telemetry: support global metrics

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@@ -62,11 +62,43 @@ New Features
   * Added support for SSE vector mode
   * Updated HWRM API to version 1.10.0.74
 
+* **Added support for Broadcom NetXtreme-E BCM57500 Ethernet controllers.**
+
+  Added support to the bnxt PMD for the BCM57500 (a.k.a. "Thor") family
+  of Ethernet controllers. These controllers support link speeds up to
+  200Gbps, 50G PAM-4, and PCIe 4.0.
+
+* **Updated the ice driver.**
+
+  Updated ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Enabled Tx outer/inner L3/L4 checksum offload.
+
+* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
+
+  Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
+
+  * Added support for Rx interrupts.
+
 * **Added memif PMD.**
 
   Added the new Shared Memory Packet Interface (``memif``) PMD.
   See the :doc:`../nics/memif` guide for more details on this new driver.
 
+* **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
+
+  Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
+
+  * Enabled zero copy through mbuf's external memory mechanism to achieve
+    high performance
+  * Added multi-queue support to allow one af_xdp vdev with multiple netdev
+    queues
+
+* **Updated telemetry library for global metrics support.**
+
+  Updated ``librte_telemetry`` to fetch the global metrics from the
+  ``librte_metrics`` library.
+
 
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