-* ethdev: A new rss level field planned in 18.05.
- The new API add rss_level field to ``rte_eth_rss_conf`` to enable a choice
- of RSS hash calculation on outer or inner header of tunneled packet.
-
-* ethdev: Currently, if the rte_eth_rx_burst() function returns a value less
- than *nb_pkts*, the application will assume that no more packets are present.
- Some of the hw queue based hardware can only support smaller burst for RX
- and TX and thus break the expectation of the rx_burst API. Similar is the
- case for TX burst as well as ring sizes. ``rte_eth_dev_info`` will be added
- with following new parameters so as to support semantics for drivers to
- define a preferred size for Rx/Tx burst and rings.
-
- - Member ``struct preferred_size`` would be added to enclose all preferred
- size to be fetched from driver/implementation.
- - Members ``uint16_t rx_burst``, ``uint16_t tx_burst``, ``uint16_t rx_ring``,
- and ``uint16_t tx_ring`` would be added to ``struct preferred_size``.
-
-* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors
- as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs.
- As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map
- between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
- are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
-
-* ethdev: The prototype and the behavior of
- ``dev_ops->eth_mac_addr_set()`` will change in v18.05. A return code
- will be added to notify the caller if an error occurred in the PMD. In
- ``rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set()``, the new default MAC address
- will be copied in ``dev->data->mac_addrs[0]`` only if the operation is
- successful. This modification will only impact the PMDs, not the
- applications.
-
-* ethdev: functions add rx/tx callback will return named opaque type
- ``rte_eth_add_rx_callback()``, ``rte_eth_add_first_rx_callback()`` and
- ``rte_eth_add_tx_callback()`` functions currently return callback object as
- ``void \*`` but APIs to delete callbacks get ``struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback \*``
- as parameter. For consistency functions adding callback will return
- ``struct rte_eth_rxtx_callback \*`` instead of ``void \*``.
-
-* ethdev: The size of variables ``flow_types_mask`` in
- ``rte_eth_fdir_info structure``, ``sym_hash_enable_mask`` and
- ``valid_bit_mask`` in ``rte_eth_hash_global_conf`` structure
- will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements.
- This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase.
-
-* ethdev: ``rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx()`` fix port id storage
- ``rte_eth_dev_get_sec_ctx()`` is using ``uint8_t`` for ``port_id``,
- which should be ``uint16_t``.
-
-* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
- bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
- required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
- director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
- global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
-
-* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
- Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.
-
-* ring: The alignment constraints on the ring structure will be relaxed
- to one cache line instead of two, and an empty cache line padding will
- be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
- structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
- platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
+* ethdev: In v18.11 ``rte_eth_dev_attach()`` and ``rte_eth_dev_detach()``
+ will be removed.
+ Hotplug functions ``rte_eal_hotplug_add()`` and ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove()``
+ should be used instread.
+ Function ``rte_eth_dev_get_port_by_name()`` may be used to find
+ identifier of the added port.
+
+* eal: In v18.11 ``rte_eal_dev_attach()`` and ``rte_eal_dev_detach()``
+ will be removed.
+ Hotplug functions ``rte_eal_hotplug_add()`` and ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove()``
+ should be used directly.
+
+* pdump: As we changed to use generic IPC, some changes in APIs and structure
+ are expected in subsequent release.
+
+ - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
+ - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
+ - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
+
+* ethdev: flow API function ``rte_flow_copy()`` will be deprecated in v18.11
+ in favor of ``rte_flow_conv()`` (which will appear in that version) and
+ subsequently removed for v19.02.
+
+ This is due to a lack of flexibility and reliance on a type unusable with
+ C++ programs (struct rte_flow_desc).