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charset=\"us-ascii\"","Content-Transfer-Encoding":"7bit","Errors-To":"ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org","Sender":"\"dev\" "},"content":"Experimental tags are removed from all the EVPN specific configurations\n(in the NB and ovn-controller man pages).\n\nReported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-3133\nSigned-off-by: Dumitru Ceara \n---\nNOTE: As discussed on-list [0] this patch targets 26.03 (main branch\nbefore hard freeze).\n\n[0] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2026-February/430230.html\n---\n NEWS | 2 ++\n controller/ovn-controller.8.xml | 6 ++----\n ovn-nb.xml | 20 --------------------\n 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)","diff":"diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS\nindex 4fcda14051..5e681a6472 100644\n--- a/NEWS\n+++ b/NEWS\n@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ Post v25.09.0\n * Add the \"options:dynamic-routing-no-learning\" to Logical Routers ports.\n If set to true, router port will not learn routes and will forget\n learned routes. This option has priority over its router counterpart.\n+ * The EVPN support is now considered stable. Its \"experimental\" tag was\n+ been removed.\n - Add support for Network Function insertion in OVN with stateful traffic\n redirection capability in Logical Switch datapath. The feature introduces\n three new NB database tables:\ndiff --git a/controller/ovn-controller.8.xml b/controller/ovn-controller.8.xml\nindex 42593f52c3..57e7cf5dd2 100644\n--- a/controller/ovn-controller.8.xml\n+++ b/controller/ovn-controller.8.xml\n@@ -426,8 +426,7 @@\n
external_ids:ovn-evpn-vxlan-ports
\n
\n Comma separated list of UDP ports used as a destination port for\n- the EVPN tunnels created by this ovn-controller. NOTE: this feature is\n- experimental and may be subject to removal/change in the future.\n+ the EVPN tunnels created by this ovn-controller.\n
\n \n
external_ids:ovn-evpn-local-ip
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\n-\n-

\n- NOTE: this feature is experimental and may be subject to\n- removal/change in the future.\n-

\n \n \n \n@@ -968,11 +963,6 @@\n Only relevant if is set to valid VNI.\n

\n-\n-

\n- NOTE: this feature is experimental and may be subject to\n- removal/change in the future.\n-

\n \n \n is set to valid VNI.\n

\n-\n-

\n- NOTE: this feature is experimental and may be subject to\n- removal/change in the future.\n-

\n \n \n \n-\n-

\n- NOTE: this feature is experimental and may be subject to\n- removal/change in the future.\n-

\n \n \n \n","prefixes":["ovs-dev","3/3"]}