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@@ -38,6 +38,19 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
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+* **Added generic EAL API for I/O device memory read/write operations.**
+
+  This API introduces 8-bit, 16-bit, 32bit, 64bit I/O device
+  memory read/write operations along with the relaxed versions.
+
+  The weakly-ordered machine like ARM needs additional I/O barrier for
+  device memory read/write access over PCI bus.
+  By introducing the EAL abstraction for I/O device memory read/write access,
+  The drivers can access I/O device memory in architecture-agnostic manner.
+  The relaxed version does not have additional I/O memory barrier, useful in
+  accessing the device registers of integrated controllers which
+  implicitly strongly ordered with respect to memory access.
+
 * **Added generic flow API (rte_flow).**
 
   This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific
@@ -66,11 +79,54 @@ New Features
 
   Added support for I219 Intel 1GbE NICs.
 
+* **Added VF Daemon (VFD) on i40e. - EXPERIMENTAL**
+
+  This's an EXPERIMENTAL feature to enhance the capability of DPDK PF as many
+  VF management features are not supported by kernel PF driver.
+  Some new private APIs are implemented in PMD without abstrction layer.
+  They can be used directly by some users who have the need.
+
+  The new APIs to control VFs directly from PF include,
+  1) set VF MAC anti-spoofing
+  2) set VF VLAN anti-spoofing
+  3) set TX loopback
+  4) set VF unicast promiscuous mode
+  5) set VF multicast promiscuous mode
+  6) set VF MTU
+  7) get/reset VF stats
+  8) set VF MAC address
+  9) set VF VLAN stripping
+  10) VF VLAN insertion
+  12) set VF broadcast mode
+  13) set VF VLAN tag
+  14) set VF VLAN filter
+  VFD also includes VF to PF mailbox message management by APP.
+  When PF receives mailbox messages from VF, PF should call the callback
+  provided by APP to know if they're permitted to be processed.
+
+  As an EXPERIMENTAL feature, please aware it can be changed or even
+  removed without prior notice.
+
+* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
+
+  updated the i40e base driver, including the following changes:
+
+  * replace existing legacy memcpy() calls with i40e_memcpy() calls.
+  * use BIT() macro instead of bit fields
+  * add clear all WoL filters implementation
+  * add broadcast promiscuous control per VLAN
+  * remove unused X722_SUPPORT and I40E_NDIS_SUPPORT MARCOs
+
 * **Added Solarflare libefx-based network PMD.**
 
   A new network PMD which supports Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx family
   of 10/40 Gbps adapters has been added.
 
+* **Added support for Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapters (mlx5).**
+
+  Support for Mellanox ConnectX-5 family of 10/25/40/50/100 Gbps adapters
+  has been added to the existing mlx5 PMD.
+
 * **virtio-user with vhost-kernel as another exceptional path.**
 
   Previously, we upstreamed a virtual device, virtio-user with vhost-user
@@ -105,6 +161,56 @@ New Features
   See the :ref:`Virtio Interrupt Mode <virtio_interrupt_mode>` documentation
   for more information.
 
+* **Added ARMv8 crypto PMD.**
+
+  A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides combined mode cryptografic
+  operations optimized for ARMv8 processors. The driver can be used to enhance
+  performance in processing chained operations such as cipher + HMAC.
+
+* **Updated the QAT PMD.**
+
+  The QAT PMD was updated with additional support for:
+
+  * DES algorithm.
+  * Scatter-gather list (SGL) support.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+  * The Intel(R) Multi Buffer Crypto for IPsec library used in
+    AESNI MB PMD has been moved to a new repository, in GitHub.
+  * Support for single operations (cipher only and authentication only).
+
+* **Updated the AES-NI GCM PMD.**
+
+  The AES-NI GCM PMD was migrated from MB library to ISA-L library.
+  The migration entailed the following additional support for:
+
+  * GMAC algorithm.
+  * 256-bit cipher key.
+  * Session-less mode.
+  * Out-of place processing
+  * Scatter-gatter support for chained mbufs (only out-of place and destination
+    mbuf must be contiguous)
+
+* **Added crypto performance test application.**
+
+  A new performance test application allows measuring performance parameters
+  of PMDs available in crypto tree.
+
+* **Added Elastic Flow Distributor library (rte_efd).**
+
+  This new library uses perfect hashing to determine a target/value for a
+  given incoming flow key.
+
+  It does not store the key itself for lookup operations, and therefore,
+  lookup performance is not dependent on the key size. Also, the target/value
+  can be any arbitrary value (8 bits by default). Finally, the storage requirement
+  is much smaller than a hash-based flow table and therefore, it can better fit for
+  CPU cache, being able to scale to millions of flow keys.
+
+  See the :ref:`Elastic Flow Distributor Library <Efd_Library>` documentation in
+  the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
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