doc: add DPAA2 event adapter to release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index f8c7f23..8fd85bc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -170,6 +170,29 @@ New Features
   that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
   acceleration.
 
+* **Added the Security Offload Library.**
+
+  Added an experimental library - rte_security. It provide security APIs for
+  protocols like IPSec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet device or full
+  protocol offload with lookaside crypto device.
+
+  See the "Security_Library" section of the DPDK Programmers Guide document,
+  for more information.
+
+* **Updated DPAA2_SEC crypto driver.**
+
+  Updated dpaa2_sec crypto PMD to support rte_security lookaside protocol
+  offload for IPSec.
+
+* **Updated IXGBE ethernet driver.**
+
+  Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support rte_security inline IPSec offload.
+
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw application**
+
+  Updated ipsec-secgw sample application to support rte_security actions for
+  ipsec inline and full protocol offload using lookaside crypto offload.
+
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
@@ -181,6 +204,10 @@ New Features
   Added the Event Ethernet Adapter library. It provices APIs for
   eventdev applications to configure the ethdev to eventdev packet flow.
 
+* **Updated DPAA2 Event PMD.**
+
+  Added support for eventdev ethernet adapter for DPAA2.
+
 * **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
 
   Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
@@ -379,6 +406,14 @@ API Changes
   These functions are made available either as part of ``librte_pci`` or
   ``librte_bus_pci``.
 
+* **Moved vdev bus APIs outside of the EAL**
+
+  Moved the following APIs from ``librte_eal`` to ``librte_bus_vdev``:
+  * ``rte_vdev_init``
+  * ``rte_vdev_register``
+  * ``rte_vdev_uninit``
+  * ``rte_vdev_unregister``
+
 * **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
 
   The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
@@ -454,6 +489,16 @@ ABI Changes
   The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
   changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
 
+* **New parameter added to rte_eth_dev.**
+
+  New parameter ``security_ctx``  added to ``rte_eth_dev`` to support security
+  operations like IPSec inline.
+
+* **New parameter added to rte_cryptodev.**
+
+  New parameter ``security_ctx``  added to ``rte_cryptodev`` to support security
+  operations like lookaside crypto.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -491,6 +536,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
 
      librte_acl.so.2
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
+   + librte_bus_vdev.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
    + librte_cryptodev.so.4