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46 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
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59 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
61 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
62 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
64 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
66 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
67 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
68 Test application is updated for unit testing.
70 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
72 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
73 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
74 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
75 the performance of AES GCM operations.
77 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
79 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
80 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
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95 * Removed duplicated set of commands for RX offloading configuration from app/testpmd:
96 “port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|
97 hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off”.
99 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead in order to enable or disable Rx
100 offloading on all Rx queues of a port is:
101 "port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|
102 timestamp|vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off"
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120 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
121 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
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159 librte_bitratestats.so.2
162 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
163 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
166 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
169 librte_compressdev.so.1
170 librte_cryptodev.so.8
171 librte_distributor.so.1
174 + librte_ethdev.so.13
176 librte_flow_classify.so.1
185 librte_latencystats.so.1
199 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
200 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
202 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
203 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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252 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
254 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
256 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
257 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
258 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
259 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.