1 openvswitch (1.8.90-1) unstable; urgency=low
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6 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 07 May 2012 14:14:52 +0900
8 openvswitch (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * New upstream version
11 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
12 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
13 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
14 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
16 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
17 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
19 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
20 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
22 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
23 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
25 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
26 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
28 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
29 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
30 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
31 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
32 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
33 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
34 flow table changes as they happen.
35 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
36 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
37 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
38 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
40 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
41 instead the local timezone, by default.
43 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:44:52 +0900
45 openvswitch (1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
47 * New upstream version
48 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
49 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
50 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
51 - Added ability to configure dscp setting for manager and controller
52 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
53 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
54 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
57 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
58 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
61 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
62 information using the new port description multipart messages.
64 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
65 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
66 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
67 - Tripled flow setup performance.
68 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
69 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
70 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
72 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:23:57 +0900
74 openvswitch (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
76 * New upstream version
77 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
79 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:17 +0900
81 openvswitch (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
83 * New upstream version
85 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
86 Instead they drop traffic.
87 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
88 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
89 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
90 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
93 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
94 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
95 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
97 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
98 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
99 receive asynchronously.
100 - New "fin_timeout" action.
101 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
102 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
103 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
104 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
105 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
106 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
107 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for all
108 the daemons. An example of the default format is 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z.
109 ovs-appctl can be used to change the default format as before.
110 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
111 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
112 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
113 for more information.
114 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
115 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
116 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
117 - ofproto-provider interface:
118 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
119 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
121 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
122 a timestamp with every update.
123 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
125 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:12:48 +0900
127 openvswitch (1.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
128 [ Open vSwitch team ]
129 * New upstream version
131 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
132 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
133 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
135 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
137 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
138 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
139 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
140 directories as defaults.
142 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 01 June 2012 13:06:00 +0900
144 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120426-1) unstable; urgency=low
146 * New upstream release fixing the following bugs:
147 o Broken log rotation.
148 o Use-after-free error when ports disappear.
149 o Minor memory leaks.
150 o Testsuite failures on big-endian architectures.
152 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:46:55 -0700
154 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120321-1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * New upstream version including:
158 - ovs-vsctl: Allow "fake bridges" to be created for VLAN 0.
159 - vswitchd: Make the MAC entry aging time configurable.
160 - mac-learning: Increase MAC learning timeout to 300 seconds.
162 - netdev-linux: Fix use-after-free when netdev_dump_queues() deletes
164 - netlink-socket: Increase Netlink socket receive buffer size.
165 - ofproto: Fix code that keeps track of MTU.
166 - ovs-monitor-ipsec: Detect correctly IPSEC configuration changes
167 - bond: Incorrectly reported an error in appctl.
168 - socket-util: Unlink Unix domain sockets that bind but fail to connect.
169 - bridge: Remove unwanted ports at time of ofproto creation.
170 - dpif-linux: Make dpif_linux_port_query_by_name() query only one
172 - ofproto-dpif: Cleanup STP on ports when disabled on their bridge.
173 - configure: Try to extract kernel source directory from build Makefile.
174 - vswitchd: Always configure a default queue for QoS.
175 - ofproto-dpif: Don't output to in_port even if in_port is OFPP_LOCAL.
176 - sflow_agent: Use snprintf() in place of sprintf().
178 - Move PKI directory to FHS-compliant location. Closes: #661090.
179 Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> for reporting
181 - Use a different way to avoid failing install without kernel module.
182 - Avoid unit test failure when doing "unofficial" builds.
183 - Bump standards-version to 3.9.3.
184 - Remove some useless files from the dkms package.
185 - Clean .pyc files in "clean" target.
186 - Remove po-debconf build dependency.
187 - Build-depend on python-all to pull in all Python versions.
188 - Add missing ${python:Depends} to openvswitch-test package.
189 - Improve long descriptions so as to better describe the packages.
190 - Bump debhelper compat level to 8 and make build-depends consistent.
191 - Fix exit status of openvswitch-switch init script "status" command.
192 - Use provided kernel source dir instead of host kernel version.
193 - Do not run "make" if "configure" fails during DKMS build.
194 - Look in /lib/modules instead of /usr/src for DKMS kernel sources.
195 - Fix dependencies for openvswitch-datapath-dkms package.
196 - Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions.
197 - Add dependency on ${misc:Depends} to openvswitch-test
198 o Documentation improvements:
199 - ovsdb-doc: Use minus sign in negative numbers in nroff output.
200 - ovsdb-doc: Convert '-' preceding a number as a minus sign, not a
202 - ovsdb-doc: Put NAME section into generated manpage.
203 - Fix typo in manpage.
204 - vswitchd: Document behavior of 802.1p priorities with VLAN splinters.
205 - netdev: Fix typo in error message.
206 - INSTALL.Linux: minor typo
208 * Many thanks to Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> for contributing many
209 of the packaging fixes listed above.
211 * This version fixes most of the lintian errors described in bug
212 #663051, but a few remain, so this upload does not close that bug. I
213 believe that this upload should be suitable for downgrading that bug's
216 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:00:28 -0700
218 openvswitch (1.4.0-2+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Non maintainer upload.
221 * Removes all patches in debian/patches, because they are patching stuff
222 inconditionally in debian/*, and this should be applied by default.
223 * Uses the correct ${kernel_source_dir} in debian/dkms.conf.in, so that
224 the kernel module builds as expected (Closes: #659685).
226 -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:46:24 +0000
228 openvswitch (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Use explicit DKMS variable for kernel source directory
231 - 0001-debian-Fix-dependencies-for-openvswitch-datapath-dkm.patch
232 - 0002-debian-Look-in-lib-modules-instead-of-usr-src-for-DK.patch
233 - 0001-debian-Use-provided-kernel-source-dir.patch
234 - 0001-debian-Do-not-run-make-if-configure-fails-during-DKM.patch
236 * Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions
237 - 0001-debian-Don-t-install-Python-modules-for-obsolete-Pyt.patch
239 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:43:13 +0900
241 openvswitch (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
242 [ Open vSwitch team ]
243 * New upstream version
244 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
245 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
246 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
247 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
248 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
251 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
252 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
253 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
254 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
255 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
257 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
258 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
260 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
262 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
264 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
265 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
267 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
268 - Debian: Depend on python (>= 2.7) | python-argparse instead of
269 python-argparse to avoid pulling in python2.6
272 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000
274 openvswitch (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
275 [ Open vSwitch team ]
276 * New upstream version
278 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
280 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
281 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
283 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
284 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
285 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
286 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
287 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
289 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
290 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
291 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
292 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
293 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
294 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
295 - Fragment handling extensions:
296 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
297 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
299 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
300 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
301 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
302 fragment handling policy.
303 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-key. By
304 default it remains compatible with the old version and other
305 standards-based implementations.
306 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
307 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
308 a denial of service attack.
309 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
310 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
311 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
312 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
314 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 09 Dec 2011 23:36:00 +0000
316 openvswitch (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
318 [ Open vSwitch team ]
319 * New upstream version
320 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
322 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
323 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
325 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
327 - Implement table unique constraints.
328 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
330 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
331 counters for each port.
333 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
335 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
336 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
337 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
338 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
339 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
340 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
341 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
342 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
343 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
344 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
345 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
347 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
348 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
349 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
351 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
352 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
354 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
355 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
356 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
357 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
358 - Performance and scalability improvements
361 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0000
363 openvswitch (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
365 [ Open vSwitch team ]
369 * docs: Suppress warning marcro DD not defined
370 (upstream commit 58f870d0)
371 * debian: Make openvswitch depend on Python
372 (upstream commit aa41cb61)
373 * debian: Don't begin openvswitch-pki description with article.
374 (upstream commit bc6bb66)
375 * Debian: Add ${misc:Depends} dependency to python-openvswitch
376 * Debian: Update standards version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.2
377 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency on python openvswitch
378 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency for python openvswitch
379 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
380 - For local non-debian/ patches (above)
382 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:46:15 +0900
384 openvswitch (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
386 [ Open vSwitch team ]
387 * New upstream version
388 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
391 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
393 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
394 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
396 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
397 close to a stable ABI now.
398 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
399 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
401 - New active backup bonding mode.
402 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
403 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
405 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
407 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
408 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
409 port groups was dropped.
411 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
412 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
414 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
415 - New "find" command.
417 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
418 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
419 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
420 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
421 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
422 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
423 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
424 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
425 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
426 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
428 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
429 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
430 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
431 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
432 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
433 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
434 sending to an output port.
435 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
436 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
437 current implementation.
438 - New experimental "note" action.
439 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
440 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
442 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
443 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
444 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
445 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
446 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
447 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
449 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
450 controller individually specified.
451 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
452 - New versioning and checksum features.
453 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
454 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
455 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
456 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
458 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
459 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
460 - Dropped controller discovery support.
461 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
462 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
463 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
464 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
465 - Performance and scalability improvements
469 * Add the following fixes from upstream branch-1.1
470 - 7f1aca9 dpif-linux: Avoid logging error on ENOENT in
471 dpif_linux_is_internal_device().
472 - 8996f83 dpif-linux: Avoid segfault on netdev_get_stats() without kernel
474 - 002d4a3 vswitch: Improve schema documentation.
475 - 58bd294 cfm: Fix broken fault logic.
476 - c042664 bridge: Run once before configuring CFM.
477 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
479 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:10 +0900
481 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g2.ea763e0e-1) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Git snapshot, including
484 - tests: Fix Y2011 bug in testsuite
487 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:34:35 +0900
489 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g1.bbe8d06e-1) unstable; urgency=low
493 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:11:55 +0900
495 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-5) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Open vSwitch only works on Linux so set
498 the Architecture of binary packages to linux-any accordingly
500 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:55:19 +0900
502 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-4) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Add procps to Build-Depends
507 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:17 +0900
509 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-3) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Remove the corekeeper package as it isn't strongly related
512 to Open vSwitch. It has subsequently been broken off into
513 a separate source repository and may be uploaded as its
514 own debian source package.
515 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary
517 * Avoid the use of long socket names.
518 (closes: #602891, closes: #602911)
520 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:05 +0900
522 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Clarify licensing of files in xenserver/
526 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:56:18 +0900
528 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low
530 * New upstream version
533 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:28:59 +0900
535 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low
537 * New upstream version
538 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
539 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
540 - Performance and scalability improvements
543 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:00 +0000
545 openvswitch (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
547 * New upstream version.
549 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 10:36:00 +0000