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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index f71e9241a9..585110ff75 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ New Features
   256 ports in dpdk. All ethdev APIs which have port_id as parameter are changed
   in the meantime.
 
+* **Modified the return type of rte_eth_stats_reset.**
+
+  Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int``
+  so the caller may know whether a device supports the operation or not
+  and if the operation was carried out.
+
+* **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.**
+
+  Added the new mrvl net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
+  "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
+  driver.
+
+* **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+  Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
+  fallback support for traffic management.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -64,6 +81,11 @@ New Features
    * Support for Flow API
    * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
 
+* **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
+
+  Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
+  feature.
+
 * **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
 
   Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
@@ -81,6 +103,22 @@ New Features
   See the :ref:`Membership Library <Member_Library>` documentation in
   the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
 
+* **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.**
+
+  Added the Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) library to enable
+  applications to split large packets (e.g. MTU is 64KB) into small
+  ones (e.g. MTU is 1500B). Supported packet types are:
+
+  * TCP/IPv4 packets.
+  * VxLAN packets, which must have an outer IPv4 header, and contain
+    an inner TCP/IPv4 packet.
+  * GRE packets, which must contain an outer IPv4 header, and inner
+    TCP/IPv4 headers.
+
+  The GSO library doesn't check if the input packets have correct
+  checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets.
+  Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -157,6 +195,11 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* **Ethdev device name length increased**
+
+  The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters
+  to allow for storing longer bus specific name.
+
 * **Service cores API updated for usability**
 
   The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API
@@ -178,6 +221,22 @@ API Changes
   * Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and
     ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``.
 
+* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
+
+* ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
+  remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
+
+* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
+
+  The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
+  By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+  getting process time.
+
+* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
+
+  The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
+  An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -223,8 +282,9 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.5
      librte_ethdev.so.8
-     librte_eventdev.so.2
+     librte_eventdev.so.3
      librte_gro.so.1
+     librte_gso.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1
      librte_jobstats.so.1
@@ -244,6 +304,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
      librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
      librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+   + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
      librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
      librte_port.so.3
      librte_power.so.1