2 ------------------------
4 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
5 (Use the extensible match extensions instead.)
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9 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
12 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
14 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
15 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
17 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
18 close to a stable ABI now.
19 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
20 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
22 - New active backup bonding mode.
23 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
24 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
26 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
28 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
29 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
30 port groups was dropped.
32 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
33 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
35 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
38 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
39 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
40 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
41 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
42 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
43 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
44 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
45 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
46 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
47 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
49 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
50 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
51 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
52 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
53 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
54 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
55 sending to an output port.
56 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
57 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
58 current implementation.
59 - New experimental "note" action.
60 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
61 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
63 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
64 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
65 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
66 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
67 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
68 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
70 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
71 controller individually specified.
72 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
73 - New versioning and checksum features.
74 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
75 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
76 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
77 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
79 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
80 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
81 - Dropped controller discovery support.
82 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
83 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
84 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
85 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
86 - Performance and scalability improvements
89 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
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93 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
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95 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
96 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
97 - Performance and scalability improvements
102 - New "patch" interface type
107 - Configuration database with remote management
110 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
111 - Performance and scalability improvements
114 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
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118 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
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120 - Add support for sFlow(R)
121 - Make headers compatible with C++
124 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
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126 - User-space forwarding engine
129 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
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131 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
138 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
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140 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups