app/testeventdev: introduce dpdk-test-eventdev app

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ New Features
   Added a multicore based distribution mode, which distributes the enqueued
   crypto operations among several slaves, running on different logical cores.
 
+* **Added dpdk-test-eventdev test application.**
+
+  The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application
+  that allows exercising various eventdev use cases.
+  This application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases
+  to verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK
+  eventdev devices.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -240,6 +248,7 @@ API Changes
   * Modified parameters of ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create()``, to accept
     ``mempool``, instead of ``device id`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_xform``.
   * Remove ``device id`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_free()``.
+  * Added new field ``session_pool`` to ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup()``.
 
 
 ABI Changes