[ovs-dev] [PATCH] NEW: Rearrange announcements related to 1.10 and 1.9.
Justin Pettit
jpettit at nicira.com
Tue Feb 5 05:46:42 UTC 2013
Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
---
NEWS | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3a4030f..e1fbd13 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ v1.10.0 - xx xxx xxxx
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
@@ -20,7 +18,15 @@ v1.10.0 - xx xxx xxxx
- The OpenFlow "dp_desc" may now be configured by setting the
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.
+ "ofport_request" column in the Interface table.
- ovs-dpctl:
- The "dump-flows" and "del-flows" no longer require an argument
if only one datapath exists.
@@ -29,7 +35,6 @@ v1.10.0 - xx xxx xxxx
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 @@ v1.10.0 - xx xxx xxxx
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 at 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
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