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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
index ca28d05d59..90a81661b6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -55,12 +55,64 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =======================================================
 
+* **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
+
+  * Introduced representor type of VF, SF and PF.
+  * Supported sub-function and multi-host in representor syntax::
+
+      representor=#            [0,2-4]      /* Legacy VF compatible.         */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]vf# c1pf2vf3     /* VF 3 on PF 2 of controller 1. */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs.                     */
+      representor=[c#]pf#      c2pf[0,1]    /* 2 PFs on controller 2.        */
+
+* **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
+
+  Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Generalized passing meta data between PMD and FPGA, allowing up to 20
+    bytes of user specified information in RX and TX paths.
+
+  * Updated dynamic PMD extensions API using standardized names.
+
+  * Added support for new Atomic Rules PCI device IDs ``0x100f, 0x1010, 0x1017,
+    0x1018, 0x1019``.
+
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+  * Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.2.15 version.
+
+* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
+
+  * Added support for module EEPROM dumping.
+  * Added support for freeing Tx mbuf on demand.
+  * Added support for copper port in Kunpeng930.
+  * Added support for runtime config to select IO burst function.
+  * Added support for outer UDP checksum in Kunpeng930.
+  * Added support for query Tx descriptor status.
+
+* **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
+
+  * Added support for shared ethernet interface.
+  * Added support for external buffers in Tx.
+
+* **Updated NXP DPAA2 driver.**
+
+  * Added support for traffic management.
+  * Added support for configurable Tx confirmation.
+  * Added support for external buffers in Tx.
+
 * **Updated Wangxun txgbe driver.**
 
   * Added support for txgbevf PMD.
 
+* **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
+
+  * Added support for preferred busy polling.
+
 * **Updated testpmd.**
 
+  * Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port.
+    ``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
   * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
     ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
 
@@ -93,6 +145,10 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* eal: The experimental TLS API added in ``rte_thread.h`` has been renamed
+  from ``rte_thread_tls_*`` to ``rte_thread_*`` to avoid naming redundancy
+  and confusion with the transport layer security term.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -111,6 +167,11 @@ ABI Changes
 
 * No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
 
+* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_legacy_register`` has been
+  removed from the public API and is now an internal-only function. This
+  function was already marked as internal in the API documentation for it,
+  and was not for use by external applications.
+
 
 Known Issues
 ------------