- Version bump to 2.9.0. Some of the changes are:
  * NSH implementation now conforms to latest draft (draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-28).
  * OVSDB:
    - ovsdb-client: New "get-schema-cksum" and "query" commands.
    - ovsdb-client: New "backup" and "restore" commands.
    - ovsdb-client: New --timeout option.
    - ovsdb-tool: New "db-name" and "schema-name" commands.
  * ovs-vsctl and other commands that display data in tables now support a
     --max-column-width option to limit column width.
  * No longer slow-path traffic that sends to a controller.  Applications,
    such as OVN ACL logging, want to send a copy of a packet to a
    controller while leaving the actual packet forwarding in the datapath.
  * OVN:
    - The "requested-chassis" option for a logical switch port now accepts a
      chassis "hostname" in addition to a chassis "name".
    - IPv6
      * Added support to send IPv6 Router Advertisement packets in response to
        the IPv6 Router Solicitation packets from  the VIF ports.
      * Added support to generate Neighbor Solicitation packets using the OVN
        action 'nd_ns' to resolve unknown next hop MAC addresses for the
        IPv6 packets.
    - ovn-ctl: New commands run_nb_ovsdb and run_sb_ovsdb.
  * OpenFlow:
    - ct_clear action is now backed by kernel datapath. Support is probed for
      when OVS starts.
   - ovs-dpctl and related ovs-appctl commands:
     * "flush-conntrack" now accept a 5-tuple to delete a specific
       connection tracking entry.
     * New "ct-set-maxconns", "ct-get-maxconns", and "ct-get-nconns" commands
       for userspace datapath.
   - No longer send packets to the Linux TAP device if it's DOWN unless it is
     in another networking namespace.
  * DPDK:
    - Add support for DPDK v17.11
    - Add support for vHost IOMMU
    - New debug appctl command 'netdev-dpdk/get-mempool-info'.
      * Custom statistics:
        - DPDK physical ports now return custom set of "dropped", "error" and
          "management" statistics.
        - ovs-ofctl dump-ports command now prints new of set custom statistics
          if available (for OpenFlow 1.4+).
    - New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance' to rebalance rxq to
      pmd assignments.
    - Add rxq utilization of pmd to appctl 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show'.
    - Add support for vHost dequeue zero copy (experimental)
  * Userspace datapath:
    - Output packet batching support.
  * vswitchd:
    - Datapath IDs may now be specified as 0x1 (etc.) instead of 16 digits.
    - Configuring a controller, or unconfiguring all controllers, now deletes
      all groups and meters (as well as all flows).
   - New --enable-sparse configure option enables "sparse" checking by default.
   - Added additional information to vhost-user status.
- For the complete list of changes, please refer to
  http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.9.0
- Fix incorrect python3 dependencies for python2 subpackages
- Drop upstream patches for DPDK 17.11 support. They have been merged upstream
  * 0001-netdev-dpdk-replace-uint8_t-with-dpdk_port_t.patch
  * 0002-netdev-dpdk-DPDK-v17.11-upgrade.patch
  * 0003-netdev-dpdk-vHost-IOMMU-support.patch
- Get rid of the old openvswitch DPDK migration steps everybody should have
  migrated from <2.6 to latest releases by now.
  * 0001-utilities-Add-script-to-support-DPDK-option-migratio.patch 

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