Ns-3.19

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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.19. The ns-3 release process is listed here and here.

The release managers are Tom Henderson and [bpswenson3@gatech.edu Brian Swenson]. Contact them if you would like to coordinate your software inclusion with this release.

Release schedule

ns-3.19 is scheduled for December 18, 2013. The new feature freeze is scheduled for December 1, 2013. More details will be posted at a later date.

Proposed supported platforms

Our primary platforms for this release are planned to be:

• Latest Fedora (32/64 bit systems)
• Ubuntu 13.10 (32/64 bit systems)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS (64 bit)
• Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks (64 bit) with Xcode 5.0
• FreeBSD 8.4, 9.2 (64 bit) using gcc and clang compilers

Packaging

ns-3.19 will be packaged as a source tarball as before: ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2.

The tarball will contain:

• pybindgen
• netanim
• ns-3.19
• bake

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

Release goals

This release will be mainly aimed at cleaning out the tracker as much as possible. After this release, we plan to take the next step at further modularizing the code.

We aim to merge our 2013 GSoC contributions in this release.

The following goals are being worked on at this time:

• fix Python bindings generation so that it works on recent gccs (clang also?) (bug 1530)
• resolve all clang errors (bug 1560)
• Clang 3.2: https://codereview.appspot.com/10975043
• Visual Studio: https://codereview.appspot.com/8932044/
• Introduce additional time units: https://codereview.appspot.com/14632043/

More goals to be added at a later date.

Schedule

Oct 1-15

• clang support
  • Done: This was added Oct 20.
• look into Python bindings problem/resolution again
  • Mostly done: New versions of gccxml work better; need to fix 1772 to finish off
• clean up Roadmap and CurrentDevelopment wiki pages
  • Started: Roadmap page is deleted, and CurrentDevelopment has started to be updated

Bugs fixed: 1722, 1766, 1616, 1011, 1691

Oct 16-31

• Fix gcc-4.8.1 static build issues: bug 1771
• Fix bug 1772 to get python bindings working reliably through bake
  • (Parts of bug 1772 are now done)
• consider posting an ns-3.18.1 maintenance release (bindings generation, clang support, pull DCE-1.1)
• Code reviews: see Current Development

Nov 1-15

Maintenance release (ns-3.18.1)

Bug 938 (Doxygen)

LTE code from GSoC has been merged

Bugs being worked

We will use bugzilla to track bug priorities (esp. P1 blocker bugs) for the next release.