+ * Added new devarg ``lacp_by_user``.
+
+* **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
+
+ A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
+ names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
+
+ Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
+
+ * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
+ * Added support for MTU update.
+
+* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+ Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
+
+ Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for DCF datapath configuration.
+ * Added support for more PPPoE packet type for switch filter.
+
+* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
+
+ Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Supported cloud filter for IPv4/6_TCP/UDP/SCTP with SRC port only or DST port only.
+ * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
+ * Re-implemented set_gre_key_len in private API.
+ * Added support for flow query RSS.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
+
+ Updated the Intel ixgbe driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
+
+* **Updated NXP dpaa ethdev PMD.**
+
+ Updated the NXP dpaa ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for link status and interrupt
+ * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
+
+* **Updated NXP dpaa2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+ Updated the NXP dpaa2 ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
+ * Added support for dynamic flow management
+
+* **Added DOCSIS protocol to rte_security.**
+
+ Added support for combined crypto and CRC operations for the DOCSIS protocol
+ to ``rte_security`` API.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
+ ``rte_security`` API.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
+ ``rte_security`` API.
+ * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm.
+ * Improved handling of multi process in QAT crypto and compression PMDs.
+
+* **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
+
+ * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+ protocol offload for IPsec.
+
+* **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
+
+ Added support for two BPF non-generic instructions:
+ ``(BPF_ABS | <size> | BPF_LD)`` and ``(BPF_IND | <size> | BPF_LD)``
+ which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
+ for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
+
+* **Added new testpmd forward mode.**
+
+ Added new ``5tswap`` forward mode to testpmd.
+ the ``5tswap`` swaps source and destination in layers 2,3,4
+ for ipv4 and ipv6 in L3 and UDP and TCP in L4.
+
+* **Added flow performance test application.**
+
+ Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
+
+ * Measure ``rte_flow`` insertion rate.
+ * Measure ``rte_flow`` deletion rate.
+ * Dump ``rte_flow`` memory consumption.
+ * Measure packet per second forwarding.
+
+* **Added --portmap command line parameter to l2fwd example.**
+
+ Added new command line option ``--portmap="(port, port)[,(port, port)]"`` to
+ pass forwarding port details.
+ See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
+ details of this parameter usage.
+
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.**
+
+ Added ``rte_flow`` based rules, which allows hardware parsing and steering
+ of ingress packets to specific NIC queues.
+ See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/ipsec_secgw` for more details.