Tom Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > > I've posted some new release candidates for the following packages: > > ns-2.34 > nam-1.14 > ns-allinone-2.34 > > They are available at the following location: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743 > > ns-2.34 is mainly a maintenance release with the following major > differences from ns-2.33: > 1) AOMDV (On-demand Multipath Distance Vector Routing in Ad Hoc > Networks) implementation > 2) Tmix synthetic Internet traffic generation tool > 3) Collection of bug fixes for 802.11Ext model > > In addition, the recent Linux distributions (especially Fedora Core 10) > started to have problems with the previous releases, so there are some > fixes aimed at better 64-bit support and support for Fedora Core 10. > > These packages still rely on the 8.4 series of Tcl/Tk. I had hoped to > release these a while back but I was trying to bump them to Tcl/Tk-8.5 > (especially thanks to patches from Amir Habibi). However, after some > internal testing of some release candidates with Tcl/Tk-8.5, I decided > that it would be safer to make the transition after this release. > Therefore, if your platform supports tcl/tk development packages only > for version 8.5 (I think FC10 is the main one in this category) please > use the ns-allinone-2.34 version for now. > > How you can help > --------------- > > Please give these packages a try on your system. If you encounter a > problem, please first download the equivalent package for the previous > version (i.e., ns-2.33 or nam-1.13) and see if you get the same problem > or if we are introducing a new problem. Then let me know, and cc the > ns-developers list. Please specify as much detail as you can about the > system (operating system version, CPU architecture, gcc version, etc.). > If you can send in a patch that fixes any problem, this is even better. > > If there aren't any major problems, we can make this a real release at > the beginning of June, or else I'll create new release candidates as > needed. >
Just a brief update on this status-- I'm waiting for a bugfix patch from the 802.11Ext team (later this week), and then I think we can make this release. I haven't heard any complaints about the build. - Tom
