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+* **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.**
+
+ FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping
+ pages and resources into its address space.
+
+* **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.**
+
+ The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms.
+
+* **Changed mempool allocation behaviour.**
+
+ Objects are no longer across pages by default.
+ It may consume more memory when using small memory pages.
+
+* **Added support of dynamic fields and flags in mbuf.**
+
+ This new feature adds the ability to dynamically register some room
+ for a field or a flag in the mbuf structure. This is typically used
+ for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag
+ in the mbuf is not justified.
+
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+ * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
+ * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
+
+* **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
+
+ Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
+ Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
+ See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
+
+ Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated iavf PMD.**
+
+ Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD.
+
+* **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
+
+ Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
+
+ Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+
+* **Updated the Intel i40e driver.**
+
+ Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+
+* **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.**
+
+ Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+
+* **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
+
+ Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
+ ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
+ to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
+ such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
+ Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
+ provided for burst mode options stringification.
+
* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
+ * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
+ * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
+ * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
+ * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+ * Generic filter enhancement
+ - Supported pipeline mode.
+ - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
+ * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action.
+ * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload.
+
+* **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
+
+ Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
+ way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
+
+* **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
+
+ Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
+ * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
+ * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
+ * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
+ * Supported FW version get.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+ Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
+ * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
+ * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
+ * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
+ * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header.
+
+* **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
+
+ Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
+
+ * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
+ XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
* **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
+* **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
+ Supports RSA and modexp operations.
+
+* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
+
+ Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
+
+ See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
+
* **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
the performance of AES GCM operations.
+* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
+
* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
+* **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
+
+ Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
+ and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
+ in mbuf areas.
+
+* **Updated the IPSec library.**
+
+ Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
+ introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
+ for IPsec SAD implementation.
+
+* **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
+
+ Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
+ packet based processing.
+
+* **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
+
+ Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
+ performance.
+
+* **Added RIB and FIB (Routing/Forwarding Information Base) libraries.**
+
+ RIB and FIB can replace the LPM (Longest Prefix Match) library
+ with better control plane (RIB) performance.
+ The data plane (FIB) can be extended with new algorithms.
+
+* **Updated testpmd.**
+
+ * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
+ gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
+
Removed Items
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- * Removed duplicated set of commands for RX offloading configuration from app/testpmd:
- “port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|
- hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off”.
+* Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
+
+ port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
+ hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
+
+ The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
+ in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
+
+ port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
+ ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
+ vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
+
+* Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected.
- The testpmd commands set that can be used instead in order to enable or disable Rx
- offloading on all Rx queues of a port is:
- "port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|
- timestamp|vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off"
+* The following sample applications have been removed in this release:
+
+ * Exception Path
+ * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment
+ * Load Balancer
+ * Netmap Compatibility
+ * Quota and Watermark
+ * vhost-scsi
API Changes
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+* eal: made the ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol private.
+
+* eal: removed the ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function, replaced by
+ ``rte_cpu_is_supported`` since dpdk v17.08.
+
+* eal: removed the ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` function, replaced by
+ ``rte_malloc_virt2iova`` since v17.11.
+
+* eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration``
+ function private.
+
+* mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the
+ ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header.
+
+* pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11:
+
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
+
+* The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
+
+* The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``.
+
+* The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
+
* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
provide a way to report various error conditions.
+* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
+ ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
+ provide a way to report various error conditions.
+
* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
+* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
+ return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
+ error conditions.
+
+* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
+ ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
+
+* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
+ ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
+
+* event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
+ input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
+ has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
+ enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
+
+* sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes,
+ pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure
+ to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to
+ have different configuration for the pipe nodes.
+
ABI Changes
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+* net: The Ethernet address and other header definitions have changed
+ attributes. They have been modified to be aligned on 2-byte boundaries.
+ These changes should not impact normal usage because drivers naturally
+ align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations
+ preserve the alignment of the header.
+
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
librte_compressdev.so.1
librte_cryptodev.so.8
librte_distributor.so.1
- librte_eal.so.11
+ + librte_eal.so.12
librte_efd.so.1
+ librte_ethdev.so.13
- librte_eventdev.so.7
+ + librte_eventdev.so.8
+ + librte_fib.so.1
librte_flow_classify.so.1
librte_gro.so.1
librte_gso.so.1
librte_meter.so.3
librte_metrics.so.1
librte_net.so.1
- librte_pci.so.1
+ + librte_pci.so.2
librte_pdump.so.3
librte_pipeline.so.3
librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
librte_rawdev.so.1
+ + librte_rib.so.1
librte_rcu.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1
librte_ring.so.2
- librte_sched.so.3
+ + librte_sched.so.4
librte_security.so.2
librte_stack.so.1
librte_table.so.3
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-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
-
- Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
-
- * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
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