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16 firefox build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.html
22 .. This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
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32 * Added feature foo to do something.
33 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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37 * **Removed mempool cache if not needed.**
39 The size of the mempool structure is reduced if the per-lcore cache is disabled.
41 * **Changed the memory allocation in mempool library.**
43 * Added ability to allocate a large mempool in virtually fragmented memory.
44 * Added new APIs to populate a mempool with memory.
45 * Added an API to free a mempool.
46 * Modified the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter() function.
47 * Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
48 * Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
50 * **Supported virtio on IBM POWER8.**
52 The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
54 * **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
56 Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
59 * **Added support of AES counter mode for Intel QuickAssist devices.**
61 Enabled support for the AES CTR algorithm for Intel QuickAssist devices.
62 Provided support for algorithm-chaining operations.
64 * **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
66 The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
68 * Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline and automatic routes
69 updates with change in link state.
70 * Enable RSS per network interface through the configuration file.
71 * Streamline the CLI code.
73 * **Added keepalive enhancements.**
75 Adds support for reporting of core states other than dead to
76 monitoring applications, enabling the support of broader liveness
77 reporting to external processes.
79 * **Added packet capture framework.**
81 * A new library ``librte_pdump`` is added to provide packet capture API.
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103 * **i40e: Fixed vlan stripping from inner header.**
105 Previously, for tunnel packets, such as VXLAN/NVGRE, the vlan
106 tags of the inner header will be stripped without putting vlan
108 Now this issue is fixed by disabling vlan stripping from inner header.
114 * **mbuf: Fixed refcnt update when detaching.**
116 Fix the ``rte_pktmbuf_detach()`` function to decrement the direct
117 mbuf's reference counter. The previous behavior was not to affect
118 the reference counter. It lead a memory leak of the direct mbuf.
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146 quotes for ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
148 * The following counters are removed from ``rte_eth_stats`` structure:
149 ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
150 tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff.
152 * The extended statistics are fetched by ids with ``rte_eth_xstats_get``
153 after a lookup by name ``rte_eth_xstats_get_names``.
155 * The function ``rte_eth_dev_info_get`` fill the new fields ``nb_rx_queues``
156 and ``nb_tx_queues`` in the structure ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
162 .. * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the ABI change that was announced in
163 the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes for
164 ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
166 * The ``rte_port_source_params`` structure has new fields to support PCAP file.
167 It was already in release 16.04 with ``RTE_NEXT_ABI`` flag.
169 * The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has new fields ``nb_rx_queues`` and ``nb_tx_queues``
170 to support number of queues configured by software.
173 Shared Library Versions
174 -----------------------
176 .. Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+`` sign.
178 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
186 librte_distributor.so.1
196 + librte_mempool.so.2
214 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested with this
228 .. This section should contain a list of NICs that were tested with this release.