3 - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
4 using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
5 have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
7 * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
9 * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
10 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
11 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
12 * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
14 * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
15 - Support for matching/generating options as well as the OAM bit with
17 - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
18 - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
19 - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
20 - Added OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG
21 that allows controllers to have more precise control over OpenFlow1.4
22 asynchronous messages.
23 - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
24 targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
25 a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
26 - Dropped support for GRE64 tunnel.
27 - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
29 - Added --user option to all daemons
30 - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
31 and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
32 available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
37 - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
38 now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
39 example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
40 "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
41 pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
42 - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
43 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
44 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
45 - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
47 - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
48 allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
49 {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations. For details,
50 see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
51 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
52 ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands. Please check
53 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
54 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
55 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
57 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
58 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
59 release. The protocol is documented at
60 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
61 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
62 - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
63 OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
64 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
65 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
66 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
67 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
69 * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
70 mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
71 are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
72 in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
73 are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
74 atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
75 * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
76 * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
77 * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
78 * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
79 * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
80 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
81 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
82 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
83 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
85 * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
86 * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
87 fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
88 related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
89 - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
90 ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
91 use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
92 atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
93 of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
94 lookups simultaneously.
95 - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
96 mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
97 explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
98 keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
99 backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
100 are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
101 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
102 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
104 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
105 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
106 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
107 the same transaction that creates the row.
108 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
109 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
110 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
111 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
112 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
113 file for additional details.
114 - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
115 The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
116 Network Validation Library (ANVL).
117 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
118 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
119 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
120 containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
121 with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
122 - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
123 protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
124 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
125 - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
126 - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
127 console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
129 - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
130 - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
131 contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
133 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
134 numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
135 - Support for DPDK vHost.
136 - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
137 - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
138 openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
139 modules (vport-*.ko).
140 - Support for STT tunneling.
141 - ovs-sim: New developer tool for simulating multiple OVS instances.
142 See ovs-sim(1) for more information.
143 - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
144 how daemons will talk with syslog.
145 - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
146 logging message format for each destination.
150 ---------------------
151 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
153 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
154 flow matching process.
155 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
156 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
157 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
158 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
159 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
160 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
162 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
164 v2.2.0 - Internal Release
165 ---------------------
166 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
167 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
169 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
171 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
172 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
173 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
174 poorly maintained and not widely used.
175 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
176 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL.md for details.
177 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
178 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
179 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
181 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
182 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
183 - Added DPDK support.
184 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
188 ---------------------
189 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
190 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
191 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
192 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
193 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
194 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
195 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
196 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
197 increased by using this feature.
198 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
199 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
200 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
201 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
202 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
203 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
204 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
206 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
207 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
208 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
209 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
210 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
211 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
212 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
213 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
214 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
215 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
216 both are upgraded at the same time.
217 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
218 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
219 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
222 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
223 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
224 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
226 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
227 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
229 * The Open vSwitch software switch now supports OpenFlow groups.
230 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
231 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
232 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
234 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
236 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
237 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
238 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
239 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
240 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
241 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
243 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
244 instead of being limited to a single table.
245 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
246 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
247 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
249 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
253 ---------------------
254 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
255 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
258 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
259 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
260 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
261 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
263 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
264 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
266 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
267 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
268 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
269 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
270 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
272 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
273 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
274 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
275 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
276 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
277 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
278 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
279 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
280 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
281 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
282 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
284 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
285 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
286 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
287 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
288 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
289 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
293 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
294 ---------------------
295 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
296 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
297 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
298 close to the Linux bridge.
299 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
300 Open vSwitch features.
301 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
302 - The autopath action has been removed.
303 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
304 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
305 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
307 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
308 1.1 and later are now implemented.
309 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
311 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
312 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
313 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
315 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
316 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
317 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
318 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
319 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
320 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
321 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
322 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
323 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
324 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
327 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
328 ---------------------
329 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
330 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
331 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
333 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
334 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
335 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
336 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
337 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
339 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
340 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
341 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
342 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
344 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
345 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
347 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
348 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
349 question in the FAQ for more details.
350 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
351 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
352 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
353 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
354 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
355 from which the flow was removed.
357 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
358 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
359 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
360 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
361 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
362 is no longer supported.
363 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
364 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
365 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
367 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
368 if only one datapath exists.
370 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
371 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
372 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
373 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
374 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
375 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
376 port_construct() is called.
377 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
378 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
379 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
380 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
381 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
382 - Backward-incompatible changes:
383 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
384 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
385 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
386 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
387 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
388 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
389 - New "sample" action.
393 ------------------------
395 - Support for ipv6 set action.
396 - SKB mark matching and setting.
397 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
398 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
399 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
400 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
401 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
402 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
403 The default log patterns now include this information.
405 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
406 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
407 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
409 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
410 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
411 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
412 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
413 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
414 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
415 - Tunnel header caching removed.
417 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
418 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
419 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
420 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
421 for these ports for different purposes).
423 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
424 the "add-if" command.
425 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
426 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
427 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
428 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
429 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
430 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
431 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
432 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
433 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
434 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
436 - Bridge compatibility.
438 - The autopath action.
439 - Interface type "null".
440 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
441 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
442 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
443 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
448 ------------------------
449 *** Internal only release ***
450 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
451 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
452 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
453 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
455 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
456 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
458 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
459 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
461 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
462 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
464 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
465 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
467 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
468 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
469 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
470 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
471 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
472 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
473 flow table changes as they happen.
474 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
475 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
476 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
477 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
479 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
480 instead the local timezone, by default.
484 ------------------------
485 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
486 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
487 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
488 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
489 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
490 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
491 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
494 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
495 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
498 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
499 information using the new port description multipart messages.
501 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
502 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
503 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
504 - Tripled flow setup performance.
505 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
506 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
507 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
511 ------------------------
512 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
516 ------------------------
517 *** Internal only release ***
519 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
520 Instead they drop traffic.
521 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
522 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
523 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
524 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
527 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
528 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
529 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
531 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
532 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
533 receive asynchronously.
534 - New "fin_timeout" action.
535 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
536 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
537 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
538 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
539 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
540 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
542 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
543 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
544 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
546 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
547 to make it easier to remember.
548 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
549 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
550 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
551 for more information.
552 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
553 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
554 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
555 - ofproto-provider interface:
556 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
557 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
559 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
560 a timestamp with every update.
561 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
565 ------------------------
567 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
568 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
569 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
570 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
572 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
574 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
575 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
576 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
577 directories as defaults.
578 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
579 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
583 ------------------------
584 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
585 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
586 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
587 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
588 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
591 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
592 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
593 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
594 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
595 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
597 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
598 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
600 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
601 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
602 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
604 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
606 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
607 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
609 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
611 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
612 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
613 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
614 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
615 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
616 the bond mode which they want to use.
620 ------------------------
622 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
624 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
625 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
627 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
628 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
629 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
630 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
631 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
633 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
635 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
636 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
637 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
638 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
639 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
640 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
641 - Fragment handling extensions:
642 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
643 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
645 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
646 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
647 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
648 fragment handling policy.
649 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
650 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
651 standards-based implementations.
652 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
653 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
654 a denial of service attack.
655 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
656 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
657 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
658 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
661 ------------------------
662 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
664 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
665 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
667 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
669 - Implement table unique constraints.
670 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
672 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
673 counters for each port.
675 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
677 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
678 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
679 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
680 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
681 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
682 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
683 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
684 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
685 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
686 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
687 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
689 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
690 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
691 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
693 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
694 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
696 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
697 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
698 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
699 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
700 - Performance and scalability improvements
704 ------------------------
705 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
708 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
710 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
711 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
713 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
714 close to a stable ABI now.
715 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
716 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
718 - New active backup bonding mode.
719 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
720 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
722 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
724 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
725 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
726 port groups was dropped.
728 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
729 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
731 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
732 - New "find" command.
734 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
735 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
736 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
737 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
738 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
739 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
740 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
741 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
742 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
743 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
745 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
746 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
747 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
748 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
749 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
750 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
751 sending to an output port.
752 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
753 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
754 current implementation.
755 - New experimental "note" action.
756 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
757 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
759 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
760 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
761 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
762 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
763 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
764 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
766 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
767 controller individually specified.
768 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
769 - New versioning and checksum features.
770 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
771 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
772 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
773 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
775 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
776 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
777 - Dropped controller discovery support.
778 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
779 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
780 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
781 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
782 - Performance and scalability improvements
785 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
786 ------------------------
789 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
790 ------------------------
791 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
792 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
793 - Performance and scalability improvements
798 - New "patch" interface type
803 - Configuration database with remote management
806 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
807 - Performance and scalability improvements
810 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
811 ---------------------
814 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
815 ---------------------
816 - Add support for sFlow(R)
817 - Make headers compatible with C++
820 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
821 ---------------------
822 - User-space forwarding engine
825 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
826 ---------------------
827 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
834 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
835 ---------------------
836 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
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