[Click] Click 1.5.0 released

[Eddie Kohler]

Thanks, Beyers!
E

On May 19, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Beyers Cronje wrote:

> Hi Eddie,
>
> On behalf of myself and soon to be registered Crovanto Systems I  
> would like to applaud you and anyone else who contributes to this  
> fine project. Also a great thanks to Mazu Networks for the SNMP and  
> Netflow packages, wow thanks guys!
>
> Beyers Cronje
>
> On 5/20/06, Eddie Kohler <kohler at cs.ucla.edu> wrote: Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Click 1.5.0, available here:
>
> http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/download
>
> Highlights include much improved Linux 2.6 kernel module support
> (including add-on packages), a very fast IP lookup element, new
> packages in the click-packages release (including SNMP and Netflow
> support donated by Mazu Networks), and more.  See the NEWS file,
> summarized below.  Since 1.4.3, several changes have been made to
> Click's internals that will require you to update your elements; see
> the summary in NEWS.
>
> We hope that most serious Click users will continue to use our
> anonymous CVS repository, but it feels good anyway to make a release
> from time to time.
>
> Please let us know if you encounter any bugs, and happy hacking!
> Eddie
>
>
> Version 1.5.0   19.May.2006
>
> * Linux 2.6.16.13 kernel module support, including support for  
> packages.
>
> * click-packages-1.5.0 supports SNMP and Netflow (donated by Mazu
> Networks)
>    and multicast (preliminary).
>
> * IP routing element improvements, including new, gloriously fast
>    DirectIPLookup element (Marko Zec with kohler).
>
> * Add new Script element, basically replacing PokeHandlers and
>    DriverManager, with support for programmability and signal  
> handling;
>    check it out.
>
> * New elements: ChangeUID, ListenEtherSwitch, RawSocket, Socket,
> Truncate,
>    ARPPrint and CheckARPHeader (Jose Maria Gonzalez), many wifi
> elements.
>
> * Deprecated elements: FromRawSocket, FromSocket, PokeHandlers,
> ToRawSocket,
>    ToSocket.
>
> * Polling version of Intel's e1000-5.7.6 driver.
>
> * Bug fixes and extensions to many elements, including ARPQuerier,
>    EtherSwitch, FromDAGDump, FromDevice (userlevel), ICMPPingSource,
>    IPAddrRewriter, IPFilter/IPClassifier, IPPrint, LinkUnqueue,
>    RandomBitErrors, RatedUnqueue, SetTimestamp, ToDevice (kernel and
>    userlevel), ToIPSummaryDump.
>
> * Integrated nsclick patch, and improved nsclick (Michael Voorhaen,  
> Bart
>    Braem, kohler).
>
> * x86_64 support.
>
> * Wifi (bicket)
>
> ** Most wifi elements have been removed from the repository.  They
> will be
>     added back later as a separate package in click-packages.
>
> * Internals
>
> ** Initiate Doxygen documentation for important base types, such as
>     Element, String, Notifier, and so forth.  This project is not
> complete;
>     as each class gets Doxygenated its interface tends to change,  
> so be
>     prepared.
>
> ** Add new port_count() method, allowing elements to declare how many
> ports
>     they support.  This replaces Element::set_ninputs(),  
> set_noutputs(),
>     add_input(), add_output(), notify_ninputs(), and notify_noutputs 
> (),
>     which are all now deprecated.
>
> ** Add RAW handler flag, for handlers whose output should not be
> modified
>     (for example, no adding a courtesy newline).
>
> ** Element::run_timer takes a Timer * argument.  The old version is
>     deprecated.
>
> ** Add a new, general mechanism for named enumerations (such as IP
>     protocols, TCP/UDP ports, addresses, and so forth), NameInfo/ 
> NameDB.
>
> ** Add ELEMENT_LIBS support, so an element can pull in a static  
> library.
>
> ** Many bug fixes.
>
> ** Diagram library improvements.
>
> * Thanks to Dan Aguayo, Mark Allman, Bart Braem, Kristof Cauwel,  
> Spencer
>    Chang, YenJung Chang, Jacky Cheng, Beyers Cronje, Weidong Cui, Anne
>    Dudfield, Brian Gallaway, Michael Gellman, Chema Gonzalez, Andrew
>    Gorelik, Adam Greenhalgh, Jason Haas, Trevor Harrison, Felipe
> Huici, Bart
>    Jooris, Srikanth Kandula, Bob Keyes, Kevin Lahey, Dagang Li,  
> Nikitas
>    Liogkas, Yun Mao, Ross Mcilroy, Alastair McKinley, Indian Mogul,
> Thomas
>    Paine, Ruoming Pang, Juncheol Park, Vern Paxson, Michael Voorhaen,
>    Michael Walfish, Nick Weaver, Qinghua Ye, Marko Zec, and anyone  
> else
>    whose name was forgotten.
>
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