1 openvswitch (2.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
5 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:42:33 -0700
7 openvswitch (2.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
11 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2018 10:38:23 -0700
13 openvswitch (2.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
15 * New upstream version
17 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:03:12 -0700
19 openvswitch (2.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
22 * Use debhelper for DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM. Thanks to Clint Byrum
23 <spamaps@debian.org> for this improvement.
24 * New upstream version
26 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:32:16 -0700
28 openvswitch (2.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
30 * New upstream version
31 - Utilities and daemons that support SSL now allow protocols and
32 ciphers to be configured with --ssl-protocols and --ssl-ciphers.
34 * QoS is now implemented via egress shaping rather than ingress policing.
35 * DSCP marking is now supported, via the new northbound QoS table.
36 * IPAM now supports fixed MAC addresses.
37 * Support for source IP address based routing.
39 - New --ovs option to also print OpenFlow flows.
40 - put_dhcp_opts and put_dhcp_optsv6 actions may now be traced.
41 * Support for managing SSL and remote connection configuration in
42 northbound and southbound databases.
43 * TCP connections to northbound and southbound databases are no
44 longer enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.
45 See documentation for ovn-sbctl/ovn-nbctl "set-connection"
46 command or the ovn-ctl "--db-sb-create-insecure-remote" and
47 "--db-nb-create-insecure-remote" command-line options for
48 information regarding remote connection configuration.
49 * New appctl "inject-pkt" command in ovn-controller that allows
50 packets to be injected into the connected OVS instance.
51 * Distributed logical routers may now be connected directly to
52 logical switches with localnet ports, by specifying a
53 "redirect-chassis" on the distributed gateway port of the
54 logical router. NAT rules may be specified directly on the
55 distributed logical router, and are handled either centrally on
56 the "redirect-chassis", or in many cases are handled locally on
57 the hypervisor where the corresponding logical port resides.
58 Gratuitous ARP for NAT addresses on a distributed logical
59 router is not yet supported, but will be added in a future
61 - Fixed regression in table stats maintenance introduced in OVS
62 2.3.0, wherein the number of OpenFlow table hits and misses was
65 * OFPT_PACKET_OUT messages are now supported in bundles.
66 * A new "selection_method=dp_hash" type for OpenFlow select group
67 bucket selection that uses the datapath computed 5-tuple hash
68 without making datapath flows match the 5-tuple fields, which
69 is useful for more efficient load balancing, for example. This
70 uses the Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ that allows
71 control over the OpenFlow select groups selection method. See
72 "selection_method" and related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for
74 * The "sample" action now supports "ingress" and "egress" options.
75 * The "ct" action now supports the TFTP ALG where support is available.
76 * New actions "clone" and "ct_clear".
78 * 'bundle' command now supports packet-out messages.
79 * New syntax for 'ovs-ofctl packet-out' command, which uses the
80 same string parser as the 'bundle' command. The old 'packet-out'
81 syntax is deprecated and will be removed in a later OVS
83 * New unixctl "ofctl/packet-out" command, which can be used to
84 instruct a flow monitor to issue OpenFlow packet-out messages.
86 * Remote connections can now be made read-only (see ovsdb-server(1)).
88 * TLV mappings for protocols such as Geneve are now segregated on
89 a per-OpenFlow bridge basis rather than globally. (The interface
91 * Removed support for IPsec tunnels.
93 * New option 'n_rxq_desc' and 'n_txq_desc' fields for DPDK interfaces
94 which set the number of rx and tx descriptors to use for the given port.
95 * Support for DPDK v16.11.
96 * Support for rx checksum offload. Refer DPDK HOWTO for details.
97 * Port Hotplug is now supported.
98 * DPDK physical ports can now have arbitrary names. The PCI address of
99 the device must be set using the 'dpdk-devargs' option. Compatibility
100 with the old dpdk<portid> naming scheme is broken, and as such a
101 device will not be available for use until a valid dpdk-devargs is
103 * Virtual DPDK Poll Mode Driver (vdev PMD) support.
104 * Removed experimental tag.
106 * A package upgrade does not automatically restart OVS service.
107 - ovs-vswitchd/ovs-vsctl:
108 * Ports now have a "protected" flag. Protected ports can not forward
109 frames to other protected ports. Unprotected ports can receive and
110 forward frames to protected and other unprotected ports.
111 - ovs-vsctl, ovn-nbctl, ovn-sbctl, vtep-ctl:
112 * Database commands now accept integer ranges, e.g. "set port
113 eth0 trunks=1-10" to enable trunking VLANs 1 to 10.
115 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:57:33 -0700
117 openvswitch (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
118 [ Open vSwitch team ]
119 * New upstream version
120 - First supported release of OVN. See ovn-architecture(7) for more
123 * New "monitor_cond" "monitor_cond_update" and "update2" extensions to
126 * OpenFlow 1.3+ bundles are now supported for group mods as well as
127 flow mods and port mods. Both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle
128 flags are supported for group mods as well as flow mods.
129 * OpenFlow 1.1+ OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST now supports OFPP_ANY.
130 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_QUEUE_DESC is now supported.
131 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_TABLE_STATUS is now supported.
132 * New property-based packet-in message format NXT_PACKET_IN2 with support
133 for arbitrary user-provided data and for serializing flow table
134 traversal into a continuation for later resumption.
135 * New extension message NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG2 to allow OpenFlow 1.4-like
136 control over asynchronous messages in earlier versions of OpenFlow.
137 * OpenFlow 1.3 Extension 230, adding OpenFlow Bundles support, is
138 now implemented. Only flow mod and port mod messages are supported
140 * New OpenFlow extension NXM_NX_MPLS_TTL to provide access to MPLS TTL.
141 * New output option, output(port=N,max_len=M), to allow truncating a
142 packet to size M bytes when outputting to port N.
143 * New command OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD for OFPT_GROUP_MOD message that adds a
144 new group or modifies an existing groups
145 * The optional OpenFlow packet buffering feature is deprecated in
146 this release, and will be removed in the next OVS release
147 (2.7). After the change OVS always sends the 'buffer_id' as
148 0xffffffff in packet-in messages and will send an error
149 response if any other value of this field is included in
150 packet-out and flow mod sent by a controller. Controllers are
151 already expected to work properly in cases where the switch can
152 not buffer packets, so this change should not affect existing
154 * New OpenFlow extension NXT_CT_FLUSH_ZONE to flush conntrack zones.
155 - Improved OpenFlow version compatibility for actions:
156 * New OpenFlow extension to support the "group" action in OpenFlow 1.0.
157 * OpenFlow 1.0 "enqueue" action now properly translated to OpenFlow 1.1+.
158 * OpenFlow 1.1 "mod_nw_ecn" and OpenFlow 1.1+ "mod_nw_ttl" actions now
159 properly translated to OpenFlow 1.0.
161 * queue-get-config command now allows a queue ID to be specified.
162 * '--bundle' option can now be used with OpenFlow 1.3 and with group mods.
163 * New "bundle" command allows executing a mixture of flow and group mods
164 as a single atomic transaction.
165 * New option "--color" to produce colorized output for some commands.
166 * New option '--may-create' to use OFPGC_ADD_OR_MOD in mod-group command.
168 * New "sampling_port" option for "sample" action to allow sampling
169 ingress and egress tunnel metadata with IPFIX.
170 * New ovs-ofctl commands "dump-ipfix-bridge" and "dump-ipfix-flow" to
171 dump bridge IPFIX statistics and flow based IPFIX statistics.
172 * New setting other-config:virtual_obs_id to add an arbitrary string
175 * New QoS type "linux-noop" that prevents Open vSwitch from trying to
176 manage QoS for a given port (useful when other software manages QoS).
178 * New option "n_rxq" for PMD interfaces.
179 Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' is no longer supported.
180 Not supported by vHost interfaces. For them number of rx and tx queues
181 is applied from connected virtio device.
182 * New 'other_config:pmd-rxq-affinity' field for PMD interfaces, that
183 allows to pin port's rx queues to desired cores.
184 * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show' to check the port/rxq
186 * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
187 * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
188 * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed to use database
189 * Sensible defaults have been introduced for many of the required
190 configuration options
191 * DB entries have been added for many of the DPDK EAL command line
192 arguments. Additional arguments can be passed via the dpdk-extra
194 * Add ingress policing functionality.
195 * PMD threads servicing vHost User ports can now come from the NUMA
196 node that device memory is located on if CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA
198 * Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG,
199 fragmentation or NAT support yet)
200 * Support for DPDK 16.07
201 * Optional support for DPDK pdump enabled.
202 * Jumbo frame support
203 * Remove dpdkvhostcuse port type.
204 * OVS client mode for vHost and vHost reconnect (Requires QEMU 2.7)
205 - Increase number of registers to 16.
206 - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
209 * New "vlog/close" command.
211 * Added the ability to selectively start the forwarding and database
212 functions (ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server, respectively).
214 * Remove max number of sessions limit, to enable connection scaling
217 * Added support for Python 3.4+ in addition to existing support
220 * Introduced SELinux policy package.
221 - Datapath Linux kernel compatibility.
222 * Dropped support for kernel older than 3.10.
223 * Removed VLAN splinters feature.
224 * Support for truncate action.
225 * Datapath supports kernel upto 4.6.
227 * Flow based tunnel match and action can be used for IPv6 address using
228 tun_ipv6_src, tun_ipv6_dst fields.
229 * Added support for IPv6 tunnels, for details checkout FAQ.
230 * Deprecated support for IPsec tunnels ports.
231 - A wrapper script, 'ovs-tcpdump', to easily port-mirror an OVS port and
233 - Introduce --no-self-confinement flag that allows daemons to work with
234 sockets outside their run directory.
235 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-512 because
236 SHA-1 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to
237 disable it in OpenSSL.
238 - Add 'mtu_request' column to the Interface table. It can be used to
239 configure the MTU of non-internal ports.
241 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:53:13 -0700
243 openvswitch (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
244 [ Open vSwitch team ]
245 * New upstream version
246 - Dropped support for Python older than version 2.7. As a consequence,
247 using Open vSwitch 2.5 or later on XenServer 6.5 or earlier (which
248 have Python 2.4) requires first installing Python 2.7.
250 * Group chaining (where one OpenFlow group triggers another) is
252 * OpenFlow 1.4+ "importance" is now considered for flow eviction.
253 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_EVICTION is now implemented.
254 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPTC_VACANCY_EVENTS is now implemented.
255 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_TABLE_DESC is now implemented.
256 * Allow modifying the ICMPv4/ICMPv6 type and code fields.
257 * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG and OFPT_GET_ASYNC_CONFIG are
260 * New "out_group" keyword for OpenFlow 1.1+ matching on output group.
262 * Geneve tunnels can now match and set options and the OAM bit.
263 * The nonstandard GRE64 tunnel extension has been dropped.
264 - Support Multicast Listener Discovery (MLDv1 and MLDv2).
265 - Add 'symmetric_l3l4' and 'symmetric_l3l4+udp' hash functions.
266 - sFlow agent now reports tunnel and MPLS structures.
267 - New 'check-system-userspace', 'check-kmod' and 'check-kernel' Makefile
268 targets to run a new system testsuite. These tests can be run inside
269 a Vagrant box. See INSTALL.md for details
270 - Mark --syslog-target argument as deprecated. It will be removed in
271 the next OVS release.
272 - Added --user option to all daemons
273 - Add support for connection tracking through the new "ct" action
274 and "ct_state"/"ct_zone"/"ct_mark"/"ct_label" match fields. Only
275 available on Linux kernels with the connection tracking module loaded.
276 - Add experimental version of OVN. OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a
277 system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the
278 existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network
279 abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.
281 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:17:44 -0700
283 openvswitch (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
284 [ Open vSwitch team ]
285 * New upstream version
286 - Flow table modifications are now atomic, meaning that each packet
287 now sees a coherent version of the OpenFlow pipeline. For
288 example, if a controller removes all flows with a single OpenFlow
289 "flow_mod", no packet sees an intermediate version of the OpenFlow
290 pipeline where only some of the flows have been deleted.
291 - Added support for SFQ, FQ_CoDel and CoDel qdiscs.
292 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-vsctl Please check
293 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
294 - The MAC learning feature now includes per-port fairness to mitigate
295 MAC flooding attacks.
296 - New support for a "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension, which
297 allows constructing OpenFlow matches of the form "field1 in
298 {a,b,c...} AND field2 in {d,e,f...}" and generalizations. For details,
299 see documentation for the "conjunction" action in ovs-ofctl(8).
300 - Add bash command-line completion support for ovs-appctl/ovs-dpctl/
301 ovs-ofctl/ovsdb-tool commands. Please check
302 utilities/ovs-command-compgen.INSTALL.md for how to use.
303 - The "learn" action supports a new flag "delete_learned" that causes
304 the learned flows to be deleted when the flow with the "learn" action
306 - Basic support for the Geneve tunneling protocol. It is not yet
307 possible to generate or match options. This is planned for a future
308 release. The protocol is documented at
309 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-00
310 - The OVS database now reports controller rate limiting statistics.
311 - sflow now exports information about LACP-based bonds, port names, and
312 OpenFlow port numbers, as well as datapath performance counters.
313 - ovs-dpctl functionality is now available for datapaths integrated
314 into ovs-vswitchd, via ovs-appctl. Some existing ovs-appctl
315 commands are now redundant and will be removed in a future
316 release. See ovs-vswitchd(8) for details.
318 * OpenFlow 1.4 bundles are now supported for flow mods and port
319 mods. For flow mods, both 'atomic' and 'ordered' bundle flags
320 are trivially supported, as all bundled messages are executed
321 in the order they were added and all flow table modifications
322 are now atomic to the datapath. Port mods may not appear in
323 atomic bundles, as port status modifications are not atomic.
324 * IPv6 flow label and neighbor discovery fields are now modifiable.
325 * OpenFlow 1.5 extended registers are now supported.
326 * The OpenFlow 1.5 actset_output field is now supported.
327 * OpenFlow 1.5 Copy-Field action is now supported.
328 * OpenFlow 1.5 masked Set-Field action is now supported.
329 * OpenFlow 1.3+ table features requests are now supported (read-only).
330 * Nicira extension "move" actions may now be included in action sets.
331 * "resubmit" actions may now be included in action sets. The resubmit
332 is executed last, and only if the action set has no "output" or "group"
334 * OpenFlow 1.4+ flow "importance" is now maintained in the flow table.
335 * A new Netronome extension to OpenFlow 1.5+ allows control over the
336 fields hashed for OpenFlow select groups. See "selection_method" and
337 related options in ovs-ofctl(8) for details.
338 - ovs-ofctl has a new '--bundle' option that makes the flow mod commands
339 ('add-flow', 'add-flows', 'mod-flows', 'del-flows', and 'replace-flows')
340 use an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle to operate the modifications as a single
341 atomic transaction. If any of the flow mods in a transaction fail, none
342 of them are executed. All flow mods in a bundle appear to datapath
343 lookups simultaneously.
344 - ovs-ofctl 'add-flow' and 'add-flows' commands now accept arbitrary flow
345 mods as an input by allowing the flow specification to start with an
346 explicit 'add', 'modify', 'modify_strict', 'delete', or 'delete_strict'
347 keyword. A missing keyword is treated as 'add', so this is fully
348 backwards compatible. With the new '--bundle' option all the flow mods
349 are executed as a single atomic transaction using an OpenFlow 1.4 bundle.
350 - ovs-pki: Changed message digest algorithm from MD5 to SHA-1 because
351 MD5 is no longer secure and some operating systems have started to disable
353 - ovsdb-server: New OVSDB protocol extension allows inequality tests on
354 "optional scalar" columns. See ovsdb-server(1) for details.
355 - ovs-vsctl now permits immutable columns in a new row to be modified in
356 the same transaction that creates the row.
357 - test-controller has been renamed ovs-testcontroller at request of users
358 who find it useful for testing basic OpenFlow setups. It is still not
359 a necessary or desirable part of most Open vSwitch deployments.
360 - Support for travis-ci.org based continuous integration builds has been
361 added. Build failures are reported to build@openvswitch.org. See INSTALL.md
362 file for additional details.
363 - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).
364 The implementation has been tested successfully against the Ixia Automated
365 Network Validation Library (ANVL).
366 - Stats are no longer updated on fake bond interface.
367 - Keep active bond slave selection across OVS restart.
368 - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
369 containers. If and when there is a native integration of Open vSwitch
370 with Docker, the wrapper script will be retired.
371 - Added support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
372 protocols. This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
373 - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3)
374 - Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
375 - The documentation now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
376 console or file for vlog logging instead of the previously used term
378 - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension
379 - Initial support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM draft standard. This
380 contains rudimentary support for the LLDP protocol as needed for
382 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports are now the IANA-assigned
383 numbers. OpenFlow is 6653 and OVSDB is 6640.
384 - Support for DPDK vHost.
385 - Support for outer UDP checksums in Geneve and VXLAN.
386 - The kernel vports with dependencies are no longer part of the overall
387 openvswitch.ko but built and loaded automatically as individual kernel
388 modules (vport-*.ko).
389 - Support for STT tunneling.
390 - Support to configure method (--syslog-method argument) that determines
391 how daemons will talk with syslog.
392 - Support for "ovs-appctl vlog/list-pattern" command that lets to query
393 logging message format for each destination.
394 - GRE64 and ipsec_gre64 tunnel protocol is deprecated and will be removed
395 from OVS v2.5 release.
396 * The openvswitch-testcontroller package is new. It reintroduces the
397 simple OpenFlow controller that was packaged with Open vSwitch prior to
398 version 2.1, at request of users who find it useful for testing basic
399 OpenFlow setups. It is still not a necessary or desirable part of most
400 Open vSwitch deployments.
402 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:23:43 -0700
404 openvswitch (2.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
405 [ Open vSwitch team ]
406 * New upstream version
407 - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
409 - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
410 flow matching process.
411 - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
412 matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
413 number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath
414 exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
415 packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
416 older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
419 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:03:32 -0700
421 openvswitch (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
422 [ Open vSwitch team ]
423 * New upstream version
424 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
425 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
427 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
429 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
430 poorly maintained and not widely used.
431 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
432 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL for details.
433 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
434 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
435 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
437 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
438 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
439 - Added DPDK support.
440 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
442 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
444 openvswitch (2.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
445 [ Open vSwitch team ]
446 * New upstream version
447 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
448 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
449 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
450 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
451 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
452 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
453 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
454 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
455 increased by using this feature.
456 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
457 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
458 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
459 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
460 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
461 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
462 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
464 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
465 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
466 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
467 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
468 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
469 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
470 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
471 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
472 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
473 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
474 both are upgraded at the same time.
475 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
476 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
477 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
480 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
481 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
482 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
484 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
485 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
487 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
488 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
489 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
491 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
493 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
494 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
495 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
496 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
497 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
498 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
500 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
501 instead of being limited to a single table.
502 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
503 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
504 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
506 * The openvswitch-controller package has been removed, because too many
507 users assumed incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or
508 desirable part of an Open vSwitch deployment.
510 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
512 openvswitch (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
513 [ Open vSwitch team ]
514 * New upstream version
515 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
516 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
519 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
520 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
521 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
522 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
523 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
524 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
525 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
527 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
528 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
529 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
530 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
531 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
532 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
533 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
534 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
535 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
536 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
537 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
539 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
540 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
541 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
542 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
543 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
546 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:03:42 -0700
548 openvswitch (1.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
549 [ Open vSwitch team ]
550 * New upstream version
551 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
552 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
553 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
554 close to the Linux bridge.
555 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
556 Open vSwitch features.
557 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
558 - The autopath action has been removed.
559 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
560 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
561 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
563 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
564 1.1 and later are now implemented.
565 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
567 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
568 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
569 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
571 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
572 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
573 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
574 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
575 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
576 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
577 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
578 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
579 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
582 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:31:44 -0700
584 openvswitch (1.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
585 [ Open vSwitch team ]
586 * New upstream version
587 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
588 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
589 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
591 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
592 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
593 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
594 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
595 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
596 - Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
597 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
599 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
600 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
601 question in the FAQ for more details.
602 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
603 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
604 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
605 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
607 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
608 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
609 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
610 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
611 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
612 is no longer supported.
613 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
615 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
616 if only one datapath exists.
618 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
619 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
620 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
621 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
622 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
623 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
624 port_construct() is called.
625 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
626 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
627 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
628 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
629 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
630 - Backward-incompatible changes:
631 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
632 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
633 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
634 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
635 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
636 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
638 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 01 May 2013 14:28:21 -0700
640 openvswitch (1.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
641 [ Open vSwitch team ]
642 * New upstream version
644 - Support for ipv6 set action.
645 - SKB mark matching and setting.
646 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
647 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
648 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
649 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
650 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
651 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
652 The default log patterns now include this information.
654 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
655 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
656 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
658 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
659 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
660 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
661 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
662 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
663 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
664 - Tunnel header caching removed.
666 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
667 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
668 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
669 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
670 for these ports for different purposes).
672 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
673 the "add-if" command.
674 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
675 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
676 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
677 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
678 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
679 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
680 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
681 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
682 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
683 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
685 - Bridge compatibility.
687 - The autopath action.
688 - Interface type "null".
689 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
690 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
691 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
692 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
695 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:23:19 -0700
697 openvswitch (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
698 [ Open vSwitch team ]
699 * New upstream version
700 *** Internal only release ***
701 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
702 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
703 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
704 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
706 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
707 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
709 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
710 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
712 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
713 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
715 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
716 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
718 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
719 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
720 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
721 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
722 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
723 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
724 flow table changes as they happen.
725 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
726 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
727 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
728 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
730 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
731 instead the local timezone, by default.
733 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:44:52 +0900
735 openvswitch (1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
736 [ Open vSwitch team ]
737 * New upstream version
738 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
739 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
740 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
741 - Added ability to configure dscp setting for manager and controller
742 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
743 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
744 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
747 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
748 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
751 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
752 information using the new port description multipart messages.
754 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
755 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
756 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
757 - Tripled flow setup performance.
758 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
759 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
760 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
762 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:23:57 +0900
764 openvswitch (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
765 [ Open vSwitch team ]
766 * New upstream version
767 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
769 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:17 +0900
771 openvswitch (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
772 [ Open vSwitch team ]
773 * New upstream version
775 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
776 Instead they drop traffic.
777 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
778 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
779 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
780 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
783 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
784 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
785 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
787 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
788 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
789 receive asynchronously.
790 - New "fin_timeout" action.
791 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
792 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
793 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
794 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
795 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
796 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
797 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for all
798 the daemons. An example of the default format is 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z.
799 ovs-appctl can be used to change the default format as before.
800 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
801 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
802 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
803 for more information.
804 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
805 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
806 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
807 - ofproto-provider interface:
808 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
809 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
811 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
812 a timestamp with every update.
813 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
815 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:12:48 +0900
817 openvswitch (1.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
818 [ Open vSwitch team ]
819 * New upstream version
821 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
822 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
823 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
825 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
827 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
828 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
829 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
830 directories as defaults.
832 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 01 June 2012 13:06:00 +0900
834 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120426-1) unstable; urgency=low
836 * New upstream release fixing the following bugs:
837 o Broken log rotation.
838 o Use-after-free error when ports disappear.
839 o Minor memory leaks.
840 o Testsuite failures on big-endian architectures.
842 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:46:55 -0700
844 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120321-1) unstable; urgency=low
846 * New upstream version including:
848 - ovs-vsctl: Allow "fake bridges" to be created for VLAN 0.
849 - vswitchd: Make the MAC entry aging time configurable.
850 - mac-learning: Increase MAC learning timeout to 300 seconds.
852 - netdev-linux: Fix use-after-free when netdev_dump_queues() deletes
854 - netlink-socket: Increase Netlink socket receive buffer size.
855 - ofproto: Fix code that keeps track of MTU.
856 - ovs-monitor-ipsec: Detect correctly IPSEC configuration changes
857 - bond: Incorrectly reported an error in appctl.
858 - socket-util: Unlink Unix domain sockets that bind but fail to connect.
859 - bridge: Remove unwanted ports at time of ofproto creation.
860 - dpif-linux: Make dpif_linux_port_query_by_name() query only one
862 - ofproto-dpif: Cleanup STP on ports when disabled on their bridge.
863 - configure: Try to extract kernel source directory from build Makefile.
864 - vswitchd: Always configure a default queue for QoS.
865 - ofproto-dpif: Don't output to in_port even if in_port is OFPP_LOCAL.
866 - sflow_agent: Use snprintf() in place of sprintf().
868 - Move PKI directory to FHS-compliant location. Closes: #661090.
869 Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> for reporting
871 - Use a different way to avoid failing install without kernel module.
872 - Avoid unit test failure when doing "unofficial" builds.
873 - Bump standards-version to 3.9.3.
874 - Remove some useless files from the dkms package.
875 - Clean .pyc files in "clean" target.
876 - Remove po-debconf build dependency.
877 - Build-depend on python-all to pull in all Python versions.
878 - Add missing ${python:Depends} to openvswitch-test package.
879 - Improve long descriptions so as to better describe the packages.
880 - Bump debhelper compat level to 8 and make build-depends consistent.
881 - Fix exit status of openvswitch-switch init script "status" command.
882 - Use provided kernel source dir instead of host kernel version.
883 - Do not run "make" if "configure" fails during DKMS build.
884 - Look in /lib/modules instead of /usr/src for DKMS kernel sources.
885 - Fix dependencies for openvswitch-datapath-dkms package.
886 - Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions.
887 - Add dependency on ${misc:Depends} to openvswitch-test
888 o Documentation improvements:
889 - ovsdb-doc: Use minus sign in negative numbers in nroff output.
890 - ovsdb-doc: Convert '-' preceding a number as a minus sign, not a
892 - ovsdb-doc: Put NAME section into generated manpage.
893 - Fix typo in manpage.
894 - vswitchd: Document behavior of 802.1p priorities with VLAN splinters.
895 - netdev: Fix typo in error message.
896 - INSTALL.Linux: minor typo
898 * Many thanks to Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> for contributing many
899 of the packaging fixes listed above.
901 * This version fixes most of the lintian errors described in bug
902 #663051, but a few remain, so this upload does not close that bug. I
903 believe that this upload should be suitable for downgrading that bug's
906 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:00:28 -0700
908 openvswitch (1.4.0-2+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Non maintainer upload.
911 * Removes all patches in debian/patches, because they are patching stuff
912 inconditionally in debian/*, and this should be applied by default.
913 * Uses the correct ${kernel_source_dir} in debian/dkms.conf.in, so that
914 the kernel module builds as expected (Closes: #659685).
916 -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:46:24 +0000
918 openvswitch (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Use explicit DKMS variable for kernel source directory
921 - 0001-debian-Fix-dependencies-for-openvswitch-datapath-dkm.patch
922 - 0002-debian-Look-in-lib-modules-instead-of-usr-src-for-DK.patch
923 - 0001-debian-Use-provided-kernel-source-dir.patch
924 - 0001-debian-Do-not-run-make-if-configure-fails-during-DKM.patch
926 * Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions
927 - 0001-debian-Don-t-install-Python-modules-for-obsolete-Pyt.patch
929 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:43:13 +0900
931 openvswitch (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
932 [ Open vSwitch team ]
933 * New upstream version
934 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
935 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
936 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
937 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
938 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
941 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
942 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
943 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
944 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
945 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
947 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
948 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
950 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
952 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
954 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
955 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
957 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
958 - Debian: Depend on python (>= 2.7) | python-argparse instead of
959 python-argparse to avoid pulling in python2.6
962 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000
964 openvswitch (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
965 [ Open vSwitch team ]
966 * New upstream version
968 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
970 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
971 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
973 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
974 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
975 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
976 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
977 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
979 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
980 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
981 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
982 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
983 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
984 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
985 - Fragment handling extensions:
986 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
987 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
989 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
990 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
991 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
992 fragment handling policy.
993 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-key. By
994 default it remains compatible with the old version and other
995 standards-based implementations.
996 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
997 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
998 a denial of service attack.
999 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
1000 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
1001 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
1002 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
1004 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 09 Dec 2011 23:36:00 +0000
1006 openvswitch (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
1008 [ Open vSwitch team ]
1009 * New upstream version
1010 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
1012 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
1013 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
1015 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
1017 - Implement table unique constraints.
1018 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
1020 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
1021 counters for each port.
1023 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
1025 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
1026 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
1027 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
1028 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
1029 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
1030 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
1031 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
1032 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
1033 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
1034 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
1035 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
1037 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
1038 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
1039 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
1041 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
1042 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
1044 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
1045 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
1046 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
1047 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
1048 - Performance and scalability improvements
1051 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0000
1053 openvswitch (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
1055 [ Open vSwitch team ]
1059 * docs: Suppress warning marcro DD not defined
1060 (upstream commit 58f870d0)
1061 * debian: Make openvswitch depend on Python
1062 (upstream commit aa41cb61)
1063 * debian: Don't begin openvswitch-pki description with article.
1064 (upstream commit bc6bb66)
1065 * Debian: Add ${misc:Depends} dependency to python-openvswitch
1066 * Debian: Update standards version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.2
1067 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency on python openvswitch
1068 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency for python openvswitch
1069 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
1070 - For local non-debian/ patches (above)
1072 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:46:15 +0900
1074 openvswitch (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
1076 [ Open vSwitch team ]
1077 * New upstream version
1078 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
1081 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
1083 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
1084 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
1086 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
1087 close to a stable ABI now.
1088 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
1089 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
1091 - New active backup bonding mode.
1092 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
1093 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
1095 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
1097 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
1098 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
1099 port groups was dropped.
1101 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
1102 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
1104 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
1105 - New "find" command.
1107 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
1108 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
1109 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
1110 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
1111 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
1112 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
1113 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
1114 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
1115 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
1116 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
1118 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
1119 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
1120 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
1121 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
1122 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
1123 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
1124 sending to an output port.
1125 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
1126 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
1127 current implementation.
1128 - New experimental "note" action.
1129 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
1130 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
1132 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
1133 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
1134 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
1135 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
1136 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
1137 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
1139 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
1140 controller individually specified.
1141 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
1142 - New versioning and checksum features.
1143 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
1144 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
1145 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
1146 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
1148 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
1149 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
1150 - Dropped controller discovery support.
1151 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
1152 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
1153 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
1154 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
1155 - Performance and scalability improvements
1159 * Add the following fixes from upstream branch-1.1
1160 - 7f1aca9 dpif-linux: Avoid logging error on ENOENT in
1161 dpif_linux_is_internal_device().
1162 - 8996f83 dpif-linux: Avoid segfault on netdev_get_stats() without kernel
1164 - 002d4a3 vswitch: Improve schema documentation.
1165 - 58bd294 cfm: Fix broken fault logic.
1166 - c042664 bridge: Run once before configuring CFM.
1167 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
1169 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:10 +0900
1171 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g2.ea763e0e-1) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Git snapshot, including
1174 - tests: Fix Y2011 bug in testsuite
1177 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:34:35 +0900
1179 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g1.bbe8d06e-1) unstable; urgency=low
1183 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:11:55 +0900
1185 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-5) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Open vSwitch only works on Linux so set
1188 the Architecture of binary packages to linux-any accordingly
1190 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:55:19 +0900
1192 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-4) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Add procps to Build-Depends
1197 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:17 +0900
1199 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-3) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Remove the corekeeper package as it isn't strongly related
1202 to Open vSwitch. It has subsequently been broken off into
1203 a separate source repository and may be uploaded as its
1204 own debian source package.
1205 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary
1207 * Avoid the use of long socket names.
1208 (closes: #602891, closes: #602911)
1210 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:05 +0900
1212 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Clarify licensing of files in xenserver/
1216 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:56:18 +0900
1218 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * New upstream version
1223 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:28:59 +0900
1225 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * New upstream version
1228 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
1229 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
1230 - Performance and scalability improvements
1233 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:00 +0000
1235 openvswitch (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * New upstream version.
1239 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 10:36:00 +0000
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