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