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authorBruce A. Mah <bmah@es.net>2017-06-05 14:03:06 -0700
committerBruce A. Mah <bmah@es.net>2017-06-05 14:03:06 -0700
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Updates to release notes for latest code changes.
Also a bit of minor wordsmithing.
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* 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).