A new 4.4 release of CORE is available. To obtain the software, please visit:
The high-level changes since version 4.3 are:
GUI
- real-time bandwidth plotting tool
- added Wireshark and tshark right-click menu items
- X,Y coordinates shown in the status bar
- updated GUI attribute option to link messages for changing color/width/dash
- added sample IPsec and VPN scenarios, how many nodes script
- added jitter parameter to WLANs
- renamed Experiment menu to Session menu, added session options
- use 'key=value' configuration for services, EMANE models, WLAN models, etc.
- save only service values that have been customized
- copy service parameters from one customized service to another
- right-click menu to start/stop/restart each service
EMANE
- EMANE 0.7.4 support
- added support for EMANE CommEffect model and Comm Effect controller GUI
- added support for EMANE Raw Transport when using RJ45 devices
Services
- improved service customization; allow a service to define custom Tcl tab
- added vtysh.conf for Quagga service to support 'write mem'
- support scheduled events and services that start N seconds after runtime
- added UCARP service
Documentation
- converted the CORE manual to reStructuredText using Sphinx; added Python docs
General
- Python code reorganization
- improved cored.py thread locking
- merged xen branch into trunk
- added an event queue to a session with notion of time zero
- added UDP support to cored.py
- use UDP by default in coresendmsg.py; added '-H' option to print examples
- enter a bash shell by default when running vcmd with no arguments
- fixes to distributed emulation entering runtime state
- write 'nodes' file upon session startup
- make session number and other attributes available in environment
- support /etc/core/environment and ~/.core/environment files
- added Ns2ScriptedMobility model to Python, removed from the GUI
- namespace nodes mount a private /sys
- fixed the following bugs: 80, 81, 84, 99, 104, 109, 110, 122, 124, 131, 133, 134, 135, 137, 140, 143, 144, 146, 147, 151, 154, 155
These release notes along with a list of known issues are posted here:
