The size of the mempool structure is reduced if the per-lcore cache is disabled.
+* **Changed the memory allocation in mempool library.**
+
+ * Added ability to allocate a large mempool in virtually fragmented memory.
+ * Added new APIs to populate a mempool with memory.
+ * Added an API to free a mempool.
+ * Modified the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter() function.
+ * Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
+ * Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
+
+* **Supported virtio on IBM POWER8.**
+
+ The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
+
+* **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+ Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
+ decryption.
+
+* **Added support of AES counter mode for Intel QuickAssist devices.**
+
+ Enabled support for the AES CTR algorithm for Intel QuickAssist devices.
+ Provided support for algorithm-chaining operations.
+
+* **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
+
+ The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
+
+ * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline and automatic routes
+ updates with change in link state.
+ * Enable RSS per network interface through the configuration file.
+ * Streamline the CLI code.
+
+* **Added keepalive enhancements.**
+
+ Adds support for reporting of core states other than dead to
+ monitoring applications, enabling the support of broader liveness
+ reporting to external processes.
+
+* **Added packet capture framework.**
+
+ * A new library ``librte_pdump`` is added to provide packet capture API.
+ * A new ``app/pdump`` tool is added to capture packets in DPDK.
+
Resolved Issues
---------------
Libraries
~~~~~~~~~
+* **mbuf: Fixed refcnt update when detaching.**
+
+ Fix the ``rte_pktmbuf_detach()`` function to decrement the direct
+ mbuf's reference counter. The previous behavior was not to affect
+ the reference counter. It lead a memory leak of the direct mbuf.
+
Examples
~~~~~~~~
ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff.
+* The extended statistics are fetched by ids with ``rte_eth_xstats_get``
+ after a lookup by name ``rte_eth_xstats_get_names``.
+
+* The function ``rte_eth_dev_info_get`` fill the new fields ``nb_rx_queues``
+ and ``nb_tx_queues`` in the structure ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
+
ABI Changes
-----------
* The ``rte_port_source_params`` structure has new fields to support PCAP file.
It was already in release 16.04 with ``RTE_NEXT_ABI`` flag.
+* The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has new fields ``nb_rx_queues`` and ``nb_tx_queues``
+ to support number of queues configured by software.
+
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------