security: introduce security API and framework

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index a8b113b..a2d5fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ New Features
    * Support for Flow API
    * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
 
    * Support for Flow API
    * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
 

+* **Add bus agnostic functions to cryptodev for PMD initialisation**
+
+  Adds new PMD assist functions ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()``,
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()`` which
+  are bus independent for driver to manage creation and destruction of new
+  device instances.
+

 * **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
 
   Performance enhancements:
 * **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
 
   Performance enhancements:


@@ -165,6 +172,12 @@ New Features
   checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets.
   Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets.
 
   checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets.
   Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets.
 

+* **Added the Flow Classification Library.**
+
+  Added the Flow Classification library, it provides an API for DPDK
+  applications to classify an input packet by matching it against a set of flow
+  rules. It uses the librte_table API to manage the flow rules.
+

 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------


@@ -283,6 +296,28 @@ API Changes
   The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
   An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
 
   The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
   An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
 

+* **Removed virtual device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+  The functions ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_parse_init_params()`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
+
+* **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+  The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_remove()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()``.
+
+* **Removed deprecated functions to manage log level or type.**
+
+  The functions ``rte_set_log_level()``, ``rte_get_log_level()``,
+  ``rte_set_log_type()`` and ``rte_get_log_type()`` have been removed.
+  They are respectively replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level()``,
+  ``rte_log_get_global_level()``, ``rte_log_set_level()`` and
+  ``rte_log_get_level()``.
+

 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------


@@ -341,11 +376,12 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2

-     librte_cryptodev.so.3
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.4

      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_distributor.so.1

-     librte_eal.so.5
+   + librte_eal.so.6

    + librte_ethdev.so.8
    + librte_eventdev.so.3
    + librte_ethdev.so.8
    + librte_eventdev.so.3

+   + librte_flow_classify.so.1

      librte_gro.so.1
    + librte_gso.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_gro.so.1
    + librte_gso.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2


@@ -374,7 +410,8 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_ring.so.1
      librte_sched.so.1
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_ring.so.1
      librte_sched.so.1

-     librte_table.so.2
+   + librte_security.so.1
+   + librte_table.so.3

      librte_timer.so.1
      librte_vhost.so.3
 
      librte_timer.so.1
      librte_vhost.so.3