* Support for Flow API
* Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
+* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
+
+ Performance enhancements:
+
+ * Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
+ * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
+ * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
+
+ Additional support for:
+
+ * AES CCM algorithm.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+ The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+ * DES CBC algorithm.
+ * DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
+
+ This requires the IPSec Multi-buffer library 0.47. For more details,
+ check out the AESNI MB PMD documenation.
+
+* **Updated the OpenSSL PMD.**
+
+ The OpenSSL PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+ * DES CBC algorithm.
+ * AES CCM algorithm.
+
+* **Added NXP DPAA SEC crypto PMD.**
+
+ A new "dpaa_sec" hardware based crypto PMD for NXP DPAA devices has been
+ added. See the "Crypto Device Drivers" document for more details on this
+ driver.
+
+* **Added MRVL crypto PMD.**
+
+ A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing
+ algorithms. All cryptography operations use the MUSDK library crypto API.
+
+* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
+
+ Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application
+ that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
+ acceleration.
+
* **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
* ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
+* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
+
+ The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
+ By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+ getting process time.
+
+* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
+
+ The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
+ An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
+
+* **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
-----------
The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
+
+Removed Items
+-------------
+
+.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
+
+ * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item in the past
+ tense.
+
+ This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
+ Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
+ =========================================================
+
+* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
+ replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
+
+
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
.. code-block:: diff
librte_acl.so.2
- librte_bitratestats.so.2
+ + librte_bitratestats.so.2
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
librte_cryptodev.so.3
librte_distributor.so.1
- librte_eal.so.5
- librte_ethdev.so.8
- librte_eventdev.so.3
+ + librte_eal.so.6
+ + librte_ethdev.so.8
+ + librte_eventdev.so.3
librte_gro.so.1
- librte_gso.so.1
+ + librte_gso.so.1
librte_hash.so.2
librte_ip_frag.so.1
librte_jobstats.so.1
librte_meter.so.1
librte_metrics.so.1
librte_net.so.1
- librte_pdump.so.2
+ + librte_pdump.so.2
librte_pipeline.so.3
- librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
- librte_pmd_bond.so.2
- librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
- librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_bond.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+ librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
- librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1