- The default bond_mode changed from SLB to active-backup, to protect
unsuspecting users from the significant risks of SLB bonds (which are
documented in vswitchd/INTERNALS).
+ - Load balancing can be disabled by setting the bond-rebalance-interval
+ to zero.
- Logging to console and file will have UTC timestamp as a default for all
the daemons. An example of the default format is 2012-01-27T16:35:17Z.
ovs-appctl can be used to change the default format as before.
+ - New support for limiting the number of flows in an OpenFlow flow
+ table, with configurable policy for evicting flows upon
+ overflow. See the Flow_Table table in ovs-vswitch.conf.db(5)
+ for more information.
+ - ofproto-provider interface:
+ - "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
+ should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
+ - The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
+ to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
+ - ovsdb-client:
+ - The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
+ a timestamp with every update.
v1.5.0 - xx xxx xxxx
directories as defaults.
-v1.4.0 - xx xxx xxxx
+v1.4.0 - 30 Jan 2012
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+ - Compatible with Open vSwitch kernel module included in Linux 3.3.
- New "VLAN splinters" feature to work around buggy device drivers
in old Linux versions. (This feature is deprecated. When
broken device drivers are no longer in widespread use, we will
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