2.4 has taken too long. We want to switch to time-based releases. The target is 3-4 times per year.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:28:35PM -0400, Mussar, Gary wrote: > 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:[email protected]] > 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin > > Pettit > > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 02:03 > > To: [email protected]; 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
