[ovs-discuss] OVS 2.4 Release Plans

Mussar, Gary gmussar at ciena.com
Mon Jun 15 20:28:35 UTC 2015


2.4 has been a long time coming. Should we expect 2.5 to take a year too or might it be by the end of this year?

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 15:46
To: Mussar, Gary
Cc: Justin Pettit; discuss
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS 2.4 Release Plans

I predict that they won't make it into 2.4 but will make it into 2.5.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 03:13:02PM -0400, Mussar, Gary wrote:
> What are the plans for the QinQ patches?
> 
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Justin Pettit
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 02:03
> To: announce at openvswitch.org; discuss
> Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS 2.4 Release Plans
> 
> We wanted to provide a quick update on the plan for the next couple releases.  OVS 2.4 is shaping up to be a big release with a number of great new features people are anxious to use. Some of the highlights include:
> 
> 	- Native Linux kernel STT support
> 	- Geneve tunneling
> 	- DPDK vhost and tunneling
> 	- OpenFlow 1.4 bundles (flow transactions)
> 	- Bash command completion
> 	- RSTP
> 	- Multicast snooping
> 	- Support for Linux kernels up to 4.0.x
> 
> The plan is to branch early next week and have an official release ready roughly six weeks after that.
> 
> We originally had planned to release OVS 2.4 when the new connection tracking features were merged into the upstream kernel. Unfortunately, this has taken longer than we anticipated.  We feel we are making progress on that front, and once support is added, we will follow it up quickly with another release, which will likely be the next LTS.  
> 
> Finally, on the subject of LTS, we plan to release OVS 2.3.2 next week, which contains a number of bug fixes.
> 
> Happy switching!
> 
> --Justin
> 
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