0.7.0

New features

• Added experimental support for State Vector Sync (SVS) (#5248)
• nlsrc: Added an option to query the status from remote routers (#4544)

Notable changes and improvements

• Deprecated ChronoSync support: ChronoSync support is now optional and excluded from the default build; it remains available mainly for testing purposes (#5147)
• Switched to the C++17 standard
• The minimum build requirements have been increased as follows:
  • Either GCC >= 7.4.0 or Clang >= 6.0 is required on Linux
  • On macOS, Xcode 11.3 or later is recommended; older versions may still work but are not
    officially supported
  • Boost >= 1.65.1 and ndn-cxx >= 0.8.1 are required on all platforms
  • Sphinx 4.0 or later is required to build the documentation
• Refactored LSDB for readability and added signals to notify of modifications (#4127)
• Retrieve LSA from the face that triggered the notification of LSA changes
• Accommodate certificate name in KeyLocator (#5195)
• Changed sig-type to ecdsa-sha256 in nlsr.conf as ndn-cxx now has strict checking for it
• Improved error handling and reporting
• Stop using the gold linker on Linux; prefer instead linking with lld if installed
• Update waf build system to version 2.0.24
• Various test suite and documentation improvements

Bug fixes

• lsdb: Fix for issues involving incorrect retransmission behavior in segment fetcher
• Prevent NLSR from unregistering route during update for router that advertised it initially (#5179)
• NameLsa: fix LSDB update bug by sorting the NPLs before difference
• Fix recurring sync prefix registration on every hello data (#5157)
• Return the appropriate exit codes when executing nlsrc advertise/withdraw commands (#5271)