Issued:
2018-06-21
Updated:
2018-06-21

RHBA-2018:1962 - openvswitch bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

openvswitch bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated openvswitch packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available in the Fast Datapath channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

The openvswitch packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.9.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1335825, BZ#1494616, BZ#1540012, BZ#1541144, BZ#1547065, BZ#1552465, BZ#1558143, BZ#1559222, BZ#1559374, BZ#1560728, BZ#1568908, BZ#1575016, BZ#1575067, BZ#1576725, BZ#1578003, BZ#1578324, BZ#1578590, BZ#1578981, BZ#1581230, BZ#1583161, BZ#1583670, BZ#1589866)

Users of openvswitch are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization Manager4.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-test-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm
  • openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.src.rpm
  • python-openvswitch-2.9.0-47.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information