[ovs-announce] Open vSwitch 1.5.0 and 1.4.2 Available

[Justin Pettit]

The Open vSwitch team is pleased to announce the release of Open vSwitch 1.5.0:

  http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.5.0.tar.gz

This release contains new features and bug fixes.  Feature highlights of 1.5.0 include:

    * OpenFlow:
        - Added support for querying, modifying, and deleting flows
          based on flow cookie when using NXM.
        - Added new NXM_PACKET_IN format.
    * The default MAC learning timeout has been increased from 60 seconds
      to 300 seconds.  The MAC learning timeout is now configurable.
    * The "find" command in ovs-vsctl supports a new set relational operators
          {=}, {!=}, {<}, {>}, {<=}, and {>=}.
  * And a few others.  See the full change log here:

        http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-1.5.0

In addition to the 1.5.0 release, we've also released 1.4.2:

  http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.4.2.tar.gz

The 1.4.2 release only contains bug fixes for 1.4.1.

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.