-* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in all structures which include port_id
- definition such as "rte_eth_dev_data", "rte_port_ethdev_reader_params",
- "rte_port_ethdev_writer_params", and so on. The definition of port_id will be
- changed from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than 256 ports in
- DPDK. All APIs which have port_id parameter will be changed at the same time.
+* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+ ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
+ ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like
+ ipsec inline.
+
+* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+ ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
+ ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
+ operations.
+
+* cryptodev: the following function is deprecated starting from 17.08 and will
+ be removed in 17.11:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
+
+* cryptodev: the following function will be static in 17.11 and included
+ by all crypto drivers, therefore, will not be public:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init``
+
+* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a
+ statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc,
+ in 17.11: