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This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.21. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

The release manager is TBD. More information about the release plans will be posted in late June.

Release schedule

ns-3.21 is planned for mid-August, 2014.

Packaging

ns-3.21 will be packaged as a source tarball as before: ns-allinone-3.21.tar.bz2.

The tarball will contain:

• Latest version of pybindgen
• Latest version of netanim
• ns-3.21
• bake

where bake is used to fetch optional ns-3 components, including DCE.

A patch from ns-3.20 to ns-3.21 will also be posted.

Release platforms

We usually try to keep pace with the latest popular versions of Linux, OS X, and FreeBSD. For the ns-3.21 release, we plan to test against the following newer operating systems:

• FreeBSD 10.0 (clang 3)
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite developer preview
• Ubuntu 14.10 (gcc-4.9)
• Fedora 21 (gcc-4.9)

as well as selected older or more stable server/LTS releases:

• Centos 6.5
• Ubuntu 10.04/12.04/14.04 LTS
• FreeBSD 9.3

New features

Pending new features:

• Self-Delimiting Numeric Values (https://codereview.appspot.com/97540043/)
  • Status: In final code review
• (enhancement) Make RttEstimator available to other modules
• (enhancement) Add propagation delay capability to SimpleChannel

Bugs in core or build system

TBD

Bugs in models to fix

TBD

Other merges

TBD