separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
- - Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
- Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
+ - ovs-vsctl:
+ * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
+ causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
+ only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
+ means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
+ in ovs-vsctl calls.
+ * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
+ Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
- OpenFlow:
- Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
- It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
"ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
+ - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
+ from which the flow was removed.
- Tunneling:
- New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
- Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
is no longer supported.
- Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
+ - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
+ - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
- ovs-dpctl:
- The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
if only one datapath exists.
- CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
-v1.9.0 - xx xxx xxxx
---------------------
+v1.9.0 - 26 Feb 2013
+------------------------
- Datapath:
- Support for ipv6 set action.
- SKB mark matching and setting.
data in ARP packets.
-v1.8.0 - xx xxx xxxx
+v1.8.0 - 26 Feb 2013
------------------------
+ *** Internal only release ***
- New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
- Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in