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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
@@ -75,16 +75,34 @@ New Features
     operations.
   * Added multi-process support.
 
+* **Added support to get all MAC addresses of a device.**
+
+  Added ``rte_eth_macaddrs_get`` to allow user to retrieve all Ethernet
+  addresses assigned to given ethernet port.
+
 * **Added new RSS offload types for IPv4/L4 checksum in RSS flow.**
 
   Added macros ETH_RSS_IPV4_CHKSUM and ETH_RSS_L4_CHKSUM, now IPv4 and
   TCP/UDP/SCTP header checksum field can be used as input set for RSS.
 
+* **Added ethdev support to control delivery of Rx metadata from the HW to the PMD.**
+
+  A new API, ``rte_eth_rx_metadata_negotiate()``, was added.
+  The following parts of Rx metadata were defined:
+
+  * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_USER_FLAG``
+  * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_USER_MARK``
+  * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_TUNNEL_ID``
+
 * **Updated af_packet ethdev driver.**
 
   * Default VLAN strip behavior was changed. VLAN tag won't be stripped
     unless ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP`` offload is enabled.
 
+* **Updated AF_XDP PMD.**
+
+  * Disabled secondary process support.
+
 * **Updated Broadcom bnxt PMD.**
 
   * Added flow offload support for Thor.
@@ -119,6 +137,13 @@ New Features
   Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added implicit mempool registration to avoid data path hiccups (opt-out).
+  * Added NIC offloads for the PMD on Windows (TSO, VLAN strip, CRC keep).
+
+* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
+
+  Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
+
+  * Added port representors support on SN1000 SmartNICs
 
 * **Updated Marvell cnxk crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -153,6 +178,11 @@ New Features
 
   Added support for more comprehensive CRC options.
 
+* **Added NXP LA12xx baseband PMD.**
+
+  * Added a new baseband PMD driver for NXP LA12xx Software defined radio.
+  * See the :doc:`../bbdevs/la12xx` for more details.
+
 * **Updated IPsec library.**
 
   * Added support for more AEAD algorithms AES_CCM, CHACHA20_POLY1305
@@ -170,6 +200,7 @@ New Features
 
   * Added support for asymmetric crypto throughput performance measurement.
     Only modex is supported for now.
+  * Added support for lookaside IPsec protocol offload throughput measurement.
 
 * **Added lookaside protocol (IPsec) tests in dpdk-test.**
 
@@ -213,6 +244,14 @@ Removed Items
   ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_reset`` along with the associated macros
   ``ETH_MIRROR_*`` are removed.
 
+* ethdev: Removed ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done`` API function and its
+  driver callback. It is replaced by the more complete function
+  ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status``.
+
+* ethdev: Removed deprecated ``shared`` attribute of the
+  ``struct rte_flow_action_count``. Shared counters should be managed
+  using indirect actions API (``rte_flow_action_handle_create`` etc).
+
 * i40e: Removed i40evf driver.
   iavf already became the default VF driver for i40e devices,
   so there is no need to maintain i40evf.
@@ -255,6 +294,8 @@ API Changes
 * net: Renamed ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure
   to ``src_addr`` and ``dst_addr``, respectively.
 
+* ethdev: Added item ``PORT_REPRESENTOR`` to flow API.
+
 * cryptodev: The API rte_cryptodev_pmd_is_valid_dev is modified to
   rte_cryptodev_is_valid_dev as it can be used by the application as
   well as PMD to check whether the device is valid or not.
@@ -277,6 +318,8 @@ API Changes
 * cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` was updated to add
   ``dest_sgl`` to support out of place processing.
 
+* bbdev: Added device info related to data byte endianness processing.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -293,6 +336,18 @@ ABI Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* ethdev: Input parameters for ``eth_rx_queue_count_t`` was changed.
+  Instead of pointer to ``rte_eth_dev`` and queue index, now it accepts pointer
+  to internal queue data as input parameter. While this change is transparent
+  to user, it still counts as an ABI change, as ``eth_rx_queue_count_t``
+  is used by  public inline function ``rte_eth_rx_queue_count``.
+
+* ethdev: Made ``rte_eth_dev``, ``rte_eth_dev_data``, ``rte_eth_rxtx_callback``
+  private data structures. ``rte_eth_devices[]`` can't be accessed directly
+  by user any more. While it is an ABI breakage, this change is intended
+  to be transparent for both users (no changes in user app is required) and
+  PMD developers (no changes in PMD is required).
+
 * security: ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and ``rte_security_get_userdata``
   routines used by inline outbound and inline inbound security processing were
   made inline and enhanced to do simple 64-bit set/get for PMDs that do not