4 * New options --l7 and --l7-len to "ofproto/trace" command.
5 * Previous versions gave OpenFlow tables default names of the form
6 "table#". These are not helpful names for the purpose of accepting
7 and displaying table names, so now tables by default have no names.
8 * The "null" interface type, deprecated since 2013, has been removed.
9 * Add minimum network namespace support for Linux.
10 * New command "lacp/show-stats"
12 * ovs-ofctl now accepts and display table names in place of numbers. By
13 default it always accepts names and in interactive use it displays them;
14 use --names or --no-names to override. See ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
15 - ovs-vsctl: New commands "add-bond-iface" and "del-bond-iface".
17 * OFPT_ROLE_STATUS is now available in OpenFlow 1.3.
18 * OpenFlow 1.5 extensible statistics (OXS) now implemented.
19 * New OpenFlow 1.0 extensions for group support.
21 * Add support for compiling OVS with the latest Linux 4.14 kernel
23 * implemented icmp4/icmp6/tcp_reset actions in order to drop the packet
24 and reply with a RST for TCP or ICMPv4/ICMPv6 unreachable message for
25 other IPv4/IPv6-based protocols whenever a reject ACL rule is hit.
26 * ACL match conditions can now match on Port_Groups as well as address
27 sets that are automatically generated by Port_Groups. ACLs can be
28 applied directly to Port_Groups as well.
30 * New 'check-dpdk' Makefile target to run a new system testsuite.
31 See Testing topic for the details.
32 * Add LSC interrupt support for DPDK physical devices.
34 * Commands ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/pmd-*-show can now work on a single PMD
35 * Detailed PMD performance metrics available with new command
36 ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/pmd-perf-show
37 * Supervision of PMD performance metrics and logging of suspicious
42 - NSH implementation now conforms to latest draft (draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-28).
44 * Add a new action dec_nsh_ttl.
45 * Enable NSH support in kernel datapath.
46 - OVSDB has new, experimental support for database clustering:
47 * New high-level documentation in ovsdb(7).
48 * New file format documentation for developers in ovsdb(5).
49 * Protocol documentation moved from ovsdb-server(1) to ovsdb-server(7).
50 * ovsdb-server now supports online schema conversion via
51 "ovsdb-client convert".
52 * ovsdb-server now always hosts a built-in database named _Server. See
53 ovsdb-server(5) for more details.
54 * ovsdb-client: New "get-schema-cksum", "query", "backup", "restore",
55 and "wait" commands. New --timeout option.
56 * ovsdb-tool: New "create-cluster", "join-cluster", "db-cid", "db-sid",
57 "db-local-address", "db-is-clustered", "db-is-standalone", "db-name",
58 "schema-name", "compare-versions", and "check-cluster" commands.
59 * ovsdb-server: New ovs-appctl commands for managing clusters.
60 * ovs-sandbox: New support for clustered databases.
61 - ovs-vsctl and other commands that display data in tables now support a
62 --max-column-width option to limit column width.
63 - No longer slow-path traffic that sends to a controller. Applications,
64 such as OVN ACL logging, want to send a copy of a packet to a
65 controller while leaving the actual packet forwarding in the datapath.
67 * The "requested-chassis" option for a logical switch port now accepts a
68 chassis "hostname" in addition to a chassis "name".
70 - Added support to send IPv6 Router Advertisement packets in response to
71 the IPv6 Router Solicitation packets from the VIF ports.
72 - Added support to generate Neighbor Solicitation packets using the OVN
73 action 'nd_ns' to resolve unknown next hop MAC addresses for the
75 * ovn-ctl: New commands run_nb_ovsdb and run_sb_ovsdb.
76 * ovn-sbctl, ovn-nbctl: New options --leader-only, --no-leader-only.
78 * ct_clear action is now backed by kernel datapath. Support is probed for
81 * Add support for compiling OVS with the latest Linux 4.13 kernel
82 - ovs-dpctl and related ovs-appctl commands:
83 * "flush-conntrack" now accept a 5-tuple to delete a specific
84 connection tracking entry.
85 * New "ct-set-maxconns", "ct-get-maxconns", and "ct-get-nconns" commands
86 for userspace datapath.
87 - No longer send packets to the Linux TAP device if it's DOWN unless it is
88 in another networking namespace.
90 * Add support for DPDK v17.11
91 * Add support for vHost IOMMU
92 * New debug appctl command 'netdev-dpdk/get-mempool-info'.
93 * All the netdev-dpdk appctl commands described in ovs-vswitchd man page.
95 - DPDK physical ports now return custom set of "dropped", "error" and
96 "management" statistics.
97 - ovs-ofctl dump-ports command now prints new of set custom statistics
98 if available (for OpenFlow 1.4+).
99 * Switch from round-robin allocation of rxq to pmd assignments to a
100 utilization-based allocation.
101 * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance' to rebalance rxq to
103 * Add rxq utilization of pmd to appctl 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show'.
104 * Add support for vHost dequeue zero copy (experimental)
105 - Userspace datapath:
106 * Output packet batching support.
108 * Datapath IDs may now be specified as 0x1 (etc.) instead of 16 digits.
109 * Configuring a controller, or unconfiguring all controllers, now deletes
110 all groups and meters (as well as all flows).
111 - New --enable-sparse configure option enables "sparse" checking by default.
112 - Added additional information to vhost-user status.
117 * ovs-ofctl can now accept and display port names in place of numbers. By
118 default it always accepts names and in interactive use it displays them;
119 use --names or --no-names to override. See ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
120 * "ovs-ofctl dump-flows" now accepts --no-stats to omit flow statistics.
121 - New ovs-dpctl command "ct-stats-show" to show connection tracking stats.
123 * Added support to set packet mark for tunnel endpoint using
124 `egress_pkt_mark` OVSDB option.
125 * When using Linux kernel datapath tunnels may be created using rtnetlink.
126 This will allow us to take advantage of new tunnel features without
127 having to make changes to the vport modules.
128 - EMC insertion probability is reduced to 1% and is configurable via
129 the new 'other_config:emc-insert-inv-prob' option.
131 * DPDK log messages redirected to OVS logging subsystem.
132 Log level can be changed in a usual OVS way using
133 'ovs-appctl vlog' commands for 'dpdk' module. Lower bound
134 still can be configured via extra arguments for DPDK EAL.
135 * dpdkvhostuser ports are marked as deprecated. They will be removed
136 in an upcoming release.
137 * Support for DPDK v17.05.1.
138 - IPFIX now provides additional counters:
139 * Total counters since metering process startup.
140 * Per-flow TCP flag counters.
141 * Multicast, broadcast, and unicast counters.
142 - New support for multiple VLANs (802.1ad or "QinQ"), including a new
143 "dot1q-tunnel" port VLAN mode.
144 - In ovn-vsctl and vtep-ctl, record UUIDs in commands may now be
145 abbreviated to 4 hex digits.
146 - Userspace Datapath:
147 * Added NAT support for userspace datapath.
148 * Added FTP and TFTP support with NAT for userspace datapath.
149 * Experimental NSH (Network Service Header) support in userspace datapath.
151 * New built-in DNS support.
152 * IPAM for IPv4 can now exclude user-defined addresses from assignment.
153 * IPAM can now assign IPv6 addresses.
154 * Make the DHCPv4 router setting optional.
155 * Gratuitous ARP for NAT addresses on a distributed logical router.
156 * Allow ovn-controller SSL configuration to be obtained from vswitchd
158 * ovn-trace now has basic support for tracing distributed firewalls.
159 * In ovn-nbctl and ovn-sbctl, record UUIDs in commands may now be
160 abbreviated to 4 hex digits.
161 * "ovn-sbctl lflow-list" can now print OpenFlow flows that correspond
163 * Now uses OVSDB RBAC support to reduce impact of compromised hypervisors.
164 * Multiple chassis may now be specified for L3 gateways. When more than
165 one chassis is specified, OVN will manage high availability for that
167 * Add support for ACL logging.
168 * ovn-northd now has native support for active-standby high availability.
169 * Add support for QoS bandwidth limt with DPDK.
170 - Tracing with ofproto/trace now traces through recirculation.
172 * New support for role-based access control (see ovsdb-server(1)).
173 - New commands 'stp/show' and 'rstp/show' (see ovs-vswitchd(8)).
175 * All features required by OpenFlow 1.4 are now implemented, so
176 ovs-vswitchd now enables OpenFlow 1.4 by default (in addition to
177 OpenFlow 1.0 to 1.3).
178 * Increased support for OpenFlow 1.6 (draft).
179 * Bundles now support hashing by just nw_src or nw_dst.
180 * The "learn" action now supports a "limit" option (see ovs-ofctl(8)).
181 * The port status bit OFPPS_LIVE now reflects link aliveness.
182 * OpenFlow 1.5 packet-out is now supported.
183 * Support for OpenFlow 1.5 field packet_type and packet-type-aware
185 * Added generic encap and decap actions (EXT-382).
186 First supported use case is encap/decap for Ethernet.
187 * Added NSH (Network Service Header) support in userspace
188 Used generic encap and decap actions to implement encapsulation and
189 decapsulation of NSH header.
190 IETF NSH draft - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-nsh/
191 * Conntrack state is only available to the processing path that
192 follows the "recirc_table" argument of the ct() action. Starting
193 in OVS 2.8, this state is now cleared for the current processing
194 path whenever ct() is called.
196 * OVN services are no longer restarted automatically after upgrade.
197 * ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server run as non-root users by default.
198 - Add --cleanup option to command 'ovs-appctl exit' (see ovs-vswitchd(8)).
200 * Use new tunnel port option "packet_type" to configure L2 vs. L3.
201 * In conjunction with PTAP tunnel ports can handle a mix of L2 and L3
203 * New vxlan tunnel extension "gpe" to support VXLAN-GPE tunnels.
204 * New support for non-Ethernet (L3) payloads in GRE and VXLAN-GPE.
205 - The BFD detection multiplier is now user-configurable.
206 - Add experimental support for hardware offloading
207 * HW offloading is disabled by default.
208 * HW offloading is done through the TC interface.
209 - IPv6 link local addresses are now supported on Linux. Use % to designate
213 ---------------------
214 - Utilities and daemons that support SSL now allow protocols and
215 ciphers to be configured with --ssl-protocols and --ssl-ciphers.
217 * QoS is now implemented via egress shaping rather than ingress policing.
218 * DSCP marking is now supported, via the new northbound QoS table.
219 * IPAM now supports fixed MAC addresses.
220 * Support for source IP address based routing.
222 - New --ovs option to also print OpenFlow flows.
223 - put_dhcp_opts and put_dhcp_optsv6 actions may now be traced.
224 * Support for managing SSL and remote connection configuration in
225 northbound and southbound databases.
226 * TCP connections to northbound and southbound databases are no
227 longer enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.
228 See documentation for ovn-sbctl/ovn-nbctl "set-connection"
229 command or the ovn-ctl "--db-sb-create-insecure-remote" and
230 "--db-nb-create-insecure-remote" command-line options for
231 information regarding remote connection configuration.
232 * New appctl "inject-pkt" command in ovn-controller that allows
233 packets to be injected into the connected OVS instance.
234 * Distributed logical routers may now be connected directly to
235 logical switches with localnet ports, by specifying a
236 "redirect-chassis" on the distributed gateway port of the
237 logical router. NAT rules may be specified directly on the
238 distributed logical router, and are handled either centrally on
239 the "redirect-chassis", or in many cases are handled locally on
240 the hypervisor where the corresponding logical port resides.
241 Gratuitous ARP for NAT addresses on a distributed logical
242 router is not yet supported, but will be added in a future
244 - Fixed regression in table stats maintenance introduced in OVS
245 2.3.0, wherein the number of OpenFlow table hits and misses was
248 * OFPT_PACKET_OUT messages are now supported in bundles.
249 * A new "selection_method=dp_hash" type for OpenFlow select group
250 bucket selection that uses the datapath computed 5-tuple hash
251 without making datapath flows match the 5-tuple fields, which
252 is useful for more efficient load balancing, for example. This
253 uses the Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ that allows
254 control over the OpenFlow select groups selection method. See
255 "selection_method" and related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for
257 * The "sample" action now supports "ingress" and "egress" options.
258 * The "ct" action now supports the TFTP ALG where support is available.
259 * New actions "clone" and "ct_clear".
260 * The "meter" action is now supported in the userspace datapath.
262 * 'bundle' command now supports packet-out messages.
263 * New syntax for 'ovs-ofctl packet-out' command, which uses the
264 same string parser as the 'bundle' command. The old 'packet-out'
265 syntax is deprecated and will be removed in a later OVS
267 * New unixctl "ofctl/packet-out" command, which can be used to
268 instruct a flow monitor to issue OpenFlow packet-out messages.
270 * Remote connections can now be made read-only (see ovsdb-server(1)).
272 * TLV mappings for protocols such as Geneve are now segregated on
273 a per-OpenFlow bridge basis rather than globally. (The interface
275 * Removed support for IPsec tunnels.
277 * New option 'n_rxq_desc' and 'n_txq_desc' fields for DPDK interfaces
278 which set the number of rx and tx descriptors to use for the given port.
279 * Support for DPDK v16.11.
280 * Support for rx checksum offload. Refer DPDK HOWTO for details.
281 * Port Hotplug is now supported.
282 * DPDK physical ports can now have arbitrary names. The PCI address of
283 the device must be set using the 'dpdk-devargs' option. Compatibility
284 with the old dpdk<portid> naming scheme is broken, and as such a
285 device will not be available for use until a valid dpdk-devargs is
287 * Virtual DPDK Poll Mode Driver (vdev PMD) support.
288 * Removed experimental tag.
290 * A package upgrade does not automatically restart OVS service.
291 - ovs-vswitchd/ovs-vsctl:
292 * Ports now have a "protected" flag. Protected ports can not forward
293 frames to other protected ports. Unprotected ports can receive and
294 forward frames to protected and other unprotected ports.
295 - ovs-vsctl, ovn-nbctl, ovn-sbctl, vtep-ctl:
296 * Database commands now accept integer ranges, e.g. "set port
297 eth0 trunks=1-10" to enable trunking VLANs 1 to 10.
300 ---------------------
301 - First supported release of OVN. See ovn-architecture(7) for more
304 * New "monitor_cond" "monitor_cond_update" and "update2" extensions to
307 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles now expire after 10 seconds since the
308 last time the bundle was either opened, modified, or closed.
309 * OpenFlow 1.3 Extension 230, adding OpenFlow Bundles support, is
311 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles are now supported for group mods as well as
312 flow mods and port mods. Both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle
313 flags are supported for group mods as well as flow mods.
314 * Internal OpenFlow rule representation for load and set-field
315 actions is now much more memory efficient. For a complex flow
316 table this can reduce rule memory consumption by 40%.
317 * Bundles are now much more memory efficient than in OVS 2.5.
318 Together with memory efficiency improvements in OpenFlow rule
319 representation, the peak OVS resident memory use during a
320 bundle commit for large complex set of flow mods can be only
321 25% of that in OVS 2.5 (4x lower).
322 * OpenFlow 1.1+ OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST now supports OFPP_ANY.
323 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_QUEUE_DESC is now supported.
324 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_TABLE_STATUS is now supported.
325 * New property-based packet-in message format NXT_PACKET_IN2 with support
326 for arbitrary user-provided data and for serializing flow table
327 traversal into a continuation for later resumption.
328 * New extension message NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG2 to allow OpenFlow 1.4-like
329 control over asynchronous messages in earlier versions of OpenFlow.
330 * New OpenFlow extension NXM_NX_MPLS_TTL to provide access to MPLS TTL.
331 * New output option, output(port=N,max_len=M), to allow truncating a
332 packet to size M bytes when outputting to port N.
333 * New command OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD for OFPT_GROUP_MOD message that adds a
334 new group or modifies an existing groups
335 * The optional OpenFlow packet buffering feature is deprecated in
336 this release, and will be removed in the next OVS release
337 (2.7). After the change OVS always sends the 'buffer_id' as
338 0xffffffff in packet-in messages and will send an error
339 response if any other value of this field is included in
340 packet-out and flow mod sent by a controller. Controllers are
341 already expected to work properly in cases where the switch can
342 not buffer packets, so this change should not affect existing
344 * New OpenFlow extension NXT_CT_FLUSH_ZONE to flush conntrack zones.
345 - Improved OpenFlow version compatibility for actions:
346 * New OpenFlow extension to support the "group" action in OpenFlow 1.0.
347 * OpenFlow 1.0 "enqueue" action now properly translated to OpenFlow 1.1+.
348 * OpenFlow 1.1 "mod_nw_ecn" and OpenFlow 1.1+ "mod_nw_ttl" actions now
349 properly translated to OpenFlow 1.0.
351 * queue-get-config command now allows a queue ID to be specified.
352 * '--bundle' option can now be used with OpenFlow 1.3 and with group mods.
353 * New "bundle" command allows executing a mixture of flow and group mods
354 as a single atomic transaction.
355 * New option "--color" to produce colorized output for some commands.
356 * New option '--may-create' to use OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD in mod-group command.
358 * New "sampling_port" option for "sample" action to allow sampling
359 ingress and egress tunnel metadata with IPFIX.
360 * New ovs-ofctl commands "dump-ipfix-bridge" and "dump-ipfix-flow" to
361 dump bridge IPFIX statistics and flow based IPFIX statistics.
362 * New setting other-config:virtual_obs_id to add an arbitrary string
365 * OVS Linux datapath now implements Conntrack NAT action with all
366 supported Linux kernels.
367 * Support for truncate action.
368 * New QoS type "linux-noop" that prevents Open vSwitch from trying to
369 manage QoS for a given port (useful when other software manages QoS).
371 * New option "n_rxq" for PMD interfaces.
372 Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' is no longer supported.
373 Not supported by vHost interfaces. For them number of rx and tx queues
374 is applied from connected virtio device.
375 * New 'other_config:pmd-rxq-affinity' field for PMD interfaces, that
376 allows to pin port's rx queues to desired cores.
377 * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show' to check the port/rxq
379 * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
380 * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
381 * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed to use database
382 * Sensible defaults have been introduced for many of the required
383 configuration options
384 * DB entries have been added for many of the DPDK EAL command line
385 arguments. Additional arguments can be passed via the dpdk-extra
387 * Add ingress policing functionality.
388 * PMD threads servicing vHost User ports can now come from the NUMA
389 node that device memory is located on if CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
391 * Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG,
392 fragmentation or NAT support yet)
393 * Support for DPDK 16.07
394 * Optional support for DPDK pdump enabled.
395 * Jumbo frame support
396 * Remove dpdkvhostcuse port type.
397 * OVS client mode for vHost and vHost reconnect (Requires QEMU 2.7)
398 * 'dpdkvhostuserclient' port type.
399 - Increase number of registers to 16.
400 - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
403 * New "vlog/close" command.
405 * Added the ability to selectively start the forwarding and database
406 functions (ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server, respectively).
408 * Remove max number of sessions limit, to enable connection scaling
411 * Added support for Python 3.4+ in addition to existing support
414 * Introduced SELinux policy package.
415 - Datapath Linux kernel compatibility.
416 * Dropped support for kernel older than 3.10.
417 * Removed VLAN splinters feature.
418 * Datapath supports kernel upto 4.7.
420 * Flow based tunnel match and action can be used for IPv6 address using
421 tun_ipv6_src, tun_ipv6_dst fields.
422 * Added support for IPv6 tunnels, for details checkout FAQ.
423 * Deprecated support for IPsec tunnels ports.
424 - A wrapper script, 'ovs-tcpdump', to easily port-mirror an OVS port and
426 - Introduce --no-self-confinement flag that allows daemons to work with
427 sockets outside their run directory.
428 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-512 because
429 SHA-1 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to
430 disable it in OpenSSL.
431 - Add 'mtu_request' column to the Interface table. It can be used to
432 configure the MTU of the ports.
435 - Using openvswitch module in conjunction with upstream Linux tunnels:
436 * When using the openvswitch module distributed with OVS against kernel
437 versions 4.4 to 4.6, the openvswitch module cannot be loaded or used at
438 the same time as "ip_gre".
439 - Conntrack FTP ALGs: When using the openvswitch module distributed with
440 OVS, particular Linux distribution kernels versions may provide diminished
441 functionality. This typically affects active FTP data connections when
442 using "actions=ct(alg=ftp),..." in flow tables. Specifically:
443 * Centos 7.1 kernels (3.10.0-2xx) kernels are unable to correctly set
444 up expectations for FTP data connections in multiple zones,
445 eg "actions=ct(zone=1,alg=ftp),ct(zone=2,alg=ftp),...". Executing the
446 "ct" action for subsequent data connections may fail to determine that
447 the data connection is "related" to an existing connection.
448 * Centos 7.2 kernels (3.10.0-3xx) kernels may not establish FTP ALG state
449 correctly for NATed connections. As a result, flows that perform NAT,
450 eg "actions=ct(nat,ftp=alg,table=1),..." may fail to NAT the packet,
451 and will populate the "ct_state=inv" bit in the flow.
455 ---------------------
456 - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
457 using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
458 have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
460 * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
462 * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
463 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
464 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_VACANCY_EVENTS is now implemented.
465 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
466 * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
467 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG are
470 * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
472 * Geneve tunnels can now match and set options and the OAM bit.
473 * The nonstandard GRE64 tunnel extension has been dropped.
474 - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
475 - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
476 - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
477 - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
478 targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
479 a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
480 - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
481 the next OVS release.
482 - Added --user option to all daemons
483 - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
484 and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
485 available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
486 - Add experimental version of OVN. OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a
487 system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the
488 existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network
489 abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
491 * DPDK ports may now be created via network scripts (see README.RHEL).
494 * Added multiqueue support to vhost-user
495 * Note: QEMU 2.5+ required for multiqueue support
498 ---------------------
499 - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
500 now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
501 example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
502 "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
503 pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
504 - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
505 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
506 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
507 - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
508 MAC flooding attacks.
509 - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
510 allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
511 {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations. For details,
512 see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
513 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
514 ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands. Please check
515 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
516 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
517 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
519 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
520 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
521 release. The protocol is documented at
522 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
523 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
524 - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
525 OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
526 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
527 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
528 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
529 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
531 * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
532 mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
533 are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
534 in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
535 are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
536 atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
537 * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
538 * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
539 * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
540 * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
541 * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
542 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
543 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
544 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
545 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
547 * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
548 * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
549 fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
550 related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
551 - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
552 ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
553 use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
554 atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
555 of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
556 lookups simultaneously.
557 - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
558 mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
559 explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
560 keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
561 backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
562 are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
563 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
564 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
566 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
567 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
568 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
569 the same transaction that creates the row.
570 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
571 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
572 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
573 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
574 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
575 file for additional details.
576 - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
577 The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
578 Network Validation Library (ANVL).
579 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
580 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
581 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
582 containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
583 with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
584 - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
585 protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
586 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
587 - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
588 - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
589 console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
591 - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
592 - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
593 contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
595 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
596 numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
597 - Support for DPDK vHost.
598 - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
599 - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
600 openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
601 modules (vport-*.ko).
602 - Support for STT tunneling.
603 - ovs-sim: New developer tool for simulating multiple OVS instances.
604 See ovs-sim(1) for more information.
605 - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
606 how daemons will talk with syslog.
607 - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
608 logging message format for each destination.
612 ---------------------
613 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
615 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
616 flow matching process.
617 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
618 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
619 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
620 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
621 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
622 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
624 - Compatibility with autoconf 2.63 (previously >=2.64)
626 v2.2.0 - Internal Release
627 ---------------------
628 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
629 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
631 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
633 - Port creation and configuration errors are now stored in a new error
634 column of the Interface table and included in 'ovs-vsctl show'.
635 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
636 poorly maintained and not widely used.
637 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
638 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL.md for details.
639 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
640 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
641 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
643 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
644 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
645 - Added DPDK support.
646 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
650 ---------------------
651 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
652 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
653 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
654 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
655 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
656 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
657 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
658 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
659 increased by using this feature.
660 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
661 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
662 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
663 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
664 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
665 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
666 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
668 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
669 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
670 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
671 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
672 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
673 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
674 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
675 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
676 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
677 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
678 both are upgraded at the same time.
679 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
680 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
681 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
684 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
685 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
686 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
688 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
689 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
691 * The Open vSwitch software switch now supports OpenFlow groups.
692 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
693 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
694 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
696 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
698 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
699 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
700 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
701 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
702 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
703 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
705 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
706 instead of being limited to a single table.
707 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
708 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
709 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
711 - Added IPv6 support for active and passive socket communications.
715 ---------------------
716 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
717 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
720 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
721 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
722 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
723 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
725 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
726 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
728 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
729 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
730 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
731 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
732 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
734 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
735 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
736 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
737 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
738 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
739 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
740 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
741 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
742 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
743 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
744 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
746 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
747 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
748 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
749 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
750 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
751 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
755 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
756 ---------------------
757 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
758 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
759 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
760 close to the Linux bridge.
761 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
762 Open vSwitch features.
763 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
764 - The autopath action has been removed.
765 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
766 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
767 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
769 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
770 1.1 and later are now implemented.
771 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
773 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
774 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
775 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
777 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
778 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
779 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
780 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
781 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
782 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
783 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
784 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
785 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
786 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
789 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
790 ---------------------
791 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
792 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
793 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
795 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
796 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
797 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
798 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
799 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
801 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
802 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
803 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
804 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
806 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
807 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
809 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
810 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
811 question in the FAQ for more details.
812 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
813 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
814 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
815 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
816 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
817 from which the flow was removed.
819 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
820 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
821 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
822 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
823 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
824 is no longer supported.
825 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
826 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
827 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
829 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
830 if only one datapath exists.
832 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
833 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
834 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
835 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
836 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
837 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
838 port_construct() is called.
839 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
840 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
841 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
842 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
843 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
844 - Backward-incompatible changes:
845 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
846 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
847 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
848 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
849 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
850 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
851 - New "sample" action.
855 ------------------------
857 - Support for ipv6 set action.
858 - SKB mark matching and setting.
859 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
860 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
861 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
862 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
863 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
864 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
865 The default log patterns now include this information.
867 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
868 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
869 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
871 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
872 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
873 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
874 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
875 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
876 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
877 - Tunnel header caching removed.
879 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
880 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
881 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
882 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
883 for these ports for different purposes).
885 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
886 the "add-if" command.
887 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
888 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
889 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
890 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
891 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
892 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
893 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
894 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
895 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
896 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
898 - Bridge compatibility.
900 - The autopath action.
901 - Interface type "null".
902 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
903 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
904 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
905 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
910 ------------------------
911 *** Internal only release ***
912 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
913 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
914 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
915 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
917 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
918 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
920 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
921 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
923 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
924 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
926 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
927 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
929 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
930 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
931 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
932 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
933 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
934 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
935 flow table changes as they happen.
936 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
937 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
938 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
939 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
941 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
942 instead the local timezone, by default.
946 ------------------------
947 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
948 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
949 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
950 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
951 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
952 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
953 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
956 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
957 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
960 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
961 information using the new port description multipart messages.
963 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
964 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
965 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
966 - Tripled flow setup performance.
967 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
968 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
969 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
973 ------------------------
974 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
978 ------------------------
979 *** Internal only release ***
981 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
982 Instead they drop traffic.
983 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
984 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
985 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
986 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
989 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
990 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
991 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
993 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
994 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
995 receive asynchronously.
996 - New "fin_timeout" action.
997 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
998 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
999 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
1000 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
1001 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
1002 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
1004 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
1005 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
1006 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
1008 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
1009 to make it easier to remember.
1010 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
1011 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
1012 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
1013 for more information.
1014 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
1015 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
1016 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
1017 - ofproto-provider interface:
1018 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
1019 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
1021 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
1022 a timestamp with every update.
1023 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
1026 v1.5.0 - 01 Jun 2012
1027 ------------------------
1029 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
1030 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
1031 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
1032 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
1034 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
1036 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
1037 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
1038 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
1039 directories as defaults.
1040 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
1041 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
1044 v1.4.0 - 30 Jan 2012
1045 ------------------------
1046 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
1047 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
1048 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
1049 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
1050 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
1053 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
1054 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
1055 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
1056 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
1057 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
1059 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
1060 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
1062 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
1063 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
1064 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
1066 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
1068 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
1069 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
1071 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
1073 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
1074 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
1075 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
1076 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
1077 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
1078 the bond mode which they want to use.
1081 v1.3.0 - 09 Dec 2011
1082 ------------------------
1084 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
1086 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
1087 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
1089 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
1090 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
1091 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
1092 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
1093 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
1095 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
1097 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
1098 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
1099 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
1100 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
1101 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
1102 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
1103 - Fragment handling extensions:
1104 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
1105 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
1107 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
1108 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
1109 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
1110 fragment handling policy.
1111 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
1112 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
1113 standards-based implementations.
1114 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
1115 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
1116 a denial of service attack.
1117 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
1118 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
1119 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
1120 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
1122 v1.2.0 - 03 Aug 2011
1123 ------------------------
1124 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
1126 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
1127 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
1129 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
1131 - Implement table unique constraints.
1132 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
1134 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
1135 counters for each port.
1137 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
1139 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
1140 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
1141 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
1142 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
1143 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
1144 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
1145 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
1146 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
1147 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
1148 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
1149 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
1151 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
1152 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
1153 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
1155 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
1156 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
1158 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
1159 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
1160 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
1161 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
1162 - Performance and scalability improvements
1165 v1.1.0 - 05 Apr 2011
1166 ------------------------
1167 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
1170 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
1172 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
1173 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
1175 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
1176 close to a stable ABI now.
1177 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
1178 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
1180 - New active backup bonding mode.
1181 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
1182 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
1184 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
1186 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
1187 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
1188 port groups was dropped.
1190 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
1191 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
1193 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
1194 - New "find" command.
1196 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
1197 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
1198 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
1199 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
1200 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
1201 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
1202 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
1203 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
1204 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
1205 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
1207 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
1208 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
1209 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
1210 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
1211 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
1212 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
1213 sending to an output port.
1214 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
1215 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
1216 current implementation.
1217 - New experimental "note" action.
1218 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
1219 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
1221 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
1222 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
1223 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
1224 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
1225 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
1226 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
1228 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
1229 controller individually specified.
1230 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
1231 - New versioning and checksum features.
1232 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
1233 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
1234 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
1235 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
1237 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
1238 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
1239 - Dropped controller discovery support.
1240 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
1241 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
1242 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
1243 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
1244 - Performance and scalability improvements
1247 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
1248 ------------------------
1251 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
1252 ------------------------
1253 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
1254 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
1255 - Performance and scalability improvements
1258 v1.0.1 - 31 May 2010
1259 --------------------
1260 - New "patch" interface type
1263 v1.0.0 - 15 May 2010
1264 --------------------
1265 - Configuration database with remote management
1268 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
1269 - Performance and scalability improvements
1272 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
1273 ---------------------
1276 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
1277 ---------------------
1278 - Add support for sFlow(R)
1279 - Make headers compatible with C++
1282 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
1283 ---------------------
1284 - User-space forwarding engine
1287 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
1288 ---------------------
1289 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
1292 v0.90.6 - 6 Oct 2009
1293 --------------------
1296 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
1297 ---------------------
1298 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
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