Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
=========================================================
+* **Extended port_id range from uint8_t to uint16_t.**
+
+ Increased port_id range from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than
+ 256 ports in dpdk. All ethdev APIs which have port_id as parameter are changed
+ in the meantime.
+
+* **Modified the return type of rte_eth_stats_reset.**
+
+ Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int``
+ so the caller may know whether a device supports the operation or not
+ and if the operation was carried out.
+
+* **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.**
+
+ Added the new mrvl net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
+ "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
+ driver.
+
+* **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+ Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
+ fallback support for traffic management.
+
* **nfp: Added PF support.**
Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
* Support for Flow API
* Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
+* **Add bus agnostic functions to cryptodev for PMD initialisation**
+
+ Adds new PMD assist functions ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()``,
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()`` which
+ are bus independent for driver to manage creation and destruction of new
+ device instances.
+
+* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
+
+ Performance enhancements:
+
+ * Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
+ * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
+ * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
+
+ Additional support for:
+
+ * AES CCM algorithm.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+ The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+ * DES CBC algorithm.
+ * DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
+
+ This requires the IPSec Multi-buffer library 0.47. For more details,
+ check out the AESNI MB PMD documenation.
+
+* **Updated the OpenSSL PMD.**
+
+ The OpenSSL PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+ * DES CBC algorithm.
+ * AES CCM algorithm.
+
+* **Added NXP DPAA SEC crypto PMD.**
+
+ A new "dpaa_sec" hardware based crypto PMD for NXP DPAA devices has been
+ added. See the "Crypto Device Drivers" document for more details on this
+ driver.
+
+* **Added MRVL crypto PMD.**
+
+ A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing
+ algorithms. All cryptography operations use the MUSDK library crypto API.
+
+* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
+
+ Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application
+ that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
+ acceleration.
+
+* **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
+
+ Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
+ feature.
+
+* **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
+
+ Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
+ new member, delete an existing member, or query the existence of a member in a
+ given set, or a group of sets. For the case of a group of sets the library
+ will return not only whether the element has been inserted before in one of
+ the sets but also which set it belongs to.
+
+ The Membership Library is an extension and generalization of a traditional
+ filter (for example Bloom Filter) structure that has multiple usages in a wide
+ variety of workloads and applications. In general, the Membership Library is a
+ data structure that provides a “set-summary” and responds to set-membership
+ queries whether a certain member belongs to a set(s).
+
+ See the :ref:`Membership Library <Member_Library>` documentation in
+ the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
+
+* **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.**
+
+ Added the Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) library to enable
+ applications to split large packets (e.g. MTU is 64KB) into small
+ ones (e.g. MTU is 1500B). Supported packet types are:
+
+ * TCP/IPv4 packets.
+ * VxLAN packets, which must have an outer IPv4 header, and contain
+ an inner TCP/IPv4 packet.
+ * GRE packets, which must contain an outer IPv4 header, and inner
+ TCP/IPv4 headers.
+
+ The GSO library doesn't check if the input packets have correct
+ checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets.
+ Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets.
+
+* **Added the Flow Classification Library.**
+
+ Added the Flow Classification library, it provides an API for DPDK
+ applications to classify an input packet by matching it against a set of flow
+ rules. It uses the librte_table API to manage the flow rules.
+
Resolved Issues
---------------
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=========================================================
+* **Ethdev device name length increased**
+
+ The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters
+ to allow for storing longer bus specific name.
+
* **Service cores API updated for usability**
The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API
* Rework start and stop APIs into ``rte_service_runstate_set``
* Added API to set runstate of service implementation to indicate readyness
+* **The following changes made in mempool library**
+
+ * Moved ``flags`` datatype from int to unsigned int for ``rte_mempool``.
+ * Removed ``__rte_unused int flag`` param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put``
+ and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API.
+ * Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and
+ ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``.
+
+* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
+
+* ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
+ remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
+
+* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
+
+ The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
+ By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+ getting process time.
+
+* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
+
+ The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
+ An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
+
+* **Removed virtual device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+ The functions ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_parse_init_params()`` and
+ ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+ and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
+
+* **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+ The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_remove()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+ and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()``.
+
+* **Removed deprecated functions to manage log level or type.**
+
+ The functions ``rte_set_log_level()``, ``rte_get_log_level()``,
+ ``rte_set_log_type()`` and ``rte_get_log_type()`` have been removed.
+ They are respectively replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level()``,
+ ``rte_log_get_global_level()``, ``rte_log_set_level()`` and
+ ``rte_log_get_level()``.
+
ABI Changes
-----------
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=========================================================
+* **Extended port_id range.**
+
+ The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
+ changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
+
+
+Removed Items
+-------------
+
+.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
+
+ * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item in the past
+ tense.
+
+ This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
+ Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
+ =========================================================
+
+* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
+ replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
Shared Library Versions
.. code-block:: diff
librte_acl.so.2
- librte_bitratestats.so.1
+ + librte_bitratestats.so.2
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
- librte_cryptodev.so.3
+ + librte_cryptodev.so.4
librte_distributor.so.1
- librte_eal.so.5
- librte_ethdev.so.7
- librte_eventdev.so.2
+ + librte_eal.so.6
+ + librte_ethdev.so.8
+ + librte_eventdev.so.3
+ + librte_flow_classify.so.1
librte_gro.so.1
+ + librte_gso.so.1
librte_hash.so.2
librte_ip_frag.so.1
librte_jobstats.so.1
librte_meter.so.1
librte_metrics.so.1
librte_net.so.1
- librte_pdump.so.1
+ + librte_pdump.so.2
librte_pipeline.so.3
- librte_pmd_bnxt.so.1
- librte_pmd_bond.so.1
- librte_pmd_i40e.so.1
- librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.1
+ + librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_bond.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
+ + librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
librte_pmd_ring.so.2
- librte_pmd_vhost.so.1
+ + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
+ + librte_pmd_vhost.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_security.so.1
+ + librte_table.so.3
librte_timer.so.1
librte_vhost.so.3
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