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[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
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@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added the RegEx Library, a generic RegEx service library.**
+
+  Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
+  expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
+
 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
 
   Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -67,6 +72,29 @@ New Features
   Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added new PMD devarg ``reclaim_mem_mode``.
+  * Added new devarg ``lacp_by_user``.
+
+* **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
+
+     A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
+     names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
+
+  * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
+  * Added support for MTU update.
+
+* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
+
+  Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for DCF datapath configuration.
 
 * **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
 
@@ -75,6 +103,22 @@ New Features
   which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
   for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
 
+* **Added flow performance test application.**
+
+  Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
+
+  * Measure ``rte_flow`` insertion rate.
+  * Measure ``rte_flow`` deletion rate.
+  * Dump ``rte_flow`` memory consumption.
+  * Measure packet per second forwarding.
+
+* **Added --portmap command line parameter to l2fwd example.**
+
+  Added new command line option ``--portmap="(port, port)[,(port, port)]"`` to
+  pass forwarding port details.
+  See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
+  details of this parameter usage.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -108,6 +152,9 @@ API Changes
 
 * ``rte_page_sizes`` enumeration is replaced with ``RTE_PGSIZE_xxx`` defines.
 
+* vhost: The API of ``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` was changed to be per
+  queue and not per device, a qid parameter was added to the arguments list.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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