sflow: Export OVS datapath performance counters via sFlow.

[cascardo/ovs.git] / NEWS

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@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Post-v2.3.0
      release. The protocol is documented at
      http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
    - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
+   - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
+     OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
    - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
      into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl.  Some existing ovs-appctl
      commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ Post-v2.3.0
      * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets.  The resubmit
        is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
        action.
+     * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
    - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
      MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
      it in OpenSSL.
@@ -38,14 +41,18 @@ Post-v2.3.0
    - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
      added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
      file for additional details.
-   - Experimental support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
-     (IEEE 802.1D-2004).  More conformance and interoperability testing is
-     still needed, so this should not be enabled on production environments.
+   - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
+     The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
+     Network Validation Library (ANVL).
    - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
    - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
    - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
      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 and GRE are supported protocols.
+     This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
+   - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2)
+   - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.18.x
 
 
 v2.3.0 - 14 Aug 2014
@@ -61,7 +68,6 @@ v2.3.0 - 14 Aug 2014
      packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
      older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
      new userspace.
-   - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2)
    - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
 
 v2.2.0 - Internal Release