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2c7ea589 JP |
1 | Post-v2.3.0 |
2 | --------------------- | |
35f48b8b BP |
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 | |
5 | is deleted. | |
c1fc1411 JG |
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 | |
a413195e | 10 | - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics. |
fceef209 DDP |
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. | |
79fe0f46 BP |
15 | - OpenFlow: |
16 | * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) extended registers are now supported. | |
73178f20 | 17 | * OpenFlow 1.5 (draft) Copy-Field action is now supported. |
3c4e10fb | 18 | * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only). |
1b0ee636 | 19 | * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets. |
2e34a6a3 SS |
20 | * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit |
21 | is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group" | |
22 | action. | |
4a1f9610 | 23 | - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because |
9ff33ca7 BP |
24 | MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable |
25 | it in OpenSSL. | |
09e25603 TW |
26 | - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on |
27 | "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details. | |
0bc1b46a BP |
28 | - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users |
29 | who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not | |
30 | a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments. | |
cccf7e9d TG |
31 | - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been |
32 | added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL | |
33 | file for additional details. | |
3b2a7e92 JR |
34 | - Experimental support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol |
35 | (IEEE 802.1D-2004). More conformance and interoperability testing is | |
36 | still needed, so this should not be enabled on production environments. | |
2f9dd77f | 37 | - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface. |
2c7ea589 JP |
38 | |
39 | ||
e13440fc | 40 | v2.3.0 - 14 Aug 2014 |
c5cf1059 | 41 | --------------------- |
6dc53744 BP |
42 | - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in |
43 | ovs-vswitchd. | |
69d6040e JR |
44 | - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the |
45 | flow matching process. | |
46 | - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field | |
47 | matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the | |
48 | number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath | |
49 | exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming | |
50 | packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an | |
51 | older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the | |
52 | new userspace. | |
dc2b70ba | 53 | - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2) |
0877a018 | 54 | - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64) |
c5cf1059 | 55 | |
012c3a52 | 56 | v2.2.0 - Internal Release |
bff46ebb | 57 | --------------------- |
1839c356 FL |
58 | - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it |
59 | should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are | |
60 | configured properly. | |
c3ccfe98 AZ |
61 | - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or |
62 | bridge. | |
9500f505 TG |
63 | - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error |
64 | column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'. | |
7868fbc6 BP |
65 | - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was |
66 | poorly maintained and not widely used. | |
e3c7ed29 BP |
67 | - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow |
68 | controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL for details. | |
f51e8ccb | 69 | - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows. |
0b114fa0 GS |
70 | - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its |
71 | log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen' | |
72 | instead. | |
e2f3178f | 73 | - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses |
cb25142c | 74 | tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN. |
8a9562d2 | 75 | - Added DPDK support. |
a5ed8fe3 | 76 | - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python |
f51e8ccb | 77 | |
bff46ebb | 78 | |
a3aabcd2 | 79 | v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014 |
b366c1f4 | 80 | --------------------- |
13751fd8 JR |
81 | - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns |
82 | "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet | |
83 | header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix | |
84 | tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than | |
85 | necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath | |
86 | flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix | |
87 | tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches | |
88 | and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be | |
89 | increased by using this feature. | |
90 | * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled | |
91 | are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or | |
92 | aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'. | |
93 | (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the | |
94 | tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.) | |
95 | * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any | |
96 | one flow table. Currently this limit is 3. | |
97 | * Examples: | |
98 | $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \ | |
99 | --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0 | |
100 | $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \ | |
101 | --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1 | |
102 | $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src | |
103 | $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[] | |
bcb8bde4 JR |
104 | - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This |
105 | has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10 | |
106 | or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel | |
107 | module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules | |
108 | both are upgraded at the same time. | |
36359150 JP |
109 | - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to |
110 | IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating | |
111 | your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the | |
112 | defaults. | |
7fdb60a7 SH |
113 | - OpenFlow: |
114 | * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported. | |
484c8355 BP |
115 | * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and |
116 | below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment | |
117 | by the controller. | |
4abb8608 BP |
118 | * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column |
119 | in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port | |
120 | number. | |
a5ae88ff AA |
121 | - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot |
122 | diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time. | |
54af97ad | 123 | - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11 |
847108dc AZ |
124 | - ovs-dpctl: |
125 | The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats. | |
60e46251 BP |
126 | - ovs-ofctl: |
127 | * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files. | |
1d5aaa61 BP |
128 | - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer |
129 | packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed | |
130 | incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part | |
131 | of an Open vSwitch deployment. | |
afc9f547 | 132 | - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink. |
4227b221 BP |
133 | - ovsdb-client: |
134 | * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database, | |
135 | instead of being limited to a single table. | |
e79a6c83 EJ |
136 | - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a |
137 | hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000 | |
138 | flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network | |
139 | conditions. | |
e731d71b | 140 | - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications. |
b366c1f4 JP |
141 | |
142 | ||
2fdb1879 | 143 | v2.0.0 - 15 Oct 2013 |
9f31efc7 | 144 | --------------------- |
d27705ea JP |
145 | - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple |
146 | threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous | |
147 | logging. | |
0ad90c84 | 148 | - OpenFlow: |
75fa58f8 BP |
149 | * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and |
150 | 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10). | |
7395c052 NZ |
151 | * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This |
152 | does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch | |
153 | software switch. | |
154 | * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This | |
155 | does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch | |
156 | software switch. | |
0ad90c84 JR |
157 | * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address |
158 | of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly | |
e0eeeca5 | 159 | added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options. |
ac923e91 JG |
160 | * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with |
161 | other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb | |
162 | mark. | |
fe8a1798 | 163 | * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports |
ea401d9a NM |
164 | - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to |
165 | report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex. | |
81a114e5 BP |
166 | - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open |
167 | vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details. | |
380f49c4 | 168 | - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table. |
fb6de52c GS |
169 | - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options |
170 | through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name | |
171 | should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key"). | |
fef5244f | 172 | - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers. |
9b764edf | 173 | - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10 |
1ac0e975 BP |
174 | - ovs-ofctl: |
175 | * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file. | |
7395c052 | 176 | * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. |
978427a5 | 177 | - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter. |
37418c86 | 178 | - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32. |
7c018033 BP |
179 | - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported |
180 | with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported | |
181 | whole seconds.) | |
9f31efc7 JP |
182 | |
183 | ||
03c8f0b7 | 184 | v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013 |
d224e350 | 185 | --------------------- |
d445cc16 JP |
186 | - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and |
187 | any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on | |
188 | the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are | |
189 | close to the Linux bridge. | |
eeecce05 BP |
190 | - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced |
191 | Open vSwitch features. | |
df53d41c | 192 | - Stable bond mode has been removed. |
1bda9b9e | 193 | - The autopath action has been removed. |
a6ae068b LJ |
194 | - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel |
195 | protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow | |
196 | setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping. | |
b676167a | 197 | - OpenFlow: |
0f3f3c3d SH |
198 | * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow |
199 | 1.1 and later are now implemented. | |
bd85dac1 AZ |
200 | * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from |
201 | NXM fields. | |
a7b07d4c BP |
202 | * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This |
203 | allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the | |
204 | in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.) | |
186afbfe BP |
205 | - ovs-dpctl: |
206 | * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow". | |
041e7168 | 207 | * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity. |
bcd2633a JP |
208 | - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve |
209 | flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table. | |
ca03aae0 | 210 | - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter. |
f9ee9dcb GS |
211 | - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to |
212 | pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole | |
213 | will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents | |
214 | the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative. | |
90967e95 EJ |
215 | - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface |
216 | liveness. | |
d224e350 | 217 | |
b82b19e9 | 218 | v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013 |
4191f435 | 219 | --------------------- |
685e46da BP |
220 | - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that |
221 | rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x | |
222 | or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead | |
223 | of brctl). | |
c4069512 | 224 | - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable. |
989fd548 JP |
225 | - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued |
226 | separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be | |
227 | possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to | |
228 | prevent new flows from being processed on other ports. | |
43d18dc1 BP |
229 | - ovs-vsctl: |
230 | * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever, | |
231 | causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl | |
232 | only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change | |
233 | means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs | |
234 | in ovs-vsctl calls. | |
235 | * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option. | |
236 | Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details. | |
e6024057 | 237 | - OpenFlow: |
d6123831 JP |
238 | - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See |
239 | the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?" | |
240 | question in the FAQ for more details. | |
e6024057 JP |
241 | - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the |
242 | value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table. | |
243 | - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the | |
244 | "ofport_request" column in the Interface table. | |
c9accf5b BP |
245 | - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID |
246 | from which the flow was removed. | |
3c23e920 JP |
247 | - Tunneling: |
248 | - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here: | |
238bc978 | 249 | http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03). |
3c23e920 JP |
250 | - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with |
251 | Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later. | |
252 | - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit) | |
253 | is no longer supported. | |
254 | - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported. | |
ccd989e0 JG |
255 | - CAPWAP tunneling support removed. |
256 | - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported. | |
e6024057 JP |
257 | - ovs-dpctl: |
258 | - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument | |
259 | if only one datapath exists. | |
260 | - ovs-appctl: | |
261 | - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit" | |
262 | commands available allow control over logging rate limits. | |
263 | - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command | |
264 | that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands. | |
e6024057 JP |
265 | - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port |
266 | numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when | |
267 | port_construct() is called. | |
268 | - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common | |
269 | datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl | |
270 | commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To | |
271 | get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new | |
272 | "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands. | |
bedde04c GS |
273 | - Backward-incompatible changes: |
274 | - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow | |
275 | syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a | |
276 | conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to | |
277 | retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning. | |
3c23e920 JP |
278 | - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work |
279 | with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later. | |
29089a54 | 280 | - New "sample" action. |
f07ee64c | 281 | |
e5f77cc3 | 282 | |
fdfe872d JP |
283 | v1.9.0 - 26 Feb 2013 |
284 | ------------------------ | |
72e8bf28 AA |
285 | - Datapath: |
286 | - Support for ipv6 set action. | |
287 | - SKB mark matching and setting. | |
64807dfb | 288 | - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8 |
f6eb6b20 GL |
289 | - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from |
290 | Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri. | |
b592e726 | 291 | - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information. |
781dee08 BP |
292 | - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a |
293 | cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message. | |
294 | The default log patterns now include this information. | |
32455024 | 295 | - OpenFlow: |
e878338b SH |
296 | - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL |
297 | fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label. | |
4cceacb9 | 298 | - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow. |
3c23e920 JP |
299 | - Tunneling: |
300 | - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are | |
301 | symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for | |
302 | tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys. | |
303 | - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key. | |
304 | - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'. | |
305 | This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon. | |
306 | - Tunnel header caching removed. | |
c6100d92 BP |
307 | - ovs-ofctl: |
308 | - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords | |
309 | that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is | |
310 | also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility | |
311 | with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers | |
312 | for these ports for different purposes). | |
2562714a | 313 | - ovs-dpctl: |
4b3b8d8f JP |
314 | - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in |
315 | the "add-if" command. | |
2562714a BP |
316 | - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with |
317 | the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some | |
318 | alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims | |
319 | are true, but because we do not know of any users for this | |
320 | feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi | |
321 | program was not included in distribution packaging.) | |
341c4e59 BP |
322 | - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This |
323 | was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight. | |
fd38af85 BP |
324 | - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no |
325 | earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with | |
326 | concerns. | |
a8643e44 | 327 | - Bridge compatibility. |
fd38af85 BP |
328 | - Stable bond mode. |
329 | - The autopath action. | |
330 | - Interface type "null". | |
331 | - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above). | |
85340733 | 332 | - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery. |
1280bf0e | 333 | - CAPWAP tunnel support. |
f07ee64c MM |
334 | - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the |
335 | data in ARP packets. | |
945cad7f | 336 | |
79f827fa | 337 | |
fdfe872d | 338 | v1.8.0 - 26 Feb 2013 |
c8d5d22c | 339 | ------------------------ |
fdfe872d | 340 | *** Internal only release *** |
c483d489 | 341 | - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions! |
f25d0cf3 BP |
342 | - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action |
343 | Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in | |
344 | behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers. | |
2d8bdd8f AA |
345 | - ovs-l3ping: |
346 | - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open | |
347 | vSwitches and detect connectivity issues. | |
5498c01f | 348 | - ovs-ofctl: |
bdcc5925 | 349 | - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command. |
5498c01f | 350 | - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags. |
c08201d6 | 351 | - OpenFlow: |
ff0b06ee BP |
352 | - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in |
353 | IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks | |
c08201d6 BP |
354 | were allowed.) |
355 | - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only | |
356 | the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually | |
357 | masked.) | |
969fc56c | 358 | - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1. |
0414d158 BP |
359 | - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or |
360 | queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all | |
361 | ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous | |
362 | versions generally reported an empty set of results.) | |
2b07c8b1 BP |
363 | - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of |
364 | flow table changes as they happen. | |
c93f9a78 EJ |
365 | - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is |
366 | false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page. | |
38f7147c EJ |
367 | - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously |
368 | sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and | |
369 | VMware. | |
969e46a2 AS |
370 | - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC, |
371 | instead the local timezone, by default. | |
c8d5d22c JP |
372 | |
373 | ||
3b4ab170 | 374 | v1.7.0 - 30 Jul 2012 |
dd1ba5b3 | 375 | ------------------------ |
9b80f761 CW |
376 | - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now |
377 | openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko. | |
e9358af6 | 378 | - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8. |
22dd5cec | 379 | - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller |
f125905c MM |
380 | connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of |
381 | Internetwork Control (0xc0). | |
3967a833 MM |
382 | - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an |
383 | interface. | |
47284b1f AA |
384 | - OpenFlow: |
385 | - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows. | |
2be393ed JP |
386 | - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC) |
387 | multipart messages. | |
388 | - ovs-ofctl: | |
389 | - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port | |
390 | information using the new port description multipart messages. | |
8d25d9a2 AA |
391 | - ovs-test: |
392 | - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client. | |
393 | - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports. | |
7393104d | 394 | - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows. |
22dd5cec | 395 | - Tripled flow setup performance. |
a5f607bc BP |
396 | - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl |
397 | has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with | |
398 | coverage counter values, instead of logging them. | |
dd1ba5b3 JP |
399 | |
400 | ||
9d564cb2 | 401 | v1.6.1 - 25 Jun 2012 |
d0a8c2e0 | 402 | ------------------------ |
9d564cb2 JP |
403 | - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages. |
404 | ||
405 | ||
406 | v1.6.0 - 24 Feb 2012 | |
407 | ------------------------ | |
408 | *** Internal only release *** | |
4df08875 | 409 | - bonding |
bdebeece EJ |
410 | - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail. |
411 | Instead they drop traffic. | |
4df08875 EJ |
412 | - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect |
413 | unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are | |
414 | documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS). | |
bc1b010c EJ |
415 | - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval |
416 | to zero. | |
73f33563 BP |
417 | - OpenFlow: |
418 | - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports. | |
419 | See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information. | |
80d5aefd BP |
420 | - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard |
421 | timeouts. | |
422 | - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows | |
423 | controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they | |
424 | receive asynchronously. | |
0e553d9c BP |
425 | - New "fin_timeout" action. |
426 | - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action. | |
a7349929 BP |
427 | - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features |
428 | over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER. | |
2c999774 BP |
429 | - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue |
430 | (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that | |
431 | queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions. | |
2a3e30b2 BP |
432 | - Logging: |
433 | - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for | |
434 | all the daemons. An example of the default format is | |
435 | 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default | |
436 | format as before. | |
437 | - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified, | |
438 | to make it easier to remember. | |
254750ce BP |
439 | - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow |
440 | table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon | |
441 | overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5) | |
442 | for more information. | |
9886b662 BP |
443 | - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to |
444 | false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all | |
445 | asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior. | |
1745cd08 BP |
446 | - ofproto-provider interface: |
447 | - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations | |
448 | should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used(). | |
8f46c9bb BP |
449 | - ovsdb-client: |
450 | - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print | |
451 | a timestamp with every update. | |
a7aa2d3c | 452 | - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority. |
d0a8c2e0 JP |
453 | |
454 | ||
a6492d91 | 455 | v1.5.0 - 01 Jun 2012 |
e68bfcfc | 456 | ------------------------ |
e729e793 JP |
457 | - OpenFlow: |
458 | - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows | |
459 | based on flow cookie when using NXM. | |
b4b7f827 | 460 | - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format. |
f0fd1a17 | 461 | - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action. |
1eb85ef5 EJ |
462 | - ovs-ofctl: |
463 | - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands. | |
2a9537e2 BP |
464 | - ovs-vsctl: |
465 | - The "find" command supports new set relational operators | |
466 | {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}. | |
e4476f74 BP |
467 | - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation |
468 | directories as defaults. | |
d1add61d JP |
469 | - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds |
470 | to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable. | |
e68bfcfc JP |
471 | |
472 | ||
ef13dc11 | 473 | v1.4.0 - 30 Jan 2012 |
b6a9a95b | 474 | ------------------------ |
50bf17cd | 475 | - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3. |
52a90c29 BP |
476 | - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers |
477 | in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When | |
478 | broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will | |
479 | delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more | |
480 | information. | |
fa8223b7 JP |
481 | - OpenFlow: |
482 | - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM. | |
530180fd | 483 | - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM. |
a61680c6 | 484 | - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM. |
530180fd | 485 | - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4. |
a61680c6 | 486 | - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4. |
9d24de3b | 487 | - ovs-vswitchd: |
c06bba01 JP |
488 | - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will |
489 | now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their | |
490 | actions. | |
9d24de3b | 491 | - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors. |
733adf2a LG |
492 | - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent |
493 | device instead of having to be told explicitly. | |
f0a3aa2e AA |
494 | - ovs-appctl: |
495 | - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table. | |
0be6140a AA |
496 | - ovs-test: |
497 | - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance | |
498 | and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or | |
499 | Xen packages. | |
0fb42626 | 500 | - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts. |
4c57c3bc EJ |
501 | - bonding: |
502 | - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb | |
503 | to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them | |
504 | (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting | |
505 | users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or | |
506 | configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting | |
507 | the bond mode which they want to use. | |
b6a9a95b | 508 | |
0be6140a | 509 | |
ddc29387 | 510 | v1.3.0 - 09 Dec 2011 |
3e60856b | 511 | ------------------------ |
f694937d EJ |
512 | - OpenFlow: |
513 | - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept | |
514 | NXM fields. | |
75a75043 | 515 | - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning. |
d2c0fed9 | 516 | - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five. |
d5e1e5ed | 517 | - ovs-appctl: |
ae75dae3 JP |
518 | - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon. |
519 | - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed | |
520 | information about all interfaces with CFM enabled. | |
5dab8ece JP |
521 | - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed |
522 | information about all ports with LACP enabled. | |
10500639 BP |
523 | - ovs-dpctl: |
524 | - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration. | |
29901626 BP |
525 | - ovs-vswitchd: |
526 | - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead | |
527 | of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the | |
528 | new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional | |
529 | tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the | |
530 | switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127. | |
21f7563c | 531 | - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP). |
7257b535 BP |
532 | - Fragment handling extensions: |
533 | - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4 | |
534 | fields are made available for matching in fragments with | |
535 | offset 0. | |
536 | - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable | |
537 | via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl). | |
538 | - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set | |
539 | fragment handling policy. | |
2f4bc10d BP |
540 | - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key. |
541 | By default it remains compatible with the old version and other | |
c87112ca | 542 | standards-based implementations. |
17411ecf JG |
543 | - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports |
544 | to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting | |
545 | a denial of service attack. | |
ecac4ebf BP |
546 | - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode" |
547 | parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access", | |
548 | "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged". | |
023e1e0a | 549 | - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead. |
3e60856b | 550 | |
5e9c5b61 | 551 | v1.2.0 - 03 Aug 2011 |
b78f6b77 | 552 | ------------------------ |
1a142ced JP |
553 | - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware |
554 | switching ASICs. | |
555 | - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0. | |
556 | - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0. | |
557 | - OpenFlow: | |
558 | - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions. | |
559 | - Database: | |
560 | - Implement table unique constraints. | |
561 | - Support cooperative locking between callers. | |
562 | - ovs-dpctl: | |
563 | - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte | |
564 | counters for each port. | |
c4ea79bf BP |
565 | - ovs-ofctl: |
566 | - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows". | |
9b1735a7 BP |
567 | - ovs-vsctl: |
568 | - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration. | |
1a142ced | 569 | - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions. |
2b01925c | 570 | - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs. |
045b2e5c BP |
571 | - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the |
572 | tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please | |
573 | use ovs-vswitchd instead. | |
1a142ced JP |
574 | - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance. |
575 | - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility | |
576 | "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously, | |
577 | "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at | |
578 | level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged | |
579 | at "emer" level. | |
8a2d6596 BP |
580 | - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and |
581 | --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old | |
582 | names will be removed after the next release, so please update | |
583 | your scripts. | |
22bcc0e7 JG |
584 | - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and |
585 | datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories. | |
b78f6b77 BP |
586 | - Feature removals: |
587 | - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension. | |
0be6140a | 588 | Please use the extensible match extensions instead. |
93b8df38 EJ |
589 | - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort |
590 | to simplify 802.1ag configuration. | |
1a142ced JP |
591 | - Performance and scalability improvements |
592 | - Bug fixes | |
b78f6b77 | 593 | |
d4da3acc JP |
594 | v1.1.0 - 05 Apr 2011 |
595 | ------------------------ | |
596 | - Ability to define policies over IPv6 | |
597 | - LACP | |
598 | - 802.1ag CCM | |
599 | - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow | |
600 | - QoS: | |
601 | - Support for HFSC qdisc. | |
602 | - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured. | |
603 | - Kernel: | |
604 | - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be | |
605 | close to a stable ABI now. | |
606 | - "Port group" concept has been dropped. | |
607 | - GRE over IPSEC tunnels | |
608 | - Bonding: | |
609 | - New active backup bonding mode. | |
610 | - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled. | |
611 | - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also. | |
612 | - miimon support. | |
613 | - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables | |
614 | - ovs-dpctl: | |
615 | - "show" command now prints full vport configuration. | |
616 | - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for | |
617 | port groups was dropped. | |
618 | - ovs-vsctl: | |
619 | - New commands for working with the new Managers table. | |
620 | - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns | |
621 | option. | |
622 | - "get" command now accepts new --id option. | |
623 | - New "find" command. | |
624 | - ovs-ofctl: | |
625 | - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats. | |
626 | - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows". | |
627 | - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files. | |
628 | - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM. | |
629 | - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity. | |
630 | - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful. | |
631 | - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features. | |
632 | - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN | |
633 | bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and | |
634 | disabling a workaround for these driver bugs. | |
635 | - OpenFlow support: | |
35d25d44 | 636 | - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics. |
d4da3acc JP |
637 | - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM. |
638 | - New "multipath" experimental action extension. | |
639 | - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM. | |
640 | - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes. | |
641 | - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually | |
642 | sending to an output port. | |
643 | - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of | |
644 | separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the | |
645 | current implementation. | |
646 | - New experimental "note" action. | |
647 | - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities | |
648 | to ease debugging complex flow tables. | |
649 | - Database: | |
650 | - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram. | |
651 | - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables, | |
652 | unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically. | |
653 | - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by | |
654 | ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server. | |
655 | - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS | |
656 | integrators. | |
657 | - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its | |
658 | controller individually specified. | |
659 | - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller. | |
660 | - New versioning and checksum features. | |
661 | - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table | |
662 | for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the | |
663 | Open_vSwitch table has been removed. | |
664 | - Many "name" columns are now immutable. | |
665 | - Feature removals: | |
666 | - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100. | |
667 | - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18. | |
668 | - Dropped controller discovery support. | |
669 | - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used. | |
670 | Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent. | |
671 | - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at | |
672 | http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper). | |
673 | - Performance and scalability improvements | |
674 | - Bug fixes | |
675 | ||
d5905136 JP |
676 | v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010 |
677 | ------------------------ | |
678 | - Bug fixes | |
679 | ||
fdf20378 JP |
680 | v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010 |
681 | ------------------------ | |
476d56f5 JP |
682 | - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality |
683 | - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support) | |
684 | - Performance and scalability improvements | |
685 | - Bug fixes | |
686 | ||
b9b0865a JP |
687 | v1.0.1 - 31 May 2010 |
688 | -------------------- | |
689 | - New "patch" interface type | |
690 | - Bug fixes | |
691 | ||
7c284ac4 JP |
692 | v1.0.0 - 15 May 2010 |
693 | -------------------- | |
694 | - Configuration database with remote management | |
695 | - OpenFlow 1.0 | |
696 | - GRE tunneling | |
697 | - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6 | |
698 | - Performance and scalability improvements | |
699 | - Bug fixes | |
700 | ||
2f0a1f42 JP |
701 | v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010 |
702 | --------------------- | |
703 | - Bug fixes | |
704 | ||
b84a0589 JP |
705 | v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010 |
706 | --------------------- | |
707 | - Add support for sFlow(R) | |
708 | - Make headers compatible with C++ | |
709 | - Bug fixes | |
710 | ||
b7f22a6a JP |
711 | v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010 |
712 | --------------------- | |
713 | - User-space forwarding engine | |
714 | - Bug fixes | |
35d25d44 | 715 | |
6d735676 JP |
716 | v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009 |
717 | --------------------- | |
718 | - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts | |
719 | - Bug fixes | |
b7f22a6a | 720 | |
ef5925df JP |
721 | v0.90.6 - 6 Oct 2009 |
722 | -------------------- | |
723 | - Bug fixes | |
724 | ||
3c708eb8 | 725 | v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009 |
30ee1c4d JP |
726 | --------------------- |
727 | - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups | |
728 | - Bug fixes |