Announce that ovs-vswitchd is now multi-threaded.

[cascardo/ovs.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
-post-v1.11.0
+v2.0.0 - 15 Oct 2013
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+    - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded.  Multiple
+      threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
+      logging.
     - OpenFlow:
       * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
         1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
       * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
         of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
-       added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
+        added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
+      * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
+        other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
+        mark.
+      * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
     - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
       report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
     - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
@@ -14,9 +21,18 @@ post-v1.11.0
     - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
       through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
       should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
+    - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
+    - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
+    - ovs-ofctl:
+      * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
+    - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
+    - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
+    - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
+      with millisecond resolution.  (Previous versions only reported
+      whole seconds.)
 
 
-v1.11.0 - xx xxx xxxx
+v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
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     - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
       any dpif implementation that supports wildcards).  Depending on
@@ -39,6 +55,7 @@ v1.11.0 - xx xxx xxxx
         in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
     - ovs-dpctl:
       * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
+      * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
     - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
       flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
     - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.