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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -144,12 +144,43 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
   space bytes, to boost the performance. In the meanwhile, it deprecated the
   legacy way via reading/writing sysfile supported by kernel module igb_uio.
 
+* **Added i40e support for setting mac addresses.**
+
+* **Added dump of i40e registers and EEPROM.**
+
 * **Supported ether type setting of single and double VLAN for i40e**
 
 * **Added VMDQ DCB mode in i40e.**
 
   Added support for DCB in VMDQ mode to i40e driver.
 
+* **Added i40e VEB switching support.**
+
+* **Added fm10k Rx interrupt support.**
+
+* **Optimized fm10k Tx.**
+
+  * Free multiple mbufs at a time to reduce freeing mbuf cycles.
+
+* **Handled error flags in fm10k vector Rx.**
+
+  Parse err flags in Rx desc and set error bits in mbuf with vector instructions.
+
+* **Added fm10k FTAG based forwarding support.**
+
+* **Added mlx5 flow director support.**
+
+  Added flow director support (RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT and
+  RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT_MAC_VLAN).
+
+  Only available with Mellanox OFED >= 3.2.
+
+* **Added mlx5 RX VLAN stripping support.**
+
+  Added support for RX VLAN stripping.
+
+  Only available with Mellanox OFED >= 3.2.
+
 * **Increased number of next hops for LPM IPv4 to 2^24.**
 
   The next_hop field is extended from 8 bits to 24 bits for IPv4.
@@ -243,6 +274,19 @@ Drivers
   under stress with traffic, which might result in application launch
   failure.
 
+* **mlx5: Fixed possible crash during initialization.**
+
+  A crash could occur when failing to allocate private device context.
+
+* **mlx5: Added port type check.**
+
+  Done to prevent port initialization on non-Ethernet link layers and
+  to report an error.
+
+* **mlx5: Applied VLAN filtering to broadcast and IPv6 multicast flows.**
+
+  Prevented reception of multicast frames outside of configured VLANs.
+
 * **aesni_mb: Fixed wrong return value when creating a device.**
 
   cryptodev_aesni_mb_init() was returning the device id of the device created,
@@ -268,6 +312,12 @@ Libraries
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 
+* **l3fwd-power: Fixed memory leak for non-IP packet.**
+
+  Fixed issue in l3fwd-power where, on receiving packets of types
+  other than IPv4 or IPv6, the mbuf was not released, and caused
+  a memory leak.
+
 * **examples/vhost: Fixed frequent mbuf allocation failure.**
 
   vhost-switch often fails to allocate mbuf when dequeue from vring because it