[ovs-announce] Open vSwitch 2.4.0 Available

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Aug 21 10:51:41 PDT 2015


The Open vSwitch team is pleased to announce the release of Open vSwitch 2.4.0:

   http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.4.0.tar.gz

This release contains the largest number of new features of an Open vSwitch release.  A few feature highlights of 2.4.0 include:

  - Support for the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D-2004).

  - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1, IGMPv2 and IGMPv3).

  - A new "conjunctive match" OpenFlow extension that allows flows to be
    constructed without introducing a Cartesian Product explosion.

  - Add bash command-line completion for most CLI commands.

  - Support for transactional flow updates through OpenFlow 1.4 Bundles.

  - A number of new features from the latest OpenFlow specifications.

  - A simple wrapper script, 'ovs-docker', to integrate OVS with Docker
    containers.

  - Support for STT and basic Geneve tunneling in Linux kernels.

  - Support for VXLAN Group Policy extension.

  - Support for DPDK Tunneling. VXLAN, GRE, and Geneve are supported
    protocols.

  - Support for DPDK vHost.

  - And many others.  See the full change log here:

        http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.4.0

Enjoy!

--The Open vSwitch Team   

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Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer open source virtual switch. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces. Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets.



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