-* ethdev: A new rss level field planned in 18.05.
- The new API add rss_level field to ``rte_eth_rss_conf`` to enable a choice
- of RSS hash calculation on outer or inner header of tunneled packet.
-
-* ethdev: Currently, if the rte_eth_rx_burst() function returns a value less
- than *nb_pkts*, the application will assume that no more packets are present.
- Some of the hw queue based hardware can only support smaller burst for RX
- and TX and thus break the expectation of the rx_burst API. Similar is the
- case for TX burst as well as ring sizes. ``rte_eth_dev_info`` will be added
- with following new parameters so as to support semantics for drivers to
- define a preferred size for Rx/Tx burst and rings.
-
- - Member ``struct preferred_size`` would be added to enclose all preferred
- size to be fetched from driver/implementation.
- - Members ``uint16_t rx_burst``, ``uint16_t tx_burst``, ``uint16_t rx_ring``,
- and ``uint16_t tx_ring`` would be added to ``struct preferred_size``.
-
-* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors
- as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs.
- As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map
- between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
- are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
-
-* ethdev: The prototype and the behavior of
- ``dev_ops->eth_mac_addr_set()`` will change in v18.05. A return code
- will be added to notify the caller if an error occurred in the PMD. In
- ``rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set()``, the new default MAC address
- will be copied in ``dev->data->mac_addrs[0]`` only if the operation is
- successful. This modification will only impact the PMDs, not the
- applications.
-
-* ethdev: functions add rx/tx callback will return named opaque type
- ``rte_eth_add_rx_callback()``, ``rte_eth_add_first_rx_callback()`` and
- ``rte_eth_add_tx_callback()`` functions currently return callback object as
- ``void \*`` but APIs to delete callbacks get ``struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback \*``
- as parameter. For consistency functions adding callback will return
- ``struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback \*`` instead of ``void \*``.
-
-* ethdev: The size of variables ``flow_types_mask`` in
- ``rte_eth_fdir_info structure``, ``sym_hash_enable_mask`` and
- ``valid_bit_mask`` in ``rte_eth_hash_global_conf`` structure
- will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements.
- This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase.
-
-* ethdev: ``rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx()`` fix port id storage
- ``rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx()`` is using ``uint8_t`` for ``port_id``,
- which should be ``uint16_t``.
-
-* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
- bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
- required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
- director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
- global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
-
-* ring: The alignment constraints on the ring structure will be relaxed
- to one cache line instead of two, and an empty cache line padding will
- be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
- structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
- platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
+* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
+ disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
+ would be allowed to be disabled this way,
+
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+ Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
+ - Member ``uint64_t ff_disable`` in ``rte_cryptodev_config``
+
+ The field would be added in v19.08.
+
+* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
+ structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
+ ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
+
+* 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.