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The ns-3.4 Release

This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for the Fourth stable release of ns-3.

ns-3-dev is scheduled to enter the open phase for ns-3.4 on December 17, 2009. Until then, checkins of new features are forbidden.

The Release Manager

The release manager is Raj Bhattacharjea.

The ns-3.4 Release Schedule

ns-3 releases are based on date-driven schedules as opposed to feature-driven schedules. We decide on an approximate release date and then the release manager works backward to define windows during which time certain activites related to the release can happen. This was done for ns-3.3 and the important milestones for that release can be found here.

1. December 17, 2008 -- ns-3.4 Open phase begins.
2. January 20 -- Recommended cutoff for new feature submission;
3. January 27 -- Deadline for new feature submissions that require design review;
4. February 3 -- Approved new feature ready-for-merge deadline;
5. February 3 -- Late merge period begins (Merge Week Begins);
6. February 10 -- Late merge period ends;
7. February 10 -- Open phase ends;
8. February 10 -- Maintenance phase begins;
9. March 1 -- Maintenance phase ends;
10. March 1 -- Code freeze phase begins;
11. March 2 -- ns-3.4-RC1;
12. March 5 -- ns-3.4-RC2;
13. March 9 -- ns-3.4-RC3;
14. March 12 -- ns-3.4-RC4;
15. March 16 -- ns-3.4-RC5;
16. March 17 -- ns-3.4-RC6;
17. March 18 -- ns-3.4 posted;
18. March 18 -- Code freeze phase ends;
19. March 18 -- ns-3.5 Open phase begins.

Candidates for Merge into ns-3.4

As you can see in the Roadmap, we have identified several candidates for inclusion in ns-3.4. As time passes and details become more evident, more status regarding the progress of these new features will be added.

Near term merge items (December and early January)

• Tap Net Device (emulation) Support;
• bug 215 Object Naming Feature with Attribute/Config Integration;
• bug 434 Build System Refactoring;
• (various bugs) Random Number Generator and RandomVariable Changes.
• bug 443 Tracing Consistency (pcap model for devices);
• Cut over some examples into a "testing" or "validation" framework

Later merge items (end of January)

• IPv4 Routing Refactoring;
• Additional IPv6 Support;
• (bug 425,426 and others) TCP close behavior not standards conformant

TBD (no commitments yet from anyone to work on them)

• Perfect/Global ARP;
• bug 231 Packet Tag Use Problems;
• Packet Fragmentation;
• Netfilter Hooks;
• Model Validation Harness;
• bug 190 : NS_LOG_APPEND_CONTEXT for the internet stack
• bug 407 OLSR HNA support
• bug 424 socket API
• bug 341 setsendcallback problems

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Craigdo 21:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)