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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f545801f6d..dfcca87ab9 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared)
   in future releases.
 
+* mempool: starting from v20.05, the API of rte_mempool_populate_iova()
+  and rte_mempool_populate_virt() will change to return 0 instead
+  of -EINVAL when there is not enough room to store one object. The ABI
+  will be preserved until 20.11.
+
 * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
   ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
   as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
@@ -59,30 +64,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_eth_dev_stop``
   - ``rte_eth_dev_close``
 
-* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH`` and
-  ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
+* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
   This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating
-  ``rte_mbuf::hash::rss`` and ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir`` respectively.
+  ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``.
   This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and
   thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so.
-  In 19.11 PMDs will still update the fields even when the offloads are not
+  In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
   enabled.
 
-* ethdev: New function ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` will be added in
-  19.11.
-  This will allow application to request PMD to set specific ptypes defined
-  through ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` in ``rte_mbuf::packet_type``.
-  If application doesn't want any ptype information it can call
-  ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes(ethdev_id, RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN)`` and PMD
-  will set ``rte_mbuf::packet_type`` to ``0``.
-  If application doesn't call ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes`` PMD can
-  return ``rte_mbuf::packet_type`` with ``rte_eth_dev_get_supported_ptypes``.
-  If application is interested only in L2/L3 layer, it can inform the PMD
-  to update ``rte_mbuf::packet_type`` with L2/L3 ptype by calling
-  ``rte_eth_dev_set_supported_ptypes(ethdev_id, RTE_PTYPE_L2_MASK | RTE_PTYPE_L3_MASK)``.
-  This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid lookup to internal ptype table on Rx and
-  thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so.
-
 * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
   be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal