mlx5: add VLAN filtering for broadcast and IPv6 multicast

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_04.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
 
   Only available with Mellanox OFED >= 3.2.
 
+* **Added mlx5 RX VLAN stripping support.**
+
+  Added support for RX VLAN stripping.
+
+  Only available with Mellanox OFED >= 3.2.
+
 * **Increased number of next hops for LPM IPv4 to 2^24.**
 
   The next_hop field is extended from 8 bits to 24 bits for IPv4.
@@ -268,6 +274,19 @@ Drivers
   under stress with traffic, which might result in application launch
   failure.
 
+* **mlx5: Fixed possible crash during initialization.**
+
+  A crash could occur when failing to allocate private device context.
+
+* **mlx5: Added port type check.**
+
+  Done to prevent port initialization on non-Ethernet link layers and
+  to report an error.
+
+* **mlx5: Applied VLAN filtering to broadcast and IPv6 multicast flows.**
+
+  Prevented reception of multicast frames outside of configured VLANs.
+
 * **aesni_mb: Fixed wrong return value when creating a device.**
 
   cryptodev_aesni_mb_init() was returning the device id of the device created,