any known issues.
The Releases Notes also contain notifications of features that will change ABI compatibility in the next major release.
- Developers should update the Release Notes to add a short description of new or updated features.
- Developers should also update the Release Notes to add ABI announcements if necessary,
- (see :doc:`/contributing/versioning` for details).
+ Developers should include updates to the Release Notes with patch sets that relate to any of the following sections:
+
+ * New Features
+ * Resolved Issues (see below)
+ * Known Issues
+ * API Changes
+ * ABI Changes
+ * Shared Library Versions
+
+ Resolved Issues should only include issues from previous releases that have been resolved in the current release.
+ Issues that are introduced and then fixed within a release cycle do not have to be included here.
+
+ Refer to the Release Notes from the previous DPDK release for the correct format of each section.
+
* **API documentation**
* The DPDK documentation contains some legacy images in PNG format.
These will be converted to SVG in time.
-* `Inkscape <inkscape.org>`_ is the recommended graphics editor for creating the images.
+* `Inkscape <http://inkscape.org>`_ is the recommended graphics editor for creating the images.
Use some of the older images in ``doc/guides/prog_guide/img/`` as a template, for example ``mbuf1.svg``
or ``ring-enqueue.svg``.