regex/mlx5: introduce driver for BlueField 2

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
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@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ New Features
   Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
   expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
 
   Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
   expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
 

+  Added Mellanox RegEx PMD, allowing to offload RegEx searches.
+
+* **Added eCPRI protocol support in rte_flow.**
+
+  The ``ECPRI`` item has been added to support eCPRI packet offloading for
+  5G network.

 
 * **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.**
 
 
 * **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.**
 


@@ -190,7 +196,10 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
 
 
 * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
 

-  Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in 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 BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
 


@@ -199,6 +208,12 @@ New Features
   which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
   for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
 
   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:
 * **Added flow performance test application.**
 
   Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:


@@ -215,6 +230,12 @@ New Features
   See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
   details of this parameter usage.
 
   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.
+

 
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