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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
index 24cb2ce536..75e05b6d3f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,19 @@ New Features
   Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
   expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
 
+  Added Mellanox RegEx PMD, allowing to offload RegEx searches.
+
+* **Added eCPRI protocol support in rte_flow.**
+
+  The ``ECPRI`` item has been added to support eCPRI packet offloading for
+  5G network.
+
+* **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.**
+
+   Added the new mbuf dynamic field and flag to provide timestamp on what packet
+   transmitting can be synchronized. The device Tx offload flag is added to
+   indicate the PMD supports send scheduling.
+
 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
 
   Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -96,6 +109,14 @@ New Features
   * Added support for new resource manager API.
   * Added support for VXLAN encap/decap.
   * Added support for rte_flow_query for COUNT action.
+  * Added support for rx_burst_mode_get and tx_burst_mode_get.
+  * Added vector mode support for ARM CPUs.
+  * Added support for VLAN push and pop actions.
+  * Added support for NAT action items.
+
+* **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
+
+  * Added support for VLAN push and pop flow actions.
 
 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
 
@@ -146,6 +167,7 @@ New Features
 
   Updated the NXP dpaa ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
 
+  * Added support for link status and interrupt
   * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
 
 * **Updated NXP dpaa2 ethdev PMD.**
@@ -153,6 +175,7 @@ New Features
   Updated the NXP dpaa2 ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
+  * Added support for dynamic flow management
 
 * **Added DOCSIS protocol to rte_security.**
 
@@ -173,7 +196,10 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
 
-  Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
+  * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
+
+  * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+    protocol offload for IPsec.
 
 * **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
 
@@ -182,6 +208,12 @@ New Features
   which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
   for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
 
+* **Added new testpmd forward mode.**
+
+  Added new ``5tswap`` forward mode to testpmd.
+  the  ``5tswap`` swaps source and destination in layers 2,3,4
+  for ipv4 and ipv6 in L3 and UDP and TCP in L4.
+
 * **Added flow performance test application.**
 
   Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
@@ -198,6 +230,12 @@ New Features
   See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
   details of this parameter usage.
 
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.**
+
+  Added ``rte_flow`` based rules, which allows hardware parsing and steering
+  of ingress packets to specific NIC queues.
+  See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/ipsec_secgw` for more details.
+
 
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