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+* **Add function to allow releasing internal EAL resources on exit**
+
+ During ``rte_eal_init()`` EAL allocates memory from hugepages to enable its
+ core libraries to perform their tasks. The ``rte_eal_cleanup()`` function
+ releases these resources, ensuring that no hugepage memory is leaked. It is
+ expected that all DPDK applications call ``rte_eal_cleanup()`` before
+ exiting. Not calling this function could result in leaking hugepages, leading
+ to failure during initialization of secondary processes.
+
* **Added the ixgbe ethernet driver to support RSS with flow API.**
Rte_flow actually defined to include RSS, but till now, RSS is out of
configuration using rte_flow API.It also enable queue region configuration
using flow API for i40e.
+* **Updated i40e driver to support PPPoE/PPPoL2TP.**
+
+ Updated i40e PMD to support PPPoE/PPPoL2TP with PPPoE/PPPoL2TP supporting
+ profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device personalization (DDP)
+ process.
+
* **Added NVGRE and UDP tunnels support in Solarflare network PMD.**
Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels.
* AES-CCM algorithm.
+* **Updated the DPAA_SEC crypto driver to support rte_security.**
+
+ Updated the ``dpaa_sec`` crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+ protocol offload for IPSec.
+
* **Added Wireless Base Band Device (bbdev) abstraction.**
The Wireless Baseband Device library is an acceleration abstraction
renamed the application from SW PMD specific ``eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd``
to PMD agnostic ``eventdev_pipeline``.
+* **Added Rawdev, a generic device support library.**
+
+ Rawdev library provides support for integrating any generic device type with
+ DPDK framework. Generic devices are those which do not have a pre-defined
+ type within DPDK, for example, ethernet, crypto, event etc.
+ A set of northbound APIs have been defined which encompass a generic set of
+ operations by allowing applications to interact with device using opaque
+ structures/buffers. Also, southbound APIs provide APIs for integrating device
+ either as as part of a physical bus (PCI, FSLMC etc) or through ``vdev``.
+
+ See the :doc:`../prog_guide/rawdev` programmer's guide for more details.
+
+* **Added new multi-process communication channel**
+
+ Added a generic channel in EAL for multi-process (primary/secondary) communication.
+ Consumers of this channel need to register an action with an action name to response
+ a message received; the actions will be identified by the action name and executed
+ in the context of a new dedicated thread for this channel. The list of new APIs:
+
+ * ``rte_mp_register`` and ``rte_mp_unregister`` are for action (un)registration.
+ * ``rte_mp_sendmsg`` is for sending a message without blocking for a response.
+ * ``rte_mp_request`` is for sending a request message and will block until
+ it gets a reply message which is sent from the peer by ``rte_mp_reply``.
+
+* **Added new DPDK build system using the tools "meson" and "ninja" [EXPERIMENTAL]**
+
+ Added in support for building DPDK using ``meson`` and ``ninja``, which gives
+ additional features, such as automatic build-time configuration, over the
+ current build system using ``make``. For instructions on how to do a DPDK build
+ using the new system, see the instructions in ``doc/build-sdk-meson.txt``.
+
+.. note::
+
+ This new build system support is incomplete at this point and is added
+ as experimental in this release. The existing build system using ``make``
+ is unaffected by these changes, and can continue to be used for this
+ and subsequent releases until such time as it's deprecation is announced.
+
API Changes
-----------
librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
+ librte_rawdev.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1
librte_ring.so.1
librte_sched.so.1
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