* [PATCH v1] doc: update release notes for 25.11
@ 2025-11-27 9:44 John McNamara
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From: John McNamara @ 2025-11-27 9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dev; +Cc: thomas, John McNamara
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 25.11 release notes.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst | 31 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
index c82af81c3f..eaaf99d18f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
@@ -72,17 +72,18 @@ New Features
that span across different processes or operating system domains.
* Added functions to exchange handlers between DMA devices.
-* **Added speed 800G.**
+* **Added 800G speed.**
Added Ethernet link speed for 800 Gb/s as it is well standardized in IEEE,
and some devices already support this speed.
* **Added mbuf tracking for debug.**
- Added history dynamic field in mbuf (disabled by default)
+ Added history dynamic field in mbuf
to store successive states of the mbuf lifecycle.
Some functions were added to dump statistics.
A script was added to parse mbuf tracking stored in a file.
+ This feature is disabled by default.
* **Added ethdev API to get link connector.**
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ New Features
* OTHER
By default, it reports ``RTE_ETH_LINK_CONNECTOR_NONE``
- unless driver specifies it.
+ unless the driver specifies it.
* **Updated Amazon ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) ethernet driver.**
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ New Features
* **Updated Marvell cnxk ethernet driver.**
- Added support to set/get link configuration as mentioned below:
+ Added support to set/get link configuration as outlined below:
* Get speed capability from firmware.
* Report link type, mode and status.
@@ -229,25 +230,25 @@ Removed Items
* build: as previously announced in the deprecation notices,
the ``enable_kmods`` build option has been removed.
- Kernel modules will now automatically be built for OS's where out-of-tree kernel modules
+ Kernel modules will now be built automatically for OSes where out-of-tree kernel modules
are required for DPDK operation.
Currently, this means that modules will only be built for FreeBSD.
No modules are shipped with DPDK for either Linux or Windows.
* ethdev: As previously announced in deprecation notes,
queue specific stats fields are now removed from ``struct rte_eth_stats``.
- Mentioned fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``, ``q_errors``.
- Instead queue stats will be received via xstats API.
- Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` is removed from public headers.
+ Affected fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``, ``q_errors``.
+ Queue stats will be received via the xstats API instead.
+ Also, the compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` is removed from public headers.
* telemetry: As previously announced in the deprecation notices,
the functions ``rte_tel_data_add_array_u64`` and ``rte_tel_data_add_dict_u64`` are removed.
They are replaced by ``rte_tel_data_add_array_uint`` and ``rte_tel_data_add_dict_uint`` respectively.
-* net/mlx5: ``repr_matching_en`` device argument has been removed.
+* net/mlx5: The ``repr_matching_en`` device argument has been removed.
Applications which disabled this option were able to receive traffic
from any physical port/VF/SF on any representor port.
- Specifically, in most cases, this was used to process all traffic on representor port
+ Specifically, in most cases, this was used to process all traffic on a representor port
which is a transfer proxy port.
Similar behavior in mlx5 PMD can be achieved without this device argument,
by using ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS`` in transfer flow rules.
@@ -269,7 +270,7 @@ API Changes
=======================================================
* rawdev: Changed the return type of ``rte_rawdev_get_dev_id()``
- for negative error values.
+ to allow negative error values.
* pcapng: Changed the API for adding interfaces to include a link type argument.
The link type was previously hardcoded to the Ethernet link type in the API.
@@ -301,10 +302,10 @@ ABI Changes
to avoid unaligned accesses.
* ethdev: Added ``link_connector`` field to ``rte_eth_link`` structure
- to report type of link connector for a port.
+ to report the type of link connector for a port.
* cryptodev: The ``rte_crypto_sm2_op_param`` struct member ``cipher`` to hold ciphertext
- is changed to union data type. This change is required to support partial SM2 calculation
+ is changed to a union data type. This change is required to support partial SM2 calculation
which is driven by ``RTE_CRYPTO_SM2_PARTIAL`` capability flag.
* cryptodev: The enum ``rte_crypto_asym_xform_type``, struct ``rte_crypto_asym_xform``
@@ -595,6 +596,6 @@ Tested Platforms
* Device ID: 15b3:1021
* Firmware version: 28.47.1026 and above
- * DOCA:
+ * DOCA:
- * DOCA 3.2.0-125000 and above
+ * DOCA 3.2.0-125000 and above
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