See the :ref:`Generic flow API <Generic_flow_API>` documentation for more
information.
+* **Added firmware version get API.**
+
+ Added a new function ``rte_eth_dev_fw_version_get()`` to fetch firmware
+ version by a given device.
+
* **Added APIs for MACsec offload support to the ixgbe PMD.**
Six new APIs have been added to the ixgbe PMD for MACsec offload support.
The declarations for the APIs can be found in ``rte_pmd_ixgbe.h``.
+* **Added I219 NICs support.**
+
+ Added support for I219 Intel 1GbE NICs.
+
+* **Added VF Daemon (VFD) on i40e. - EXPERIMENTAL**
+
+ This's an EXPERIMENTAL feature to enhance the capability of DPDK PF as many
+ VF management features are not supported by kernel PF driver.
+ Some new private APIs are implemented in PMD without abstrction layer.
+ They can be used directly by some users who have the need.
+
+ The new APIs to control VFs directly from PF include,
+ 1) set VF MAC anti-spoofing
+ 2) set VF VLAN anti-spoofing
+ 3) set TX loopback
+ 4) set VF unicast promiscuous mode
+ 5) set VF multicast promiscuous mode
+ 6) set VF MTU
+ 7) get/reset VF stats
+ 8) set VF MAC address
+ 9) set VF VLAN stripping
+ 10) VF VLAN insertion
+ 12) set VF broadcast mode
+ 13) set VF VLAN tag
+ 14) set VF VLAN filter
+ VFD also includes VF to PF mailbox message management by APP.
+ When PF receives mailbox messages from VF, PF should call the callback
+ provided by APP to know if they're permitted to be processed.
+
+ As an EXPERIMENTAL feature, please aware it can be changed or even
+ removed without prior notice.
+
+* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
+
+ updated the i40e base driver, including the following changes:
+
+ * replace existing legacy memcpy() calls with i40e_memcpy() calls.
+ * use BIT() macro instead of bit fields
+ * add clear all WoL filters implementation
+ * add broadcast promiscuous control per VLAN
+ * remove unused X722_SUPPORT and I40E_NDIS_SUPPORT MARCOs
+
+* **Added Solarflare libefx-based network PMD.**
+
+ A new network PMD which supports Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx family
+ of 10/40 Gbps adapters has been added.
+
+* **Added support for Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapters (mlx5).**
+
+ Support for Mellanox ConnectX-5 family of 10/25/40/50/100 Gbps adapters
+ has been added to the existing mlx5 PMD.
+
+* **virtio-user with vhost-kernel as another exceptional path.**
+
+ Previously, we upstreamed a virtual device, virtio-user with vhost-user
+ as the backend, as a way for IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and user
+ space container networking.
+
+ Virtio-user with vhost-kernel as the backend is a solution for exceptional
+ path, such as KNI, which exchanges packets with kernel networking stack.
+ This solution is very promising in:
+
+ * maintenance: vhost and vhost-net (kernel) is upstreamed and extensively
+ used kernel module.
+ * features: vhost-net is born to be a networking solution, which has
+ lots of networking related features, like multi-queue, TSO, multi-seg
+ mbuf, etc.
+ * performance: similar to KNI, this solution would use one or more
+ kthreads to send/receive packets from user space DPDK applications,
+ which has little impact on user space polling thread (except that
+ it might enter into kernel space to wake up those kthreads if
+ necessary).
+
+* **Added virtio Rx interrupt suppprt.**
+
+ This feature enables Rx interrupt mode for virtio pci net devices as
+ binded to VFIO (noiommu mode) and drived by virtio PMD.
+
+ With this feature, virtio PMD can switch between polling mode and
+ interrupt mode, to achieve best performance, and at the same time save
+ power. It can work on both legacy and modern virtio devices. At this mode,
+ each rxq is mapped with an exluded MSIx interrupt.
+
+ See the :ref:`Virtio Interrupt Mode <virtio_interrupt_mode>` documentation
+ for more information.
+
+* **Updated the QAT PMD.**
+
+ The QAT PMD was updated with additional support for:
+
+ * DES algorithm.
+ * Scatter-gather list (SGL) support.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+ * The Intel(R) Multi Buffer Crypto for IPsec library used in
+ AESNI MB PMD has been moved to a new repository, in GitHub.
+ * Support for single operations (cipher only and authentication only).
+
+* **Updated the AES-NI GCM PMD.**
+
+ The AES-NI GCM PMD was migrated from MB library to ISA-L library.
+ The migration entailed the following additional support for:
+
+ * GMAC algorithm.
+ * 256-bit cipher key.
+ * Session-less mode.
+ * Out-of place processing
+ * Scatter-gatter support for chained mbufs (only out-of place and destination
+ mbuf must be contiguous)
+
+* **Added Elastic Flow Distributor library (rte_efd).**
+
+ This new library uses perfect hashing to determine a target/value for a
+ given incoming flow key.
+
+ It does not store the key itself for lookup operations, and therefore,
+ lookup performance is not dependent on the key size. Also, the target/value
+ can be any arbitrary value (8 bits by default). Finally, the storage requirement
+ is much smaller than a hash-based flow table and therefore, it can better fit for
+ CPU cache, being able to scale to millions of flow keys.
+
+ See the :ref:`Elastic Flow Distributor Library <Efd_Library>` documentation in
+ the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
+
Resolved Issues
---------------
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+* **Moved five APIs for VF management from the ethdev to the ixgbe PMD.**
+
+ The following five APIs for VF management from the PF have been removed from the ethdev,
+ renamed and added to the ixgbe PMD::
+
+ rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rate_limit
+ rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rx
+ rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rxmode
+ rte_eth_dev_set_vf_tx
+ rte_eth_dev_set_vf_vlan_filter
+
+ The API's have been renamed to the following::
+
+ rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rate_limit
+ rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rx
+ rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rxmode
+ rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_tx
+ rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_vlan_filter
+
+ The declarations for the API’s can be found in ``rte_pmd_ixgbe.h``.
ABI Changes
-----------
librte_cryptodev.so.2
librte_distributor.so.1
librte_eal.so.3
- librte_ethdev.so.5
+ + librte_ethdev.so.6
librte_hash.so.2
librte_ip_frag.so.1
librte_jobstats.so.1
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