Added 4.4 release notes with TBD date/platforms.

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Refer to the NamespaceKernels and CustomKernels pages for info on good/bad kernels and supported networking features.
= 4.4 =
CORE 4.4 was released on 9/DD/12. Packages are available for Ubuntu NN and Fedora NN.
The high-level changes since version 4.3 are:
*GUI*
* real-time bandwidth plotting tool
* added Wireshark and tshark right-click menu items
* X,Y coordinates shown in the status bar
* updated GUI attribute option to link messages for changing color/width/dash
* added sample IPsec and VPN scenarios, how many nodes script
* added jitter parameter to WLANs
* renamed Experiment menu to Session menu, added session options
* use 'key=value' configuration for services, EMANE models, WLAN models, etc.
* save only service values that have been customized
* copy service parameters from one customized service to another
* right-click menu to start/stop/restart each service
*EMANE*
* EMANE 0.7.4 support
* added support for EMANE CommEffect model and Comm Effect controller GUI
* added support for EMANE Raw Transport when using RJ45 devices
*Services*
* improved service customization; allow a service to define custom Tcl tab
* added vtysh.conf for Quagga service to support 'write mem'
* support scheduled events and services that start N seconds after runtime
* added UCARP service
*Documentation*
* converted the CORE manual to reStructuredText using Sphinx; added Python docs
*General*
* Python code reorganization
* improved cored.py thread locking
* merged xen branch into trunk
* added an event queue to a session with notion of time zero
* added UDP support to cored.py
* use UDP by default in coresendmsg.py; added '-H' option to print examples
* enter a bash shell by default when running vcmd with no arguments
* fixes to distributed emulation entering runtime state
* write 'nodes' file upon session startup
* make session number and other attributes available in environment
* support /etc/core/environment and ~/.core/environment files
* added Ns2ScriptedMobility model to Python, removed from the GUI
* namespace nodes mount a private /sys
* fixed the following bugs:<br>80, 81, 84, 99, 104, 109, 110, 122, 124, 131, 133, 134, 135, 137, 140, 144, 146, 147, 151, 154, 155,
Known issues with 4.4:
* GUI segfault under Ubuntu 11.10 with Tcl/Tk 8.5.10 (see 4.3 release notes).
= 4.3 =
CORE 4.3 was released on 3/7/12. Packages are available for Ubuntu 11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04 and Fedora 14/15/16.