security: introduce security API and framework

[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 e4e98f7..a2d5fa8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ New Features
    * 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:
@@ -165,6 +172,12 @@ New Features
   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
 ---------------
@@ -283,6 +296,20 @@ API Changes
   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+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions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+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions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()``,
@@ -349,11 +376,12 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + 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.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
@@ -382,7 +410,8 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      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