3 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
4 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
6 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
7 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
8 release. The protocol is documented at
9 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
10 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
11 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
12 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
13 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
14 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
16 * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) extended registers are now supported.
17 * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) Copy-Field action is now supported.
18 * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) masked Set-Field action is now supported.
19 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
20 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
21 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
22 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
24 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
25 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
27 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
28 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
29 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
30 the same transaction that creates the row.
31 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
32 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
33 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
34 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
35 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
36 file for additional details.
37 - Experimental support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
38 (IEEE 802.1D-2004). More conformance and interoperability testing is
39 still needed, so this should not be enabled on production environments.
40 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
41 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
42 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
48 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
50 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
51 flow matching process.
52 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
53 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
54 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
55 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
56 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
57 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
59 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2)
60 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
62 v2.2.0 - Internal Release
64 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
65 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
67 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
69 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
70 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
71 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
72 poorly maintained and not widely used.
73 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
74 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL.md for details.
75 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
76 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
77 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
79 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
80 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
82 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
87 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
88 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
89 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
90 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
91 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
92 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
93 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
94 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
95 increased by using this feature.
96 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
97 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
98 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
99 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
100 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
101 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
102 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
104 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
105 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
106 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
107 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
108 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
109 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
110 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
111 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
112 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
113 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
114 both are upgraded at the same time.
115 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
116 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
117 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
120 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
121 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
122 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
124 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
125 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
127 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
128 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
129 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
131 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
133 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
134 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
135 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
136 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
137 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
138 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
140 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
141 instead of being limited to a single table.
142 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
143 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
144 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
146 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
150 ---------------------
151 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
152 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
155 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
156 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
157 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
158 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
160 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
161 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
163 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
164 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
165 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
166 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
167 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
169 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
170 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
171 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
172 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
173 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
174 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
175 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
176 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
177 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
178 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
179 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
181 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
182 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
183 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
184 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
185 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
186 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
190 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
191 ---------------------
192 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
193 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
194 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
195 close to the Linux bridge.
196 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
197 Open vSwitch features.
198 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
199 - The autopath action has been removed.
200 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
201 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
202 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
204 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
205 1.1 and later are now implemented.
206 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
208 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
209 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
210 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
212 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
213 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
214 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
215 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
216 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
217 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
218 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
219 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
220 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
221 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
224 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
225 ---------------------
226 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
227 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
228 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
230 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
231 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
232 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
233 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
234 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
236 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
237 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
238 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
239 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
241 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
242 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
244 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
245 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
246 question in the FAQ for more details.
247 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
248 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
249 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
250 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
251 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
252 from which the flow was removed.
254 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
255 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
256 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
257 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
258 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
259 is no longer supported.
260 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
261 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
262 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
264 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
265 if only one datapath exists.
267 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
268 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
269 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
270 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
271 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
272 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
273 port_construct() is called.
274 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
275 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
276 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
277 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
278 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
279 - Backward-incompatible changes:
280 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
281 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
282 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
283 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
284 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
285 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
286 - New "sample" action.
290 ------------------------
292 - Support for ipv6 set action.
293 - SKB mark matching and setting.
294 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
295 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
296 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
297 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
298 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
299 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
300 The default log patterns now include this information.
302 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
303 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
304 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
306 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
307 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
308 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
309 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
310 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
311 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
312 - Tunnel header caching removed.
314 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
315 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
316 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
317 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
318 for these ports for different purposes).
320 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
321 the "add-if" command.
322 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
323 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
324 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
325 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
326 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
327 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
328 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
329 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
330 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
331 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
333 - Bridge compatibility.
335 - The autopath action.
336 - Interface type "null".
337 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
338 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
339 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
340 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
345 ------------------------
346 *** Internal only release ***
347 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
348 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
349 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
350 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
352 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
353 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
355 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
356 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
358 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
359 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
361 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
362 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
364 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
365 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
366 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
367 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
368 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
369 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
370 flow table changes as they happen.
371 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
372 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
373 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
374 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
376 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
377 instead the local timezone, by default.
381 ------------------------
382 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
383 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
384 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
385 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
386 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
387 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
388 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
391 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
392 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
395 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
396 information using the new port description multipart messages.
398 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
399 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
400 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
401 - Tripled flow setup performance.
402 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
403 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
404 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
408 ------------------------
409 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
413 ------------------------
414 *** Internal only release ***
416 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
417 Instead they drop traffic.
418 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
419 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
420 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
421 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
424 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
425 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
426 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
428 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
429 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
430 receive asynchronously.
431 - New "fin_timeout" action.
432 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
433 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
434 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
435 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
436 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
437 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
439 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
440 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
441 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
443 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
444 to make it easier to remember.
445 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
446 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
447 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
448 for more information.
449 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
450 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
451 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
452 - ofproto-provider interface:
453 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
454 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
456 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
457 a timestamp with every update.
458 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
462 ------------------------
464 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
465 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
466 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
467 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
469 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
471 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
472 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
473 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
474 directories as defaults.
475 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
476 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
480 ------------------------
481 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
482 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
483 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
484 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
485 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
488 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
489 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
490 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
491 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
492 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
494 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
495 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
497 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
498 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
499 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
501 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
503 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
504 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
506 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
508 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
509 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
510 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
511 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
512 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
513 the bond mode which they want to use.
517 ------------------------
519 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
521 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
522 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
524 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
525 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
526 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
527 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
528 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
530 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
532 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
533 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
534 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
535 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
536 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
537 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
538 - Fragment handling extensions:
539 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
540 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
542 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
543 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
544 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
545 fragment handling policy.
546 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
547 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
548 standards-based implementations.
549 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
550 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
551 a denial of service attack.
552 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
553 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
554 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
555 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
558 ------------------------
559 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
561 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
562 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
564 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
566 - Implement table unique constraints.
567 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
569 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
570 counters for each port.
572 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
574 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
575 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
576 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
577 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
578 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
579 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
580 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
581 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
582 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
583 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
584 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
586 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
587 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
588 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
590 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
591 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
593 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
594 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
595 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
596 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
597 - Performance and scalability improvements
601 ------------------------
602 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
605 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
607 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
608 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
610 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
611 close to a stable ABI now.
612 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
613 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
615 - New active backup bonding mode.
616 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
617 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
619 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
621 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
622 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
623 port groups was dropped.
625 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
626 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
628 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
629 - New "find" command.
631 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
632 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
633 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
634 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
635 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
636 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
637 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
638 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
639 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
640 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
642 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
643 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
644 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
645 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
646 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
647 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
648 sending to an output port.
649 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
650 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
651 current implementation.
652 - New experimental "note" action.
653 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
654 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
656 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
657 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
658 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
659 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
660 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
661 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
663 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
664 controller individually specified.
665 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
666 - New versioning and checksum features.
667 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
668 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
669 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
670 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
672 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
673 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
674 - Dropped controller discovery support.
675 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
676 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
677 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
678 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
679 - Performance and scalability improvements
682 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
683 ------------------------
686 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
687 ------------------------
688 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
689 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
690 - Performance and scalability improvements
695 - New "patch" interface type
700 - Configuration database with remote management
703 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
704 - Performance and scalability improvements
707 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
708 ---------------------
711 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
712 ---------------------
713 - Add support for sFlow(R)
714 - Make headers compatible with C++
717 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
718 ---------------------
719 - User-space forwarding engine
722 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
723 ---------------------
724 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
731 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
732 ---------------------
733 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
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