+ containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
+ with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
+ - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
+ protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
+ - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
+ - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
+ - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
+ console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
+ 'facility'.
+ - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
+ - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
+ contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
+ Auto-Attach.
+ - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
+ numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
+ - Support for DPDK vHost.
+ - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
+ - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
+ openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
+ modules (vport-*.ko).
+ - Support for STT tunneling.
+ - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
+ how daemons will talk with syslog.
+ - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
+ logging message format for each destination.
+ - GRE64 and ipsec_gre64 tunnel protocol is deprecated and will be removed
+ from OVS v2.5 release.