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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 3134723d19..7704559081 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 +81,30 @@ New Features
    * Support for Flow API
    * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
 
+* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
+
+  Performance enhancements:
+
+  * Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
+  * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
+  * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
+
+  The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
+
+  * DES CBC algorithm.
+  * DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
+
+  This requires the IPSec Multi-buffer library 0.47. For more details,
+  check out the AESNI MB PMD documenation.
+
+* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
+
+  Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application
+  that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
+  acceleration.
+
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
@@ -95,6 +136,8 @@ New Features
   * 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.
@@ -176,6 +219,11 @@ 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
@@ -202,6 +250,17 @@ API Changes
 * ``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
 -----------
@@ -221,6 +280,23 @@ ABI Changes
   The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
   changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
 
+
+Removed Items
+-------------
+
+.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
+
+   * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item in the past
+     tense.
+
+   This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
+   Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
+   =========================================================
+
+* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
+  replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
+
+
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
 
@@ -269,6 +345,7 @@ 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