CORE 4.4 released

A new 4.4 release of CORE is available. To obtain the software, please visit:

http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/core/

http://downloads.pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/core/packages/4.4/

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:

http://code.google.com/p/coreemu/wiki/ReleaseNotes