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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 1cb002b9c6..d054b10793 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.**
 
@@ -104,6 +111,13 @@ New Features
 
   * Added conntrack item and action for stateful connection offload.
 
+* **Updated Amazon ENA PMD.**
+
+  The new driver version (v2.3.0) introduced bug fixes and improvements,
+  including:
+
+  * Changed memcpy mapping to the dpdk-optimized version.
+
 * **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
 
   Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -156,8 +170,13 @@ New Features
   Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions.
+  * Added support for flow COUNT action handle.
   * Support push VLAN on ingress traffic and pop VLAN on egress traffic in E-Switch mode.
+  * Added support for pre-defined meter policy API.
   * Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter.
+  * Added support for ASO metering by PPS (packet per second).
+  * Added support for the monitor policy of Power Management API.
+  * Added support for connection tracking.
 
 * **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
 
@@ -174,13 +193,22 @@ New Features
 
   * Added support for txgbevf PMD.
   * Support device arguments to handle AN training for backplane NICs.
+  * Added support for VXLAN-GPE.
 
 * **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.
 
+* **Added support for vhost async packed ring data path.**
+
+  Added packed ring support for async vhost.
+
 * **Added support of multiple data-units in cryptodev API.**
 
   The cryptodev library has been enhanced to allow operations on multiple
@@ -221,6 +249,10 @@ 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 -
@@ -231,10 +263,16 @@ New Features
 
   * 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.
@@ -314,6 +352,21 @@ API Changes
   ``policer_action_recolor_supported`` and ``policer_action_drop_supported``
   have been removed.
 
+* vhost: The vhost library currently populates received mbufs from a virtio
+  driver with Tx offload flags while not filling Rx offload flags.
+  While this behavior is arguable, it is kept untouched.
+  A new flag ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NET_COMPLIANT_OL_FLAGS`` has been added to ask
+  for a behavior compliant with the mbuf offload API.
+
+* 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
 -----------