in case of system perturbations. On the downside, small performance degradation
is measured when running micro-benchmarks.
+* **Added vhost PMD xstats.**
+
+ Added extended statistics to vhost PMD from per port perspective.
+
+* **Added virtio NEON support for ARM.**
+
+* **Updated the ixgbe base driver.**
+
+ Updated the ixgbe base driver, including the following changes:
+
+ * add X550em_a 10G PHY support
+ * support flow control auto negotiation for X550em_a 1G PHY
+ * add X550em_a FW ALEF support
+ * increase mailbox version to ixgbe_mbox_api_13
+ * add two MAC ops for Hyper-V support
+
+* **Updated the QAT PMD.**
+
+ The QAT PMD was updated with following support:
+
+ * MD5_HMAC algorithm
+ * SHA224-HMAC algorithm
+ * SHA384-HMAC algorithm
+ * GMAC algorithm
+ * KASUMI (F8 and F9) algorithm
+ * 3DES algorithm
+ * NULL algorithm
+ * C3XXX device
+ * C62XX device
+
+* **Added libcrypto PMD.**
+
+ A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing.
+ All cryptography operations are using Openssl library crypto API.
+
+* **Updated the IPsec example with following support:**
+
+ * configuration file
+
Resolved Issues
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