Tuesday, September 25, 2012

CORE 4.4 released

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:

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