DPDK Release 16.07
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New Features
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* **Removed mempool cache if not needed.**

  The size of the mempool structure is reduced if the per-lcore cache is disabled.

* **Changed the memory allocation in mempool library.**

  * Added ability to allocate a large mempool in virtually fragmented memory.
  * Added new APIs to populate a mempool with memory.
  * Added an API to free a mempool.
  * Modified the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter() function.
  * Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
  * Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.

* **Added support of AES counter mode for Intel QuickAssist devices.**

  Enabled support for the AES CTR algorithm for Intel QuickAssist devices.
  Provided support for algorithm-chaining operations.


Resolved Issues
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EAL
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Drivers
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* **i40e: Fixed vlan stripping from inner header.**

  Previously, for tunnel packets, such as VXLAN/NVGRE, the vlan
  tags of the inner header will be stripped without putting vlan
  info to descriptor.
  Now this issue is fixed by disabling vlan stripping from inner header.


Libraries
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* **mbuf: Fixed refcnt update when detaching.**

  Fix the ``rte_pktmbuf_detach()`` function to decrement the direct
  mbuf's reference counter. The previous behavior was not to affect
  the reference counter. It lead a memory leak of the direct mbuf.


Examples
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Other
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Known Issues
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API Changes
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* The following counters are removed from ``rte_eth_stats`` structure:
  ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
  tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff.


ABI Changes
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* The ``rte_port_source_params`` structure has new fields to support PCAP file.
  It was already in release 16.04 with ``RTE_NEXT_ABI`` flag.


Shared Library Versions
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   + libethdev.so.4
     librte_acl.so.2
     librte_cfgfile.so.2
     librte_cmdline.so.2
     librte_distributor.so.1
     librte_eal.so.2
     librte_hash.so.2
     librte_ip_frag.so.1
     librte_ivshmem.so.1
     librte_jobstats.so.1
     librte_kni.so.2
     librte_kvargs.so.1
     librte_lpm.so.2
     librte_mbuf.so.2
   + librte_mempool.so.2
     librte_meter.so.1
     librte_pipeline.so.3
     librte_pmd_bond.so.1
     librte_pmd_ring.so.2
   + librte_port.so.3
     librte_power.so.1
     librte_reorder.so.1
     librte_ring.so.1
     librte_sched.so.1
     librte_table.so.2
     librte_timer.so.1
     librte_vhost.so.2


Tested Platforms
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Tested NICs
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