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