1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
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26 .. This section should contain new features added in this release.
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39 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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43 Suggested order in release notes items:
44 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
45 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
47 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
48 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
51 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
53 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
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57 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
59 Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
61 * Added support for Rx descriptor status and related API in a secondary
63 * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
64 * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration get API in a secondary
66 * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
68 * **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
70 New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
72 * Added firmware version reading.
74 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**
76 Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
77 which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
78 macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
80 * **Updated the enic driver.**
82 * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
83 inner packet matching.
84 * Added limited support for RAW.
85 * Added limited support for RSS.
86 * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
88 * **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
92 * Added promiscuous mode support.
94 * **Updated the QuickAssist Technology PMD.**
96 Added support for AES-XTS with 128 and 256 bit AES keys.
98 * **Updated the testpmd application.**
100 Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
101 forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
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148 * cryptodev: in 18.08 new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
149 included into ``rte_crypto_op``. As ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` structure was
150 defined as cache-line aligned that caused unintended changes in
151 ``rte_crypto_op`` structure layout and alignment. Remove cache-line
152 alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
153 layout and alignment.
156 Shared Library Versions
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169 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
175 librte_bitratestats.so.2
178 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
179 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
182 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
185 librte_compressdev.so.1
186 + librte_cryptodev.so.7
187 librte_distributor.so.1
192 librte_flow_classify.so.1
200 librte_latencystats.so.1
214 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
215 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
217 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
218 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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245 * **No software AES-XTS implementation.**
247 There are currently no cryptodev software PMDs available which implement
248 support for the AES-XTS algorithm, so this feature can only be used
249 if compatible hardware and an associated PMD is available.
255 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
260 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
265 * Other relevant details...
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