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 ff8cc0d..ec39957 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ New Features
   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
 ---------------
@@ -148,6 +152,9 @@ API Changes
 * 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
 -----------
@@ -159,6 +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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