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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -55,18 +55,104 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =======================================================
 
+* **Added support for Marvell CN10K SoC drivers.**
+
+  Added Marvell CN10K SoC support. Marvell CN10K SoC are based on Octeon 10
+  family of ARM64 processors with ARM Neoverse N2 core with accelerators for
+  packet processing, timers, cryptography, etc.
+
+  * Added common/cnxk driver consisting of common API to be used by
+    net, crypto and event PMD's.
+  * Added mempool/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated
+    mempool device.
+
+* **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
+
+  * Introduced representor type of VF, SF and PF.
+  * Supported sub-function and multi-host in representor syntax::
+
+      representor=#            [0,2-4]      /* Legacy VF compatible.         */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]vf# c1pf2vf3     /* VF 3 on PF 2 of controller 1. */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs.                     */
+      representor=[c#]pf#      c2pf[0,1]    /* 2 PFs on controller 2.        */
+
+* **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
+
+  Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Generalized passing meta data between PMD and FPGA, allowing up to 20
+    bytes of user specified information in RX and TX paths.
+
+  * Updated dynamic PMD extensions API using standardized names.
+
+  * Added support for new Atomic Rules PCI device IDs ``0x100f, 0x1010, 0x1017,
+    0x1018, 0x1019``.
+
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+  * Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.2.15 version.
+
 * **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
 
   * Added support for module EEPROM dumping.
   * Added support for freeing Tx mbuf on demand.
   * Added support for copper port in Kunpeng930.
+  * Added support for runtime config to select IO burst function.
+  * Added support for outer UDP checksum in Kunpeng930.
+  * Added support for query Tx descriptor status.
+  * Added support for query Rx descriptor status.
+  * Added support for IEEE 1588 PTP.
+
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+  Updated the Intel iavf driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added flow filter to support GTPU inner L3/L4 fields matching.
+
+* **Updated Intel ice driver.**
+
+  * Added Intel ice support on Windows.
+
+* **Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver.**
+
+  * Added support for flow action port id.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions.
+
+* **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
+
+  * Added support for shared ethernet interface.
+  * Added support for external buffers in Tx.
+
+* **Updated NXP DPAA2 driver.**
+
+  * Added support for traffic management.
+  * Added support for configurable Tx confirmation.
+  * Added support for external buffers in Tx.
 
 * **Updated Wangxun txgbe driver.**
 
   * Added support for txgbevf PMD.
+  * Support device arguments to handle AN training for backplane NICs.
+
+* **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.**
+
+* **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
+
+  * Added support for preferred busy polling.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox RegEx PMD.**
+
+  * Added support for multi-segments mbuf.
 
 * **Updated testpmd.**
 
+  * Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port.
+    ``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
   * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
     ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
 
@@ -99,6 +185,13 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* eal: The experimental TLS API added in ``rte_thread.h`` has been renamed
+  from ``rte_thread_tls_*`` to ``rte_thread_*`` to avoid naming redundancy
+  and confusion with the transport layer security term.
+
+* pci: The value ``PCI_ANY_ID`` is marked as deprecated
+  and can be replaced with ``RTE_PCI_ANY_ID``.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -117,6 +210,11 @@ ABI Changes
 
 * No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
 
+* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_legacy_register`` has been
+  removed from the public API and is now an internal-only function. This
+  function was already marked as internal in the API documentation for it,
+  and was not for use by external applications.
+
 
 Known Issues
 ------------