* **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.
+ 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.**
* **Updated the enic driver.**
- * Add support for mbuf fast free offload.
- * Add low cycle count Tx handler for no-offload Tx (except mbuf fast free).
+ * 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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