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== Minor feature merges ==
 
== Minor feature merges ==
  
The following minor features seem to be ready for merging:
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The following minor features seem to be ready for merging or should be fixable soon:
  
 
* API for TOS bytes (issue 897)
 
* API for TOS bytes (issue 897)
* RecvIfIndex (issue 871)
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* RecvIfIndex (issue 671)
  
 
== On the fence ==
 
== On the fence ==

Revision as of 22:41, 21 May 2010

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This page summarizes the ongoing release planning for ns-3.9. We are seeking a volunteer for release manager for the final release stages. Josh Pelkey and Tom Henderson are acting release managers at this time.

Tentative Release Schedule

  1. May 3 -- ns-3.8 posted
  2. May 3 -- ns-3.9 Open phase begins
  3. June 16 -- Deadline for major new feature merge; begin the phase of small feature development and bug fixing
  4. July 7 -- Small feature development and bug fixing ends; Maintenance phase begins
  5. July 25 -- Maintenance phase ends, code freeze phase begins
  6. August 5 -- ns-3.9 posted
  7. August 5 -- ns-3.10 Open phase begins

Release status

New feature merges

The following seem to be on track for inclusion in ns-3.9, unless issues in the review arise.

Minor feature merges

The following minor features seem to be ready for merging or should be fixable soon:

  • API for TOS bytes (issue 897)
  • RecvIfIndex (issue 671)

On the fence

The following features would be nice to include in ns-3.9 but we are currently lacking any review, patch, or proposal.

  • Underwater Acoustic Networks (UAN): Leonard is providing a revision next week
  • fragmentation for IPv4: being worked by Vedran Miletic
  • NewReno TCP (issue 824)
  • simple wireless models
  • NetAnim for wireless
  • Generic sequence number class (issue 385)
  • Class name rename Scalar->Dimensionless (issue 445)

Critical issues

These issues are candidates to become blocker issues.

  • peekData warnings (issues 846 and 912)
  • AODV problems reported by Kevin Peters (also, issue 879)
  • Wimax serialize (issue 905)

Features that may slip

The following features are in danger of slipping to ns-3.10 or later: