examples/l2fwd-keepalive: add IPC liveness reporting

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_07.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
index 68efcd4..ff8cc0d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ New Features
   * 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
@@ -61,10 +65,17 @@ New Features
 
   The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
 
-  * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline.
+  * 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.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -134,6 +145,9 @@ API Changes
   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``.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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