Mininet 2.3.0b1 (#1019)

Also tweak README.md, INSTALL, and CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -18,34 +18,63 @@ Cody Burkard
 
 Additional Mininet Contributors
 
+Joseph Beshay
+M S Vishwanath Bhat
+Muhammad Umair Bhatti
+Arie Bregman
 Tomasz Buchert
-Gustavo Pantuza Coelho Pinto
 Fernando Cappi
+HW Chiu
 Ryan Cox
 Shaun Crampton
+Jason Croft
+Hantao Cui
+Nirmoy Das
+Lenoardo D'avila
+Giuseppe Di Lena
 David Erickson
+Juan Gascon
 Glen Gibb
 Andrew Ferguson
 Eder Leao Fernandes
+Julian Filter
+Ben Frankel
+Tim Gates
 Gregory Gee
 Jon Hall
 Roan Huang
 Vitaly Ivanov
+Theo Jepsen
+Mathieu Jadin
 Babis Kaidos
 Rich Lane
 Rémy Léone
+Xiaozhou Li
 Zi Shen Lim
 David Mahler
+Felix Maurer
 Murphy McCauley
+Alex Moijes
+Felician Nemeth
 José Pedro Oliveira
 James Page
+Gustavo Pantuza Coelho Pinto
+Ramon Pujianto
+Stempha Reiter
+Damien Saucez
+Shan Sikdar
 Angad Singh
 Piyush Srivastava
 Ed Swierk
 Darshan Thaker
+Olivier Tl]ilmans
+Niels van Adrichem
+Brad Walker
 Andreas Wundsam
+Vikas Yadav
 Isaku Yamahata
 Baohua Yang
+Zhuo
 
 Thanks also to everyone who has submitted issues and pull
 requests on github, and to our friendly mininet-discuss

INSTALL

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Mininet Installation/Configuration Notes
 ----------------------------------------
 
-Mininet 2.3.0a1
+Mininet 2.3.0b1
 ---
 
 The supported installation methods for Mininet are 1) using a
@@ -32,19 +32,16 @@ like to contribute an installation script, we would welcome it!)
 2. Next-easiest option: use our Ubuntu package!
 
    To install Mininet itself (i.e. `mn` and the Python API) on Ubuntu
-   12.10+:
+   16.04+:
 
         sudo apt-get install mininet
 
-   Note: if you are upgrading from an older version of Mininet, make
-   sure you remove the old OVS from `/usr/local`:
-
-        sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ovs*
-        sudo rm /usr/local/sbin/ovs*
+   Note: this may install an older version of Mininet. If you would
+   like the latest version, consider a native install from source.
 
 3. Native installation from source
 
-3.1. Native installation from source on Ubuntu 12.04+
+3.1. Native installation from source on Ubuntu 16.04+
 
    If you're reading this, you've probably already done so, but the
    command to download the Mininet source code is:

LICENSE

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Mininet 2.3.0a1 License
+Mininet 2.3.0b1 License
 
 Copyright (c) 2013-2020 Open Networking Foundation
 Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bob Lantz and The Board of Trustees of

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Mininet: Rapid Prototyping for Software Defined Networks
 ========================================================
 *The best way to emulate almost any network on your laptop!*
 
-Mininet 2.3.0a1
+Mininet 2.3.0b1
 
 [![Build Status][1]](https://github.com/mininet/mininet/actions)
 
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ This is primarily a performance improvement and bug fix release.
 
 - Python 3 support (Python 2 is still supported as well)
 
-- Support for Ubuntu 20.04
+- Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
 
 - More reliable testing and CI via github actions
 
 - Additional information for this release and previous releases
-  may be found in the release notes on docs.mininet.org
+  may be found in the release notes on http://docs.mininet.org.
 
 ### Installation
 
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ information, including a Mininet walkthrough and an introduction
 to the Python API, is available on the
 [Mininet Web Site](http://mininet.org).
 There is also a wiki which you are encouraged to read and to
-contribute to, particularly the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ.)
+contribute to, particularly the Frequently Asked Questions
+(FAQ) at http://faq.mininet.org.
 
 ### Support
 

mininet/net.py

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ from mininet.util import ( quietRun, fixLimits, numCores, ensureRoot,
 from mininet.term import cleanUpScreens, makeTerms
 
 # Mininet version: should be consistent with README and LICENSE
-VERSION = "2.3.0a1"
+VERSION = "2.3.0b1"
 
 class Mininet( object ):
     "Network emulation with hosts spawned in network namespaces."