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46 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
47 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
49 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
50 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
53 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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57 =========================================================
59 * **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.**
61 FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping
62 pages and resources into its address space.
64 * **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.**
66 The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms.
68 * **Updated the enic driver.**
70 * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
71 * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
73 * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
75 Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
76 Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
77 See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
79 * **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
81 Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
82 :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
84 * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
86 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
88 * **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
90 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
92 * **Updated the Intel i40e driver.**
94 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
96 * **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.**
98 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
100 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
102 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
104 * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
105 * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
106 * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
107 * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
109 * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
111 Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
112 way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
114 * **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
116 Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
118 * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
119 * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
120 * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
121 * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
122 * Supported FW version get.
124 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
126 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
127 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
129 * **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
131 Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
132 Supports RSA and modexp operations.
134 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
136 Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
138 See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
140 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
142 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
143 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
144 Test application is updated for unit testing.
146 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
148 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
149 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
150 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
151 the performance of AES GCM operations.
153 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
155 * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
156 * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
157 * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
159 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
161 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
162 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
164 * **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
166 Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
167 and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
170 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
172 Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
173 introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
174 for IPsec SAD implementation.
176 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
178 Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
179 packet based processing.
181 * **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
183 Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
186 * **Updated testpmd.**
188 * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
189 gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
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202 =========================================================
204 * Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
206 port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
207 hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
209 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
210 in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
212 port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
213 ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
214 vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
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223 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
224 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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230 =========================================================
232 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
233 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
235 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_promiscuous_enable`` and
236 ``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
237 provide a way to report various error conditions.
239 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
240 ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
241 provide a way to report various error conditions.
243 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
244 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
246 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
247 return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
250 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
251 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
253 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
254 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
256 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
257 input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
258 has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
259 enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
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275 =========================================================
278 Shared Library Versions
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289 =========================================================
291 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
297 librte_bitratestats.so.2
300 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
301 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
304 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
307 librte_compressdev.so.1
308 librte_cryptodev.so.8
309 librte_distributor.so.1
312 + librte_ethdev.so.13
313 + librte_eventdev.so.8
314 librte_flow_classify.so.1
323 librte_latencystats.so.1
337 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
338 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
340 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
341 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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368 =========================================================
374 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
379 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
384 * Other relevant details...
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388 =========================================================
390 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
392 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
394 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
395 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
396 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
397 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.