8 The Controller project is an infrastructure service that supports other OpenDaylight projects.
9 It does not have user-facing features.
12 Changes in Phosphorus release stream
13 ====================================
14 There is a comprehensive list of JIRA issues
15 `resolved in this release <https://jira.opendaylight.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CONTROLLER%20AND%20fixVersion%20in%20(4.0.0%2C%204.0.1%2C%204.0.2%2C%204.0.3)>`__
18 Behavior/Feature Changes
19 ========================
21 The implementation of Entity Ownership Service has been rewritten from scratch. It is now completely
22 independent of ``sal-distributed-datastore``. See `this issue <https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/CONTROLLER-1982>`__ for details.
24 As per upstream advice from Akka, we have now switched our communications to use Akka Artery. See
25 `this issue <https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/CONTROLLER-1968>`__ for details.
29 There are no new features.
31 Deprecated and Removed Features
32 ===============================
33 There are no deprecated features in this release, but there is a large number of feature removals:
34 * ``opendaylight-inventory`` and ``opendaylight-topology`` models have been moved to OpenFlow Plugin
35 * support for upgrading from versions before ``Sodium SR`` was removed
36 * prefix-based shards have been completely removed
37 * the proof-of-concept ``messagebus`` component was removed
42 Here is the link to the known issues exist in this release:
44 `OpenDaylight JIRA Tickets - Known Issue <https://jira.opendaylight.org/issues/?jql=project+%3D+controller+AND+type+%3D+Bug+AND+status+not+in+%28Resolved%2C+Done%2C+Closed%29+ORDER+BY+issuetype+DESC%2C+key+ASC>`_