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