7 - First supported release of OVN. See ovn-architecture(7) for more
10 * New "monitor_cond" "monitor_cond_update" and "update2" extensions to
13 * OpenFlow 1.3 Extension 230, adding OpenFlow Bundles support, is
15 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles are now supported for group mods as well as
16 flow mods and port mods. Both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle
17 flags are supported for group mods as well as flow mods.
18 * OpenFlow 1.1+ OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST now supports OFPP_ANY.
19 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_QUEUE_DESC is now supported.
20 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_TABLE_STATUS is now supported.
21 * New property-based packet-in message format NXT_PACKET_IN2 with support
22 for arbitrary user-provided data and for serializing flow table
23 traversal into a continuation for later resumption.
24 * New extension message NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG2 to allow OpenFlow 1.4-like
25 control over asynchronous messages in earlier versions of OpenFlow.
26 * New OpenFlow extension NXM_NX_MPLS_TTL to provide access to MPLS TTL.
27 * New output option, output(port=N,max_len=M), to allow truncating a
28 packet to size M bytes when outputting to port N.
29 * New command OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD for OFPT_GROUP_MOD message that adds a
30 new group or modifies an existing groups
31 * The optional OpenFlow packet buffering feature is deprecated in
32 this release, and will be removed in the next OVS release
33 (2.7). After the change OVS always sends the 'buffer_id' as
34 0xffffffff in packet-in messages and will send an error
35 response if any other value of this field is included in
36 packet-out and flow mod sent by a controller. Controllers are
37 already expected to work properly in cases where the switch can
38 not buffer packets, so this change should not affect existing
40 - Improved OpenFlow version compatibility for actions:
41 * New OpenFlow extension to support the "group" action in OpenFlow 1.0.
42 * OpenFlow 1.0 "enqueue" action now properly translated to OpenFlow 1.1+.
43 * OpenFlow 1.1 "mod_nw_ecn" and OpenFlow 1.1+ "mod_nw_ttl" actions now
44 properly translated to OpenFlow 1.0.
46 * queue-get-config command now allows a queue ID to be specified.
47 * '--bundle' option can now be used with OpenFlow 1.3 and with group mods.
48 * New "bundle" command allows executing a mixture of flow and group mods
49 as a single atomic transaction.
50 * New option "--color" to produce colorized output for some commands.
51 * New option '--may-create' to use OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD in mod-group command.
53 * New "sampling_port" option for "sample" action to allow sampling
54 ingress and egress tunnel metadata with IPFIX.
55 * New ovs-ofctl commands "dump-ipfix-bridge" and "dump-ipfix-flow" to
56 dump bridge IPFIX statistics and flow based IPFIX statistics.
57 * New setting other-config:virtual_obs_id to add an arbitrary string
60 * OVS Linux datapath now implements Conntrack NAT action with all
61 supported Linux kernels.
62 * Support for truncate action.
63 * New QoS type "linux-noop" that prevents Open vSwitch from trying to
64 manage QoS for a given port (useful when other software manages QoS).
66 * New option "n_rxq" for PMD interfaces.
67 Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' is no longer supported.
68 Not supported by vHost interfaces. For them number of rx and tx queues
69 is applied from connected virtio device.
70 * New 'other_config:pmd-rxq-affinity' field for PMD interfaces, that
71 allows to pin port's rx queues to desired cores.
72 * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show' to check the port/rxq
74 * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
75 * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
76 * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed to use database
77 * Sensible defaults have been introduced for many of the required
79 * DB entries have been added for many of the DPDK EAL command line
80 arguments. Additional arguments can be passed via the dpdk-extra
82 * Add ingress policing functionality.
83 * PMD threads servicing vHost User ports can now come from the NUMA
84 node that device memory is located on if CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
86 * Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG,
87 fragmentation or NAT support yet)
88 * Support for DPDK 16.07
89 * Optional support for DPDK pdump enabled.
91 * Remove dpdkvhostcuse port type.
92 * OVS client mode for vHost and vHost reconnect (Requires QEMU 2.7)
93 - Increase number of registers to 16.
94 - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
97 * New "vlog/close" command.
99 * Added the ability to selectively start the forwarding and database
100 functions (ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server, respectively).
102 * Remove max number of sessions limit, to enable connection scaling
105 * Added support for Python 3.4+ in addition to existing support
108 * Introduced SELinux policy package.
109 - Datapath Linux kernel compatibility.
110 * Dropped support for kernel older than 3.10.
111 * Removed VLAN splinters feature.
112 * Datapath supports kernel upto 4.7.
114 * Flow based tunnel match and action can be used for IPv6 address using
115 tun_ipv6_src, tun_ipv6_dst fields.
116 * Added support for IPv6 tunnels, for details checkout FAQ.
117 - A wrapper script, 'ovs-tcpdump', to easily port-mirror an OVS port and
119 - Introduce --no-self-confinement flag that allows daemons to work with
120 sockets outside their run directory.
121 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-512 because
122 SHA-1 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to
123 disable it in OpenSSL.
124 - Add 'mtu_request' column to the Interface table. It can be used to
125 configure the MTU of non-internal ports.
129 ---------------------
130 - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
131 using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
132 have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
134 * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
136 * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
137 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
138 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_VACANCY_EVENTS is now implemented.
139 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
140 * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
141 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG are
144 * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
146 * Geneve tunnels can now match and set options and the OAM bit.
147 * The nonstandard GRE64 tunnel extension has been dropped.
148 - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
149 - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
150 - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
151 - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
152 targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
153 a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
154 - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
155 the next OVS release.
156 - Added --user option to all daemons
157 - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
158 and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
159 available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
160 - Add experimental version of OVN. OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a
161 system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the
162 existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network
163 abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
165 * DPDK ports may now be created via network scripts (see README.RHEL).
168 * Added multiqueue support to vhost-user
169 * Note: QEMU 2.5+ required for multiqueue support
172 ---------------------
173 - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
174 now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
175 example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
176 "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
177 pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
178 - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
179 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
180 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
181 - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
182 MAC flooding attacks.
183 - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
184 allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
185 {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations. For details,
186 see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
187 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
188 ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands. Please check
189 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
190 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
191 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
193 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
194 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
195 release. The protocol is documented at
196 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
197 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
198 - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
199 OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
200 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
201 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
202 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
203 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
205 * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
206 mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
207 are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
208 in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
209 are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
210 atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
211 * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
212 * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
213 * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
214 * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
215 * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
216 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
217 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
218 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
219 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
221 * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
222 * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
223 fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
224 related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
225 - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
226 ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
227 use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
228 atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
229 of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
230 lookups simultaneously.
231 - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
232 mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
233 explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
234 keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
235 backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
236 are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
237 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
238 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
240 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
241 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
242 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
243 the same transaction that creates the row.
244 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
245 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
246 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
247 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
248 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
249 file for additional details.
250 - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
251 The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
252 Network Validation Library (ANVL).
253 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
254 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
255 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
256 containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
257 with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
258 - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
259 protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
260 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
261 - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
262 - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
263 console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
265 - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
266 - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
267 contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
269 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
270 numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
271 - Support for DPDK vHost.
272 - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
273 - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
274 openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
275 modules (vport-*.ko).
276 - Support for STT tunneling.
277 - ovs-sim: New developer tool for simulating multiple OVS instances.
278 See ovs-sim(1) for more information.
279 - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
280 how daemons will talk with syslog.
281 - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
282 logging message format for each destination.
286 ---------------------
287 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
289 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
290 flow matching process.
291 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
292 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
293 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
294 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
295 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
296 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
298 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
300 v2.2.0 - Internal Release
301 ---------------------
302 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
303 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
305 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
307 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
308 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
309 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
310 poorly maintained and not widely used.
311 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
312 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL.md for details.
313 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
314 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
315 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
317 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
318 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
319 - Added DPDK support.
320 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
324 ---------------------
325 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
326 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
327 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
328 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
329 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
330 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
331 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
332 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
333 increased by using this feature.
334 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
335 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
336 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
337 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
338 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
339 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
340 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
342 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
343 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
344 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
345 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
346 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
347 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
348 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
349 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
350 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
351 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
352 both are upgraded at the same time.
353 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
354 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
355 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
358 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
359 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
360 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
362 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
363 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
365 * The Open vSwitch software switch now supports OpenFlow groups.
366 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
367 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
368 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
370 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
372 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
373 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
374 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
375 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
376 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
377 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
379 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
380 instead of being limited to a single table.
381 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
382 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
383 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
385 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
389 ---------------------
390 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
391 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
394 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
395 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
396 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
397 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
399 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
400 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
402 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
403 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
404 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
405 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
406 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
408 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
409 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
410 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
411 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
412 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
413 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
414 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
415 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
416 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
417 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
418 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
420 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
421 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
422 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
423 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
424 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
425 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
429 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
430 ---------------------
431 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
432 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
433 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
434 close to the Linux bridge.
435 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
436 Open vSwitch features.
437 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
438 - The autopath action has been removed.
439 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
440 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
441 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
443 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
444 1.1 and later are now implemented.
445 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
447 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
448 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
449 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
451 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
452 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
453 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
454 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
455 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
456 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
457 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
458 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
459 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
460 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
463 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
464 ---------------------
465 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
466 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
467 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
469 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
470 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
471 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
472 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
473 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
475 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
476 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
477 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
478 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
480 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
481 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
483 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
484 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
485 question in the FAQ for more details.
486 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
487 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
488 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
489 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
490 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
491 from which the flow was removed.
493 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
494 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
495 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
496 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
497 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
498 is no longer supported.
499 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
500 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
501 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
503 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
504 if only one datapath exists.
506 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
507 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
508 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
509 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
510 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
511 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
512 port_construct() is called.
513 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
514 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
515 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
516 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
517 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
518 - Backward-incompatible changes:
519 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
520 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
521 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
522 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
523 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
524 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
525 - New "sample" action.
529 ------------------------
531 - Support for ipv6 set action.
532 - SKB mark matching and setting.
533 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
534 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
535 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
536 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
537 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
538 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
539 The default log patterns now include this information.
541 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
542 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
543 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
545 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
546 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
547 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
548 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
549 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
550 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
551 - Tunnel header caching removed.
553 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
554 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
555 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
556 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
557 for these ports for different purposes).
559 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
560 the "add-if" command.
561 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
562 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
563 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
564 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
565 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
566 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
567 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
568 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
569 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
570 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
572 - Bridge compatibility.
574 - The autopath action.
575 - Interface type "null".
576 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
577 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
578 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
579 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
584 ------------------------
585 *** Internal only release ***
586 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
587 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
588 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
589 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
591 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
592 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
594 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
595 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
597 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
598 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
600 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
601 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
603 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
604 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
605 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
606 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
607 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
608 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
609 flow table changes as they happen.
610 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
611 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
612 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
613 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
615 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
616 instead the local timezone, by default.
620 ------------------------
621 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
622 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
623 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
624 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
625 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
626 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
627 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
630 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
631 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
634 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
635 information using the new port description multipart messages.
637 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
638 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
639 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
640 - Tripled flow setup performance.
641 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
642 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
643 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
647 ------------------------
648 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
652 ------------------------
653 *** Internal only release ***
655 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
656 Instead they drop traffic.
657 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
658 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
659 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
660 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
663 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
664 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
665 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
667 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
668 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
669 receive asynchronously.
670 - New "fin_timeout" action.
671 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
672 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
673 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
674 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
675 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
676 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
678 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
679 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
680 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
682 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
683 to make it easier to remember.
684 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
685 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
686 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
687 for more information.
688 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
689 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
690 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
691 - ofproto-provider interface:
692 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
693 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
695 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
696 a timestamp with every update.
697 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
701 ------------------------
703 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
704 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
705 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
706 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
708 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
710 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
711 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
712 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
713 directories as defaults.
714 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
715 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
719 ------------------------
720 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
721 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
722 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
723 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
724 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
727 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
728 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
729 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
730 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
731 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
733 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
734 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
736 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
737 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
738 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
740 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
742 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
743 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
745 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
747 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
748 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
749 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
750 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
751 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
752 the bond mode which they want to use.
756 ------------------------
758 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
760 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
761 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
763 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
764 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
765 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
766 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
767 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
769 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
771 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
772 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
773 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
774 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
775 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
776 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
777 - Fragment handling extensions:
778 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
779 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
781 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
782 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
783 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
784 fragment handling policy.
785 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
786 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
787 standards-based implementations.
788 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
789 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
790 a denial of service attack.
791 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
792 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
793 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
794 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
797 ------------------------
798 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
800 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
801 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
803 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
805 - Implement table unique constraints.
806 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
808 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
809 counters for each port.
811 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
813 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
814 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
815 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
816 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
817 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
818 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
819 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
820 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
821 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
822 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
823 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
825 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
826 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
827 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
829 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
830 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
832 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
833 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
834 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
835 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
836 - Performance and scalability improvements
840 ------------------------
841 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
844 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
846 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
847 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
849 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
850 close to a stable ABI now.
851 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
852 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
854 - New active backup bonding mode.
855 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
856 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
858 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
860 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
861 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
862 port groups was dropped.
864 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
865 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
867 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
868 - New "find" command.
870 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
871 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
872 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
873 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
874 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
875 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
876 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
877 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
878 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
879 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
881 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
882 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
883 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
884 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
885 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
886 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
887 sending to an output port.
888 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
889 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
890 current implementation.
891 - New experimental "note" action.
892 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
893 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
895 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
896 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
897 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
898 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
899 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
900 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
902 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
903 controller individually specified.
904 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
905 - New versioning and checksum features.
906 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
907 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
908 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
909 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
911 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
912 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
913 - Dropped controller discovery support.
914 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
915 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
916 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
917 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
918 - Performance and scalability improvements
921 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
922 ------------------------
925 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
926 ------------------------
927 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
928 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
929 - Performance and scalability improvements
934 - New "patch" interface type
939 - Configuration database with remote management
942 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
943 - Performance and scalability improvements
946 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
947 ---------------------
950 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
951 ---------------------
952 - Add support for sFlow(R)
953 - Make headers compatible with C++
956 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
957 ---------------------
958 - User-space forwarding engine
961 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
962 ---------------------
963 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
970 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
971 ---------------------
972 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
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