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
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40 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.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.
46 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
48 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
49 flow matching process.
50 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
51 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
52 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
53 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
54 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
55 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
57 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2)
58 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
60 v2.2.0 - Internal Release
62 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
63 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
65 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
67 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
68 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
69 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
70 poorly maintained and not widely used.
71 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
72 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL for details.
73 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
74 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
75 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
77 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
78 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
80 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
85 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
86 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
87 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
88 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
89 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
90 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
91 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
92 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
93 increased by using this feature.
94 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
95 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
96 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
97 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
98 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
99 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
100 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
102 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
103 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
104 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
105 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
106 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
107 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
108 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
109 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
110 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
111 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
112 both are upgraded at the same time.
113 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
114 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
115 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
118 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
119 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
120 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
122 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
123 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
125 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
126 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
127 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
129 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
131 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
132 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
133 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
134 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
135 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
136 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
138 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
139 instead of being limited to a single table.
140 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
141 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
142 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
144 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
148 ---------------------
149 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
150 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
153 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
154 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
155 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
156 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
158 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
159 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
161 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
162 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
163 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
164 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
165 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
167 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
168 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
169 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
170 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
171 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
172 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
173 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
174 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
175 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
176 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
177 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
179 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
180 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
181 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
182 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
183 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
184 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
188 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
189 ---------------------
190 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
191 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
192 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
193 close to the Linux bridge.
194 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
195 Open vSwitch features.
196 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
197 - The autopath action has been removed.
198 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
199 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
200 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
202 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
203 1.1 and later are now implemented.
204 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
206 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
207 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
208 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
210 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
211 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
212 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
213 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
214 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
215 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
216 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
217 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
218 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
219 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
222 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
223 ---------------------
224 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
225 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
226 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
228 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
229 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
230 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
231 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
232 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
234 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
235 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
236 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
237 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
239 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
240 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
242 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
243 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
244 question in the FAQ for more details.
245 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
246 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
247 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
248 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
249 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
250 from which the flow was removed.
252 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
253 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
254 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
255 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
256 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
257 is no longer supported.
258 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
259 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
260 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
262 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
263 if only one datapath exists.
265 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
266 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
267 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
268 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
269 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
270 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
271 port_construct() is called.
272 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
273 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
274 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
275 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
276 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
277 - Backward-incompatible changes:
278 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
279 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
280 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
281 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
282 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
283 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
284 - New "sample" action.
288 ------------------------
290 - Support for ipv6 set action.
291 - SKB mark matching and setting.
292 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
293 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
294 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
295 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
296 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
297 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
298 The default log patterns now include this information.
300 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
301 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
302 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
304 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
305 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
306 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
307 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
308 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
309 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
310 - Tunnel header caching removed.
312 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
313 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
314 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
315 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
316 for these ports for different purposes).
318 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
319 the "add-if" command.
320 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
321 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
322 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
323 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
324 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
325 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
326 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
327 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
328 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
329 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
331 - Bridge compatibility.
333 - The autopath action.
334 - Interface type "null".
335 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
336 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
337 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
338 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
343 ------------------------
344 *** Internal only release ***
345 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
346 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
347 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
348 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
350 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
351 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
353 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
354 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
356 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
357 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
359 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
360 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
362 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
363 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
364 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
365 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
366 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
367 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
368 flow table changes as they happen.
369 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
370 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
371 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
372 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
374 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
375 instead the local timezone, by default.
379 ------------------------
380 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
381 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
382 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
383 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
384 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
385 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
386 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
389 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
390 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
393 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
394 information using the new port description multipart messages.
396 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
397 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
398 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
399 - Tripled flow setup performance.
400 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
401 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
402 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
406 ------------------------
407 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
411 ------------------------
412 *** Internal only release ***
414 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
415 Instead they drop traffic.
416 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
417 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
418 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
419 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
422 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
423 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
424 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
426 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
427 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
428 receive asynchronously.
429 - New "fin_timeout" action.
430 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
431 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
432 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
433 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
434 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
435 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
437 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
438 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
439 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
441 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
442 to make it easier to remember.
443 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
444 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
445 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
446 for more information.
447 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
448 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
449 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
450 - ofproto-provider interface:
451 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
452 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
454 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
455 a timestamp with every update.
456 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
460 ------------------------
462 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
463 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
464 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
465 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
467 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
469 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
470 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
471 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
472 directories as defaults.
473 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
474 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
478 ------------------------
479 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
480 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
481 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
482 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
483 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
486 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
487 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
488 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
489 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
490 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
492 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
493 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
495 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
496 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
497 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
499 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
501 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
502 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
504 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
506 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
507 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
508 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
509 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
510 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
511 the bond mode which they want to use.
515 ------------------------
517 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
519 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
520 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
522 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
523 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
524 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
525 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
526 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
528 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
530 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
531 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
532 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
533 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
534 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
535 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
536 - Fragment handling extensions:
537 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
538 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
540 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
541 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
542 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
543 fragment handling policy.
544 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
545 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
546 standards-based implementations.
547 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
548 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
549 a denial of service attack.
550 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
551 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
552 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
553 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
556 ------------------------
557 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
559 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
560 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
562 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
564 - Implement table unique constraints.
565 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
567 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
568 counters for each port.
570 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
572 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
573 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
574 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
575 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
576 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
577 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
578 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
579 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
580 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
581 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
582 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
584 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
585 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
586 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
588 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
589 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
591 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
592 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
593 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
594 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
595 - Performance and scalability improvements
599 ------------------------
600 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
603 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
605 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
606 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
608 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
609 close to a stable ABI now.
610 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
611 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
613 - New active backup bonding mode.
614 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
615 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
617 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
619 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
620 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
621 port groups was dropped.
623 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
624 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
626 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
627 - New "find" command.
629 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
630 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
631 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
632 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
633 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
634 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
635 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
636 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
637 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
638 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
640 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
641 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
642 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
643 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
644 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
645 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
646 sending to an output port.
647 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
648 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
649 current implementation.
650 - New experimental "note" action.
651 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
652 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
654 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
655 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
656 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
657 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
658 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
659 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
661 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
662 controller individually specified.
663 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
664 - New versioning and checksum features.
665 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
666 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
667 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
668 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
670 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
671 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
672 - Dropped controller discovery support.
673 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
674 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
675 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
676 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
677 - Performance and scalability improvements
680 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
681 ------------------------
684 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
685 ------------------------
686 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
687 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
688 - Performance and scalability improvements
693 - New "patch" interface type
698 - Configuration database with remote management
701 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
702 - Performance and scalability improvements
705 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
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709 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
710 ---------------------
711 - Add support for sFlow(R)
712 - Make headers compatible with C++
715 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
716 ---------------------
717 - User-space forwarding engine
720 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
721 ---------------------
722 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
729 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
730 ---------------------
731 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
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