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+* **Added Alpine Linux with musl libc support**
+
+ The distribution Alpine Linux, using musl libc and busybox,
+ got initial support starting with building DPDK without modification.
+
* **Added phase-fair lock.**
Phase-fair lock provides fairness guarantees.
net, crypto and event PMD's.
* Added mempool/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated
mempool device.
+ * Added event/cnxk driver which provides the support for integrated event
+ device.
* **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs. */
representor=[c#]pf# c2pf[0,1] /* 2 PFs on controller 2. */
-* **Added support for meter PPS profile.**
+* **Added queue state in queried Rx/Tx queue info.**
+
+ * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_rxq_info`` structure to
+ provide indicated Rx queue state.
+ * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_txq_info`` structure to
+ provide indicated Tx queue state.
+
+* **Updated meter API.**
+
+ * Added packet mode in the meter profile parameters data structures
+ to support metering traffic by packet per second (PPS),
+ in addition to the initial bytes per second (BPS) mode (value 0).
+ * Added support of pre-defined meter policy via flow action list per color.
+
+* **Added packet integrity match to flow rules.**
+
+ * Added ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_INTEGRITY`` flow item.
+ * Added ``rte_flow_item_integrity`` data structure.
- Added packet mode in the meter profile parameters data structures
- to support metering traffic by packet per second (PPS),
- in addition to the initial bytes per second (BPS) mode (value 0).
+* **Added TCP connection tracking offload in flow API.**
+
+ * Added conntrack item and action for stateful connection offload.
+
+* **Updated Amazon ENA PMD.**
+
+ The new driver version (v2.3.0) introduced bug fixes and improvements,
+ including:
+
+ * Changed memcpy mapping to the dpdk-optimized version.
+ * Updated ena_com (HAL) to the latest version.
+ * Added indication of the RSS hash presence in the mbuf.
* **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions.
+ * Added support for flow COUNT action handle.
* Support push VLAN on ingress traffic and pop VLAN on egress traffic in E-Switch mode.
+ * Added support for pre-defined meter policy API.
+ * Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter.
+ * Added support for ASO metering by PPS (packet per second).
+ * Added support for the monitor policy of Power Management API.
+ * Added support for connection tracking.
* **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
* Added support for txgbevf PMD.
* Support device arguments to handle AN training for backplane NICs.
+ * Added support for VXLAN-GPE.
* **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.**
+* **Enabled libpcap-based PMD on Windows.**
+
+ A libpcap distribution, such as Npcap or WinPcap, is required to run the PMD.
+
* **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
* Added support for preferred busy polling.
+* **Added support for vhost async packed ring data path.**
+
+ Added packed ring support for async vhost.
+
* **Added support of multiple data-units in cryptodev API.**
The cryptodev library has been enhanced to allow operations on multiple
the events across multiple stages.
* This also reduced the scheduling overhead on a event device.
+* **Updated Intel DLB2 driver.**
+
+ * Added support for v2.5 device.
+
+* **Added Predictable RSS functionality to the Toeplitz hash library.**
+
+ Added feature for finding collisions of the Toeplitz hash function -
+ the hash function used in NICs to spread the traffic among the queues.
+ It can be used to get predictable mapping of the flows.
+
* **Updated testpmd.**
* Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port.
``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
+ * Added command to show link flow control info.
+ ``show port (port_id) flow_ctrl``
* Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
+ * Added command to cleanup a Tx queue's mbuf on a port.
+ ``port cleanup (port_id) txq (queue_id) (free_cnt)``
* Added command to dump internal representation information of single flow.
``flow dump (port_id) rule (rule_id)``
+ * Added commands to create and delete meter policy.
+ ``add port meter policy (port_id) (policy_id) ...``
+ * Added commands to construct conntrack context and relevant indirect
+ action handle creation, update for conntrack action as well as conntrack
+ item matching.
+ * Added commands for action meter color to color the packet to reflect
+ the meter color result.
+ ``color type (green|yellow|red)``
+
+* **Added support for the FIB lookup method in the l3fwd example app.**
+
+ Previously the l3fwd sample app only supported LPM and EM lookup methods,
+ the app now supports the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) lookup method.
* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.**
* Updated the ``ipsec-secgw`` sample application with UDP encapsulation
support for NAT Traversal.
+* **Enhanced crypto adapter forward mode.**
+
+ * Added ``rte_event_crypto_adapter_enqueue()`` API to enqueue events to crypto
+ adapter if forward mode is supported by driver.
+ * Added support for crypto adapter forward mode in octeontx2 event and crypto
+ device driver.
+
+* **Added sub-testsuite support.**
+
+ * The unit test suite struct now supports having both a nested
+ list of sub-testsuites, and a list of testcases as before.
+
Removed Items
-------------
``rte_cryptodev_raw_dequeue_burst`` got a new parameter
``max_nb_to_dequeue`` to provide flexible control on dequeue.
+* ethdev: The experimental flow API for shared action has been generalized
+ as a flow action handle used in rules through an indirect action.
+ The functions ``rte_flow_shared_action_*`` manipulating the action object
+ are replaced with ``rte_flow_action_handle_*``.
+ The action ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED`` is deprecated and can be
+ replaced with ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_INDIRECT``.
+
+* ethdev: The experimental function ``rte_mtr_policer_actions_update()``,
+ the enum ``rte_mtr_policer_action``, and the struct members
+ ``policer_action_recolor_supported`` and ``policer_action_drop_supported``
+ have been removed.
+
+* vhost: The vhost library currently populates received mbufs from a virtio
+ driver with Tx offload flags while not filling Rx offload flags.
+ While this behavior is arguable, it is kept untouched.
+ A new flag ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NET_COMPLIANT_OL_FLAGS`` has been added to ask
+ for a behavior compliant with the mbuf offload API.
+
+* stack: Lock-free ``rte_stack`` no longer silently ignores push and pop when
+ it's not supported on the current platform. Instead ``rte_stack_create()``
+ fails and ``rte_errno`` is set to ``ENOTSUP``.
+
+* raw/ioat: The experimental function ``rte_ioat_completed_ops()`` now
+ supports two additional parameters, ``status`` and ``num_unsuccessful``,
+ to allow the reporting of errors from hardware when performing copy
+ operations.
+
ABI Changes
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