-* pdump: As we changed to use generic IPC, some changes in APIs and structure
- are expected in subsequent release.
-
- - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
- - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
- - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
-
-* cryptodev: The following changes will be made in the library
- for 18.08:
-
- - Removal of ``sym`` structure in ``rte_cryptodev_info`` structure,
- containing fields not relevant anymore since the session mempool
- is not internal in the crypto device anymore.
- - Replacement of ``pci_dev`` field with the more generic ``rte_device``
- structure.
- - Functions ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session()`` and
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_dettach_sym_session()`` will be deprecated from
- 18.05 and removed in 18.08, as there are no drivers doing anything useful
- with them.
- - Functions ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_start()`` and
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop()`` will be deprecated from 18.05
- and removed in 18.08, as there are no drivers doing anything useful
- with them.
- - Some feature flags such as ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` are ambiguous,
- so some will be replaced by more explicit flags.
- - Function ``rte_cryptodev_get_header_session_size()`` will be deprecated
- in 18.05, and it gets replaced with ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_header_session_size()``.
- It will be removed in 18.08.
- - Function ``rte_cryptodev_get_private_session_size()`` will be deprecated
- in 18.05, and it gets replaced with ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_private_session_size()``.
- It will be removed in 18.08.
+* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI,
+ but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and
+ can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option.
+ Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe``
+ drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model cannot be
+ extended to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain
+ kernel modules in DPDK. As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool``
+ via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore.
+
+* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
+ disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
+ would be allowed to be disabled this way,
+
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+ Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
+ - Member ``uint64_t ff_disable`` in ``rte_cryptodev_config``
+
+ The field would be added in v19.08.
+
+* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
+ structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
+ ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
+
+* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
+ be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
+ ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
+ to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
+ directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
+
+* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
+ traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
+ changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
+ in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
+ RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
+
+* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
+ in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
+
+* power: ``rte_power_set_env`` function will no longer return 0 on attempt
+ to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
+ In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
+ (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.