+* **Enhancements to the IP pipeline application.**
+
+ The following features have been added to the ``ip_pipeline``
+ application;
+
+ * Added Multiple Producers/Multiple Consumers (MPSC)
+ and fragmentation/reassembly support to software rings.
+
+ * Added a dynamic pipeline reconfiguration feature that
+ allows binding a pipeline to other threads at runtime
+ using CLI commands.
+
+ * Added enable/disable of ``promisc`` mode from ``ip_pipeline``
+ configuration file.
+
+ * Added check on RX queues and TX queues of each link
+ whether they are used correctly in the ``ip_pipeline``
+ configuration file.
+
+ * Added flow id parameters to the flow-classification
+ table entries.
+
+ * Added more functions to the routing pipeline:
+ ARP table enable/disable, Q-in-Q and MPLS encapsulation,
+ add color (traffic-class for QoS) to the MPLS tag.
+
+ * Added flow-actions pipeline for traffic metering/marking
+ (for e.g. Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM)), policer etc.
+
+ * Modified the pass-through pipeline's actions-handler to
+ implement a generic approach to extract fields from the
+ packet's header and copy them to packet metadata.
+