[5/5] doc: update release note

Message ID 20181024124905.5379-6-roy.fan.zhang@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Cristian Dumitrescu
Headers
Series net/softnic: add symmetric crypto support |

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Fan Zhang Oct. 24, 2018, 12:49 p.m. UTC
  This patch updates the release note to annouce the changes made
to softnic PMD.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
index 2467d04e2..afd67cb36 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@  New Features
   this application doesn't need to launch dedicated worker threads for vhost
   enqueue/dequeue operations.
 
+* **Added Crypto support to Softnic PMD
+
+  The Softnic is now capable of processing symmetric crypto workloads such
+  as cipher, cipher-authentication chaining, and aead encryption and
+  decryption. This is achieved by calling DPDK Cryptodev APIs.
+
 
 API Changes
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