DPDK Release 16.11
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New Features
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Resolved Issues
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EAL
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Drivers
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Libraries
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Examples
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Other
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Known Issues
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API Changes
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* The log history is removed.


ABI Changes
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Shared Library Versions
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.. Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+``
   sign, like this:

     libethdev.so.4
     librte_acl.so.2
   + librte_cfgfile.so.2
     librte_cmdline.so.2



The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.

.. code-block:: diff

     libethdev.so.4
     librte_acl.so.2
     librte_cfgfile.so.2
     librte_cmdline.so.2
     librte_cryptodev.so.1
     librte_distributor.so.1
   + librte_eal.so.3
     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_pdump.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.3


Tested Platforms
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Tested NICs
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Tested OSes
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   * CentOS 7.0
   * Fedora 23
   * Fedora 24
   * FreeBSD 10.3
   * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
   * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
   * Ubuntu 15.10
   * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
   * Wind River Linux 8

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