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3 - The new "-s" option for "ovs-dpctl show" prints packet and byte
4 counters for each port.
6 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
7 (Use the extensible match extensions instead.)
8 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
9 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
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13 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
16 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
18 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
19 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
21 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
22 close to a stable ABI now.
23 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
24 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
26 - New active backup bonding mode.
27 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
28 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
30 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
32 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
33 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
34 port groups was dropped.
36 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
37 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
39 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
42 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
43 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
44 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
45 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
46 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
47 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
48 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
49 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
50 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
51 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
53 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
54 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
55 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
56 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
57 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
58 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
59 sending to an output port.
60 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
61 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
62 current implementation.
63 - New experimental "note" action.
64 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
65 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
67 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
68 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
69 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
70 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
71 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
72 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
74 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
75 controller individually specified.
76 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
77 - New versioning and checksum features.
78 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
79 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
80 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
81 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
83 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
84 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
85 - Dropped controller discovery support.
86 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
87 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
88 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
89 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
90 - Performance and scalability improvements
93 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
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97 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
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99 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
100 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
101 - Performance and scalability improvements
106 - New "patch" interface type
111 - Configuration database with remote management
114 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
115 - Performance and scalability improvements
118 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
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122 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
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124 - Add support for sFlow(R)
125 - Make headers compatible with C++
128 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
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130 - User-space forwarding engine
133 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
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135 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
142 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
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144 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups