net/pcap: fix possible mbuf double freeing

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
index 6fdb837..0aeba61 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added MCS lock.**
+
+  MCS lock provides scalability by spinning on a CPU/thread local variable
+  which avoids expensive cache bouncings.
+  It provides fairness by maintaining a list of acquirers and passing
+  the lock to each CPU/thread in the order they acquired the lock.
+
 * **Updated the EAL Pseudo-random Number Generator.**
 
   The lrand48()-based rte_rand() function is replaced with a
@@ -104,6 +111,9 @@ New Features
 
   * Updated the packet header modification feature. Added support of TCP header
     sequence number and acknowledgment number modification.
+  * Added support for match on ICMP/ICMP6 code and type.
+  * Added support for matching on GRE's key and C,K,S present bits.
+  * Added support for IP-in-IP tunnel.
 
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
@@ -161,12 +171,31 @@ New Features
   of via software, reducing cycles spent copying large blocks of data in
   applications.
 
+* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 drivers.**
+
+  Added the new ``ethdev``, ``eventdev``, ``mempool``, ``eventdev Rx adapter``,
+  ``eventdev Tx adapter``, ``eventdev Timer adapter`` and ``rawdev DMA``
+  drivers for various HW coprocessors available in ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
+
+  See :doc:`../platform/octeontx2` and driver informations:
+
+  * :doc:`../nics/octeontx2`
+  * :doc:`../mempool/octeontx2`
+  * :doc:`../eventdevs/octeontx2`
+  * :doc:`../rawdevs/octeontx2_dma`
+
 * **Introduced NTB PMD.**
 
   Added a PMD for Intel NTB (Non-transparent Bridge). This PMD implemented
   handshake between two separate hosts and can share local memory for peer
   host to directly access.
 
+* **Updated IPSec library Header Reconstruction.**
+
+  Updated the IPSec library with ECN and DSCP field header reconstruction
+  feature followed by RFC4301. The IPSec-secgw sample application is also
+  updated to support this feature by default.
+
 * **Updated telemetry library for global metrics support.**
 
   Updated ``librte_telemetry`` to fetch the global metrics from the
@@ -177,6 +206,14 @@ New Features
   Added telemetry mode to l3fwd-power application to report
   application level busyness, empty and full polls of rte_eth_rx_burst().
 
+* **Updated the pdump application.**
+
+  Add support for pdump to exit with primary process.
+
+* **Updated test-compress-perf tool application.**
+
+  Added multiple cores feature to compression perf tool application.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -220,6 +257,10 @@ API Changes
 * malloc: The function ``rte_malloc_set_limit`` was never implemented
   is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
 
+* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
+  structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
+  ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) have been changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
+
 * eventdev: No longer marked as experimental.
 
   The eventdev functions are no longer marked as experimental, and have
@@ -227,6 +268,29 @@ API Changes
   announced at least one release before the ABI change is made. There are no
   ABI breaking changes planned.
 
+* ip_frag: IP fragmentation library converts input mbuf into fragments
+  using input MTU size via ``rte_ipv4_fragment_packet`` interface.
+  Once fragmentation is done, each ``mbuf->ol_flags`` are set to enable IP
+  checksum H/W offload irrespective of the platform capability.
+  Cleared IP checksum H/W offload flag from the library. The application must
+  set this flag if it is supported by the platform and application wishes to
+  use it.
+
+* ip_frag: IP reassembly library converts the list of fragments into a
+  reassembled packet via ``rte_ipv4_frag_reassemble_packet`` interface.
+  Once reassembly is done, ``mbuf->ol_flags`` are set to enable IP checksum H/W
+  offload irrespective of the platform capability. Cleared IP checksum H/W
+  offload flag from the library. The application must set this flag if it is
+  supported by the platform and application wishes to use it.
+
+* sched: Macros ``RTE_SCHED_QUEUES_PER_TRAFFIC_CLASS`` and
+  ``RTE_SCHED_PIPE_PROFILES_PER_PORT`` are removed for flexible configuration
+  of pipe traffic classes and their queues size, and for runtime configuration
+  of maximum number of pipe profiles, respectively. In addtion, wrr_weights
+  field of struct ``rte_sched_pipe_params`` is modifed to be used only for
+  best-effort tc, and qsize field of struct ``rte_sched_port_params`` is
+  changed to allow different size of the each queue.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -339,7 +403,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_rcu.so.1
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_ring.so.2
-     librte_sched.so.2
+   + librte_sched.so.3
      librte_security.so.2
      librte_stack.so.1
      librte_table.so.3