-* The log history is deprecated.
- It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11.
-
-* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification
- mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now
- available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments
- so that it only cares about hotplugging.
-
-* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to
- integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see
- http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html).
- ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they
- do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it
- easier to add new buses later.
-
-* The xstats API and rte_eth_xstats struct will be changed to allow retrieval
- of values without any string copies or parsing.
- No backwards compatibility is planned, as it would require code duplication
- in every PMD that supports xstats.
-
-* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
- RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
- but release 2.3 will. [postponed]
-
-* ABI will change for rte_mempool struct to move the cache-related fields
- to the more appropriate rte_mempool_cache struct. The mempool API is
- also changed to enable external cache management that is not tied to EAL
- threads. Some mempool get and put calls are removed in favor of a more
- compact API. The ones that remain are backwards compatible and use the
- per-lcore default cache if available. This change targets release 16.07.
-
-* The rte_mempool struct will be changed in 16.07 to facilitate the new
- external mempool manager functionality.
- The ring element will be replaced with a more generic 'pool' opaque pointer
- to allow new mempool handlers to use their own user-defined mempool
- layout. Also newly added to rte_mempool is a handler index.
- The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API
- functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external
- handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes.
-
-* A librte_vhost public structures refactor is planned for DPDK 16.07
- that requires both ABI and API change.
- The proposed refactor would expose DPDK vhost dev to applications as
- a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a
- specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that
- we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future.
+* eal: the following functions are deprecated starting from 17.05 and will
+ be removed in 17.08:
+
+ - ``rte_set_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level``
+ - ``rte_get_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_global_level``
+ - ``rte_set_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_level``
+ - ``rte_get_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_level``
+
+* devargs: An ABI change is planned for 17.08 for the structure ``rte_devargs``.
+ The current version is dependent on bus-specific device identifier, which will
+ be made generic and abstracted, in order to make the EAL bus-agnostic.
+
+ Accompanying this evolution, device command line parameters will thus support
+ explicit bus definition in a device declaration.
+
+* igb_uio: iomem mapping and sysfs files created for iomem and ioport in
+ igb_uio will be removed, because we are able to detect these from what Linux
+ has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
+ targets release 17.05.
+
+* The VDEV subsystem will be converted as driver of the new bus model.
+ It may imply some EAL API changes in 17.08.
+
+* The struct ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from
+ ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` and ``rte_eventdev_driver`` in 17.08.
+
+* ethdev: An API change is planned for 17.08 for the function
+ ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.08 the function will return an ``int``
+ instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.
+
+* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
+ are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
+ PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
+ their behavior will be kept until 17.05 and will be removed in 17.08.
+
+* ethdev: Tx offloads will no longer be enabled by default in 17.08.
+ Instead, the ``rte_eth_txmode`` structure will be extended with
+ bit field to enable each Tx offload.
+ Besides of making the Rx/Tx configuration API more consistent for the
+ application, PMDs will be able to provide a better out of the box performance.
+ As part of the work, ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` will be superseded as well.
+
+* ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
+ ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
+ as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
+ HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
+ PMDs that implement the latter.
+ Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
+ PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
+
+* cryptodev: All PMD names definitions will be moved to the individual PMDs
+ in 17.08.
+
+* cryptodev: The following changes will be done in in 17.08:
+
+ - the device type enumeration ``rte_cryptodev_type`` will be removed
+ - the following structures will be changed: ``rte_cryptodev_session``,
+ ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session``, ``rte_cryptodev_info``, ``rte_cryptodev``
+ - the function ``rte_cryptodev_count_devtype`` will be replaced by
+ ``rte_cryptodev_device_count_by_driver``
+
+* cryptodev: API changes are planned for 17.08 for the sessions management
+ to make it agnostic to the underlying devices, removing coupling with
+ crypto PMDs, so a single session can be used on multiple devices.
+
+ - ``struct rte_cryptodev_sym_session``, dev_id, dev_type will be removed,
+ _private field changed to the indirect array of private data pointers of
+ all supported devices
+
+ An API of followed functions will be changed to allow operate on multiple
+ devices with one session:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_free``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_pool_create``
+
+ While dev_id will not be stored in the ``struct rte_cryptodev_sym_session``,
+ directly, the change of followed API is required:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_detach_sym_session``
+
+* cryptodev: the structures ``rte_crypto_op``, ``rte_crypto_sym_op``
+ and ``rte_crypto_sym_xform`` will be restructured in 17.08,
+ for correctness and improvement.
+
+* crypto/scheduler: the following two functions are deprecated starting
+ from 17.05 and will be removed in 17.08:
+
+ - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_get``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_get``
+ - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_set``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_set``
+
+* librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
+ that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
+ The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed
+ (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter)
+ and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly.