/Data/Nack packets
inside NFD.
NOTE
This feature replaces support for signaling between local
applications and NFD from LocalControlHeader with
NDNLPv2 protocol. If your application uses LocalControlHeader
features, it must be updated to use the new protocol (e.g., update
to use ndn-cxx >= 0.4.0)
- Support for NDNLPv2
(http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/NDNLPv2, Issues 2520,
2763, 2841)
- Network NACK (Issue 2883)
- Networking NACK in pipelines and best-route strategy (Issue 3156)
- Refactored implementation of NFD management (Issues 2200, 2107)
- Interest forwarding processes Link included in interest
packets (Issue 3034)
NOTE
This feature requires proper defintion of new
tables.network_region section in the NFD config file (Issue 3159)
- Full support for UDP permanent faces (Issues 2993, 2989, 3018)
Updates and bug fixes:
- Display extended information for fatal NFD errors (Issue 2541)
- Compilation fixes for clang-700.0.72 (Apple LLVM 7.0.0) (Issue 3209)
- Properly handle exception from NetworkMonitor when the platform
doesn't support it (Issue 3195)
Deprecated:
- BroadcastStrategy (/localhost/nfd/strategy/broadcast) renamed as
MulticastStrategy (/localhost/nfd/strategy/multicast) (Issue 3011)
Planned features for future releases:
- Improvements and extension of NDNLPv2 support
- New transports
- New link service implementation, including support for
fragmentation and assembly
- Improved support for automatic prefix propagation (Issues 3211, 2413)