8 The Controller project is an infrastructure service that supports other OpenDaylight projects.
9 It does not have user-facing features.
12 Behavior/Feature Changes
13 ========================
15 The implementation of Entity Ownership Service has been rewritten from scratch. It is now completely
16 independent of ``sal-distributed-datastore``. See `this issue <https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/CONTROLLER-1982>`__ for details.
18 As per upstream advice from Akka, we have now switched our communications to use Akka Artery. See
19 `this issue <https://jira.opendaylight.org/browse/CONTROLLER-1968>`__ for details.
23 There are no new features.
25 Deprecated and Removed Features
26 ===============================
27 There are no deprecated features in this release, but there is a large number of feature removals:
28 * ``opendaylight-inventory`` and ``opendaylight-topology`` models have been moved to OpenFlow Plugin
29 * support for upgrading from versions before ``Sodium SR`` was removed
30 * prefix-based shards have been completely removed
31 * the proof-of-concept ``messagebus`` component was removed
36 The following table lists the issues resolved in this release.
38 .. jira_fixed_issues::
40 :versions: 4.0.0-4.0.3
45 The following table lists the known issues that exist in this release.
47 .. jira_known_issues::
49 :versions: 4.0.0-4.0.3