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This page summarizes the release planning for ns-3.20. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

The release managers is Tom Henderson. Contact Tom if you would like to help with the release, or if you would like to coordinate your software inclusion (patch, bug fix, module) with this release.

Release schedule

ns-3.20 is scheduled for April 23, 2014 April 30, 2014.

Code freeze and release candidate planned for Fri Apr 18 Fri Apr 25.

Packaging

ns-3.20 will be packaged as a source tarball as before: ns-allinone-3.20.tar.bz2.

The tarball will contain:

• pybindgen
• netanim-3.105
• ns-3.20
• bake

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

A patch from ns-3.19 to ns-3.20 will also be posted.

Release platforms

Our primary platforms for this release are planned to be:

• Fedora 20 (32/64 bit systems)
• Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 (32/64 bit systems)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS (64 bit)
• CentOS/RHEL 6.4 (64-bit)
• Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks (64 bit) with Xcode 5.1
• FreeBSD 9.2 (64 bit)

Remaining work before release

New features

• Lr-Wpan (https://codereview.appspot.com/89730043)
  • Status: The main issue remaining is documentation and test/example coverage.
• WiFi sleep mode (https://codereview.appspot.com/57210044/)
  • Status: Waiting for Tom to review example. Waiting for +1 from Daniel and Tom.
• PacketSocket application (https://codereview.appspot.com/45320043/)
  • Status: Waiting for Tom's +1
• Flow Monitor IPv6 support (https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1818)
  • Status: Ready to merge (Tommaso)

Bugs in core or build system

• bug 1900 https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1900 selected tests failing
  • Status: There are two separate issues to debug; may require second bug report. 1) mesh tests crash, 2) some trace files (aodv and routing) are slightly off, perhaps due to time changes
• bug 1898 https://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1898 problem with click
  • Status: Waiting for info from Tom about scope of the problem

Bugs in models to fix

• MPDU aggregation.

Other merges

• Nicola to merge some additional LTE patches.