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+* **Added support for Hyper-V netvsc PMD.**
+
+ The new ``netvsc`` poll mode driver provides native support for
+ networking on Hyper-V. See the :doc:`../nics/netvsc` NIC driver guide
+ for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Added Flow API support for CXGBE PMD.**
+
+ Flow API support has been added to CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload
+ flows to Chelsio T5/T6 NICs. Support added for:
+ * Wildcard (LE-TCAM) and Exact (HASH) match filters.
+ * Match items: physical ingress port, IPv4, IPv6, TCP and UDP.
+ * Action items: queue, drop, count, and physical egress port redirect.
+
+* **Added ixgbe preferred Rx/Tx parameters.**
+
+ Rather than applications providing explicit Rx and Tx parameters such as
+ queue and burst sizes, they can request that the EAL instead uses preferred
+ values provided by the PMD, falling back to defaults within the EAL if the
+ PMD does not provide any. The provision of such tuned values now includes
+ the ixgbe PMD.
+
+* **Added descriptor status check support for fm10k.**
+
+ ``rte_eth_rx_descritpr_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
+ are supported by fm10K.
+
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+ * Add low cycle count Tx handler for no-offload Tx.
+ * Add low cycle count Rx handler for non-scattered Rx.
+ * Minor performance improvements to scattered Rx handler.
+ * Add handlers to add/delete VxLAN port number.
+ * Add devarg to specify ingress VLAN rewrite mode.
+
+* **SoftNIC PMD rework.**
+
+ The SoftNIC PMD infrastructure is restructured to use the Packet Framework,
+ which makes it more flexible, modular and easier to add new functionality
+ in future.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+ The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+ * 3DES for 8, 16 and 24 byte keys.
+
+* **Added a new compression PMD using Intel's QuickAssist (QAT) device family.**
+
+ Added the new ``QAT`` compression driver, for compression and decompression
+ operations in software. See the :doc:`../compressdevs/qat_comp` compression
+ driver guide for details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated the ISA-L PMD.**
+
+ Added support for chained mbufs (input and output).
+
API Changes
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+* Path to runtime config file has changed. The new path is determined as
+ follows:
+
+ - If DPDK is running as root, ``/var/run/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+ - If DPDK is not running as root:
+
+ * If ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` is set, ``${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+ * Otherwise, ``/tmp/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+
+* cryptodev: In struct ``struct rte_cryptodev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
+ has been replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
+ Value 0 is accepted in ``sym.max_nb_sessions``, meaning that a device
+ supports an unlimited number of sessions.
+ Two new fields of type ``uint16_t`` have been added:
+ ``min_mbuf_headroom_req`` and ``min_mbuf_tailroom_req``.
+ These parameters specify the recommended headroom and tailroom for mbufs
+ to be processed by the PMD.
+
+* cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are removed in 18.08:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_start``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_detach_sym_session``
+
+* cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are replaced by
+ other functions in 18.08:
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_get_header_session_size`` is replaced with
+ ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_header_session_size``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_get_private_session_size`` is replaced with
+ ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_private_session_size``
+
+* cryptodev: Feature flag ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` is
+ replaced with the following more explicit flags:
+
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_IN_PLACE_SGL``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_SGL_OUT``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_LB_OUT``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
+ - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_LB_IN_LB_OUT``
+
+* cryptodev: Renamed cryptodev experimental APIs:
+
+ Used user_data instead of private_data in following APIs to avoid confusion
+ with the existing session parameter ``sess_private_data[]`` and related APIs.
+
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_set_private_data()`` changed to
+ ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_set_user_data()``
+ - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_get_private_data()`` changed to
+ ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_get_user_data()``
+
+* compressdev: Feature flag ``RTE_COMP_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` is
+ replaced with the following more explicit flags:
+
+ - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_SGL_OUT``
+ - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_LB_OUT``
+ - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
+
ABI Changes
-----------
librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
librte_bus_pci.so.1
librte_bus_vdev.so.1
+ + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
librte_common_octeontx.so.1
librte_compressdev.so.1
- librte_cryptodev.so.4
+ + librte_cryptodev.so.5
librte_distributor.so.1
librte_eal.so.7
librte_ethdev.so.9
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