1 openvswitch (2.2.90-1) unstable; urgency=low
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6 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
8 openvswitch (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * New upstream version
11 - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it
12 should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are
14 - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or
16 - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was
17 poorly maintained and not widely used.
18 - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow
19 controllers against Open vSwitch. See INSTALL for details.
20 - Added IPFIX support for SCTP flows and templates for ICMPv4/v6 flows.
21 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
22 log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
24 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.13. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
25 tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
27 - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
29 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
31 openvswitch (2.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
33 * New upstream version
34 - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns
35 "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet
36 header fields are used for address prefix tracking. Prefix
37 tracking allows the classifier to skip rules with longer than
38 necessary prefixes, resulting in better wildcarding for datapath
39 flows. Default configuration is to not use any fields for prefix
40 tracking. However, if any flow tables contain both exact matches
41 and masked matches for IP address fields, OVS performance may be
42 increased by using this feature.
43 * As of now, the fields for which prefix lookup can be enabled
44 are: 'tun_id', 'tun_src', 'tun_dst', 'nw_src', 'nw_dst' (or
45 aliases 'ip_src' and 'ip_dst'), 'ipv6_src', and 'ipv6_dst'.
46 (Using this feature for 'tun_id' would only make sense if the
47 tunnel IDs have prefix structure similar to IP addresses.)
48 * There is a maximum number of fields that can be enabled for any
49 one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
51 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:0=@N1 -- \
52 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table0
53 $ ovs-vsctl set Bridge br0 flow_tables:1=@N1 -- \
54 --id=@N1 create Flow_Table name=table1
55 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table0 prefixes=ip_dst,ip_src
56 $ ovs-vsctl set Flow_Table table1 prefixes=[]
57 - TCP flags matching: OVS now supports matching of TCP flags. This
58 has an adverse performance impact when using OVS userspace 1.10
59 or older (no megaflows support) together with the new OVS kernel
60 module. It is recommended that the kernel and userspace modules
61 both are upgraded at the same time.
62 - The default OpenFlow and OVSDB ports will change to
63 IANA-assigned numbers in a future release. Consider updating
64 your installations to specify port numbers instead of using the
67 * The OpenFlow 1.1+ "Write-Actions" instruction is now supported.
68 * OVS limits the OpenFlow port numbers it assigns to port 32767 and
69 below, leaving port numbers above that range free for assignment
71 * ovs-vswitchd now honors changes to the "ofport_request" column
72 in the Interface table by changing the port's OpenFlow port
74 - ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 man page will contain graphviz/dot
75 diagram only if graphviz package was installed at the build time.
76 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.11
78 The "show" command also displays mega flow mask stats.
80 * New command "ofp-parse-pcap" to dump OpenFlow from PCAP files.
81 - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no longer
82 packaged or installed by default, because too many users assumed
83 incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or desirable part
84 of an Open vSwitch deployment.
85 - Added vlog option to export to a UDP syslog sink.
87 * The "monitor" command can now monitor all tables in a database,
88 instead of being limited to a single table.
89 - The flow-eviction-threshold has been replaced by the flow-limit which is a
90 hard limit on the number of flows in the datapath. It defaults to 200,000
91 flows. OVS automatically adjusts this number depending on network
93 * The openvswitch-controller package has been removed, because too many
94 users assumed incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or
95 desirable part of an Open vSwitch deployment.
97 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
99 openvswitch (2.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
100 [ Open vSwitch team ]
101 * New upstream version
102 - The ovs-vswitchd process is no longer single-threaded. Multiple
103 threads are now used to handle flow set up and asynchronous
106 * Experimental support for OpenFlow 1.1 (in addition to 1.2 and
107 1.3, which had experimental support in 1.10).
108 * New support for matching outer source and destination IP address
109 of tunneled packets, for tunnel ports configured with the newly
110 added "remote_ip=flow" and "local_ip=flow" options.
111 * Support for matching on metadata 'pkt_mark' for interacting with
112 other system components. On Linux this corresponds to the skb
114 * Support matching, rewriting SCTP ports
115 - The Interface table in the database has a new "ifindex" column to
116 report the interface's OS-assigned ifindex.
117 - New "check-oftest" Makefile target for running OFTest against Open
118 vSwitch. See README-OFTest for details.
119 - The flow eviction threshold has been moved to the Open_vSwitch table.
120 - Database names are now mandatory when specifying ovsdb-server options
121 through database paths (e.g. Private key option with the database name
122 should look like "--private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key").
123 - Added ovs-dev.py, a utility script helpful for Open vSwitch developers.
124 - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.10
126 * New "ofp-parse" for printing OpenFlow messages read from a file.
127 - Added configurable flow caching support to IPFIX exporter.
128 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.32.
129 - Log file timestamps and ovsdb commit timestamps are now reported
130 with millisecond resolution. (Previous versions only reported
133 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:03:42 -0700
135 openvswitch (1.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
136 [ Open vSwitch team ]
137 * New upstream version
138 - Support for megaflows, which allows wildcarding in the kernel (and
139 any dpif implementation that supports wildcards). Depending on
140 the flow table and switch configuration, flow set up rates are
141 close to the Linux bridge.
142 - The "tutorial" directory contains a new tutorial for some advanced
143 Open vSwitch features.
144 - Stable bond mode has been removed.
145 - The autopath action has been removed.
146 - New support for the data encapsulation format of the LISP tunnel
147 protocol (RFC 6830). An external control plane or manual flow
148 setup is required for EID-to-RLOC mapping.
150 * The "dec_mpls_ttl" and "set_mpls_ttl" actions from OpenFlow
151 1.1 and later are now implemented.
152 * New "stack" extension for use in actions, to push and pop from
154 * The "load" and "set_field" actions can now modify the "in_port". (This
155 allows one to enable output to a flow's input port by setting the
156 in_port to some unused value, such as OFPP_NONE.)
158 * New debugging commands "add-flow", "mod-flow", "del-flow".
159 - In dpif-based bridges, cache action translations, which can improve
160 flow set up performance by 80% with a complicated flow table.
161 - New syslog format, prefixed with "ovs|", to be easier to filter.
162 - RHEL: Removes the default firewall rule that allowed GRE traffic to
163 pass through. Any users that relied on this automatic firewall hole
164 will have to manually configure it. The ovs-ctl(8) manpage documents
165 the "enable-protocol" command that can be used as an alternative.
166 - New CFM demand mode which uses data traffic to indicate interface
169 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:31:44 -0700
171 openvswitch (1.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
172 [ Open vSwitch team ]
173 * New upstream version
174 - Bridge compatibility support has been removed. Any uses that
175 rely on ovs-brcompatd will have to stick with Open vSwitch 1.9.x
176 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead
178 - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable.
179 - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued
180 separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be
181 possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to
182 prevent new flows from being processed on other ports.
183 - Many "ovs-vsctl" database commands now accept an --if-exists option.
184 Please refer to the ovs-vsctl manpage for details.
186 - Experimental support for newer versions of OpenFlow. See
187 the "What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?"
188 question in the FAQ for more details.
189 - The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
190 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table.
191 - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the
192 "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
194 - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here:
195 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03).
196 - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with
197 Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later.
198 - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit)
199 is no longer supported.
200 - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported.
202 - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
203 if only one datapath exists.
205 - New "vlog/disable-rate-limit" and "vlog/enable-rate-limit"
206 commands available allow control over logging rate limits.
207 - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command
208 that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands.
209 - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port
210 numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when
211 port_construct() is called.
212 - All dpif-based bridges of a particular type share a common
213 datapath called "ovs-<type>", e.g. "ovs-system". The ovs-dpctl
214 commands will now return information on that shared datapath. To
215 get the equivalent bridge-specific information, use the new
216 "ovs-appctl dpif/*" commands.
217 - Backward-incompatible changes:
218 - Earlier Open vSwitch versions treated ANY as a wildcard in flow
219 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a
220 conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to
221 retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning.
222 - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work
223 with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later.
225 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 01 May 2013 14:28:21 -0700
227 openvswitch (1.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
228 [ Open vSwitch team ]
229 * New upstream version
231 - Support for ipv6 set action.
232 - SKB mark matching and setting.
233 - support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
234 - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from
235 Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri.
236 - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information.
237 - New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
238 cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
239 The default log patterns now include this information.
241 - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL
242 fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label.
243 - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow.
245 - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are
246 symmetric. If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for
247 tunneling to work. Note this only applies to flow-based keys.
248 - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key.
249 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'.
250 This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon.
251 - Tunnel header caching removed.
253 - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords
254 that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is
255 also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility
256 with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers
257 for these ports for different purposes).
259 - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in
260 the "add-if" command.
261 - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with
262 the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some
263 alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims
264 are true, but because we do not know of any users for this
265 feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi
266 program was not included in distribution packaging.)
267 - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
268 was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
269 - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
270 earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with
272 - Bridge compatibility.
274 - The autopath action.
275 - Interface type "null".
276 - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
277 - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
278 - CAPWAP tunnel support.
279 - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
282 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:23:19 -0700
284 openvswitch (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
285 [ Open vSwitch team ]
286 * New upstream version
287 *** Internal only release ***
288 - New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
289 - Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
290 Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
291 behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
293 - A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
294 vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
296 - New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
297 - "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
299 - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
300 IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
302 - Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
303 the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
305 - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
306 - The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
307 queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
308 ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
309 versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
310 - New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
311 flow table changes as they happen.
312 - Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
313 false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
314 - Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
315 sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
317 - All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
318 instead the local timezone, by default.
320 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:44:52 +0900
322 openvswitch (1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
323 [ Open vSwitch team ]
324 * New upstream version
325 - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
326 openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
327 - Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
328 - Added ability to configure dscp setting for manager and controller
329 connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
330 Internetwork Control (0xc0).
331 - Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
334 - Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
335 - Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
338 - Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
339 information using the new port description multipart messages.
341 - Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
342 - Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
343 - "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
344 - Tripled flow setup performance.
345 - The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
346 has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
347 coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
349 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:23:57 +0900
351 openvswitch (1.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
352 [ Open vSwitch team ]
353 * New upstream version
354 - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
356 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:17 +0900
358 openvswitch (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
359 [ Open vSwitch team ]
360 * New upstream version
362 - LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
363 Instead they drop traffic.
364 - The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
365 unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
366 documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
367 - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
370 - Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
371 See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
372 - NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
374 - Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
375 controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
376 receive asynchronously.
377 - New "fin_timeout" action.
378 - Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
379 - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
380 to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
381 - When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
382 (queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
383 queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
384 - Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for all
385 the daemons. An example of the default format is 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z.
386 ovs-appctl can be used to change the default format as before.
387 - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
388 table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
389 overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
390 for more information.
391 - New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
392 false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
393 asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
394 - ofproto-provider interface:
395 - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
396 should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
398 - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
399 a timestamp with every update.
400 - CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.
402 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:12:48 +0900
404 openvswitch (1.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
405 [ Open vSwitch team ]
406 * New upstream version
408 - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
409 based on flow cookie when using NXM.
410 - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
412 - Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
414 - The "find" command supports new set relational operators
415 {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
416 - ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
417 directories as defaults.
419 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Fri, 01 June 2012 13:06:00 +0900
421 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120426-1) unstable; urgency=low
423 * New upstream release fixing the following bugs:
424 o Broken log rotation.
425 o Use-after-free error when ports disappear.
426 o Minor memory leaks.
427 o Testsuite failures on big-endian architectures.
429 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:46:55 -0700
431 openvswitch (1.4.0+git20120321-1) unstable; urgency=low
433 * New upstream version including:
435 - ovs-vsctl: Allow "fake bridges" to be created for VLAN 0.
436 - vswitchd: Make the MAC entry aging time configurable.
437 - mac-learning: Increase MAC learning timeout to 300 seconds.
439 - netdev-linux: Fix use-after-free when netdev_dump_queues() deletes
441 - netlink-socket: Increase Netlink socket receive buffer size.
442 - ofproto: Fix code that keeps track of MTU.
443 - ovs-monitor-ipsec: Detect correctly IPSEC configuration changes
444 - bond: Incorrectly reported an error in appctl.
445 - socket-util: Unlink Unix domain sockets that bind but fail to connect.
446 - bridge: Remove unwanted ports at time of ofproto creation.
447 - dpif-linux: Make dpif_linux_port_query_by_name() query only one
449 - ofproto-dpif: Cleanup STP on ports when disabled on their bridge.
450 - configure: Try to extract kernel source directory from build Makefile.
451 - vswitchd: Always configure a default queue for QoS.
452 - ofproto-dpif: Don't output to in_port even if in_port is OFPP_LOCAL.
453 - sflow_agent: Use snprintf() in place of sprintf().
455 - Move PKI directory to FHS-compliant location. Closes: #661090.
456 Thanks to Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> for reporting
458 - Use a different way to avoid failing install without kernel module.
459 - Avoid unit test failure when doing "unofficial" builds.
460 - Bump standards-version to 3.9.3.
461 - Remove some useless files from the dkms package.
462 - Clean .pyc files in "clean" target.
463 - Remove po-debconf build dependency.
464 - Build-depend on python-all to pull in all Python versions.
465 - Add missing ${python:Depends} to openvswitch-test package.
466 - Improve long descriptions so as to better describe the packages.
467 - Bump debhelper compat level to 8 and make build-depends consistent.
468 - Fix exit status of openvswitch-switch init script "status" command.
469 - Use provided kernel source dir instead of host kernel version.
470 - Do not run "make" if "configure" fails during DKMS build.
471 - Look in /lib/modules instead of /usr/src for DKMS kernel sources.
472 - Fix dependencies for openvswitch-datapath-dkms package.
473 - Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions.
474 - Add dependency on ${misc:Depends} to openvswitch-test
475 o Documentation improvements:
476 - ovsdb-doc: Use minus sign in negative numbers in nroff output.
477 - ovsdb-doc: Convert '-' preceding a number as a minus sign, not a
479 - ovsdb-doc: Put NAME section into generated manpage.
480 - Fix typo in manpage.
481 - vswitchd: Document behavior of 802.1p priorities with VLAN splinters.
482 - netdev: Fix typo in error message.
483 - INSTALL.Linux: minor typo
485 * Many thanks to Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> for contributing many
486 of the packaging fixes listed above.
488 * This version fixes most of the lintian errors described in bug
489 #663051, but a few remain, so this upload does not close that bug. I
490 believe that this upload should be suitable for downgrading that bug's
493 -- Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:00:28 -0700
495 openvswitch (1.4.0-2+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Non maintainer upload.
498 * Removes all patches in debian/patches, because they are patching stuff
499 inconditionally in debian/*, and this should be applied by default.
500 * Uses the correct ${kernel_source_dir} in debian/dkms.conf.in, so that
501 the kernel module builds as expected (Closes: #659685).
503 -- Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:46:24 +0000
505 openvswitch (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Use explicit DKMS variable for kernel source directory
508 - 0001-debian-Fix-dependencies-for-openvswitch-datapath-dkm.patch
509 - 0002-debian-Look-in-lib-modules-instead-of-usr-src-for-DK.patch
510 - 0001-debian-Use-provided-kernel-source-dir.patch
511 - 0001-debian-Do-not-run-make-if-configure-fails-during-DKM.patch
513 * Don't install Python modules for obsolete Python versions
514 - 0001-debian-Don-t-install-Python-modules-for-obsolete-Pyt.patch
516 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:43:13 +0900
518 openvswitch (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
519 [ Open vSwitch team ]
520 * New upstream version
521 - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
522 - New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
523 in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
524 broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
525 delete this feature.) See ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more
528 - Added ability to match on IPv6 flow label through NXM.
529 - Added ability to match on ECN bits in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
530 - Added ability to match on TTL in IPv4 and IPv6 through NXM.
531 - Added ability to modify ECN bits in IPv4.
532 - Added ability to modify TTL in IPv4.
534 - Don't require the "normal" action to use mirrors. Traffic will
535 now be properly mirrored for any flows, regardless of their
537 - Track packet and byte statistics sent on mirrors.
539 - New "fdb/flush" command to flush bridge's MAC learning table.
541 - A new distributed testing tool that allows one to diagnose performance
542 and connectivity issues. This tool currently is not included in RH or
544 - RHEL packaging now supports integration with Red Hat network scripts.
545 - Debian: Depend on python (>= 2.7) | python-argparse instead of
546 python-argparse to avoid pulling in python2.6
549 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:36:00 +0000
551 openvswitch (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
552 [ Open vSwitch team ]
553 * New upstream version
555 - Added an OpenFlow extension which allows the "output" action to accept
557 - Added an OpenFlow extension for flexible learning.
558 - Bumped number of NXM registers from four to five.
560 - New "version" command to determine version of running daemon.
561 - If no argument is provided for "cfm/show", displays detailed
562 information about all interfaces with CFM enabled.
563 - If no argument is provided for "lacp/show", displays detailed
564 information about all ports with LACP enabled.
566 - The software switch now supports 255 OpenFlow tables, instead
567 of just one. By default, only table 0 is consulted, but the
568 new NXAST_RESUBMIT_TABLE action can look up in additional
569 tables. Tables 128 and above are reserved for use by the
570 switch itself; please use only tables 0 through 127.
571 - Add support for 802.1D spanning tree (STP).
572 - Fragment handling extensions:
573 - New OFPC_FRAG_NX_MATCH fragment handling mode, in which L4
574 fields are made available for matching in fragments with
576 - New NXM_NX_IP_FRAG match field for matching IP fragments (usable
577 via "ip_frag" in ovs-ofctl).
578 - New ovs-ofctl "get-frags" and "set-frags" commands to get and set
579 fragment handling policy.
580 - CAPWAP tunneling now supports an extension to transport a 64-key. By
581 default it remains compatible with the old version and other
582 standards-based implementations.
583 - Flow setups are now processed in a round-robin manner across ports
584 to prevent any single client from monopolizing the CPU and conducting
585 a denial of service attack.
586 - Added support for native VLAN tagging. A new "vlan_mode"
587 parameter can be set for "port". Possible values: "access",
588 "trunk", "native-tagged" and "native-untagged".
589 - test-openflowd has been removed. Please use ovs-vswitchd instead.
591 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 09 Dec 2011 23:36:00 +0000
593 openvswitch (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
595 [ Open vSwitch team ]
596 * New upstream version
597 - New "ofproto" abstraction layer to ease porting to hardware
599 - Packaging for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 6.0.
600 - Datapath support for Linux kernels up to 3.0.
602 - New "bundle" and "bundle_load" action extensions.
604 - Implement table unique constraints.
605 - Support cooperative locking between callers.
607 - New "-s" option for "show" command prints packet and byte
608 counters for each port.
610 - New "--readd" option for "replace-flows".
612 - New "show" command to print an overview of configuration.
613 - New "comment" command to add remark that explains intentions.
614 - ovs-brcompatd has been rewritten to fix long-standing bugs.
615 - ovs-openflowd has been renamed test-openflowd and moved into the
616 tests directory. Its presence confused too many users. Please
617 use ovs-vswitchd instead.
618 - New ovs-benchmark utility to test flow setup performance.
619 - A new log level "off" has been added. Configuring a log facility
620 "off" prevents any messages from being logged to it. Previously,
621 "emer" was effectively "off" because no messages were ever logged at
622 level "emer". Now, errors that cause a process to exit are logged
624 - "configure" option --with-l26 has been renamed --with-linux, and
625 --with-l26-source has been renamed --with-linux-source. The old
626 names will be removed after the next release, so please update
628 - The "-2.6" suffix has been dropped from the datapath/linux-2.6 and
629 datapath/linux-2.6/compat-2.6 directories.
631 - Dropped support for "tun_id_from_cookie" OpenFlow extension.
632 Please use the extensible match extensions instead.
633 - Removed the Maintenance_Point and Monitor tables in an effort
634 to simplify 802.1ag configuration.
635 - Performance and scalability improvements
638 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:43:00 +0000
640 openvswitch (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
642 [ Open vSwitch team ]
646 * docs: Suppress warning marcro DD not defined
647 (upstream commit 58f870d0)
648 * debian: Make openvswitch depend on Python
649 (upstream commit aa41cb61)
650 * debian: Don't begin openvswitch-pki description with article.
651 (upstream commit bc6bb66)
652 * Debian: Add ${misc:Depends} dependency to python-openvswitch
653 * Debian: Update standards version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.2
654 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency on python openvswitch
655 * Debian: ${source:Version} dependency for python openvswitch
656 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
657 - For local non-debian/ patches (above)
659 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:46:15 +0900
661 openvswitch (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
663 [ Open vSwitch team ]
664 * New upstream version
665 - Ability to define policies over IPv6
668 - Support for extensible match extensions to OpenFlow
670 - Support for HFSC qdisc.
671 - Queue used by in-band control can now be configured.
673 - Kernel<->userspace interface has been reworked and should be
674 close to a stable ABI now.
675 - "Port group" concept has been dropped.
676 - GRE over IPSEC tunnels
678 - New active backup bonding mode.
679 - New L4 hashing support when LACP is enabled.
680 - Source MAC hash now includes VLAN field also.
682 - Greatly improved handling of large flow tables
684 - "show" command now prints full vport configuration.
685 - "dump-groups" command removed since kernel support for
686 port groups was dropped.
688 - New commands for working with the new Managers table.
689 - "list" command enhanced with new formatting options and --columns
691 - "get" command now accepts new --id option.
692 - New "find" command.
694 - New "queue-stats" command for printing queue stats.
695 - New commands "replace-flows" and "diff-flows".
696 - Commands to add and remove flows can now read from files.
697 - New --flow-format option to enable or disable NXM.
698 - New --more option to increase OpenFlow message verbosity.
699 - Removed "tun-cookie" command, which is no longer useful.
700 - ovs-controller enhancements for testing various features.
701 - New ovs-vlan-test command for testing for Linux kernel driver VLAN
702 bugs. New ovs-vlan-bug-workaround command for enabling and
703 disabling a workaround for these driver bugs.
705 - "Resubmit" actions now update flow statistics.
706 - New "register" extension for use in matching and actions, via NXM.
707 - New "multipath" experimental action extension.
708 - New support for matching multicast Ethernet frames, via NXM.
709 - New extension for OpenFlow vendor error codes.
710 - New extension to set the QoS output queue without actually
711 sending to an output port.
712 - Open vSwitch now reports a single flow table, instead of
713 separate hash and wildcard tables. This better models the
714 current implementation.
715 - New experimental "note" action.
716 - New "ofproto/trace" ovs-appctl command and associated utilities
717 to ease debugging complex flow tables.
719 - Schema documentation now includes an entity-relationship diagram.
720 - The database is now garbage collected. In most tables,
721 unreferenced rows will be deleted automatically.
722 - Many tables now include statistics updated periodically by
723 ovs-vswitchd or ovsdb-server.
724 - Every table now has an "external-ids" column for use by OVS
726 - There is no default controller anymore. Each bridge must have its
727 controller individually specified.
728 - The "fail-mode" is now a property of a Bridge instead of a Controller.
729 - New versioning and checksum features.
730 - New Managers table and manager_options column in Open_vSwitch table
731 for specifying managers. The old "managers" column in the
732 Open_vSwitch table has been removed.
733 - Many "name" columns are now immutable.
735 - Dropped support for XenServer pre-5.6.100.
736 - Dropped support for Linux pre-2.6.18.
737 - Dropped controller discovery support.
738 - Dropped "ovs-ofctl status" and the OpenFlow extension that it used.
739 Statistics reporting in the database is a rough equivalent.
740 - Dropped the "corekeeper" package (now separate, at
741 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper).
742 - Performance and scalability improvements
746 * Add the following fixes from upstream branch-1.1
747 - 7f1aca9 dpif-linux: Avoid logging error on ENOENT in
748 dpif_linux_is_internal_device().
749 - 8996f83 dpif-linux: Avoid segfault on netdev_get_stats() without kernel
751 - 002d4a3 vswitch: Improve schema documentation.
752 - 58bd294 cfm: Fix broken fault logic.
753 - c042664 bridge: Run once before configuring CFM.
754 * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
756 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:10 +0900
758 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g2.ea763e0e-1) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Git snapshot, including
761 - tests: Fix Y2011 bug in testsuite
764 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:34:35 +0900
766 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2.g1.bbe8d06e-1) unstable; urgency=low
770 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:11:55 +0900
772 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-5) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Open vSwitch only works on Linux so set
775 the Architecture of binary packages to linux-any accordingly
777 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:55:19 +0900
779 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-4) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Add procps to Build-Depends
784 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:46:17 +0900
786 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-3) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Remove the corekeeper package as it isn't strongly related
789 to Open vSwitch. It has subsequently been broken off into
790 a separate source repository and may be uploaded as its
791 own debian source package.
792 http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corekeeper;a=summary
794 * Avoid the use of long socket names.
795 (closes: #602891, closes: #602911)
797 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:35:05 +0900
799 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Clarify licensing of files in xenserver/
803 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:56:18 +0900
805 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre2-1) unstable; urgency=low
807 * New upstream version
810 -- Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:28:59 +0900
812 openvswitch (1.1.0~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low
814 * New upstream version
815 - OpenFlow 1.0 slicing (QoS) functionality
816 - Python bindings for configuration database (no write support)
817 - Performance and scalability improvements
820 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:00 +0000
822 openvswitch (1.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
824 * New upstream version.
826 -- Open vSwitch team <dev@openvswitch.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 10:36:00 +0000