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
> > 
> > 
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