NFD version 24.07
Release date: July 28, 2024
Important changes and new features
- The build dependencies have been increased as follows:
- GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly recommended on Linux; GCC
8.x is also known to work but is not officially supported
- Xcode 13 or later is recommended on macOS; older versions may still
work but are not officially supported
- Boost >= 1.71.0 is required on all platforms
- Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), Debian 12 (Bookworm), and macOS 14 (Sonoma) are
now officially supported
- Added an official Dockerfile to the repository. From this Dockerfile,
the following images are currently published to the GitHub container
registry:
- named-data/nfd
- named-data/nfd-autoreg
- named-data/nfd-status-http-server
All images are available for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 platforms.
- The default Unix socket path changed to /run/nfd/nfd.sock on Linux and
to /var/run/nfd/nfd.sock on all other platforms (5304)
- Introduced a new strategy trigger
onInterestLoop <Strategy::onInterestLoop> that is invoked when a
duplicate Interest is received. The default behavior (sending a Nack
packet) remains unchanged except for the Multicast strategy, which
will now suppress the Nack transmission in this case (5278)
- Multiple updates to the ASF forwarding strategy to more closely adhere
to the behavior described in the published technical report (5310)
- The ASF strategy gained support for Nack propagation (5311)
- The default port number of nfd-status-http-server changed to 6380
Improvements and bug fixes
- Several stability improvements in the face system, especially around
error handling in multicast faces and UnixStreamChannel (5030, 5297)
- Refactor and improve logging in forwarding core and strategies (5262,
5267)
- Fix missing increment of nOutNacks counter when sending a Nack from
onInterestLoop
- Optimize the removal of PIT in-records
- Move RIB unit tests into unit-tests-daemon and eliminate the
unit-tests-rib binary
- Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12 (5298)
- Reduce amount of debugging information produced in compiled binaries
by default (5279)
- Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
- Various code cleanups, modernizations, and documentation improvements