-openvswitch (1.9.90-1) unstable; urgency=low
+openvswitch (2.5.90-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Open vSwitch team ]
* New upstream version
- - Nothing yet! Try NEWS...
+ - Nothing yet! Try NEWS...
- -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:12:57 -0700
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:17:44 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
+ using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
+ have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
+ now supported.
+ * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
+ * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
+ * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_VACANCY_EVENTS is now implemented.
+ * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
+ * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
+ * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG are
+ now implemented.
+ - ovs-ofctl:
+ * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
+ - Tunnels:
+ * Geneve tunnels can now match and set options and the OAM bit.
+ * The nonstandard GRE64 tunnel extension has been dropped.
+ - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
+ - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
+ - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
+ - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
+ targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
+ a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
+ - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
+ the next OVS release.
+ - Added --user option to all daemons
+ - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
+ and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
+ available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
+ - Add experimental version of OVN. OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a
+ system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the
+ existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network
+ abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:17:44 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
+ now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
+ example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
+ "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
+ pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
+ - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
+ - 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 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.
+ - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
+ the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
+ is deleted.
+ - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
+ possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
+ 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
+ release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
+ mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
+ are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
+ in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
+ are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
+ atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
+ * 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
+ 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.
+ * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
+ fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
+ related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
+ - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
+ ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
+ use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
+ atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
+ of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
+ lookups simultaneously.
+ - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
+ mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
+ explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
+ keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
+ backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
+ are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
+ - 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.
+ - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
+ "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
+ - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
+ the same transaction that creates the row.
+ - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
+ who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
+ a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
+ - 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.
+ - 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, 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.
+ * The openvswitch-testcontroller package is new. It reintroduces the
+ simple OpenFlow controller that was packaged with Open vSwitch prior to
+ version 2.1, at request of users who find it useful for testing basic
+ OpenFlow setups. It is still not a necessary or desirable part of most
+ Open vSwitch deployments.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:23:43 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
+ ovs-vswitchd.
+ - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
+ flow matching process.
+ - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
+ matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
+ number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
+ exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
+ packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
+ older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
+ new userspace.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:03:32 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
+ should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
+ configured properly.
+ - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
+ bridge.
+ - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
+ poorly maintained and not widely used.
+ - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
+ controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL for details.
+ - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
+ - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
+ log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
+ instead.
+ - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
+ tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
+ - Added DPDK support.
+ - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
+ "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
+ header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
+ tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
+ necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
+ flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
+ tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
+ and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
+ increased by using this feature.
+ * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
+ are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
+ aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
+ (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
+ tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
+ * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
+ one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
+ * Examples:
+ $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
+ --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
+ $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
+ --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
+ $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
+ $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
+ - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
+ has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
+ or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
+ module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
+ both are upgraded at the same time.
+ - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
+ IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
+ your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
+ defaults.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
+ * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
+ below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
+ by the controller.
+ * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
+ in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
+ number.
+ - 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
+ - ovs-dpctl:
+ The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
+ - ovs-ofctl:
+ * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
+ - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
+ packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
+ incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
+ of an Open vSwitch deployment.
+ - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
+ - ovsdb-client:
+ * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
+ instead of being limited to a single table.
+ - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
+ hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
+ flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
+ conditions.
+ * The openvswitch-controller package has been removed, because too many
+ users assumed incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or
+ desirable part of an Open vSwitch deployment.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
+
+openvswitch (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
+ threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
+ logging.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
+ 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
+ * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
+ of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
+ added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
+ * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
+ other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
+ mark.
+ * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
+ - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
+ report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
+ - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
+ vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
+ - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
+ - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
+ through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
+ should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
+ - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
+ - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
+ - ovs-ofctl:
+ * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
+ - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
+ - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
+ - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
+ with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
+ whole seconds.)
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:03:42 -0700
+
+openvswitch (1.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
+ any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
+ the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
+ close to the Linux bridge.
+ - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
+ Open vSwitch features.
+ - Stable bond mode has been removed.
+ - The autopath action has been removed.
+ - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
+ protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
+ setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
+ 1.1 and later are now implemented.
+ * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
+ NXM fields.
+ * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
+ allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
+ in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
+ - ovs-dpctl:
+ * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
+ - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
+ flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
+ - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
+ - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
+ pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
+ will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
+ the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
+ - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
+ liveness.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:31:44 -0700
+
+openvswitch (1.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+ [ Open vSwitch team ]
+ * New upstream version
+ - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
+ rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
+ or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
+ of brctl).
+ - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
+ - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
+ 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.
+ - OpenFlow:
+ - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
+ the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
+ question in the FAQ for more details.
+ - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
+ 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.
+ - Tunneling:
+ - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
+ http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
+ - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
+ Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
+ - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
+ is no longer supported.
+ - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
+ - ovs-dpctl:
+ - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
+ if only one datapath exists.
+ - ovs-appctl:
+ - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
+ commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
+ - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
+ that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
+ - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
+ numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
+ port_construct() is called.
+ - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
+ datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
+ commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
+ get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
+ "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
+ - Backward-incompatible changes:
+ - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
+ syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
+ conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
+ retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
+ - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
+ with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
+
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 01 May 2013 14:28:21 -0700
openvswitch (1.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Open vSwitch team ]
* New upstream version
- - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are symmetric.
- If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for tunneling to work. Note
- this only applies to flow-based keys.
- Datapath:
- Support for ipv6 set action.
- SKB mark matching and setting.
- - support for Linux kernels up to 3.7
+ - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
- FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
- ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
- Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
- Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
+ - Tunneling:
+ - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
+ symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
+ tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
+ - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
+ - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
+ This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
+ - Tunnel header caching removed.
- ovs-ofctl:
- Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
program was not included in distribution packaging.)
- - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'. This
- feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
- ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
- - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
- - Tunnel header caching removed.
- The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
concerns.
- The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
data in ARP packets.
- -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:10:39 -0700
+ -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:23:19 -0700
openvswitch (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Open vSwitch team ]
* New upstream version
+ *** 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