+* **Added Wireless Base Band Device (bbdev) abstraction.**
+
+ The Wireless Baseband Device library is an acceleration abstraction
+ framework for 3gpp Layer 1 processing functions that provides a common
+ programming interface for seamless opeartion on integrated or discrete
+ hardware accelerators or using optimized software libraries for signal
+ processing.
+ The current release only supports 3GPP CRC, Turbo Coding and Rate
+ Matching operations, as specified in 3GPP TS 36.212.
+
+ See the :doc:`../prog_guide/bbdev` programmer's guide for more details.
+