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41 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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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 * **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
102 Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
103 ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
104 to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
105 such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
106 Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
107 provided for burst mode options stringification.
109 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
111 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
113 * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
114 * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
115 * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
116 * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
117 * Generic filter enhancement
118 - Supported pipeline mode.
120 * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
122 Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
123 way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
125 * **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
127 Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
129 * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
130 * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
131 * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
132 * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
133 * Supported FW version get.
135 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
137 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
138 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
140 * **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
142 Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
143 Supports RSA and modexp operations.
145 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
147 Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
149 See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
151 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
153 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
154 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
155 Test application is updated for unit testing.
157 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
159 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
160 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
161 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
162 the performance of AES GCM operations.
164 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
166 * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
167 * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
168 * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
170 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
172 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
173 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
175 * **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
177 Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
178 and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
181 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
183 Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
184 introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
185 for IPsec SAD implementation.
187 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
189 Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
190 packet based processing.
192 * **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
194 Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
197 * **Updated testpmd.**
199 * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
200 gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
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215 * Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
217 port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
218 hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
220 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
221 in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
223 port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
224 ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
225 vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
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241 =========================================================
243 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
244 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
246 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_promiscuous_enable`` and
247 ``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
248 provide a way to report various error conditions.
250 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
251 ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
252 provide a way to report various error conditions.
254 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
255 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
257 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
258 return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
261 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
262 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
264 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
265 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
267 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
268 input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
269 has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
270 enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
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286 =========================================================
289 Shared Library Versions
290 -----------------------
292 .. Update any library version updated in this release
293 and prepend with a ``+`` sign, like this:
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300 =========================================================
302 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
308 librte_bitratestats.so.2
311 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
312 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
315 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
318 librte_compressdev.so.1
319 librte_cryptodev.so.8
320 librte_distributor.so.1
323 + librte_ethdev.so.13
324 + librte_eventdev.so.8
325 librte_flow_classify.so.1
334 librte_latencystats.so.1
348 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
349 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
351 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
352 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
370 .. This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format:
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379 =========================================================
385 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
390 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
395 * Other relevant details...
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399 =========================================================
401 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
403 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
405 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
406 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
407 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
408 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.