1 openvswitch (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
4 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
5 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
6 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
7 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
9 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
10 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
12 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
13 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
15 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
16 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
18 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
19 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
21 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
22 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
23 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
24 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
25 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
26 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
27 flow table changes as they happen.
28 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
29 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
30 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
31 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
33 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
34 instead the local timezone, by default.
36 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:44:52 +0900
38 openvswitch (1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
40 * New upstream version
41 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
42 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
43 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
44 - Added ability to configure dscp setting for manager and controller
45 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
46 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
47 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
50 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
51 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
54 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
55 information using the new port description multipart messages.
57 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
58 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
59 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
60 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
61 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
62 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
64 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 07 May 2012 14:11:52 +0900
66 openvswitch (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
68 * New upstream version
69 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
71 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:17 +0900
73 openvswitch (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
75 * New upstream version
77 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
78 Instead they drop traffic.
79 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
80 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
81 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
82 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
85 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
86 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
87 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
89 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
90 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
91 receive asynchronously.
92 - New "fin_timeout" action.
93 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
94 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
95 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
96 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
97 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
98 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
99 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for all
100 the daemons. An example of the default format is 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z.
101 ovs-appctl can be used to change the default format as before.
102 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
103 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
104 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
105 for more information.
106 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
107 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
108 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
109 - ofproto-provider interface:
110 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
111 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
113 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
114 a timestamp with every update.
115 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
117 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:12:48 +0900
119 openvswitch (1.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
120 [ Open vSwitch team ]
121 * New upstream version
123 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
124 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
125 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
127 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
129 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
130 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
131 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
132 directories as defaults.
134 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 01 June 2012 13:06:00 +0900
136 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120426-1) unstable; urgency=low
138 * New upstream release fixing the following bugs:
139 o Broken log rotation.
140 o Use-after-free error when ports disappear.
141 o Minor memory leaks.
142 o Testsuite failures on big-endian architectures.
144 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:46:55 -0700
146 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120321-1) unstable; urgency=low
148 * New upstream version including:
150 - ovs-vsctl: Allow "fake bridges" to be created for VLAN 0.
151 - vswitchd: Make the MAC entry aging time configurable.
152 - mac-learning: Increase MAC learning timeout to 300 seconds.
154 - netdev-linux: Fix use-after-free when netdev_dump_queues() deletes
156 - netlink-socket: Increase Netlink socket receive buffer size.
157 - ofproto: Fix code that keeps track of MTU.
158 - ovs-monitor-ipsec: Detect correctly IPSEC configuration changes
159 - bond: Incorrectly reported an error in appctl.
160 - socket-util: Unlink Unix domain sockets that bind but fail to connect.
161 - bridge: Remove unwanted ports at time of ofproto creation.
162 - dpif-linux: Make dpif_linux_port_query_by_name() query only one
164 - ofproto-dpif: Cleanup STP on ports when disabled on their bridge.
165 - configure: Try to extract kernel source directory from build Makefile.
166 - vswitchd: Always configure a default queue for QoS.
167 - ofproto-dpif: Don't output to in_port even if in_port is OFPP_LOCAL.
168 - sflow_agent: Use snprintf() in place of sprintf().
170 - Move PKI directory to FHS-compliant location. Closes: #661090.
171 Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> for reporting
173 - Use a different way to avoid failing install without kernel module.
174 - Avoid unit test failure when doing "unofficial" builds.
175 - Bump standards-version to 3.9.3.
176 - Remove some useless files from the dkms package.
177 - Clean .pyc files in "clean" target.
178 - Remove po-debconf build dependency.
179 - Build-depend on python-all to pull in all Python versions.
180 - Add missing ${python:Depends} to openvswitch-test package.
181 - Improve long descriptions so as to better describe the packages.
182 - Bump debhelper compat level to 8 and make build-depends consistent.
183 - Fix exit status of openvswitch-switch init script "status" command.
184 - Use provided kernel source dir instead of host kernel version.
185 - Do not run "make" if "configure" fails during DKMS build.
186 - Look in /lib/modules instead of /usr/src for DKMS kernel sources.
187 - Fix dependencies for openvswitch-datapath-dkms package.
188 - Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions.
189 - Add dependency on ${misc:Depends} to openvswitch-test
190 o Documentation improvements:
191 - ovsdb-doc: Use minus sign in negative numbers in nroff output.
192 - ovsdb-doc: Convert '-' preceding a number as a minus sign, not a
194 - ovsdb-doc: Put NAME section into generated manpage.
195 - Fix typo in manpage.
196 - vswitchd: Document behavior of 802.1p priorities with VLAN splinters.
197 - netdev: Fix typo in error message.
198 - INSTALL.Linux: minor typo
200 * Many thanks to Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> for contributing many
201 of the packaging fixes listed above.
203 * This version fixes most of the lintian errors described in bug
204 #663051, but a few remain, so this upload does not close that bug. I
205 believe that this upload should be suitable for downgrading that bug's
208 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:00:28 -0700
210 openvswitch (1.4.0-2+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Non maintainer upload.
213 * Removes all patches in debian/patches, because they are patching stuff
214 inconditionally in debian/*, and this should be applied by default.
215 * Uses the correct ${kernel_source_dir} in debian/dkms.conf.in, so that
216 the kernel module builds as expected (Closes: #659685).
218 -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:46:24 +0000
220 openvswitch (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Use explicit DKMS variable for kernel source directory
223 - 0001-debian-Fix-dependencies-for-openvswitch-datapath-dkm.patch
224 - 0002-debian-Look-in-lib-modules-instead-of-usr-src-for-DK.patch
225 - 0001-debian-Use-provided-kernel-source-dir.patch
226 - 0001-debian-Do-not-run-make-if-configure-fails-during-DKM.patch
228 * Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions
229 - 0001-debian-Don-t-install-Python-modules-for-obsolete-Pyt.patch
231 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:43:13 +0900
233 openvswitch (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
234 [ Open vSwitch team ]
235 * New upstream version
236 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
237 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
238 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
239 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
240 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
243 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
244 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
245 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
246 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
247 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
249 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
250 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
252 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
254 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
256 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
257 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
259 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
260 - Debian: Depend on python (>= 2.7) | python-argparse instead of
261 python-argparse to avoid pulling in python2.6
264 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000
266 openvswitch (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
267 [ Open vSwitch team ]
268 * New upstream version
270 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
272 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
273 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
275 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
276 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
277 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
278 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
279 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
281 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
282 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
283 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
284 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
285 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
286 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
287 - Fragment handling extensions:
288 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
289 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
291 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
292 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
293 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
294 fragment handling policy.
295 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-key. By
296 default it remains compatible with the old version and other
297 standards-based implementations.
298 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
299 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
300 a denial of service attack.
301 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
302 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
303 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
304 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
306 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 09 Dec 2011 23:36:00 +0000
308 openvswitch (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
310 [ Open vSwitch team ]
311 * New upstream version
312 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
314 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
315 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
317 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
319 - Implement table unique constraints.
320 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
322 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
323 counters for each port.
325 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
327 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
328 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
329 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
330 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
331 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
332 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
333 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
334 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
335 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
336 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
337 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
339 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
340 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
341 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
343 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
344 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
346 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
347 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
348 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
349 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
350 - Performance and scalability improvements
353 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0000
355 openvswitch (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
357 [ Open vSwitch team ]
361 * docs: Suppress warning marcro DD not defined
362 (upstream commit 58f870d0)
363 * debian: Make openvswitch depend on Python
364 (upstream commit aa41cb61)
365 * debian: Don't begin openvswitch-pki description with article.
366 (upstream commit bc6bb66)
367 * Debian: Add ${misc:Depends} dependency to python-openvswitch
368 * Debian: Update standards version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.2
369 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency on python openvswitch
370 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency for python openvswitch
371 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
372 - For local non-debian/ patches (above)
374 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:46:15 +0900
376 openvswitch (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
378 [ Open vSwitch team ]
379 * New upstream version
380 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
383 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
385 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
386 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
388 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
389 close to a stable ABI now.
390 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
391 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
393 - New active backup bonding mode.
394 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
395 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
397 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
399 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
400 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
401 port groups was dropped.
403 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
404 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
406 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
407 - New "find" command.
409 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
410 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
411 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
412 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
413 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
414 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
415 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
416 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
417 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
418 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
420 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
421 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
422 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
423 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
424 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
425 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
426 sending to an output port.
427 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
428 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
429 current implementation.
430 - New experimental "note" action.
431 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
432 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
434 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
435 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
436 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
437 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
438 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
439 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
441 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
442 controller individually specified.
443 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
444 - New versioning and checksum features.
445 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
446 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
447 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
448 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
450 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
451 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
452 - Dropped controller discovery support.
453 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
454 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
455 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
456 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
457 - Performance and scalability improvements
461 * Add the following fixes from upstream branch-1.1
462 - 7f1aca9 dpif-linux: Avoid logging error on ENOENT in
463 dpif_linux_is_internal_device().
464 - 8996f83 dpif-linux: Avoid segfault on netdev_get_stats() without kernel
466 - 002d4a3 vswitch: Improve schema documentation.
467 - 58bd294 cfm: Fix broken fault logic.
468 - c042664 bridge: Run once before configuring CFM.
469 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
471 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:10 +0900
473 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g2.ea763e0e-1) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Git snapshot, including
476 - tests: Fix Y2011 bug in testsuite
479 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:34:35 +0900
481 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g1.bbe8d06e-1) unstable; urgency=low
485 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:11:55 +0900
487 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-5) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Open vSwitch only works on Linux so set
490 the Architecture of binary packages to linux-any accordingly
492 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:55:19 +0900
494 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-4) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Add procps to Build-Depends
499 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:17 +0900
501 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-3) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Remove the corekeeper package as it isn't strongly related
504 to Open vSwitch. It has subsequently been broken off into
505 a separate source repository and may be uploaded as its
506 own debian source package.
507 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary
509 * Avoid the use of long socket names.
510 (closes: #602891, closes: #602911)
512 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:05 +0900
514 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Clarify licensing of files in xenserver/
518 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:56:18 +0900
520 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low
522 * New upstream version
525 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:28:59 +0900
527 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low
529 * New upstream version
530 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
531 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
532 - Performance and scalability improvements
535 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:00 +0000
537 openvswitch (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
539 * New upstream version.
541 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 10:36:00 +0000