-* ethdev: Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
- hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would allow
- a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on a per
- device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. To
- resolve this, the following members will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
- Note: these can be added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64
- but not for 32-bit, as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure
- will increase.
-
- - Member ``uint16_t min_mtu`` the minimum MTU allowed.
- - Member ``uint16_t max_mtu`` the maximum MTU allowed.
-
-* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI,
- but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and
- can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option.
- Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe``
- drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model cannot be
- extended to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain
- kernel modules in DPDK. As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool``
- via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore.
-
-* meter: New ``rte_color`` definition will be added in 19.02 and that will
- replace ``enum rte_meter_color`` in meter library in 19.05. This will help
- to consolidate color definition, which is currently replicated in many places,
- such as: rte_meter.h, rte_mtr.h, rte_tm.h.
-
-* crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be
- changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0.
+* ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
+ negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.
+ invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):
+
+ - ``rte_eth_dev_stop``
+ - ``rte_eth_dev_close``
+
+* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
+ This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating
+ ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``.
+ This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and
+ thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so.
+ In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
+ enabled.
+
+* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
+ be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
+ ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
+ to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
+ directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
+
+* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
+ traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
+ changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
+ in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
+ RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
+
+* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
+ in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
+
+* power: ``rte_power_set_env`` function will no longer return 0 on attempt
+ to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
+ In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
+ (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.