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-Deprecation
-===========
+ABI and API Deprecation
+=======================
 
-See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </guidelines/versioning>`.
+See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </contributing/versioning>`.
 API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
 
-Help to update from a previous release is provided in
-:doc:`another section </rel_notes/updating_apps>`.
-
 
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
-* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_dev to support up to
-  1024 queues per port. This change will be in release 2.2.
-  There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
-  All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2.
-
-* The EAL function rte_eal_pci_close_one is deprecated because renamed to
-  rte_eal_pci_detach.
-
-* The Macros RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES_MAX and RTE_HASH_KEY_LENGTH_MAX are
-  deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2.
-
-* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_mbuf, struct rte_kni_mbuf,
-  and several ``PKT_RX_`` flags will be removed, to support unified packet type
-  from release 2.1. Those changes may be enabled in the upcoming release 2.1
-  with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
-
-* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release
-  creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking
-  dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from
-  release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt.
-
-* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
-  imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
-  tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
+* The log history is deprecated.
+  It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11.
+
+* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification
+  mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now
+  available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments
+  so that it only cares about hotplugging.
+
+* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to
+  integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see
+  http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html).
+  ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they
+  do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it
+  easier to add new buses later.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
+  RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
+  but release 2.3 will. [postponed]
+
+* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
+  are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
+  PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
+  their behavior will be kept in 16.07 and will be removed in 16.11.
+
+* The APIs rte_mempool_count and rte_mempool_free_count are being deprecated
+  on the basis that they are confusing to use - free_count actually returns
+  the number of allocated entries, not the number of free entries as expected.
+  They are being replaced by rte_mempool_avail_count and
+  rte_mempool_in_use_count respectively.
+
+* The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and
+  will be removed in 16.11.
+  It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.