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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
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@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ New Features
   * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in EF10 (ef10 and ef10_simple)
     datapaths implementation.
 
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+  * Added AVX2-based vectorized Rx handler.
+  * Added VLAN and checksum offloads to the simple Tx handler.
+  * Added the count flow action.
+  * Enabled the virtual address IOVA mode.
+
 * **Updated failsafe driver.**
 
   Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
@@ -146,6 +153,34 @@ New Features
   A new devarg ``phy_mac`` was introduced to allow users to use physical
   MAC address of the selected PCAP interface.
 
+* **Added TAP Rx/Tx queues sharing with a secondary process.**
+
+  A secondary process can attach a TAP device created in the primary process,
+  probe the queues, and process Rx/Tx in a secondary process.
+
+* **Added classification and metering support to SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+  Added support for flow classification (rte_flow API), and metering and
+  policing (rte_mtr API) to the SoftNIC PMD.
+
+* **Added Crypto support to Softnic PMD.**
+
+  The Softnic is now capable of processing symmetric crypto workloads such
+  as cipher, cipher-authentication chaining, and aead encryption and
+  decryption. This is achieved by calling DPDK Cryptodev APIs.
+
+* **Added cryptodev port to port library.**
+
+  Cryptodev port is a shim layer in the port library that interacts with DPDK
+  Cryptodev PMDs including burst enqueuing and dequeuing crypto operations.
+
+* **Added symmetric cryptographic actions to the pipeline library.**
+
+  In the pipeline library an added symmetric crypto action parsing and action
+  handler are implemented. The action allows automatically preparing the crypto
+  operation with the rules specified such as algorithm, key, and IV, etc for
+  the cryptodev port to process.
+
 * **Added support for GEN3 devices to Intel QAT driver .**
 
   Added support for the third generation of Intel QuickAssist devices.
@@ -166,6 +201,11 @@ New Features
   Added the new caam job ring driver for NXP platforms. See the
   "NXP CAAM JOB RING (caam_jr)" document for more details on this new driver.
 
+* **Added support for Dynamic Huffman Encoding to Intel QAT comp PMD.**
+
+  The Intel QuickAssist (QAT) compression PMD has been updated with support
+  for Dynamic Huffman Encoding for the Deflate algorithm.
+
 * **Added Event Ethernet Tx Adapter.**
 
   Added event ethernet Tx adapter library that  provides configuration and
@@ -214,6 +254,12 @@ New Features
   to containers and host applications that need to have their cores frequency
   controlled based on the rules contained in the policy.
 
+* **Added Telemetry API.**
+
+  Added the telemetry API which allows applications to transparently expose
+  their telemetry via a UNIX socket in JSON. The JSON can be consumed by any
+  Service Assurance agent, such as CollectD.
+
 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
 
   Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
@@ -265,6 +311,12 @@ API Changes
 * eal: The parameters of the function ``rte_devargs_remove()`` have changed
   from bus and device names to ``struct rte_devargs``.
 
+* eal: The deprecated functions attach/detach were removed in 18.11.
+  ``rte_eal_dev_attach`` can be replaced by
+  ``rte_dev_probe`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_add``.
+  ``rte_eal_dev_detach`` can be replaced by
+  ``rte_dev_remove`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove``.
+
 * eal: The scope of ``rte_eal_hotplug_add()``/``rte_dev_probe()``
   and ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove()``/``rte_dev_remove()`` is extended.
   In multi-process model, they will guarantee that the device is
@@ -274,6 +326,17 @@ API Changes
   functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
   ``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
 
+* ethdev: The deprecated functions attach/detach were removed in 18.11.
+  ``rte_eth_dev_attach`` can be replaced by ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_MATCHING_DEV``
+  and ``rte_dev_probe`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_add``.
+  ``rte_eth_dev_detach`` can be replaced by
+  ``rte_dev_remove`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove``.
+
+* ethdev: A call to ``rte_eth_dev_release_port()`` has been added in
+  ``rte_eth_dev_close()``. As a consequence, a closed port is freed
+  and seen as invalid because of its state ``RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED``.
+  This new behaviour is enabled per driver for a migration period.
+
 * A new device flag, RTE_ETH_DEV_NOLIVE_MAC_ADDR, changes the order of
   actions inside rte_eth_dev_start regarding MAC set. Some NICs do not
   support MAC changes once the port has started and with this new device