From 2392def10f85f85464d42dc4cb17560129b33cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 14:03:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Updates to release notes for latest code changes. Also a bit of minor wordsmithing. --- RELEASE_NOTES | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index ec0e40d..ce6bf5f 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ * User-visible changes - * Authentication via a username/password mechanism is now an - optional way of limiting access to an iperf3 server (#517). + * Authentication via a username/password mechanism, coupled with a + public-key pair, is now an optional way of limiting access to an + iperf3 server (#517). - * Ending statistics are less ambituous for UDP and also now use + * Ending statistics are less ambiguous for UDP and also now use correct test durations for all protocols (#560, #238). Many fixes have been made in statistics printing code, generally for human-readable output (#562, #575, #252, #443, #236). @@ -54,6 +55,18 @@ data is used. Note that iperf3 now requires the /dev/urandom device (#582). + * Prior versions of iperf3 doing UDP tests used to overcount packet + losses in the presence of packet reordering. This has been + (partially) fixed by try to not count the sequence number gaps + resulting from out-of-order packets as actual losses (#457). + + * iperf3 no longer prints results from very small intervals (10% of + the statistics reporting interval) at the end of the test run if + they contain no data. This can happen due to timing difference or + network queueing on the path between the client and server. This + is primarily a cosmetic change to prevent these fairly meaningless + intervals from showing up in the output (#278). + * Developer-visible changes * Various warnings and build fixes (#551, #564, #518).