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ns-3 is a community-driven project, and as such, we cannot typically make guarantees about the availability of new or improved code; our maintainers work largely on a best-effort basis. However, we use this page to describe our goals (time-permitting) for each release, and where we broadly are trying to steer the project for the future.

ns-3.48 plans

ns-3.48 is scheduled for May 2026.

The most up-to-date listing of items being worked on in this release cycle can be seen by browsing Merge requests and Issues in the GitLab.com tracker that are tagged with the 'Milestone ns-3.48' tag.

Besides this, the following ns-3 maintainers announced plans to work on the following topics:

• Tom Henderson is prioritizing:
  • Supporting wifi (and eventual ns-3-dev) transition to strongly-typed quantities and units
  • Merging GSoC 2025 code Orbital NTN and 6LoWPAN ND
  • Seeing if we can revive ns-3 DCE
  • Working on issue and MR backlog
• Biljana Bojovic from the highest to the lowest priority:
  • Reviewing Sionna MR https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/-/merge_requests/2608
  • Try to revive NGMN traffic generators MR: https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/-/merge_requests/2245
  • Help with other ns-3 MR backlog
  • Would like to work also on:
    • the precoding matrix conversion modelling options
    • check if feasible to port some 3GPP models calibration scripts to ns-3

Historical information

see the Current_Development page for some older Roadmap items (many have been abandoned)