diff --git a/CHANGES.html b/CHANGES.html
index 32943af6c..0388a992a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.html
+++ b/CHANGES.html
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ us a note on ns-developers mailing list.</p>
 <hr>
 <h1>Changes from ns-3.28 to ns-3-dev</h1>
 <h2>New API:</h2>
+  <li> Added CommandLine::Parse (const std::vector<std::string>> args) </li>
+  <li> NS_LOG_FUNCTION can now log the contents of vectors </li>
 <ul>
 </ul>
 <h2>Changes to existing API:</h2>
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 9e3d464c2..0bb081eb3 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ New user-visible features
 
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
+- Bug 2901 - Add CommandLine::Parse (const std::vector<std::string>> args)
 
 Known issues
 ------------
diff --git a/src/core/model/command-line.cc b/src/core/model/command-line.cc
index 7f014be04..2d5c303f2 100644
--- a/src/core/model/command-line.cc
+++ b/src/core/model/command-line.cc
@@ -110,16 +110,15 @@ CommandLine::Item::~Item ()
 }
 
 void
-CommandLine::Parse (int argc, char *argv[])
+CommandLine::Parse (std::vector<std::string> args)
 {
-  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this << argc << argv);
+  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this << args.size () << args);
 
-  m_name = SystemPath::Split (argv[0]).back ();
+  m_name = SystemPath::Split (args[0]).back ();
   
-  for (int iargc = 1; iargc < argc; iargc++)
+  for (auto param : args)
     {
       // remove "--" or "-" heading.
-      std::string param = argv[iargc];
       std::string::size_type cur = param.find ("--");
       if (cur == 0)
         {
@@ -159,6 +158,14 @@ CommandLine::Parse (int argc, char *argv[])
   
 }
 
+void
+CommandLine::Parse (int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+  NS_LOG_FUNCTION (this << argc);
+  std::vector<std::string> args (argv, argv + argc);
+  Parse (args);
+}
+
 void
 CommandLine::PrintHelp (std::ostream &os) const
 {
diff --git a/src/core/model/command-line.h b/src/core/model/command-line.h
index cd583de73..a4aee8e52 100644
--- a/src/core/model/command-line.h
+++ b/src/core/model/command-line.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <list>
+#include <vector>
 
 #include "callback.h"
 
@@ -284,6 +285,17 @@ public:
    */
   void Parse (int argc, char *argv[]);
 
+  /**
+   * Parse the program arguments.
+   *
+   * This version may be convenient when synthesizing arguments
+   * programmatically.  Other than the type of argument this behaves
+   * identically to Parse(int, char *)
+   *
+   * \param [in] args The vector of arguments.
+   */
+  void Parse (std::vector<std::string> args);
+
   /**
    * Get the program name
    *