24.08

NLSR version 24.08

Notable changes

• We have moved over to the CalVer versioning scheme to maintain consistency with NFD going forward: 24.08 is the successor to 0.7.0
• The minimum build requirements have been increased as follows:
  • GCC >= 9.3 or Clang >= 7.0 are strongly recommended on Linux; GCC 8.x is also known to work but is not officially supported
  • Xcode 13 or later is recommended on macOS; older versions may still work but are not officially supported
  • Boost >= 1.71.0 and ndn-cxx >= 0.9.0 are required on all platforms
• Added Dockerfile for NLSR
  • A prebuilt image for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 platforms is available on the GitHub container registry

Improvements

• Defined equality operator for LSA classes and simplified LSA-related code in NamePrefixList (#4094)
• Standardized on operator<< in LSA classes for printing rather than toString (#5308)
• Introduced use of Boost bimap and multi_array classes to simplify implementation of NameMap and link-state calculations for RoutingTable respectively (#5308)
• Removed forward dependency on ConfParameter in SyncLogicHandler (#4208)
• Split routing calculator code from main class to separate files with shared header to allow for transparent changes to routing code
• Additional miscellaneous refactoring
• Update waf build system to version 2.0.27
• Fix building the documentation with Python 3.12 (#5298)
• Various miscellaneous improvements to build and CI scripts

Bug fixes

• Prevent crashes if received segment lacks KeyLocator when LSDB is trying to fetch a certificate
• Prevent issues from dereferencing empty optional when link state calculator was passed a non-existent source node (#5308)
• Hello data freshness has been dropped to 0 seconds; this prevents issues where Hellos can be cached and cause delays in detecting link failures in certain cases (#5265)
• Removed dead links to tarballs in docs
• Various adjustments to match ndn-cxx namespace changes