4 .. **Read this first.**
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8 Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation in all sections.
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17 xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.html
23 .. This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample
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29 should be enough to allow someone scanning the release notes to
30 understand the new feature.
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35 * Added feature foo to do something.
36 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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40 This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
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42 =========================================================
44 * **Added support for generic flow API (rte_flow) on igb NIC.**
46 This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific
47 ingress or egress traffic, alter its behavior and query related counters
48 according to any number of user-defined rules.
50 * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, IPv4, UDP, TCP and
51 RAW pattern items with QUEUE actions. There are four
52 type of filter support for this feature on igb.
54 * **Added Generic Flow API support to enic.**
56 Flow API support for outer Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SCTP, VxLAN
57 and inner Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP pattern items with QUEUE,
58 MARK, FLAG and VOID actions for ingress traffic.
60 * **Added support for Chelsio T6 family of adapters**
62 CXGBE PMD updated to run Chelsio T6 family of adapters.
64 * **Added latency and performance improvements for cxgbe**
66 TX and RX path reworked to improve performance. Also reduced latency
69 * **Updated bnxt PMD.**
71 Major enhancements include:
72 * Support MTU modification.
74 * Support VLAN filter and strip functionality.
75 * Other enhancements to add support for more dev_ops.
76 * Add PMD specific APIs mainly to control VF from PF.
77 * Update HWRM version to 1.7.7
79 * **Added support for Rx interrupts on mlx4 driver.**
81 Rx queues can be armed with an interrupt which will trigger on the
84 * **Updated szedata2 PMD.**
86 Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port.
88 * **Reorganized the symmetric crypto operation structure.**
90 The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_sym_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
92 * Removed field ``rte_crypto_sym_op_sess_type``.
94 * **Reorganized the crypto operation structure.**
96 The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
98 * Added field ``rte_crypto_op_sess_type``.
99 * Enumerations ``rte_crypto_op_status`` and ``rte_crypto_op_type``
100 have been modified to be uint8_t values.
101 * Removed the field ``opaque_data``.
107 .. This section should contain bug fixes added to the relevant
108 sections. Sample format:
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156 =========================================================
162 .. This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
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170 =========================================================
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179 in the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes
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182 This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
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184 =========================================================
186 * **Reorganized the crypto operation structures.**
188 Some fields have been modified in the ``rte_crypto_op`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_op``
189 structures, as described in the `New Features`_ section.
192 Shared Library Versions
193 -----------------------
195 .. Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+``
199 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
202 This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
203 =========================================================
206 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
211 librte_bitratestats.so.1
214 + librte_cryptodev.so.3
215 librte_distributor.so.1
223 librte_latencystats.so.1
247 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested with this
252 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
257 * Other relevant details...
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261 =========================================================