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+* **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.**
+
+ FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping
+ pages and resources into its address space.
+
* **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.**
The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms.
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+ * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
+ * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
+
* **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
+* **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
+
+ Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
+
* **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+* **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
+
+ Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
+ ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
+ to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
+ such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
+ Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
+ provided for burst mode options stringification.
+
* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
* Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
* Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
+ * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
* Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+ * Generic filter enhancement
+ - Supported pipeline mode.
+ - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
* **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
+* **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
+
+ Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
+ * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
+ * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
+ * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
+ * Supported FW version get.
+
* **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
the performance of AES GCM operations.
+* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
+
* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
performance.
+* **Updated testpmd.**
+
+ * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
+ gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
+
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