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4 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon
6 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
7 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
8 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
9 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
10 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
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14 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
16 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
17 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
19 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
21 - Implement table unique constraints.
22 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
24 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
25 counters for each port.
27 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
29 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
30 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
31 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
32 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
33 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
34 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
35 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
36 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
37 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
38 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
39 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
41 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
42 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
43 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
45 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
46 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
48 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
49 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
50 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
51 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
52 - Performance and scalability improvements
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57 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
60 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
62 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
63 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
65 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
66 close to a stable ABI now.
67 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
68 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
70 - New active backup bonding mode.
71 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
72 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
74 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
76 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
77 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
78 port groups was dropped.
80 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
81 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
83 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
86 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
87 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
88 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
89 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
90 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
91 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
92 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
93 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
94 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
95 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
97 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
98 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
99 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
100 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
101 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
102 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
103 sending to an output port.
104 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
105 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
106 current implementation.
107 - New experimental "note" action.
108 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
109 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
111 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
112 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
113 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
114 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
115 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
116 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
118 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
119 controller individually specified.
120 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
121 - New versioning and checksum features.
122 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
123 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
124 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
125 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
127 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
128 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
129 - Dropped controller discovery support.
130 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
131 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
132 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
133 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
134 - Performance and scalability improvements
137 v1.1.0pre2 - 13 Sep 2010
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141 v1.1.0pre1 - 31 Aug 2010
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143 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
144 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
145 - Performance and scalability improvements
150 - New "patch" interface type
155 - Configuration database with remote management
158 - Support for XenServer 5.5 and 5.6
159 - Performance and scalability improvements
162 v0.99.2 - 18 Feb 2010
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166 v0.99.1 - 25 Jan 2010
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168 - Add support for sFlow(R)
169 - Make headers compatible with C++
172 v0.99.0 - 14 Jan 2010
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174 - User-space forwarding engine
177 v0.90.7 - 29 Nov 2009
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179 - Add support for NetFlow active timeouts
186 v0.90.5 - 21 Sep 2009
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188 - Generalize in-band control to more diverse network setups