X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=704513e5e15f42b33926de59f71c0c2a83f29a69;hb=e2f3178f0582eda302bdc5629189b6a56d9fbcdd;hp=8ec6c909c9619fa42f4e6765fa57588f86438772;hpb=29c71cfa0c137abd49bfa346c1b871d2543071ae;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8ec6c909c..704513e5e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,24 @@ -Post-v2.1.0 +Post-v2.2.0 --------------------- + - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in + ovs-vswitchd. + - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the + flow matching process. + - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field + matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the + number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath + exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming + packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an + older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the + new userspace. + +v2.2.0 - xx xxx xxx +--------------------- + - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it + should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are + configured properly. + - ovs-vsctl now reports when ovs-vswitchd fails to create a new port or + bridge. - The "ovsdbmonitor" graphical tool has been removed, because it was poorly maintained and not widely used. - New "check-ryu" Makefile target for running Ryu tests for OpenFlow @@ -8,11 +27,13 @@ Post-v2.1.0 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen' instead. - - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.12. On Kernel 3.12 OVS uses tunnel - API for GRE and VXLAN. + - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses + tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN. + - Added DPDK support. + - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python -v2.1.0 - xx xxx xxxx +v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014 --------------------- - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet