Added support for new flow item to handle L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns.
+* **Added IONIC net PMD.**
+
+ Added the new ``ionic`` net driver for Pensando Ethernet Network Adapters.
+ See the :doc:`../nics/ionic` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+
* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for Rx interrupt.
+ * Added support setting VF MAC address by PF driver.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
+
+ Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for MAC rules on specific port.
+ * Added support for MAC/VLAN with TCP/UDP in switch rule.
+ * Added support for 1/10G device.
+
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+ Updated iavf PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added more supported device IDs.
+ * Updated virtual channel to latest AVF spec.
+
+* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
+
+ Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for L2TPv3 over IP profiles which can be programmed by the
+ dynamic device personalization (DDP) process.
+ * Added support for ESP-AH profiles which can be programmed by the
+ dynamic device personalization (DDP) process.
+ * Added PF support Malicious Device Drive event catch and notify.
+ * Added LLDP support.
+ * Extended PHY access AQ cmd.
+ * Added support for reading LPI counters.
+ * Added support for Energy Efficient Ethernet
* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for RSS using L3/L4 source/destination only.
+ * Added support for matching on GTP tunnel header item.
-* **Updated testpmd to support L2TPv3 over IP flows.**
+* **Updated testpmd application.**
- Added support for L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns to the testpmd
+ Added support for ESP and L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns to the testpmd
application.
* **Added algorithms to cryptodev API.**
Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm.
+* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 End Point rawdev PMD.**
+
+ Added a new OCTEON TX2 rawdev PMD for End Point mode of operation.
+ See the :doc:`../rawdevs/octeontx2_ep` for more details on this new PMD.
+
+* **Added event mode to l3fwd sample application.**
+
+ Add event device support for ``l3fwd`` sample application. It demonstrates
+ usage of poll and event mode IO mechanism under a single application.
+
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+* **Disabled building all the Linux kernel modules by default.**
+
+ In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel,
+ the Technical Board decided to disable all the kernel modules
+ by default from 20.02 version.
+
API Changes
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