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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.16. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

Release schedule

The ns-3.16 release (originally scheduled for Dec 12) has been delayed. The new anticipated date is Tues. Dec 18.

• Wed Nov 21 -- new feature freeze
• Fri Dec 7 -- code freeze on ns-3-dev
  • a few more patches to marshal in
• Wed Dec 12 -- ns-3.16 released Delayed due to issues discussed on the mailing list.
• Mon Dec 17 -- First release candidate scheduled to be posted
• Thurs Dec 20 -- ns-3.17 released if no issues found

Proposed supported platforms

• Linux Ubuntu 12.10
• Linux Fedora 17 (also 18 beta)
• Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
• Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2
• FreeBSD 9
• FreeBSD 8.2

Packaging

Source tarball ns-allinone-3.16.tar.bz2.

Bake has been deferred to ns-3.17; we'll use the existing build system.

new features

• LTE MAC Schedulers by Dizhi Zhou (GSoC 2012): http://codereview.appspot.com/6591047
• BRITE topology generator integration: http://codereview.appspot.com/6499120/

Bugs being worked

• 555: DCF immediate access bug Daniel L.
• 582: Tags are not serialized and deserialized from Packet::Serialize and Packet::Deserialize Peter Barnes
  • Patchset 1: Add class Hash: generic hash function interface http://codereview.appspot.com/6357056/
  • Patchset 2: Add hashes to TypeId. http://codereview.appspot.com/6344063/ <- being held out of ns-3.16
  • Patchset 3: Refactor PacketTagList http://codereview.appspot.com/6354061/
  • these have been deferred to ns-3.17
• 954: changing the simulation time resolution Peter Barnes
  • proposing to back out of ns-3-dev
• 1342: tcp test case failure Brian Swenson
• 1456: update openflow distribution Tom Henderson
• 1501: Tcp test crash Brian Swenson
• 1502: Shutdown on tcp socket seems to misbehave Brian Swenson
• 1516: GtkConfigStore does not show read-only attributes Mitch Watrous
• 1520: config paths not documented in Doxygen for CsmaChannel (possibly others) Mitch Watrous
  • mostly fixed
• 1522: jitter needed on Ipv4 ARP WaitReply timer Daniel L.
• 1525: Linker error with mpi on Mac 10.8 Peter Barnes/Brian Swenson
• 1531: Crash when using NS_LOG in destructors of static objects Peter Barnes
• 1540: bake not building click correctly Daniel Camara/Mitch Watrous
• 1542: adapt waf to find bake-built libraries Mitch Watrous