[ovs-dev] [PATCH branch-2.7 2/2] NEWS: Describe libopenvswitch-X.Y change.

Joe Stringer joe at ovn.org
Wed May 17 23:37:24 UTC 2017


The previous commit renamed libopenvswitch-X to libopenvswitch-X.Y to
allow ABI breakage to be expressed through libtool numbering. Document
this change.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>
---
 NEWS | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c68ecd74c97b..bbff66af3735 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ v2.7.1 - xx xxx xxxx
    - Fedora Packaging:
      * OVN services are no longer restarted automatically after upgrade.
    - Add --cleanup option to command 'ovs-appctl exit' (see ovs-vswitchd(8)).
+   - libopenvswitch-2 was renamed to libopenvswitch-2.7. Applications built
+     against libopenvswitch must be recompiled against the newer library.
 
 v2.7.0 - 21 Feb 2017
 ---------------------
-- 
2.11.1



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