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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
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@@ -81,12 +81,43 @@ 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:
 
   * Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision.
 
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+  Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for VF representors.
+  * Added support for multiple devices.
+  * 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.**
 
   Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -115,12 +146,61 @@ New Features
   Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support for DCF datapath configuration.
+  * Added support for more PPPoE packet type for switch filter.
+
+* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
+
+  Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Supported cloud filter for IPv4/6_TCP/UDP/SCTP with SRC port only or DST port only.
+  * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
+  * Re-implemented set_gre_key_len in private API.
+  * Added support for flow query RSS.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
+
+  Updated the Intel ixgbe driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
+
+* **Updated NXP dpaa ethdev PMD.**
+
+  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.**
+
+  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.**
 
   Added support for combined crypto and CRC operations for the DOCSIS protocol
   to ``rte_security`` API.
 
+* **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.**
+
+  Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
+  ``rte_security`` API.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.**
+
+  * Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
+    ``rte_security`` API.
+  * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm.
+  * Improved handling of multi process in QAT crypto and compression PMDs.
+
+* **Updated the 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.**
 
   Added support for two BPF non-generic instructions:
@@ -128,6 +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:
@@ -144,6 +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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