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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 was scheduled for December 18, 2013, but is now scheduled for December 20, 2013. The first release candidate (Mon Dec. 16) is available at: http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.rc1.tar.bz2

Proposed supported platforms

Our primary platforms for this release are planned to be:

  • Fedora 19/20 (32/64 bit systems)
  • Ubuntu 13.10 (32/64 bit systems)
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS (64 bit)
  • CentOS/RHEL 6.4 (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 bug fixing and merging a few new features. After this release, we plan to take the next step at further modularizing the code.

We have merged our 2013 GSoC contributions in this release.

The following goals are being worked on at this time (items in strikethrough are completed:

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) was posted
  • Bug 938 (Doxygen) was worked during code sprint (work ongoing)
  • LTE code from GSoC has been merged

Nov 16-30

  • abstract EpcHelper merged
  • bugs 1803, 1798, 1776, 1777, 1778
  • Clang compiler fixes

Dec 1-8

New feature merges (extended from Dec. 1). These features are still being worked and may be included if finished off by the end of the week (see the Current Development page for more details on each feature):

  • 802.11p device merged 3 Dec.
  • Time Units Conversion merged 5 Dec.
  • Null Message Parallel Scheduler merged 5 Dec.
  • TCP window scale and timestamps
    • Slipping to ns-3.20
  • Epidemic routing
    • Slipping to ns-3.20
  • 6LoWPAN merged 6 Dec.

Dec 9-15

Bug fixing:

  • Done:
  • Still being considered:
    • Build system: is bug 1772 (bake bindings generation) a real or obsolete issue?
      • No more changes for bug 1772 anticipated for ns-3.19; keeping open for future work.
    • Bug 1796 merged
    • bug 1592 merged
    • bug 1673 (needs test case)
      • Deferring this until next release
  • Post ns-allinone-3.19.rc1 (release candidate 1) on 15 December

Dec 16-20

  • Test release candidates: http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.rc1.tar.bz2
  • Planned remaining work includes:
    • Test on Fedora 20 (partially done, more testing needed for FreeBSD and OS X Mavericks)
    • Update for forthcoming DCE-1.2 release
    • List supported platforms in RELEASE_NOTES, after testing
  • Fix bug 1815 (bindings compilation for OS X Mavericks)
  • Release ns-allinone-3.19 on December 20 if all goes well