+ 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+ As part of the work, ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` will be superseded as well.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+ HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in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.