X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fa0a24971478c147d6ca1d83b0a5367226c1dace;hb=c73c1d169d14c411a1571a3783f9b89aafc54577;hp=34fa0ea9e3576bd383416dbbc239b04253892312;hpb=f6eb6b202533ad393b8d1d8e6ae6e502cbf19caf;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 34fa0ea9e..fa0a24971 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ -post-v1.8.0 ------------------------- +post-v1.9.0 +-------------------- + + +v1.9.0 - xx xxx xxxx +-------------------- + - The tunneling code no longer assumes input and output keys are symmetric. + If they are not, PMTUD needs to be disabled for tunneling to work. Note + this only applies to flow-based keys. - FreeBSD is now a supported platform, thanks to code contributions from Gaetano Catalli, Ed Maste, and Giuseppe Lettieri. - ovs-bugtool: New --ovs option to report only OVS related information. @@ -9,6 +16,33 @@ post-v1.8.0 - OpenFlow: - Allow bitwise masking for SHA and THA fields in ARP, SLL and TLL fields in IPv6 neighbor discovery messages, and IPv6 flow label. + - Adds support for writing to the metadata field for a flow. + - ovs-ofctl: + - Commands and actions that accept port numbers now also accept keywords + that represent those ports (such as LOCAL, NONE, and ALL). This is + also the recommended way to specify these ports, for compatibility + with OpenFlow 1.1 and later (which use the OpenFlow 1.0 numbers + for these ports for different purposes). + - ovs-dpctl: + - Support requesting the port number with the "port_no" option in + the "add-if" command. + - ovs-pki: The "online PKI" features have been removed, along with + the ovs-pki-cgi program that facilitated it, because of some + alarmist insecurity claims. We do not believe that these claims + are true, but because we do not know of any users for this + feature it seems better on balance to remove it. (The ovs-pki-cgi + program was not included in distribution packaging.) + - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'. + - ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This + was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight. + - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key. + - The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no + earlier than February 2013. Please email dev@openvswitch.org with + concerns. + - Stable bond mode. + - The autopath action. + - Interface type "null". + - Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above). v1.8.0 - xx xxx xxxx @@ -46,7 +80,7 @@ v1.8.0 - xx xxx xxxx instead the local timezone, by default. -v1.7.0 - xx xxx xxxx +v1.7.0 - 30 Jul 2012 ------------------------ - kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.