Use the IANA-assigned ports for OpenFlow and OVSDB.

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@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 Post-v2.3.0
 ---------------------
+   - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
+     utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
+   - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
+     MAC flooding attacks.
    - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
      allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
      {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations.  For details,
-     see documentation fo the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
+     see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
    - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
      ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands.  Please check
      utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
@@ -22,11 +26,11 @@ Post-v2.3.0
      commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
      release.  See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
    - OpenFlow:
-     * The IPv6 flow label field is now modifiable.
-     * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) extended registers are now supported.
-     * The OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) actset_output field is now supported.
-     * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) Copy-Field action is now supported.
-     * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) masked Set-Field action is now supported.
+     * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
+     * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
+     * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
+     * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
+     * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
      * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
      * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
      * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets.  The resubmit
@@ -57,10 +61,16 @@ Post-v2.3.0
    - 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
+   - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.19.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.
 
 
 v2.3.0 - 14 Aug 2014
@@ -143,6 +153,7 @@ v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014
      * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
        in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
        number.
+     * The Open vSwitch software switch now supports OpenFlow groups.
    - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
      diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
    - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11