mbuf: add function to read packet data

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
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@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ New Features
 
      This section is a comment. Make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
 
+
+* **Added software parser for packet type.**
+
+  * Added a new function ``rte_pktmbuf_read()`` to read the packet data from an
+    mbuf chain, linearizing if required.
+
 * **Added vhost-user indirect descriptors support.**
 
   If indirect descriptor feature is negotiated, each packet sent by the guest
@@ -64,6 +70,31 @@ New Features
   * 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
+  * AES CBC IV generation with cipher forward function
+  * AES GCM/CTR mode
+
 
 Resolved Issues
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