Controller

Overview

The Controller project is an infrastructure service that supports other OpenDaylight projects. It does not have user-facing features.

Behavior/Feature Changes

The OpenDaylight Blueprint extender has been trimmed down, removing support for the following XML elements:

• action-implementation

• action-instance

• notification-listener

• rpc-implementation

• rpc-service

• specific-reference-list

• static-reference

New Features

There are no new features.

Deprecated and Removed Features

Distributed Datastore’s ask-based protocol has been removed in this release. The experimental odl-controller-exp-netty-config feature has been removed as well.

Resolved Issues

The following table lists the issues resolved in this release.

Issues resolved in versions 9.0.0 through 9.0.2 (JIRA)

Type	Key	Summary	Resolution	Fix Version(s)
	CONTROLLER-2043	Circuit breaker timeout with BGP and tell-based protocol	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-1980	default clustered datastore context parameters generate a deprecation warning	Done	9.0.0
	CONTROLLER-2106	Improve SegmentedJournalReader performance	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2098	Refactor Journal{Reader,Writer} class hierarchy	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2097	Improve FileChannelJournalSegmentWriter’s buffer management	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2096	Share a single FileChannel between FileChannelJournalSegmentWriter and its readers	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2095	Do not use FileChannel.position() in FileChannelJournalSegmentWriter	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2094	Do not use FileChannel.position() in FileChannelJournalSegmentReader	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2108	Improve DataJournal.handleWriteMessages()	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.6, 9.0.2
	CONTROLLER-2109	Improve DiskJournalSegmentWriter.reset(long) reads	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.6, 9.0.2
	CONTROLLER-2054	Remove ask-based protocol	Done	9.0.0
	CONTROLLER-2087	Don’t use NotificationListener in CONTROLLER components	Done	9.0.0
	CONTROLLER-2085	Do not use RpcService in Controller components	Done	9.0.0
	CONTROLLER-2105	Update atomix-storage copyright headers	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2101	Remove unneded atomix-storage API elements	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.5, 9.0.1
	CONTROLLER-2092	Remove odl-controller-exp-netty-config	Done	9.0.0
	CONTROLLER-2090	Remove support for RPCs/Actions/Notifications	Done	9.0.0

Known Issues

The following table lists the known issues that exist in this release.