[xia-announce] XIA release 1.1

[XIA Announcements]

XIA 1.1 code has been released at https://github.com/XIA-Project/xia-core. Users working with the develop branch for updated XIA features can now move back to the master branch.

Please see the XIA wiki for more information. https://github.com/XIA-Project/xia-core/wiki

New features include:
• Added scripts to run large scape 4ID experiments over PlanetLab.
• Updated GENI scripts for use with Ubuntu 12.04 and above.
• The xianet script has been updated to support automatically booting arbitrary network configurations based on the click configuration files.
• Automatically generate the xsockconf.ini config files at runtime when running the local topology.
• Added xnetcat utility, see the standard netcat man page for usage information.
• Added Xssl API for use in creating encrypted connections.
• Added a an interposition library that can be used to ease porting of standard Berkeley socket applications.
• Implemented partial support Mac OS X. Local topologies works, single host configurations are not supported yet. Note: OS X support currently only works with Xcode 4.x. An update to the Click code will be required for use with Xcode 5.x.
• Added new example applications.
• The XIA daemons now log to syslog rather than stdout.
• More compatability with Berleley sockets added to the Xsocket API.
• Fixed routing issues that could occur between hosts in the same AD.
• Many bug fixes.