A new 4.5 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/4.5/
The high-level changes since version 4.4 are:
GUI
- improved behavior when starting GUI without daemon, or using File New after connection with daemon is lost
- fix various GUI issues when reconnecting to a session
- support 3D GUI via output to SDT3D
- added "Execute Python script..." entry to the File Menu
- support user-defined terminal program instead of hard-coded xterm
- added session options for "enable RJ45s", "preserve session dir"
- added buttons to the IP Addresses dialog for removing all/selected IPv4/IPv6
- allow sessions with multiple canvases to enter RUNTIME state
- added "--addons" startup mode to pass control to code included from addons dir
- added "Locked" entry to View menu to prevent moving items
- use currently selected node type when invoking a topology generator
- updated throughput plots with resizing, color picker, plot labels, locked
- scales, and save/load plot configuration with imn file
- improved session dialog
EMANE
- EMANE 0.8.1 support with backwards-compatibility for 0.7.4
- extend CommEffect model to generate CommEffect events upon receipt of Link Messages having link effects
Services
- updated FTP service with root directory for anonymous users
- added HTTP, PCAP, BIRD, RADVD, and Babel services
- support copying existing files instead of always generating them
- added "Services..." entry to node right-click menu
- added "View" button for side-by-side comparison when copying customized config files
- updated Quagga daemons to wait for zebra.vty VTY file before starting
General
- XML import and export
- renamed "cored.py" to "cored", "coresendmsg.py" to "coresendmsg"
- code reorganization and clean-up
- updated XML export to write NetworkPlan, MotionPlan, and ServicePlan within a Scenario tag, added new "Save As XML..." File menu entry
- added script_start/pause/stop options to Ns2ScriptedMobility
- "python" source sub-directory renamed to "daemon"
- added "cored -e" option to execute a Python script, adding its session to the active sessions list, allowing for GUI connection
- support comma-separated list for custom_services_dir in core.conf file
- updated kernel patches for Linux kernel 3.5
- support RFC 6164-style IPv6 /127 addressing
ns-3
- integrate ns-3 node location between CORE and ns-3 simulation
- added ns-3 random walk mobility example
- updated ns-3 Wifi example to allow GUI connection and moving of nodes
The following bugs were fixed:
54, 103, 111, 136, 145, 153, 157, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 184, 190, 193
