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+===========
+VSPERF NEWS
+===========
+
+November 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Support of opnfv_test_dashboard
+
+October 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Support of PVP and PVVP deployment scenarios using Vanilla OVS
+
+September 2015
+==============
+New
+---
+- Implementation of system statistics based upon pidstat command line tool.
+- Support of PVVP deployment scenario using bhost-cuse and vhost user access
+ methods
+
+August 2015
+===========
+New
+---
+- Backport and enhancement of reporting
+- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-cuse as guest access method
+- Implementation of LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss testcase
+- Support for background load generation with command line tools like stress
+ and stress-ng
+
+July 2015
+=========
+New
+---
+- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-user as guest access method
+ - Verified on CentOS7 and Fedora 20
+ - Requires QEMU 2.2.0 and DPDK 2.0
+
+May 2015
+========
+
+This is the initial release of a re-designed version of the software
+based on community feedback. This initial release supports only the
+Phy2Phy deployment scenario and the
+LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio test - both described in the
+OPNFV vswitchperf 'CHARACTERIZE VSWITCH PERFORMANCE FOR TELCO NFV USE
+CASES LEVEL TEST DESIGN'. The intention is that more test cases will
+follow once the community has digested the initial release.
+
+New
+---
+
+- Performance testing with continuous stream
+- Vanilla OVS support added.
+
+ - Support for non-DPDK OVS build.
+ - Build and installation support through Makefile will be added via
+ next patch(Currently it is possible to manually build ovs and
+ setting it in vsperf configuration files).
+ - PvP scenario is not yet implemented.
+
+- CentOS7 support
+- Verified on CentOS7
+- Install & Quickstart documentation
+
+- Better support for mixing tests types with Deployment Scenarios
+- Re-work based on community feedback of TOIT
+- Framework support for other vSwitches
+- Framework support for non-Ixia traffic generators
+- Framework support for different VNFs
+- Python3
+- Support for biDirectional functionality for ixnet interface
+
+Missing
+-------
+
+- xmlunit output is currently disabled