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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
index 0ae862b684..1d7a58efcc 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =======================================================
 
+* **Added Alpine Linux with musl libc support**
+
+  The distribution Alpine Linux, using musl libc and busybox,
+  got initial support starting with building DPDK without modification.
+
 * **Added phase-fair lock.**
 
   Phase-fair lock provides fairness guarantees.
@@ -70,6 +75,8 @@ New Features
     net, crypto and event PMD's.
   * Added mempool/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated
     mempool device.
+  * Added event/cnxk driver which provides the support for integrated event
+    device.
 
 * **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
 
@@ -81,11 +88,28 @@ New Features
       representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs.                     */
       representor=[c#]pf#      c2pf[0,1]    /* 2 PFs on controller 2.        */
 
-* **Added support for meter PPS profile.**
+* **Added queue state in queried Rx/Tx queue info.**
+
+  * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_rxq_info`` structure to
+    provide indicated Rx queue state.
+  * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_txq_info`` structure to
+    provide indicated Tx queue state.
+
+* **Updated meter API.**
+
+  * Added packet mode in the meter profile parameters data structures
+    to support metering traffic by packet per second (PPS),
+    in addition to the initial bytes per second (BPS) mode (value 0).
+  * Added support of pre-defined meter policy via flow action list per color.
+
+* **Added packet integrity match to flow rules.**
+
+  * Added ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_INTEGRITY`` flow item.
+  * Added ``rte_flow_item_integrity`` data structure.
+
+* **Added TCP connection tracking offload in flow API.**
 
-  Added packet mode in the meter profile parameters data structures
-  to support metering traffic by packet per second (PPS),
-  in addition to the initial bytes per second (BPS) mode (value 0).
+  * Added conntrack item and action for stateful connection offload.
 
 * **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
 
@@ -140,6 +164,7 @@ New Features
 
   * Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions.
   * Support push VLAN on ingress traffic and pop VLAN on egress traffic in E-Switch mode.
+  * Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter.
 
 * **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
 
@@ -159,6 +184,10 @@ New Features
 
 * **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.**
 
+* **Enabled libpcap-based PMD on Windows.**
+
+   A libpcap distribution, such as Npcap or WinPcap, is required to run the PMD.
+
 * **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
 
   * Added support for preferred busy polling.
@@ -203,14 +232,33 @@ New Features
     the events across multiple stages.
   * This also reduced the scheduling overhead on a event device.
 
+* **Updated Intel DLB2 driver.**
+
+  * Added support for v2.5 device.
+
+* **Added Predictable RSS functionality to the Toeplitz hash library.**
+
+  Added feature for finding collisions of the Toeplitz hash function -
+  the hash function used in NICs to spread the traffic among the queues.
+  It can be used to get predictable mapping of the flows.
+
 * **Updated testpmd.**
 
   * Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port.
     ``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
+  * Added command to show link flow control info.
+    ``show port (port_id) flow_ctrl``
   * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
     ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
+  * Added command to cleanup a Tx queue's mbuf on a port.
+    ``port cleanup (port_id) txq (queue_id) (free_cnt)``
   * Added command to dump internal representation information of single flow.
     ``flow dump (port_id) rule (rule_id)``
+  * Added commands to create and delete meter policy.
+    ``add port meter policy (port_id) (policy_id) ...``
+  * Added commands to construct conntrack context and relevant indirect
+    action handle creation, update for conntrack action as well as conntrack
+    item matching.
 
 * **Added support for the FIB lookup method in the l3fwd example app.**
 
@@ -275,6 +323,27 @@ API Changes
   ``rte_cryptodev_raw_dequeue_burst`` got a new parameter
   ``max_nb_to_dequeue`` to provide flexible control on dequeue.
 
+* ethdev: The experimental flow API for shared action has been generalized
+  as a flow action handle used in rules through an indirect action.
+  The functions ``rte_flow_shared_action_*`` manipulating the action object
+  are replaced with ``rte_flow_action_handle_*``.
+  The action ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED`` is deprecated and can be
+  replaced with ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_INDIRECT``.
+
+* ethdev: The experimental function ``rte_mtr_policer_actions_update()``,
+  the enum ``rte_mtr_policer_action``, and the struct members
+  ``policer_action_recolor_supported`` and ``policer_action_drop_supported``
+  have been removed.
+
+* stack: Lock-free ``rte_stack`` no longer silently ignores push and pop when
+  it's not supported on the current platform. Instead ``rte_stack_create()``
+  fails and ``rte_errno`` is set to ``ENOTSUP``.
+
+* raw/ioat: The experimental function ``rte_ioat_completed_ops()`` now
+  supports two additional parameters, ``status`` and ``num_unsuccessful``,
+  to allow the reporting of errors from hardware when performing copy
+  operations.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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