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+..  BSD LICENSE
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+
+DPDK Release 1.8
+================
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+*   Link Bonding
+
+    *   Support for 802.3ad link aggregation (mode 4) and transmit load balancing (mode 5) to the link bonding library.
+
+    *   Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
+
+    *   Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
+
+*   Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
+
+    *   Support for Flow Director
+
+    *   Support for ethertype filter
+
+    *   Support RSS in VF
+
+    *   Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
+
+       -   128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
+
+       -   64 entries of 40GbE VF
+
+    *   Support configuring hash functions
+
+    *   Support for VXLAN packet on Intel 40GbE Controllers
+
+*   Packet Distributor Sample Application