Ovs

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- Datapath:
- Support for ipv6 set action.
- SKB mark matching and setting.
- support for Linux kernels up to 3.8
- 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.
- New %t and %T log escapes to identify the subprogram within a
cooperating group of processes or threads that emitted a log message.
The default log patterns now include this information.
- 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.
- 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
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.)
- ovsdb-server now enforces the immutability of immutable columns. This
was not enforced in earlier versions due to an oversight.
- The following features are now deprecated. They will be removed no
earlier than February 2013. Please email devopenvswitch.org with
concerns.
- Bridge compatibility.
- Stable bond mode.
- The autopath action.
- Interface type "null".
- Numeric values for reserved ports (see "ovs-ofctl" note above).
- Tunnel Path MTU Discovery.
- CAPWAP tunnel support.
- The data in the RARP packets can now be matched in the same way as the
data in ARP packets.

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*** Internal only release ***
- New FAQ. Please send updates and additions!
- Authors of controllers, please read the new section titled "Action
Reproduction" in DESIGN, which describes an Open vSwitch change in
behavior in corner cases that may affect some controllers.
- ovs-l3ping:
- A new test utility that can create L3 tunnel between two Open
vSwitches and detect connectivity issues.
- ovs-ofctl:
- New --sort and --rsort options for "dump-flows" command.
- "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
- OpenFlow:
- Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
were allowed.)
- Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
masked.)
- New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
- The OFPST_QUEUE request now reports an error if a specified port or
queue does not exist, or for requests for a specific queue on all
ports, if the specified queue does not exist on any port. (Previous
versions generally reported an empty set of results.)
- New "flow monitor" feature to allow controllers to be notified of
flow table changes as they happen.
- Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
- Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
sent a custom protocol, making it consistent with behavior of QEMU and
VMware.
- All Open vSwitch programs and log files now show timestamps in UTC,
instead the local timezone, by default.

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- kernel modules are renamed. openvswitch_mod.ko is now
openvswitch.ko and brcompat_mod.ko is now brcompat.ko.
- Increased the number of NXM registers to 8.
- Added ability to configure DSCP setting for manager and controller
connections. By default, these connections have a DSCP value of
Internetwork Control (0xc0).
- Added the granular link health statistics, 'cfm_health', to an
interface.
- OpenFlow:
- Added support to mask nd_target for ICMPv6 neighbor discovery flows.
- Added support for OpenFlow 1.3 port description (OFPMP_PORT_DESC)
multipart messages.
- ovs-ofctl:
- Added the "dump-ports-desc" command to retrieve port
information using the new port description multipart messages.
- ovs-test:
- Added support for spawning ovs-test server from the client.
- Now ovs-test is able to automatically create test bridges and ports.
- "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" now prints observed TCP flags in TCP flows.
- Tripled flow setup performance.
- The "coverage/log" command previously available through ovs-appctl
has been replaced by "coverage/show". The new command replies with
coverage counter values, instead of logging them.

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- Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.

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- bonding
- LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
Instead they drop traffic.
- 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.
- OpenFlow:
- Added support for bitwise matching on TCP and UDP ports.
See ovs-ofctl(8) for more information.
- NXM flow dumps now include times elapsed toward idle and hard
timeouts.
- Added an OpenFlow extension NXT_SET_ASYNC_CONFIG that allows
controllers more precise control over which OpenFlow messages they
receive asynchronously.
- New "fin_timeout" action.
- Added "fin_timeout" support to "learn" action.
- New Nicira action NXAST_CONTROLLER that offers additional features
over output to OFPP_CONTROLLER.
- When QoS settings for an interface do not configure a default queue
(queue 0), Open vSwitch now uses a default configuration for that
queue, instead of dropping all packets as in previous versions.
- Logging:
- 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.
- The syntax of commands and options to set log levels was simplified,
to make it easier to remember.
- 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.
- New "enable-async-messages" column in the Controller table. If set to
false, OpenFlow connections to the controller will initially have all
asynchronous messages disabled, overriding normal OpenFlow behavior.
- ofproto-provider interface:
- "struct rule" has a new member "used" that ofproto implementations
should maintain by updating with ofproto_rule_update_used().
- ovsdb-client:
- The new option --timestamp causes the "monitor" command to print
a timestamp with every update.
- CFM module CCM broadcasts can now be tagged with an 802.1p priority.

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- OpenFlow:
- Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
based on flow cookie when using NXM.
- Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
- Added new NXAST_DEC_TTL action.
- ovs-ofctl:
- Added daemonization support to the monitor and snoop commands.
- ovs-vsctl:
- The "find" command supports new set relational operators
{=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
- ovsdb-tool now uses the typical database and schema installation
directories as defaults.
- The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
to 300 seconds. The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.