diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b18995787de..89a9ad87496 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ Andrei Andone           andrei.andone@softvision.ro
 Anshuman Manral         anshuman.manral@outlook.com
 Anton Matsiuk           anton.matsiuk@gmail.com
 Anuprem Chalvadi        achalvadi@vmware.com
+Ariel Tubaltsev         atubaltsev@vmware.com
 Atzm Watanabe           atzm@stratosphere.co.jp
 Bastian Blank           waldi@debian.org
 Ben Basler              bbasler@nicira.com
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema b/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
index efaa1dabc61..3fb45d14adb 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {"name": "Open_vSwitch",
- "version": "7.4.0",
- "cksum": "2387737815 20431",
+ "version": "7.5.0",
+ "cksum": "1448369194 20560",
  "tables": {
    "Open_vSwitch": {
      "columns": {
@@ -303,7 +303,10 @@
        "groups": {
 	 "type": {"key": "string", "min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}},
        "prefixes": {
-         "type": {"key": "string", "min": 0, "max": 3}}}},
+         "type": {"key": "string", "min": 0, "max": 3}},
+       "external_ids": {
+         "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
+                  "min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}}}},
    "QoS": {
      "columns": {
        "type": {
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index b0a857721f1..78594e75e4f 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -2628,6 +2628,13 @@
         one flow table.  Currently this limit is 3.
       </p>
     </column>
+
+    <group title="Common Columns">
+      The overall purpose of these columns is described under <code>Common
+      Columns</code> at the beginning of this document.
+
+      <column name="external_ids"/>
+    </group>
   </table>
 
   <table name="QoS" title="Quality of Service configuration">