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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
index 68efcd49a4..c714052108 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,42 @@ New Features
   * Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
   * Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
 
+* **Supported virtio on IBM POWER8.**
+
+  The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
+
+* **Virtio support for containers.**
+
+  Add a new virtual device, named virtio-user, to support virtio for containers.
+
+  Known limitations:
+
+  * Control queue and multi-queue are not supported yet.
+  * Cannot work with --huge-unlink.
+  * Cannot work with --no-huge.
+  * Cannot work when there are more than VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS(8) hugepages.
+  * Root privilege is a must for sorting hugepages by physical address.
+  * Can only be used with vhost user backend.
+
+* **Added vhost-user client mode.**
+
+  DPDK vhost-user could be the server as well as the client. It supports
+  server mode only before, now it also supports client mode. Client mode
+  is enabled when ``RTE_VHOST_USER_CLIENT`` flag is set while calling
+  ``rte_vhost_driver_register``.
+
+  When DPDK vhost-user restarts from normal or abnormal quit (say crash),
+  the client mode would allow DPDK to establish the connect again.  Note
+  that a brand new QEMU version (v2.7 or above) is needed, otherwise, the
+  reconnect won't work.
+
+  DPDK vhost-user will also try to reconnect by default when
+
+  * the first connect fails (when QEMU is not started yet)
+  * the connection is broken (when QEMU restarts)
+
+  It can be turned off if flag ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NO_RECONNECT`` is set.
+
 * **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
 
   Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
@@ -57,14 +93,31 @@ New Features
   Enabled support for the AES CTR algorithm for Intel QuickAssist devices.
   Provided support for algorithm-chaining operations.
 
+* **Added KASUMI SW PMD.**
+
+  A new Crypto PMD has been added, which provides KASUMI F8 (UEA1) ciphering
+  and KASUMI F9 (UIA1) hashing.
+
 * **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
 
   The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
 
-  * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline.
+  * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline and automatic routes
+    updates with change in link state.
   * Enable RSS per network interface through the configuration file.
   * Streamline the CLI code.
 
+* **Added keepalive enhancements.**
+
+  Adds support for reporting of core states other than dead to
+  monitoring applications, enabling the support of broader liveness
+  reporting to external processes.
+
+* **Added packet capture framework.**
+
+  * A new library ``librte_pdump`` is added to provide packet capture API.
+  * A new ``app/pdump`` tool is added to capture packets in DPDK.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -134,6 +187,22 @@ API Changes
   ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
   tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff.
 
+* The extended statistics are fetched by ids with ``rte_eth_xstats_get``
+  after a lookup by name ``rte_eth_xstats_get_names``.
+
+* The function ``rte_eth_dev_info_get`` fill the new fields ``nb_rx_queues``
+  and ``nb_tx_queues`` in the structure ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
+
+* The vhost function ``rte_vring_available_entries`` is renamed to
+  ``rte_vhost_avail_entries``.
+
+* All existing vhost APIs and callbacks with ``virtio_net`` struct pointer
+  as the parameter have been changed due to the ABI refactoring mentioned
+  below: it's replaced by ``int vid``.
+
+* The function ``rte_vhost_enqueue_burst`` no longer supports concurrent enqueuing
+  packets to the same queue.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -145,6 +214,13 @@ ABI Changes
 * The ``rte_port_source_params`` structure has new fields to support PCAP file.
   It was already in release 16.04 with ``RTE_NEXT_ABI`` flag.
 
+* The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has new fields ``nb_rx_queues`` and ``nb_tx_queues``
+  to support number of queues configured by software.
+
+* vhost ABI refactoring has been made: ``virtio_net`` structure is never
+  exported to application any more. Instead, a handle, ``vid``, has been
+  used to represent this structure internally.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -181,7 +257,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_sched.so.1
      librte_table.so.2
      librte_timer.so.1
-     librte_vhost.so.2
+   + librte_vhost.so.3
 
 
 Tested Platforms