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3 - Utilities and daemons that support SSL now allow protocols and
4 ciphers to be configured with --ssl-protocols and --ssl-ciphers.
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5 - OVN:
6 * QoS is now implemented via egress shaping rather than ingress policing.
1a03fc7d 7 * DSCP marking is now supported, via the new northbound QoS table.
6374d518 8 * IPAM now supports fixed MAC addresses.
440a9f4b 9 * Support for source IP address based routing.
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10 * ovn-trace:
11 - New --ovs option to also print OpenFlow flows.
12 - put_dhcp_opts and put_dhcp_optsv6 actions may now be traced.
821302cf 13 * Support for managing SSL and remote connection configuration in
10471820 14 northbound and southbound databases.
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15 * TCP connections to northbound and southbound databases are no
16 longer enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.
17 See documentation for ovn-sbctl/ovn-nbctl "set-connection"
18 command or the ovn-ctl "--db-sb-create-insecure-remote" and
19 "--db-nb-create-insecure-remote" command-line options for
20 information regarding remote connection configuration.
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21 * New appctl "inject-pkt" command in ovn-controller that allows
22 packets to be injected into the connected OVS instance.
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23 - Fixed regression in table stats maintenance introduced in OVS
24 2.3.0, wherein the number of OpenFlow table hits and misses was
25 not accurate.
51bb26fa 26 - OpenFlow:
6dd3c787 27 * OFPT_PACKET_OUT messages are now supported in bundles.
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28 * A new "selection_method=dp_hash" type for OpenFlow select group
29 bucket selection that uses the datapath computed 5-tuple hash
30 without making datapath flows match the 5-tuple fields, which
31 is useful for more efficient load balancing, for example. This
32 uses the Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ that allows
33 control over the OpenFlow select groups selection method. See
34 "selection_method" and related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for
35 details.
4930ea56 36 * The "sample" action now supports "ingress" and "egress" options.
40c7b2fc 37 * The "ct" action now supports the TFTP ALG where support is available.
e8035fc0 38 * New action "clone".
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39 - ovs-ofctl:
40 * 'bundle' command now supports packet-out messages.
41 * New syntax for 'ovs-ofctl packet-out' command, which uses the
42 same string parser as the 'bundle' command. The old 'packet-out'
43 syntax is deprecated and will be removed in a later OVS
44 release.
45 * New unixctl "ofctl/packet-out" command, which can be used to
46 instruct a flow monitor to issue OpenFlow packet-out messages.
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47 - ovsdb-server:
48 * Remote connections can now be made read-only (see ovsdb-server(1)).
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49 - Tunnels:
50 * TLV mappings for protocols such as Geneve are now segregated on
51 a per-OpenFlow bridge basis rather than globally. (The interface
52 has not changed.)
2b02d770 53 * Removed support for IPsec tunnels.
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54 - DPDK:
55 * New option 'n_rxq_desc' and 'n_txq_desc' fields for DPDK interfaces
56 which set the number of rx and tx descriptors to use for the given port.
04de404e 57 * Support for DPDK v16.11.
1a2bb118 58 * Support for rx checksum offload. Refer DPDK HOWTO for details.
b8374d0d 59 * Port Hotplug is now supported.
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60 * DPDK physical ports can now have arbitrary names. The PCI address of
61 the device must be set using the 'dpdk-devargs' option. Compatibility
62 with the old dpdk<portid> naming scheme is broken, and as such a
63 device will not be available for use until a valid dpdk-devargs is
64 specified.
69876ed7 65 * Virtual DPDK Poll Mode Driver (vdev PMD) support.
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66 - Fedora packaging:
67 * A package upgrade does not automatically restart OVS service.
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68 - ovs-vswitchd/ovs-vsctl:
69 * Ports now have a "protected" flag. Protected ports can not forward
70 frames to other protected ports. Unprotected ports can receive and
71 forward frames to protected and other unprotected ports.
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72 - ovs-vsctl, ovn-nbctl, ovn-sbctl, vtep-ctl:
73 * Database commands now accept integer ranges, e.g. "set port
74 eth0 trunks=1-10" to enable trunking VLANs 1 to 10.
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78 - First supported release of OVN. See ovn-architecture(7) for more
79 details.
92f8d65b 80 - ovsdb-server:
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81 * New "monitor_cond" "monitor_cond_update" and "update2" extensions to
82 RFC 7047.
56085be5 83 - OpenFlow:
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84 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles now expire after 10 seconds since the
85 last time the bundle was either opened, modified, or closed.
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86 * OpenFlow 1.3 Extension 230, adding OpenFlow Bundles support, is
87 now implemented.
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88 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles are now supported for group mods as well as
89 flow mods and port mods. Both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle
90 flags are supported for group mods as well as flow mods.
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91 * Internal OpenFlow rule representation for load and set-field
92 actions is now much more memory efficient. For a complex flow
93 table this can reduce rule memory consumption by 40%.
94 * Bundles are now much more memory efficient than in OVS 2.5.
95 Together with memory efficiency improvements in OpenFlow rule
96 representation, the peak OVS resident memory use during a
97 bundle commit for large complex set of flow mods can be only
98 25% of that in OVS 2.5 (4x lower).
56085be5 99 * OpenFlow 1.1+ OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST now supports OFPP_ANY.
e016fb63 100 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_QUEUE_DESC is now supported.
6c6eedc5 101 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_TABLE_STATUS is now supported.
bdcad671 102 * New property-based packet-in message format NXT_PACKET_IN2 with support
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103 for arbitrary user-provided data and for serializing flow table
104 traversal into a continuation for later resumption.
105 * New extension message NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG2 to allow OpenFlow 1.4-like
106 control over asynchronous messages in earlier versions of OpenFlow.
bef3f465 107 * New OpenFlow extension NXM_NX_MPLS_TTL to provide access to MPLS TTL.
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108 * New output option, output(port=N,max_len=M), to allow truncating a
109 packet to size M bytes when outputting to port N.
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110 * New command OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD for OFPT_GROUP_MOD message that adds a
111 new group or modifies an existing groups
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112 * The optional OpenFlow packet buffering feature is deprecated in
113 this release, and will be removed in the next OVS release
114 (2.7). After the change OVS always sends the 'buffer_id' as
115 0xffffffff in packet-in messages and will send an error
116 response if any other value of this field is included in
117 packet-out and flow mod sent by a controller. Controllers are
118 already expected to work properly in cases where the switch can
119 not buffer packets, so this change should not affect existing
120 users.
2a7c4805 121 * New OpenFlow extension NXT_CT_FLUSH_ZONE to flush conntrack zones.
4b684612 122 - Improved OpenFlow version compatibility for actions:
88c8ca26 123 * New OpenFlow extension to support the "group" action in OpenFlow 1.0.
0f2aaee9 124 * OpenFlow 1.0 "enqueue" action now properly translated to OpenFlow 1.1+.
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125 * OpenFlow 1.1 "mod_nw_ecn" and OpenFlow 1.1+ "mod_nw_ttl" actions now
126 properly translated to OpenFlow 1.0.
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127 - ovs-ofctl:
128 * queue-get-config command now allows a queue ID to be specified.
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129 * '--bundle' option can now be used with OpenFlow 1.3 and with group mods.
130 * New "bundle" command allows executing a mixture of flow and group mods
131 as a single atomic transaction.
8743fa8c 132 * New option "--color" to produce colorized output for some commands.
88b87a36 133 * New option '--may-create' to use OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD in mod-group command.
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134 - IPFIX:
135 * New "sampling_port" option for "sample" action to allow sampling
136 ingress and egress tunnel metadata with IPFIX.
137 * New ovs-ofctl commands "dump-ipfix-bridge" and "dump-ipfix-flow" to
138 dump bridge IPFIX statistics and flow based IPFIX statistics.
139 * New setting other-config:virtual_obs_id to add an arbitrary string
140 to IPFIX records.
6cf888b8 141 - Linux:
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142 * OVS Linux datapath now implements Conntrack NAT action with all
143 supported Linux kernels.
144 * Support for truncate action.
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145 * New QoS type "linux-noop" that prevents Open vSwitch from trying to
146 manage QoS for a given port (useful when other software manages QoS).
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147 - DPDK:
148 * New option "n_rxq" for PMD interfaces.
149 Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' is no longer supported.
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150 Not supported by vHost interfaces. For them number of rx and tx queues
151 is applied from connected virtio device.
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152 * New 'other_config:pmd-rxq-affinity' field for PMD interfaces, that
153 allows to pin port's rx queues to desired cores.
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154 * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show' to check the port/rxq
155 assignment.
156 * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
0bf765f7 157 * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
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158 * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed to use database
159 * Sensible defaults have been introduced for many of the required
160 configuration options
161 * DB entries have been added for many of the DPDK EAL command line
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162 arguments. Additional arguments can be passed via the dpdk-extra
163 entry.
9509913a 164 * Add ingress policing functionality.
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165 * PMD threads servicing vHost User ports can now come from the NUMA
166 node that device memory is located on if CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
167 is enabled in DPDK.
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168 * Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG,
169 fragmentation or NAT support yet)
0a0f39df 170 * Support for DPDK 16.07
4b88d678 171 * Optional support for DPDK pdump enabled.
0072e931 172 * Jumbo frame support
41987644 173 * Remove dpdkvhostcuse port type.
c1ff66ac 174 * OVS client mode for vHost and vHost reconnect (Requires QEMU 2.7)
2d24d165 175 * 'dpdkvhostuserclient' port type.
847b8b02 176 - Increase number of registers to 16.
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177 - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
178 bitrot.
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179 - ovs-appctl:
180 * New "vlog/close" command.
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181 - ovs-ctl:
182 * Added the ability to selectively start the forwarding and database
183 functions (ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server, respectively).
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184 - ovsdb-server:
185 * Remove max number of sessions limit, to enable connection scaling
186 testing.
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187 - python:
188 * Added support for Python 3.4+ in addition to existing support
189 for 2.7+.
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190 - SELinux:
191 * Introduced SELinux policy package.
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192 - Datapath Linux kernel compatibility.
193 * Dropped support for kernel older than 3.10.
42deb67d 194 * Removed VLAN splinters feature.
c3cbb286 195 * Datapath supports kernel upto 4.7.
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196 - Tunnels:
197 * Flow based tunnel match and action can be used for IPv6 address using
198 tun_ipv6_src, tun_ipv6_dst fields.
8a2d4905 199 * Added support for IPv6 tunnels, for details checkout FAQ.
9e9d0384 200 * Deprecated support for IPsec tunnels ports.
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201 - A wrapper script, 'ovs-tcpdump', to easily port-mirror an OVS port and
202 watch with tcpdump
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203 - Introduce --no-self-confinement flag that allows daemons to work with
204 sockets outside their run directory.
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205 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-512 because
206 SHA-1 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to
207 disable it in OpenSSL.
56abcf49 208 - Add 'mtu_request' column to the Interface table. It can be used to
3a414a0a 209 configure the MTU of the ports.
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211Known issues:
212 - Using openvswitch module in conjunction with upstream Linux tunnels:
213 * When using the openvswitch module distributed with OVS against kernel
214 versions 4.4 to 4.6, the openvswitch module cannot be loaded or used at
215 the same time as "ip_gre".
216 - Conntrack FTP ALGs: When using the openvswitch module distributed with
217 OVS, particular Linux distribution kernels versions may provide diminished
218 functionality. This typically affects active FTP data connections when
219 using "actions=ct(alg=ftp),..." in flow tables. Specifically:
220 * Centos 7.1 kernels (3.10.0-2xx) kernels are unable to correctly set
221 up expectations for FTP data connections in multiple zones,
222 eg "actions=ct(zone=1,alg=ftp),ct(zone=2,alg=ftp),...". Executing the
223 "ct" action for subsequent data connections may fail to determine that
224 the data connection is "related" to an existing connection.
225 * Centos 7.2 kernels (3.10.0-3xx) kernels may not establish FTP ALG state
226 correctly for NATed connections. As a result, flows that perform NAT,
227 eg "actions=ct(nat,ftp=alg,table=1),..." may fail to NAT the packet,
228 and will populate the "ct_state=inv" bit in the flow.
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233 - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
234 using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
235 have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
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236 - OpenFlow:
237 * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
238 now supported.
f70b94de 239 * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
82c22d34 240 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
de7d3c07 241 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_VACANCY_EVENTS is now implemented.
03c72922 242 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
f6ecf944 243 * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
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244 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG are
245 now implemented.
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246 - ovs-ofctl:
247 * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
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248 - Tunnels:
249 * Geneve tunnels can now match and set options and the OAM bit.
250 * The nonstandard GRE64 tunnel extension has been dropped.
06994f87 251 - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
4249b547 252 - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
7321bda3 253 - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
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254 - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
255 targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
256 a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
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257 - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
258 the next OVS release.
e91b927d 259 - Added --user option to all daemons
07659514 260 - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
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261 and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
262 available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
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263 - Add experimental version of OVN. OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a
264 system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the
265 existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network
266 abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
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267 - RHEL packaging:
268 * DPDK ports may now be created via network scripts (see README.RHEL).
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269 - DPDK:
270 * Requires DPDK 2.2
271 * Added multiqueue support to vhost-user
db6e1383 272 * Note: QEMU 2.5+ required for multiqueue support
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276 - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
277 now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
278 example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
279 "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
280 pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
db5076ee 281 - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
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282 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
283 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
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284 - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
285 MAC flooding attacks.
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286 - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
287 allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
288 {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations. For details,
cc23805c 289 see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
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290 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
291 ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands. Please check
292 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
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293 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
294 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
295 is deleted.
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296 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
297 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
298 release. The protocol is documented at
299 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
a413195e 300 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
50b9699f 301 - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
3d2912f2 302 OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
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303 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
304 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
305 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
306 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
79fe0f46 307 - OpenFlow:
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308 * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
309 mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
310 are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
311 in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
312 are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
313 atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
e60e935b 314 * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
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315 * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
316 * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
317 * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
318 * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
3c4e10fb 319 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
1b0ee636 320 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
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321 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
322 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
323 action.
ca26eb44 324 * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
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325 * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
326 fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
327 related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
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328 - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
329 ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
330 use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
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331 atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
332 of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
333 lookups simultaneously.
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334 - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
335 mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
336 explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
337 keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
338 backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
39c94593 339 are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
4a1f9610 340 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
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341 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
342 it in OpenSSL.
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343 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
344 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
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345 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
346 the same transaction that creates the row.
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347 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
348 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
349 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
cccf7e9d 350 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
542cc9bb 351 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
cccf7e9d 352 file for additional details.
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353 - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
354 The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
355 Network Validation Library (ANVL).
2f9dd77f 356 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
3e5aeeb5 357 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
ec8f0f0c 358 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
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359 containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
360 with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
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361 - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
362 protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
e3102e42 363 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
3afcde43 364 - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
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365 - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
366 console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
367 'facility'.
ac6073e3 368 - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
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369 - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
370 contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
371 Auto-Attach.
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372 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
373 numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
58397e6c 374 - Support for DPDK vHost.
4752cc0c 375 - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
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376 - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
377 openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
378 modules (vport-*.ko).
4237026e 379 - Support for STT tunneling.
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380 - ovs-sim: New developer tool for simulating multiple OVS instances.
381 See ovs-sim(1) for more information.
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382 - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
383 how daemons will talk with syslog.
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384 - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
385 logging message format for each destination.
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390 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
391 ovs-vswitchd.
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392 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
393 flow matching process.
394 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
395 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
396 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
397 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
398 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
399 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
400 new userspace.
0877a018 401 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
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405 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
406 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
407 configured properly.
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408 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
409 bridge.
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410 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
411 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
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412 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
413 poorly maintained and not widely used.
e3c7ed29 414 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
542cc9bb 415 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL.md for details.
f51e8ccb 416 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
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417 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
418 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
419 instead.
e2f3178f 420 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
cb25142c 421 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
8a9562d2 422 - Added DPDK support.
a5ed8fe3 423 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
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a3aabcd2 426v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014
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428 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
429 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
430 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
431 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
432 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
433 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
434 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
435 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
436 increased by using this feature.
437 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
438 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
439 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
440 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
441 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
442 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
443 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
444 * Examples:
445 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
446 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
447 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
448 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
449 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
450 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
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451 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
452 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
453 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
454 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
455 both are upgraded at the same time.
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456 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
457 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
458 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
459 defaults.
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460 - OpenFlow:
461 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
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462 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
463 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
464 by the controller.
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465 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
466 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
467 number.
5dc6f8e1 468 * The Open vSwitch software switch now supports OpenFlow groups.
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470 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
54af97ad 471 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
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473 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
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474 - ovs-ofctl:
475 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
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476 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
477 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
478 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
479 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
afc9f547 480 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
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481 - ovsdb-client:
482 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
483 instead of being limited to a single table.
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484 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
485 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
486 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
487 conditions.
e731d71b 488 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
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493 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
494 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
495 logging.
0ad90c84 496 - OpenFlow:
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497 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
498 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
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499 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
500 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
501 software switch.
502 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
503 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
504 software switch.
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505 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
506 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
e0eeeca5 507 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
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508 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
509 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
510 mark.
fe8a1798 511 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
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512 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
513 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
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514 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
515 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
380f49c4 516 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
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517 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
518 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
519 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
fef5244f 520 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
9b764edf 521 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
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523 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
7395c052 524 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
978427a5 525 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
37418c86 526 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
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527 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
528 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
529 whole seconds.)
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534 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
535 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
536 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
537 close to the Linux bridge.
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538 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
539 Open vSwitch features.
df53d41c 540 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
1bda9b9e 541 - The autopath action has been removed.
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542 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
543 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
544 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
b676167a 545 - OpenFlow:
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546 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
547 1.1 and later are now implemented.
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548 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
549 NXM fields.
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550 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
551 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
552 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
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553 - ovs-dpctl:
554 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
041e7168 555 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
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556 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
557 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
ca03aae0 558 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
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559 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
560 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
561 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
562 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
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563 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
564 liveness.
d224e350 565
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568 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
569 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
570 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
571 of brctl).
c4069512 572 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
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573 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
574 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
575 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
576 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
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577 - ovs-vsctl:
578 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
579 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
580 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
581 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
582 in ovs-vsctl calls.
583 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
584 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
e6024057 585 - OpenFlow:
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586 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
587 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
588 question in the FAQ for more details.
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589 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
590 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
591 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
592 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
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593 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
594 from which the flow was removed.
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595 - Tunneling:
596 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
238bc978 597 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
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598 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
599 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
600 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
601 is no longer supported.
602 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
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603 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
604 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
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605 - ovs-dpctl:
606 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
607 if only one datapath exists.
608 - ovs-appctl:
609 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
610 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
611 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
612 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
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613 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
614 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
615 port_construct() is called.
616 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
617 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
618 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
619 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
620 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
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622 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
623 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
624 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
625 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
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626 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
627 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
29089a54 628 - New "sample" action.
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633 - Datapath:
634 - Support for ipv6 set action.
635 - SKB mark matching and setting.
64807dfb 636 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
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637 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
638 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
b592e726 639 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
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640 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
641 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
642 The default log patterns now include this information.
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645 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
4cceacb9 646 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
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647 - Tunneling:
648 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
649 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
650 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
651 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
652 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
653 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
654 - Tunnel header caching removed.
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655 - ovs-ofctl:
656 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
657 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
658 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
659 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
660 for these ports for different purposes).
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662 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
663 the "add-if" command.
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664 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
665 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
666 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
667 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
668 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
669 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
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670 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
671 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
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672 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
673 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
674 concerns.
a8643e44 675 - Bridge compatibility.
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676 - Stable bond mode.
677 - The autopath action.
678 - Interface type "null".
679 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
85340733 680 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
1280bf0e 681 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
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683 data in ARP packets.
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c483d489 689 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
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690 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
691 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
692 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
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693 - ovs-l3ping:
694 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
695 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
5498c01f 696 - ovs-ofctl:
bdcc5925 697 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
5498c01f 698 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
c08201d6 699 - OpenFlow:
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700 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
701 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
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702 were allowed.)
703 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
704 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
705 masked.)
969fc56c 706 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
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707 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
708 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
709 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
710 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
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711 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
712 flow table changes as they happen.
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713 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
714 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
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715 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
716 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
717 VMware.
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718 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
719 instead the local timezone, by default.
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721
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724 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
725 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
e9358af6 726 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
22dd5cec 727 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
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728 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
729 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
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730 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
731 interface.
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733 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
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734 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
735 multipart messages.
736 - ovs-ofctl:
737 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
738 information using the new port description multipart messages.
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740 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
741 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
7393104d 742 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
22dd5cec 743 - Tripled flow setup performance.
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744 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
745 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
746 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
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748
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751 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
752
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756 *** Internal only release ***
4df08875 757 - bonding
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758 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
759 Instead they drop traffic.
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760 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
761 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
762 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
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763 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
764 to zero.
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765 - OpenFlow:
766 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
767 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
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768 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
769 timeouts.
770 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
771 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
772 receive asynchronously.
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773 - New "fin_timeout" action.
774 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
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775 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
776 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
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777 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
778 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
779 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
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780 - Logging:
781 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
782 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
783 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
784 format as before.
785 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
786 to make it easier to remember.
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787 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
788 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
789 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
790 for more information.
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791 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
792 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
793 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
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794 - ofproto-provider interface:
795 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
796 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
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797 - ovsdb-client:
798 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
799 a timestamp with every update.
a7aa2d3c 800 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
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805 - OpenFlow:
806 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
807 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
b4b7f827 808 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
f0fd1a17 809 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
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810 - ovs-ofctl:
811 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
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812 - ovs-vsctl:
813 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
814 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
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815 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
816 directories as defaults.
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817 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
818 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
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825 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
826 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
827 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
828 information.
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830 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
530180fd 831 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
a61680c6 832 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
530180fd 833 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
a61680c6 834 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
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836 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
837 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
838 actions.
9d24de3b 839 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
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840 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
841 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
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843 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
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845 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
846 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
847 Xen packages.
0fb42626 848 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
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850 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
851 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
852 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
853 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
854 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
855 the bond mode which they want to use.
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860 - OpenFlow:
861 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
862 NXM fields.
75a75043 863 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
d2c0fed9 864 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
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866 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
867 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
868 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
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869 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
870 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
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871 - ovs-dpctl:
872 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
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873 - ovs-vswitchd:
874 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
875 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
876 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
877 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
878 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
21f7563c 879 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
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880 - Fragment handling extensions:
881 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
882 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
883 offset 0.
884 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
885 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
886 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
887 fragment handling policy.
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888 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
889 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
c87112ca 890 standards-based implementations.
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891 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
892 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
893 a denial of service attack.
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894 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
895 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
896 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
023e1e0a 897 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
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901 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
902 switching ASICs.
903 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
904 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
905 - OpenFlow:
906 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
907 - Database:
908 - Implement table unique constraints.
909 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
910 - ovs-dpctl:
911 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
912 counters for each port.
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913 - ovs-ofctl:
914 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
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915 - ovs-vsctl:
916 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
1a142ced 917 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
2b01925c 918 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
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919 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
920 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
921 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
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922 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
923 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
924 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
925 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
926 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
927 at "emer" level.
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928 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
929 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
930 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
931 your scripts.
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932 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
933 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
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934 - Feature removals:
935 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
0be6140a 936 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
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937 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
938 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
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939 - Performance and scalability improvements
940 - Bug fixes
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942v1.1.0 - 05 Apr 2011
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944 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
945 - LACP
946 - 802.1ag CCM
947 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
948 - QoS:
949 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
950 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
951 - Kernel:
952 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
953 close to a stable ABI now.
954 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
955 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
956 - Bonding:
957 - New active backup bonding mode.
958 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
959 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
960 - miimon support.
961 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
962 - ovs-dpctl:
963 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
964 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
965 port groups was dropped.
966 - ovs-vsctl:
967 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
968 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
969 option.
970 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
971 - New "find" command.
972 - ovs-ofctl:
973 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
974 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
975 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
976 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
977 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
978 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
979 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
980 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
981 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
982 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
983 - OpenFlow support:
35d25d44 984 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
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985 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
986 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
987 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
988 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
989 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
990 sending to an output port.
991 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
992 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
993 current implementation.
994 - New experimental "note" action.
995 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
996 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
997 - Database:
998 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
999 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
1000 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
1001 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
1002 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
1003 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
1004 integrators.
1005 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
1006 controller individually specified.
1007 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
1008 - New versioning and checksum features.
1009 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
1010 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
1011 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
1012 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
1013 - Feature removals:
1014 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
1015 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
1016 - Dropped controller discovery support.
1017 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
1018 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
1019 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
1020 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
1021 - Performance and scalability improvements
1022 - Bug fixes
1023
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1025------------------------
1026 - Bug fixes
1027
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1028v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
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1030 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
1031 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
1032 - Performance and scalability improvements
1033 - Bug fixes
1034
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1035v1.0.1 - 31 May 2010
1036--------------------
1037 - New "patch" interface type
1038 - Bug fixes
1039
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1040v1.0.0 - 15 May 2010
1041--------------------
1042 - Configuration database with remote management
1043 - OpenFlow 1.0
1044 - GRE tunneling
1045 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
1046 - Performance and scalability improvements
1047 - Bug fixes
1048
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1049v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
1050---------------------
1051 - Bug fixes
1052
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1053v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
1054---------------------
1055 - Add support for sFlow(R)
1056 - Make headers compatible with C++
1057 - Bug fixes
1058
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1059v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
1060---------------------
1061 - User-space forwarding engine
1062 - Bug fixes
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1064v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
1065---------------------
1066 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
1067 - Bug fixes
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1069v0.90.6 - 6 Oct 2009
1070--------------------
1071 - Bug fixes
1072
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1075 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
1076 - Bug fixes