diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
index 34b41af..670c89a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service.h
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ int32_t rte_service_run_iter_on_app_lcore(uint32_t id,
  *         -EINVAL Invalid id, attr_id or attr_value was NULL.
  */
 int32_t rte_service_attr_get(uint32_t id, uint32_t attr_id,
-		uint32_t *attr_value);
+		uint64_t *attr_value);
 
 /**
  * Reset all attribute values of a service.
diff --git a/app/test/test_service_cores.c b/app/test/test_service_cores.c
index ec31882..82bb2ce 100644
--- a/app/test/test_service_cores.c
+++ b/app/test/test_service_cores.c
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static int32_t dummy_mt_safe_cb(void *args)
 	rte_service_set_stats_enable(id, 1);
 
 	uint32_t attr_id = UINT32_MAX;
-	uint32_t attr_value = 0xdead;
+	uint64_t attr_value = 0xdead;
 	/* check error return values */
 	TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL(-EINVAL, rte_service_attr_get(id, attr_id,
 							&attr_value),
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_service.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_service.c
index 03fde97..5f75e5a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_service.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_service.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ int32_t rte_service_run_iter_on_app_lcore(uint32_t id,
 }
 
 int32_t
-rte_service_attr_get(uint32_t id, uint32_t attr_id, uint32_t *attr_value)
+rte_service_attr_get(uint32_t id, uint32_t attr_id, uint64_t *attr_value)
 {
 	struct rte_service_spec_impl *s;
 	SERVICE_VALID_GET_OR_ERR_RET(id, s, -EINVAL);
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1b4fcb7..93ed31f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
-* eal: The ``attr_value`` parameter of ``rte_service_attr_get()``
-  will be changed from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``
-  as the attributes are of type ``uint64_t``.
-
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 4a3e2a7..67e221a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+eal: as shown in the 19.02 deprecation notice, the type of the ``attr_value``
+  parameter of the function ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
+  from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_compressdev.so.1
      librte_cryptodev.so.6
      librte_distributor.so.1
-     librte_eal.so.9
+   + librte_eal.so.10
      librte_efd.so.1
      librte_ethdev.so.11
      librte_eventdev.so.6
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile
index bfeddaa..4bc8555 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ LDLIBS += -lrte_kvargs
 
 EXPORT_MAP := ../../rte_eal_version.map
 
-LIBABIVER := 9
+LIBABIVER := 10
 
 # specific to bsdapp exec-env
 SRCS-$(CONFIG_RTE_EXEC_ENV_BSDAPP) := eal.c
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile
index 51deb57..db6aca3 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ARCH_DIR ?= $(RTE_ARCH)
 EXPORT_MAP := ../../rte_eal_version.map
 VPATH += $(RTE_SDK)/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/$(ARCH_DIR)
 
-LIBABIVER := 9
+LIBABIVER := 10
 
 VPATH += $(RTE_SDK)/lib/librte_eal/common
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/meson.build b/lib/librte_eal/meson.build
index 98c1d1f..290239d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/meson.build
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/meson.build
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ else
 	error('unsupported system type "@0@"'.format(host_machine.system()))
 endif
 
-version = 9  # the version of the EAL API
+version = 10  # the version of the EAL API
 allow_experimental_apis = true
 deps += 'kvargs'
 if dpdk_conf.has('RTE_USE_LIBBSD')
