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[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 1b7f14c..b65eb21 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Updated KNI module and PMD.**
+
+  Updated the KNI kernel module to set the max_mtu according to the given
+  initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
+
+  Updated the KNI PMD driver to set the mbuf_size and MTU based on
+  the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
+  if the mb-pool contains suitable buffers' size.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
@@ -63,6 +72,53 @@ New Features
   * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
   * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration get API in a secondary
     process.
+  * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
+
+   New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
+
+   * Added firmware version reading.
+
+* **Renamed avf to iavf.**
+
+  Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
+  which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
+  macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
+
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+  * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
+    inner packet matching.
+  * Added limited support for RAW.
+  * Added limited support for RSS.
+  * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
+
+* **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
+
+  New features for VF:
+
+  * Added promiscuous mode support.
+
+* **Updated the ice driver.**
+
+  * Added support of SSE and AVX2 instructions in Rx and Tx paths.
+  * Added package download support.
+  * Added Safe Mode support.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology PMD.**
+
+  Added support for AES-XTS with 128 and 256 bit AES keys.
+
+* **Updated the IPsec library.**
+
+  The IPsec library has been updated with AES-CTR and 3DES-CBC cipher algorithms
+  support. The related ipsec-secgw test scripts have been added.
+
+* **Updated the testpmd application.**
+
+  Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
+  forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
 
 
 Removed Items
@@ -93,6 +149,14 @@ API Changes
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    =========================================================
 
+* eal: the type of the ``attr_value`` parameter of the function
+  ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
+  from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
+
+* vfio: Functions ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and
+  ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` have been extended with an option to
+  request mapping or un-mapping to the default vfio container fd.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -109,6 +173,13 @@ ABI Changes
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    =========================================================
 
+* cryptodev: in 18.08 new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
+  included into ``rte_crypto_op``. As ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` structure was
+  defined as cache-line aligned that caused unintended changes in
+  ``rte_crypto_op`` structure layout and alignment. Remove cache-line
+  alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
+  layout and alignment.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -140,9 +211,9 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
      librte_compressdev.so.1
-     librte_cryptodev.so.6
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.7
      librte_distributor.so.1
-     librte_eal.so.9
+   + librte_eal.so.10
      librte_efd.so.1
      librte_ethdev.so.11
      librte_eventdev.so.6
@@ -199,6 +270,12 @@ Known Issues
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    =========================================================
 
+* **No software AES-XTS implementation.**
+
+  There are currently no cryptodev software PMDs available which implement
+  support for the AES-XTS algorithm, so this feature can only be used
+  if compatible hardware and an associated PMD is available.
+
 
 Tested Platforms
 ----------------