[ovs-announce] Open vSwitch 2.8.0 Available

Justin Pettit jpettit at ovn.org
Tue Sep 5 22:44:12 UTC 2017


The Open vSwitch team is pleased to announce the release of Open vSwitch 2.8.0:

 http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.8.0.tar.gz

A few other feature highlights of 2.8.0 include:

- Support for multiple VLANs (802.1ad or "QinQ"), including a new "dot1q-tunnel" port VLAN mode

- Added NAT support for userspace datapath

- New vxlan tunnel extension "gpe" to support VXLAN-GPE tunnels

- New support for non-Ethernet (L3) payloads in GRE and VXLAN-GPE

- All features required by OpenFlow 1.4 are now implemented

- Support for ovsdb-server role-based access control (RBAC)

- Experimental NSH (Network Service Header) support in userspace datapath

- Experimental support for hardware offloading

- Support for Linux kernels up to 4.12

- OVN:

     * Built-in DNS support for OVN

     * IPAM can assign IPv6 addresses

     * OVSDB RBAC support to reduce impact of compromised hypervisors

     * Support for ACL logging

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

 http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.8.0

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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