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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index a2f12d4d3d..563c2f3420 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -45,11 +45,18 @@ New Features
 
   Support to update RSS hash and key has been added to CXGBE PMD.
 
+* **Added CXGBE VF PMD.**
+
+  CXGBE VF Poll Mode Driver has been added to run DPDK over Chelsio
+  T5/T6 NIC VF instances.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
 
+  * Added support for Solarflare XtremeScale X2xxx family adapters.
   * Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE filters in flow API.
+  * Added support for DROP action in flow API.
 
 
 API Changes
@@ -65,6 +72,30 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* mbuf: The control mbuf API has been removed in v18.05. The impacted
+  functions and macros are:
+
+  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_init()``
+  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_alloc()``
+  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_free()``
+  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_data()``
+  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_len()``
+  - ``rte_is_ctrlmbuf()``
+  - ``CTRL_MBUF_FLAG``
+
+  The packet mbuf API should be used as a replacement.
+
+* meter: updated to accommodate configuration profiles.
+
+  The meter API is changed to support meter configuration profiles. The
+  configuration profile represents the set of configuration parameters
+  for a given meter object, such as the rates and sizes for the token
+  buckets. These configuration parameters were previously the part of meter
+  object internal data strcuture. The separation of the configuration
+  parameters from meter object data structure results in reducing its
+  memory footprint which helps in better cache utilization when large number
+  of meter objects are used.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -135,9 +166,10 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_bus_vdev.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
+   + librte_common_octeontx.so.1
      librte_cryptodev.so.4
      librte_distributor.so.1
-     librte_eal.so.6
+   + librte_eal.so.7
    + librte_ethdev.so.9
      librte_eventdev.so.3
      librte_flow_classify.so.1
@@ -150,7 +182,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_kvargs.so.1
      librte_latencystats.so.1
      librte_lpm.so.2
-     librte_mbuf.so.3
+   + librte_mbuf.so.4
      librte_mempool.so.3
    + librte_meter.so.2
      librte_metrics.so.1