From 3c23e920888f6c3adb29ca8168eb0992f5de599c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Pettit Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 21:45:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Rearrange announcements related to 1.10 and 1.9. Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit --- NEWS | 33 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d4566574e..37ed29675 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ post-v1.9.0 or adapt to native Open vSwitch support (e.g. use ovs-vsctl instead of brctl). - The maximum size of the MAC learning table is now configurable. - - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here: - http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02). - With the Linux datapath, packets for new flows are now queued separately on a per-port basis, so it should no longer be possible for a large number of new flows arriving on one port to @@ -21,6 +19,14 @@ post-v1.9.0 value of other-config:dp-desc in the Bridge table. - It is possible to request the OpenFlow port number with the "ofport_request" column in the Interface table. + - Tunneling: + - New support for the VXLAN tunnel protocol (see the IETF draft here: + http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02). + - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with + Open vSwitch 1.9.0 or later. + - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit) + is no longer supported. + - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported. - ovs-dpctl: - The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument if only one datapath exists. @@ -29,7 +35,6 @@ post-v1.9.0 commands available allow control over logging rate limits. - New "dpif/dump-dps", "dpif/show", and "dpif/dump-flows" command that mimic the equivalent ovs-dpctl commands. - - Path MTU discovery is no longer supported. - The ofproto library is now responsible for assigning OpenFlow port numbers. An ofproto implementation should assign them when port_construct() is called. @@ -43,18 +48,12 @@ post-v1.9.0 syntax. OpenFlow 1.1 adds a port named ANY, which introduces a conflict. ANY was rarely used in flow syntax, so we chose to retire that meaning of ANY in favor of the OpenFlow 1.1 meaning. - - Inheritance of the Don't Fragment bit in IP tunnels (df_inherit) is - no longer supported. - - Patch ports are implemented in userspace. - - Tunneling requires the version of the kernel module paired with Open - vSwitch 1.9.0 or later. + - Patch ports no longer require kernel support, so they now work + with FreeBSD and the kernel module built into Linux 3.3 and later. 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. - Datapath: - Support for ipv6 set action. - SKB mark matching and setting. @@ -69,6 +68,14 @@ v1.9.0 - xx xxx xxxx - 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. + - Tunneling: + - 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. + - New support for a nonstandard form of GRE that supports a 64-bit key. + - Tunnel Path MTU Discovery default value was set to 'disabled'. + This feature is deprecated and will be removed soon. + - Tunnel header caching removed. - 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 @@ -84,11 +91,8 @@ v1.9.0 - xx xxx xxxx 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'. This - feature is deprecated and will be removed soon. - 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. @@ -101,7 +105,6 @@ v1.9.0 - xx xxx xxxx - CAPWAP tunnel support. - The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the data in ARP packets. - - Tunnel header caching removed. v1.8.0 - xx xxx xxxx -- 2.43.0