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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index 85505fa8e7..e6e4407cb4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -89,6 +89,17 @@ New Features
   See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
   this new driver.
 
+* **Updated support for Cavium OCTEONTX Device.**
+
+  Updated support for Cavium's OCTEONTX device(CN83xx). This includes:
+
+  * OCTEONTX Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool
+  * OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD
+  * OCTEONTX Eventdev-Ethdev Rx adapter
+
+  See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
+  this new driver.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -159,16 +170,44 @@ New Features
   that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
   acceleration.
 
+* **Added the Security Offload Library.**
+
+  Added an experimental library - rte_security. It provide security APIs for
+  protocols like IPSec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet device or full
+  protocol offload with lookaside crypto device.
+
+  See the "Security_Library" section of the DPDK Programmers Guide document,
+  for more information.
+
+* **Updated DPAA2_SEC crypto driver.**
+
+  Updated dpaa2_sec crypto PMD to support rte_security lookaside protocol
+  offload for IPSec.
+
+* **Updated IXGBE ethernet driver.**
+
+  Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support rte_security inline IPSec offload.
+
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw application**
+
+  Updated ipsec-secgw sample application to support rte_security actions for
+  ipsec inline and full protocol offload using lookaside crypto offload.
+
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
-  feature.
+  feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
+  RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT flag at vhost device registration time.
 
 * **Added the Event Ethernet Adapter Library.**
 
   Added the Event Ethernet Adapter library. It provices APIs for
   eventdev applications to configure the ethdev to eventdev packet flow.
 
+* **Updated DPAA2 Event PMD.**
+
+  Added support for eventdev ethernet adapter for DPAA2.
+
 * **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
 
   Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
@@ -316,8 +355,6 @@ API Changes
   * Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and
     ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``.
 
-* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
-
 * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
   remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
 
@@ -367,6 +404,14 @@ API Changes
   These functions are made available either as part of ``librte_pci`` or
   ``librte_bus_pci``.
 
+* **Moved vdev bus APIs outside of the EAL**
+
+  Moved the following APIs from ``librte_eal`` to ``librte_bus_vdev``:
+  * ``rte_vdev_init``
+  * ``rte_vdev_register``
+  * ``rte_vdev_uninit``
+  * ``rte_vdev_unregister``
+
 * **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
 
   The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
@@ -385,6 +430,9 @@ API Changes
   and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
   ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
 
+* ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` was removed to avoid the dependency on vdev
+  in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call rte_vdev_init() directly.
+
 * **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
 
   The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and
@@ -439,6 +487,16 @@ ABI Changes
   The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
   changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
 
+* **New parameter added to rte_eth_dev.**
+
+  New parameter ``security_ctx``  added to ``rte_eth_dev`` to support security
+  operations like IPSec inline.
+
+* **New parameter added to rte_cryptodev.**
+
+  New parameter ``security_ctx``  added to ``rte_cryptodev`` to support security
+  operations like lookaside crypto.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -452,6 +510,8 @@ Removed Items
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
+
 * The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
   replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
 
@@ -476,6 +536,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
 
      librte_acl.so.2
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
+   + librte_bus_vdev.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
    + librte_cryptodev.so.4
@@ -494,7 +555,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_latencystats.so.1
      librte_lpm.so.2
      librte_mbuf.so.3
-     librte_mempool.so.2
+   + librte_mempool.so.3
      librte_meter.so.1
      librte_metrics.so.1
      librte_net.so.1