Release Notes¶

ndn-cxx version 0.6.5¶

Release date: February 4, 2019

Note that this is the last release that encodes toNDN packet format version 0.2.1. A future release will continue todecode v0.2.1 format, but will encode tov0.3 format.

More support forNDN packet format version0.3 (Issue #4527)
- Stop usingChildSelector inNotificationSubscriber (Issue #4664)
- Stop usingChildSelector inCertificateBundleFetcher (Issue #4665)
Support floating point numbers in TLV-VALUE (Issue #4612)
Scoped prefix registration, scoped Interest filter, and scoped pending Interest(Issue #3919,Issue #4316)
Counters for satisfied and unsatisfied Interests inForwarderStatus(Issue #4720)
random::getRandomNumberEngine() in the public API
MetadataObject class to encode/decode RDR-style metadata (Issue #4707)
SegmentFetcher::stop() (Issue #4692)

Use openssl-based routines for the PKCS#8 decoding/decryption when exporting key from macOSKeychain (Issue #4450)
Switch to AES-256 for private key encryption in PKCS #8 export
Add exponential backoff inCertificateFetcherFromNetwork (Issue #4718,Issue #4712)
Throw exception when loading an orphanedValidationPolicyConfig (API violation)(Issue #4758)
Forbid unrecognized TLVs beforeName (Issue #4667)
Prevent memory pool size from becoming zero inInMemoryStorage (Issue #4769)
Clean up fetchers when destructingnfd::Controller (Issue #4775)
FixSegmentFetcher undefined behavior caused by uncanceled pending interest(Issue #4770)
Seed the PRNG with more entropy (Issue #4808)
Stop accepting NonNegativeInteger as sequence number in NDNLP (Issue #4598)
Backport C++17std::any andstd::variant asndn::any andndn::variant
Reimplementscheduler::EventId withCancelHandle (Issue #4698)

ndn-cxx/util/scheduler-scoped-event-id.hpp header as it is now sufficient to usendn-cxx/util/scheduler.hpp header (Issue #4698)
Implicit conversion from nullptr toscheduler::EventId (Issue #4698)

ndn::ip::address{,V6}FromString
SegmentFetcher::fetch (Issue #4464)
{get,set}FinalBlockId()
Headers that were already considered internal implementation details have been explicitlymoved to adetail/ subdir to more clearly separate private and public headers