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4 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
5 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
6 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
7 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
8 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
9 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
10 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
11 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
12 increased by using this feature.
13 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
14 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
15 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
16 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
17 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
18 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
19 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
20 * Examples:
21 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
22 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
23 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
24 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
25 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
26 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
27 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
28 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
29 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
30 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
31 both are upgraded at the same time.
32 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
33 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
34 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
35 defaults.
36 - OpenFlow:
37 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
38 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
39 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
40 by the controller.
41 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
42 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
43 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
44 - ovs-dpctl:
45 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
46 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
47 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
48 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
49 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
50 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
51
52
53 v2.0.0 - 15 Oct 2013
54 ---------------------
55 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
56 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
57 logging.
58 - OpenFlow:
59 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
60 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
61 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups. This
62 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
63 software switch.
64 * Experimental protocol support for OpenFlow 1.2+ meters. This
65 does not yet include an implementation in the Open vSwitch
66 software switch.
67 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
68 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
69 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
70 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
71 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
72 mark.
73 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
74 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
75 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
76 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
77 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
78 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
79 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
80 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
81 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
82 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
83 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
84 - ovs-ofctl:
85 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
86 * New commands for OpenFlow 1.1+ groups.
87 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
88 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
89 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
90 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
91 whole seconds.)
92
93
94 v1.11.0 - 28 Aug 2013
95 ---------------------
96 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
97 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
98 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
99 close to the Linux bridge.
100 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
101 Open vSwitch features.
102 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
103 - The autopath action has been removed.
104 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
105 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
106 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
107 - OpenFlow:
108 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
109 1.1 and later are now implemented.
110 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
111 NXM fields.
112 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
113 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
114 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
115 - ovs-dpctl:
116 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
117 * "dump-flows" now has a -m option to increase output verbosity.
118 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
119 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
120 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
121 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
122 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
123 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
124 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
125 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
126 liveness.
127
128 v1.10.0 - 01 May 2013
129 ---------------------
130 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
131 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
132 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
133 of brctl).
134 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
135 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
136 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
137 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
138 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
139 - ovs-vsctl:
140 * Previously ovs-vsctl would retry connecting to the database forever,
141 causing it to hang if ovsdb-server was not running. Now, ovs-vsctl
142 only tries once by default (use --retry to try forever). This change
143 means that you may want to remove uses of --timeout to avoid hangs
144 in ovs-vsctl calls.
145 * Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
146 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
147 - OpenFlow:
148 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
149 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
150 question in the FAQ for more details.
151 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
152 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
153 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
154 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
155 - The NXM flow_removed message now reports the OpenFlow table ID
156 from which the flow was removed.
157 - Tunneling:
158 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
159 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
160 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
161 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
162 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
163 is no longer supported.
164 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
165 - CAPWAP tunneling support removed.
166 - Tunnels with multicast destination ports are no longer supported.
167 - ovs-dpctl:
168 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
169 if only one datapath exists.
170 - ovs-appctl:
171 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
172 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
173 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
174 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
175 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
176 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
177 port_construct() is called.
178 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
179 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
180 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
181 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
182 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
183 - Backward-incompatible changes:
184 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
185 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
186 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
187 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
188 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
189 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
190 - New "sample" action.
191
192
193 v1.9.0 - 26 Feb 2013
194 ------------------------
195 - Datapath:
196 - Support for ipv6 set action.
197 - SKB mark matching and setting.
198 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
199 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
200 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
201 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
202 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
203 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
204 The default log patterns now include this information.
205 - OpenFlow:
206 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
207 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
208 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
209 - Tunneling:
210 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
211 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
212 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
213 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
214 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
215 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
216 - Tunnel header caching removed.
217 - ovs-ofctl:
218 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
219 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
220 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
221 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
222 for these ports for different purposes).
223 - ovs-dpctl:
224 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
225 the "add-if" command.
226 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
227 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
228 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
229 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
230 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
231 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
232 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
233 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
234 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
235 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
236 concerns.
237 - Bridge compatibility.
238 - Stable bond mode.
239 - The autopath action.
240 - Interface type "null".
241 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
242 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
243 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
244 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
245 data in ARP packets.
246
247
248 v1.8.0 - 26 Feb 2013
249 ------------------------
250 *** Internal only release ***
251 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
252 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
253 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
254 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
255 - ovs-l3ping:
256 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
257 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
258 - ovs-ofctl:
259 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
260 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
261 - OpenFlow:
262 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
263 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
264 were allowed.)
265 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
266 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
267 masked.)
268 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
269 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
270 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
271 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
272 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
273 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
274 flow table changes as they happen.
275 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
276 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
277 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
278 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
279 VMware.
280 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
281 instead the local timezone, by default.
282
283
284 v1.7.0 - 30 Jul 2012
285 ------------------------
286 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
287 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
288 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
289 - Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
290 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
291 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
292 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
293 interface.
294 - OpenFlow:
295 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
296 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
297 multipart messages.
298 - ovs-ofctl:
299 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
300 information using the new port description multipart messages.
301 - ovs-test:
302 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
303 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
304 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
305 - Tripled flow setup performance.
306 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
307 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
308 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
309
310
311 v1.6.1 - 25 Jun 2012
312 ------------------------
313 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
314
315
316 v1.6.0 - 24 Feb 2012
317 ------------------------
318 *** Internal only release ***
319 - bonding
320 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
321 Instead they drop traffic.
322 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
323 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
324 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
325 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
326 to zero.
327 - OpenFlow:
328 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
329 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
330 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
331 timeouts.
332 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
333 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
334 receive asynchronously.
335 - New "fin_timeout" action.
336 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
337 - New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
338 over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
339 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
340 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
341 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
342 - Logging:
343 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for
344 all the daemons. An example of the default format is
345 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z. ovs-appctl can be used to change the default
346 format as before.
347 - The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
348 to make it easier to remember.
349 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
350 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
351 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
352 for more information.
353 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
354 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
355 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
356 - ofproto-provider interface:
357 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
358 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
359 - ovsdb-client:
360 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
361 a timestamp with every update.
362 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
363
364
365 v1.5.0 - 01 Jun 2012
366 ------------------------
367 - OpenFlow:
368 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
369 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
370 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
371 - Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
372 - ovs-ofctl:
373 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
374 - ovs-vsctl:
375 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
376 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
377 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
378 directories as defaults.
379 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
380 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
381
382
383 v1.4.0 - 30 Jan 2012
384 ------------------------
385 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
386 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
387 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
388 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
389 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
390 information.
391 - OpenFlow:
392 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
393 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
394 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
395 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
396 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
397 - ovs-vswitchd:
398 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
399 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
400 actions.
401 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
402 - The sFlow implementation can now usually infer the correct agent
403 device instead of having to be told explicitly.
404 - ovs-appctl:
405 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
406 - ovs-test:
407 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
408 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
409 Xen packages.
410 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
411 - bonding:
412 - Post 1.4.*, OVS will be changing the default bond mode from balance-slb
413 to active-backup. SLB bonds carry significant risks with them
414 (documented vswitchd/INTERNALS) which we want to prevent unsuspecting
415 users from running into. Users are advised to update any scripts or
416 configuration which may be negatively impacted by explicitly setting
417 the bond mode which they want to use.
418
419
420 v1.3.0 - 09 Dec 2011
421 ------------------------
422 - OpenFlow:
423 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
424 NXM fields.
425 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
426 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
427 - ovs-appctl:
428 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
429 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
430 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
431 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
432 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
433 - ovs-dpctl:
434 - New "set-if" command to modify a datapath port's configuration.
435 - ovs-vswitchd:
436 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
437 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
438 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
439 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
440 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
441 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
442 - Fragment handling extensions:
443 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
444 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
445 offset 0.
446 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
447 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
448 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
449 fragment handling policy.
450 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-bit key.
451 By default it remains compatible with the old version and other
452 standards-based implementations.
453 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
454 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
455 a denial of service attack.
456 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
457 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
458 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
459 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
460
461 v1.2.0 - 03 Aug 2011
462 ------------------------
463 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
464 switching ASICs.
465 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
466 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
467 - OpenFlow:
468 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
469 - Database:
470 - Implement table unique constraints.
471 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
472 - ovs-dpctl:
473 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
474 counters for each port.
475 - ovs-ofctl:
476 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
477 - ovs-vsctl:
478 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
479 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
480 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
481 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
482 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
483 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
484 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
485 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
486 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
487 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
488 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
489 at "emer" level.
490 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
491 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
492 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
493 your scripts.
494 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
495 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
496 - Feature removals:
497 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
498 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
499 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
500 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
501 - Performance and scalability improvements
502 - Bug fixes
503
504 v1.1.0 - 05 Apr 2011
505 ------------------------
506 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
507 - LACP
508 - 802.1ag CCM
509 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
510 - QoS:
511 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
512 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
513 - Kernel:
514 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
515 close to a stable ABI now.
516 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
517 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
518 - Bonding:
519 - New active backup bonding mode.
520 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
521 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
522 - miimon support.
523 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
524 - ovs-dpctl:
525 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
526 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
527 port groups was dropped.
528 - ovs-vsctl:
529 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
530 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
531 option.
532 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
533 - New "find" command.
534 - ovs-ofctl:
535 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
536 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
537 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
538 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
539 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
540 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
541 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
542 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
543 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
544 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
545 - OpenFlow support:
546 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
547 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
548 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
549 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
550 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
551 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
552 sending to an output port.
553 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
554 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
555 current implementation.
556 - New experimental "note" action.
557 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
558 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
559 - Database:
560 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
561 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
562 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
563 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
564 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
565 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
566 integrators.
567 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
568 controller individually specified.
569 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
570 - New versioning and checksum features.
571 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
572 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
573 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
574 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
575 - Feature removals:
576 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
577 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
578 - Dropped controller discovery support.
579 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
580 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
581 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
582 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
583 - Performance and scalability improvements
584 - Bug fixes
585
586 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
587 ------------------------
588 - Bug fixes
589
590 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
591 ------------------------
592 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
593 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
594 - Performance and scalability improvements
595 - Bug fixes
596
597 v1.0.1 - 31 May 2010
598 --------------------
599 - New "patch" interface type
600 - Bug fixes
601
602 v1.0.0 - 15 May 2010
603 --------------------
604 - Configuration database with remote management
605 - OpenFlow 1.0
606 - GRE tunneling
607 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
608 - Performance and scalability improvements
609 - Bug fixes
610
611 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
612 ---------------------
613 - Bug fixes
614
615 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
616 ---------------------
617 - Add support for sFlow(R)
618 - Make headers compatible with C++
619 - Bug fixes
620
621 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
622 ---------------------
623 - User-space forwarding engine
624 - Bug fixes
625
626 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
627 ---------------------
628 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
629 - Bug fixes
630
631 v0.90.6 - 6 Oct 2009
632 --------------------
633 - Bug fixes
634
635 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
636 ---------------------
637 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups
638 - Bug fixes