Release Notes
Release Date: February 87, 2016
Overview
The 1v1.2 Floodlight release builds upon the improvements made in 1v1.1, with emphasis on more robust and feature-rich core modules, including completely rewritten Device, Topology, and Forwarding modules. A new Statistics module provides port bandwidth statistics and also serves a multithreading and statistics collection example. IPv6, Link latency, OF-DPA, message listener, and many more exciting features are discussed below. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to and supported Floodlight!
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- New and improved Forwarding, Routing, and Topology modules that support loops between OpenFlow islands
- New IPv6 support, including an IPv6 class, support in Forwarding, and integration into the Device Manager module
- New and improved Device Manager module fixing many bugs and adding new features, including IPv6
- New link latency tracking/updating between Floodlight and switches and between switches via LLDP
- New Statistics module for gathering of port bandwidth consumption
- New ICompletionListener for notifications notification of the end of OF message processing pipeline
- New outgoing message listener for notifications notification of messages written to switches
- New OpenFlow version negotiation using version bitmap and hello header versions
- New switch table features support and exposure to user modules
- New human readable JSON serializers for OXMs and other OpenFlow types
- New OF-DPA driver for easy interfacing with OF-DPA switches; example use in Forwarding
- New SPUD support for use within UDP packets
- New masked match support for Static Flow pusher
- New Travis continuous integration for pull request automated unit testing
- New Maven build support; ant also supported
- Refactored core package to move most interface implementations to core.internal
- Updated LoadBalancer module to work with a single host and multiple load balanced connections
- Forwarding can optionally set send-flow-removed flag
- ActionUtils and MatchUtils bug fixes
- ACL module bug fixes and improvements
- Static Flow Pusher bug fixes
- Web UI bug fixes
- REST API bug fixes and improvements
- Firewall module bug fixes
- LearningSwitch module bug fixes
- Concurrency patches in Link Discovery, Load Balancer and DHCP server modules
- Patched TCP checksum calculation for unaccounted for edge cases
- Updated to Netty 4
- Updated to Jackson 2.4.4
- Updated Restlet to 2.2.0
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- How to an experimenter extension to Loxigen
- How to collect switch statistics
- How to add a REST API to a module
- How to port a v0.91 or earlier module to v1.0 and up
- How to use OpenFlow queues
- How to use OpenFlow meters
- How to process a packet-in message
- How to create a packet-out message
- How to use OpenFlow groups
- New easy to navigate and updated REST API page
- Setting the OpenFlow version of Floodlight
- Switch flow table configuration
- I want to contribute to Floodlight! What can I do?
- Floodlight Javadoc
- OpenFlowJ-Loxi Javadoc
Distributions and Releases
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