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+* **Added support for generic flow API (rte_flow) on igb NIC.**
+
+  This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific
+  ingress or egress traffic, alter its behavior and query related counters
+  according to any number of user-defined rules.
+
+  * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, IPv4, UDP, TCP and
+    RAW pattern items with QUEUE actions. There are four
+    type of filter support for this feature on igb.
+
 * **Added Generic Flow API support to enic.**
 
   Flow API support for outer Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SCTP, VxLAN
   and inner Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP pattern items with QUEUE,
   MARK, FLAG and VOID actions for ingress traffic.
 
+* **Added support for Chelsio T6 family of adapters**
+
+  CXGBE PMD updated to run Chelsio T6 family of adapters.
+
+* **Added latency and performance improvements for cxgbe**
+
+  TX and RX path reworked to improve performance.  Also reduced latency
+  for slow traffic.
+
+* **Updated bnxt PMD.**
+
+  Major enhancements include:
+  * Support MTU modification.
+  * Support LRO.
+  * Support VLAN filter and strip functionality.
+  * Other enhancements to add support for more dev_ops.
+  * Add PMD specific APIs mainly to control VF from PF.
+  * Update HWRM version to 1.7.7
+
+* **Added support for Rx interrupts on mlx4 driver.**
+
+  Rx queues can be armed with an interrupt which will trigger on the
+  next packet arrival.
+
+* **Updated szedata2 PMD.**
+
+  Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port.
+
 
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