pdump: add new library for packet capture

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_07.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
index 565055e..ec39957 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
@@ -47,11 +47,39 @@ New Features
   * Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
   * Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
 
+* **Supported virtio on IBM POWER8.**
+
+  The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
+
+* **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+  Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
+  decryption.
+
 * **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.
 
+* **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
+
+  The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
+
+  * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline and automatic routes
+    updates with change in link state.
+  * Enable RSS per network interface through the configuration file.
+  * Streamline the CLI code.
+
+* **Added keepalive enhancements.**
+
+  Adds support for reporting of core states other than dead to
+  monitoring applications, enabling the support of broader liveness
+  reporting to external processes.
+
+* **Added packet capture framework.**
+
+  * A new library ``librte_pdump`` is added to provide packet capture API.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -121,6 +149,12 @@ API Changes
   ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
   tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff.
 
+* The extended statistics are fetched by ids with ``rte_eth_xstats_get``
+  after a lookup by name ``rte_eth_xstats_get_names``.
+
+* The function ``rte_eth_dev_info_get`` fill the new fields ``nb_rx_queues``
+  and ``nb_tx_queues`` in the structure ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -132,6 +166,9 @@ ABI Changes
 * 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.
 
+* The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has new fields ``nb_rx_queues`` and ``nb_tx_queues``
+  to support number of queues configured by software.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
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