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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 17ff4521a4..5408645bf2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ New Features
 
   Linux uevent is supported as backend of this device event notification framework.
 
+* **Added support for procinfo and pdump on eth vdev.**
+
+  For ethernet virtual devices (like tap, pcap, etc), with this feature, we can get
+  stats/xstats on shared memory from secondary process, and also pdump packets on
+  those virtual devices.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -148,6 +154,34 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* service cores: no longer marked as experimental.
+
+  The service cores functions are no longer marked as experimental, and have
+  become part of the normal DPDK API and ABI. Any future ABI changes will be
+  announced at least one release before the ABI change is made. There are no
+  ABI breaking changes planned.
+
+* eal: ``rte_lcore_has_role()`` return value changed.
+
+  This function now returns true or false, respectively,
+  rather than 0 or <0 for success or failure.
+  It makes use of the function more intuitive.
+
+* mempool: capability flags and related functions have been removed.
+
+  Flags ``MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG`` and
+  ``MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS`` were used by octeontx mempool
+  driver to customize generic mempool library behaviour.
+  Now the new driver callbacks ``calc_mem_size`` and ``populate`` may be
+  used to achieve it without specific knowledge in the generic code.
+
+* mempool: xmem functions have been deprecated:
+
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_create``
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size``
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``
+  - ``rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab``
+
 * mbuf: The control mbuf API has been removed in v18.05. The impacted
   functions and macros are:
 
@@ -226,6 +260,18 @@ ABI Changes
   structure and the offset of the fields remains the same on platforms
   with 64B cache line, but change on other platforms.
 
+* mempool: ops have changed.
+
+  A new callback ``calc_mem_size`` has been added to ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  to allow to customize required memory size calculation.
+  A new callback ``populate`` has been added to ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  to allow to customize objects population.
+  Callback ``get_capabilities`` has been removed from ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  since its features are covered by ``calc_mem_size`` and ``populate``
+  callbacks.
+  Callback ``register_memory_area`` has been removed from ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  since the new callback ``populate`` may be used instead of it.
+
 * **Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.**
 
   The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra entries appended to the
@@ -314,7 +360,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_latencystats.so.1
      librte_lpm.so.2
    + librte_mbuf.so.4
-     librte_mempool.so.3
+   + librte_mempool.so.4
    + librte_meter.so.2
      librte_metrics.so.1
      librte_net.so.1