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