CHANGELOG

# Changelog

## OpenDataPlane (1.50.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes

#### IPsec
* Change `odp_ipsec_out_inline()` function specification to state that packets
that share data with other packets may not be sent using this function unless
the pktout to be used has the relevant capability.

#### Packet
* Redefine the semantics of `odp_packet_ref()` in a way that makes it simpler to
support packet data sharing. Also, specify better rules for packet data layout
manipulation operations, allowing private packet data also in the tail of
packets that reference other packets.
* Change `odp_packet_ref_pkt()` function specification to match updated
`odp_packet_ref()` specification.
* Change `odp_packet_has_ref()` to indicate whether a packet is referenced by
another packet, not whether the packet shares data with another packet. In
particular, `odp_packet_ref()` returns a packet that shares data with the given
packet but is not itself referenced by other packets.

#### Packet IO
* Add `odp_pktio_capability_t.packet_ref` capability to indicate whether a pktio
supports sending packets with shared data without using the `dont_free` flag.

#### Timer
* Change periodic timer expiration event configuration. Instead of configuring a
single event to be sent for periodic timer expirations, application now
configures a timeout pool to be created as part of timer pool creation
(`odp_timer_pool_param_t.periodic`).
* Add `odp_timer_periodic_param_init()` function for initializing periodic timer
parameters (`odp_timer_periodic_param_t`).
* Add `odp_timer_periodic_alloc()` function for allocating periodic timers. Old
`odp_timer_alloc()` function is used only for single shot timers.
* Change `odp_timer_periodic_start_t` to only include first expiration tick. The
remaining previous parameters have been moved to `odp_timer_periodic_param_t`.
* Change `odp_timer_periodic_ack()` return values to not have a specific value
for events from a cancelled timer (not last).
* Add `ODP_TIMER_BUSY` return value to `odp_timer_start()`,
`odp_timer_restart()`, and `odp_timer_periodic_start()` functions.
* Add alternative method for configuring periodic timer frequency for timer
pools and timers. The new method introduces a new periodic timer type
`ODP_TIMER_TYPE_PERIODIC_FREQ` to be used with periodic timer capability checks
and timer pool creation. Old periodic timer type `ODP_TIMER_TYPE_PERIODIC` is
renamed to `ODP_TIMER_TYPE_PERIODIC_BASE_MUL` to better reflect the differences
between these two types.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add `odp_tm_capabilities_t.packet_ref` capability to indicate whether packets
that reference other packets or are referenced by other packets can be enqueued
to TM.

### Backward compatible API changes

#### Event Vector
* Add `odp_event_aggr_capability_t.stats` capability for supported statistics
counters.

#### Packet
* Add `odp_packet_is_referencing()` function for testing whether a packet
references another packet but is not a static reference.
* Clarify how `odp_packet_free()` function operates with packets that
participate in packet data sharing.
* Clarify how `odp_packet_concat()` function operates with packets that
participate in packet data sharing.
* Clarify that `odp_packet_copy()` function returns always a normal packet, even
if the source packet is a referencing packet.
* Change `odp_packet_free_ctrl_set()` function specification to allow usage with
packets that participate in packet data sharing.
* Clarify that even though `odp_packet_l2/l3/l4_offset_set()` functions require
the offset not exceed packet data length, later packet truncation and pulling
may result in the offset exceeding packet data length.
* Clarify that `odp_packet_l2/l3/l4_ptr()` pointer value is undefined when
l2/l3/l4 offset metadata of a packet is larger than the length of the packet
e.g. after truncating the packet.
* Fix `odp_packet_head()` specification to not refer to `odp_packet_l2_ptr()`
as data start.

#### Queue
* Add `odp_queue_len()` function for reading the number of events currently in
the queue, or in case of an aggregator queue handle, the number of events
currently waiting for vector generation.
* Add supported statistics counters (`odp_queue_stats_opt_t`) for each plain
queue type into `odp_queue_capability_t`.

#### Scheduler
* Add `odp_schedule_capability_t.queue_stats` capability for supported
statistics counters.

#### Timer
* Add `odp_timeout_is_periodic()` function for checking if a timeout is from a
periodic timer.
* Add new `odp_timer_pool_param_t.periodic.max_pending_tmo` parameter and
matching capabilities `odp_timer_capability_t.periodic.min/max_pending_tmo`
for configuring flow control for periodic timer pools.

### Implementation
* Optimize implementations for single event alloc functions (other event types
than packet).
* Optimize implementations for single event free functions (other event types
than packet).

### Performance Tests

#### bench_queue
* Match test results output to API function names also in throughput mode.
* Add missing test for `odp_schedule_multi_wait()` function.

#### bench_packet
* Add test for `odp_packet_is_referencing()` function.

#### bench_timer
* Add tests for `odp_timeout_is_periodic()` function.

#### pool_perf
* Add support for testing single event `odp_buffer_alloc/free()` and
`odp_packet_alloc/free()` functions by setting burst size to zero
(`--burst 0`).
* Change default burst size to 32.

#### sched_pktio
* Decrease packet pool size to 16k to reduce memory usage.

## OpenDataPlane (1.49.0.0)

### Backward compatible API changes

#### Barrier
* Clarify that a barrier must be initialized before first use and can be
reinitialized if not in use.
* Explicitly state that a barrier can be reused without initializing it again.
* Clarify that no more than N threads may be inside `odp_barrier_wait()`
for a barrier of N threads.

#### Classifier
* Clarify that event aggregation is performed automatically for classified
packets when aggregation is enabled in CoS parameters.
* Clarify that classifier accessor functions return always base queue handles,
not aggregator handles.

#### Crypto
* Add SNOW5G cipher and integrity algorithms `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_SNOW5G_NEA4` and
`ODP_AUTH_ALG_SNOW5G_NIA4`.
* Change the description of `odp_crypto_session_param_t.output_pool` parameter
to mention that the parameter is not used and will be deprecated. Specify that
the parameter must be left to the default value and that the default value
is `ODP_POOL_INVALID`.

#### Packet IO
* Clarify that event aggregation is performed automatically for incoming packets
when aggregation is enabled in packet input queue parameters.
* Clarify that `odp_pktin_event_queue()` returns always base input queue
handles, not aggregator handles.

#### Queue
* Add new `type` and `aggr_config` fields to `odp_queue_info_t` and document
struct contents better for event aggregator queues.

### Remove deprecated APIs

#### Crypto
* Remove deprecated `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_LEGACY` op type.

#### Packet IO
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktio_capability_t.tx_compl.mode_all` field.
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktout_config_opt_t.bit.tx_compl_ena` field.
* Remove deprecated `ODP_PACKET_TX_COMPL_ALL` define.

#### Timer
* Remove deprecated `odp_timer_pool_start()` function.

### Performance Tests

#### bench_buffer
* Add `-m, --mode <mode>` option to control measurement mode
(throughput/latency).

#### bench_packet
* Add new variants of `odp_packet_parse()` tests with and without L4
checksumming.
* Add new variants of `odp_event_user_area()`, `odp_event_user_flag_set()`
and `odp_event_user_area_and_flag()` tests.
* Add tests for `odp_packet_l{2,3,4}_type()` functions and for the packet
flag getter functions.
* Use packets/events of multiple types in a pseudorandom order in the new tests.

#### bench_pktio_sp
* Add `-T, --time <opt>` option to choose measurement unit of benchmarked
latencies. By default, latencies are now measured in cycles instead of
nanoseconds.

#### bench_queue
* Add new microbenchmark for testing execution times of queue and related
functions.

#### bench_timer
* Add `-m, --mode <mode>` option to control measurement mode
(throughput/latency).
* Add tests for `odp_timer_start()` and `odp_timer_cancel()` functions.

#### dmafwd
* Add `-s, --seg_free` option to use DMA source segment free offload.

#### l2fwd
* Add `--wait_link <sec>` option to wait for the links to come up before
proceeding with the test.
* Add `--schedule_prefetch <num>` option to enable event prefetching.
* Add `--cache_stash <val>` option to enable cache stashing.
* Increase maximum supported input/output queue count to 2048.

#### l2fwd_perf
* Add `--wait_link <sec>` option to wait for the links to come up before
proceeding with the test.
* Increase maximum supported input/output queue count to 2048.

#### pipeline
* Add new pipeline test application, which takes a `libconfig` compatible
configuration file and based on the configuration builds an ODP
application.

#### queue_perf
* Add `-W, --wait_ns <ns>` option to wait a number of nanoseconds between events
being dequeued and enqueued.
* Add `-M, --memcpy <num>` option to perform memcpy of N bytes between events
being dequeued and enqueued.

#### sched_latency
* Add burst mode `-b/--burst <num>`, where events are enqueued and scheduled in
bursts with `odp_queue_enq_multi()` and `odp_schedule_multi()`.
* Add `-W, --wait-ns <num>` option to simulate application work between schedule
and queue enqueue calls.

#### sched_pktio
* Add `--wait_link <sec>` option to wait for the links to come up before
proceeding with the test.

## OpenDataPlane (1.48.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes

#### DMA
* Move `odp_dma_seg_t` struct's segment hints from an anonymous union to
`odp_dma_seg_t.hints` struct.

#### Event Vector
* Change `odp_event_vector_type()` function to not return the type of events
actually stored in the event vector, but the event type stored in event vector
metadata.
* Change `odp_event_vector_tbl()` function specification to require that
applications use `odp_event_vector_type_set()` to update the event type of
vector after vector table modifications.

### Backward compatible API changes

#### Classifier
* Add configurable priority `odp_pmr_create_opt_t.priority` to PMRs, so that
when multiple PMRs match a packet, a PMR with the highest priority is selected.
* Add `odp_cls_capability_t.max_pmr_priority` capability for the maximum
priority value.

#### CPU Mask
* Add missing documentation for `odp_cpumask_t` type.

#### Crypto
* Add `odp_crypto_session_print()` function for printing implementation defined
information about a crypto session to the ODP log.

#### DMA
* Add possibility to configure cache stashing for destination segments
using segment hints (`odp_dma_seg_t.hints`).

#### Event Vector
* Add `odp_event_vector_type_set()` function for setting the type of events
stored in an event vector.
* Clarify that event aggregators try to set the event type according to the
event types they put in the event vector.

#### ML
* Change ML API to support systems with multiple ML engines:
** Add `odp_ml_num_engines()` function for querying the number of supported ML
engines.
** Add `odp_ml_engine_capability()` function for exposing engine specific
capabilities.
** Change `odp_ml_config()` function specification to state that it must be
called once per used ML engine ID (`odp_ml_config_t.engine_id`).
** Add `ODP_ML_ENGINE_ANY` define for letting implementation pick the used
engine (enables backward compatibility).
** Add `engine_id` field to `odp_ml_config_t` struct.
** Add `engine_id` field to `odp_ml_model_param_t` struct.
** Add `engine_id` field to `odp_ml_model_info_t` struct.

#### Packet
* Move `odp_packet_parse_result_flag_t` struct definition from ABI to API
header to guarantee application portability between different platforms.

#### Scheduler
* Clarify that priority level `odp_schedule_prio_t` is always a non-negative
integer value.
* Add global (`odp_schedule_config_t`) and group level
(`odp_schedule_group_param_t`) scheduler configuration options and related
capabilities to signal maximum number of groups and priorities that need to be
supported.

#### Thread
* Add missing documentation for `odp_thrmask_t` type.

### Implementation
* Add extra padding to implementation internal ring struct to avoid false
sharing-like effects from hardware prefetchers. These rings are used within
pool, stash, and scheduler API implementations, so their performance may be
affected. The amount of added extra padding can be adjusted with
`CONFIG_CACHE_PAD_LINES` config option.
* Optimize single event `odp_queue_enq()` and `odp_queue_deq()` function
implementations for plain queues.
* Optimize single event `odp_queue_enq()` function implementation for scheduled
queues.
* Optimize queue implementation by storing pointers to events instead of
indices.
* Add support for DPDK v24.11 packet IO and drop support for EOL DPDK v21.11.

### Performance Tests

#### bench_event_vector
* Add new microbenchmark application for event vector fast path API functions.

#### bench_misc
* Add support for `odp_prefetch_x()` functions.

#### l2fwd
* Add option `-W, --wait_ns` for adding extra wait time
(`odp_time_wait_ns()`) per receive burst before forwarding the packets.
* Add option `-E, --memcpy` for performing extra memcpy per receive burst
before forwarding the packets.

#### queue_perf
* Add option `-b 0` for testing `odp_queue_enq()` and `odp_queue_deq()`
functions.

#### sched_perf
* Add new event forwarding mode `-f N`, where N > 1, for forwarding events
within N identical queue groups.
* Change `-q` parameter to be the number of default priority queues.
* Add option `-T, --thr_type` for running the application with control threads
instead of worker threads.
* Add option `-p 2` for using event vector pool.
* Add option `-P, --prefetch` for prefetching a selected number of events.
* Add option `-C, --cache-stash` for enabling cache stashing.

## OpenDataPlane (1.47.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes

#### System
* Allow implementations to return zero in `odp_system_meminfo_t.total_overhead`
field if tracking memory usage overhead is not supported.

### Backward compatible API changes

#### General
* Add a paragraph in the API principles section in `include/README` to describe
parameter lifetimes of ODP API functions: Structures passed by reference
(and structures referred by them) do not need to outlive the API call,
unless otherwise noted in the API.

#### Classifier
* Clarify the presumed intent of back pressure API by specifying how exactly the
back pressure threshold for any given pktio + pool/queue + pfc_level -tuple is
derived from the configuration.
* Add CoS parameter `odp_cls_cos_param_t.aggr_enq_profile` for selecting
aggregator enqueuing profile (`odp_aggr_enq_profile_t`), which can generate
hints to an event aggregator. Support is advertised through
`odp_cls_capability_t.aggr` capability. The hints can affect e.g. the boundaries
of vector events generated by an event aggregator.

#### CPU
* Add `odp_cpu_cycles_strict()` function for reading current CPU cycle count
value more strictly in the program order.

#### DMA
* Add necessary fields to `odp_dma_transfer_param_t` for freeing DMA source
segments of data format `ODP_DMA_FORMAT_PACKET`. Support is advertised through
`odp_dma_capability_t.src_seg_free` capability.
* Add necessary fields to `odp_dma_seg_t`, `odp_dma_transfer_param_t`, and
`odp_dma_result_t` for allocating DMA destination segments of data format
`ODP_DMA_FORMAT_PACKET`. Support is advertised through
`odp_dma_capability_t.dst_seg_alloc` capability.

#### Event
* Add `ODP_EVENT_VECTOR` event type.
* Add special `ODP_EVENT_ANY` event type, which does not match to any particular
event type and can only be used when explicitly documented by the API.
* Change `odp_event_free()` specification to state that in case of vector
events (`ODP_EVENT_VECTOR` or `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_VECTOR`) it frees the vector and
all events or packets stored inside it.

#### Event Vector
* Add new generic event vector APIs. Event vectors can contain events of any
type, as opposed to the existing packet vectors, which can contain only packets.

#### ML
* Add quantization parameters to input (`odp_ml_input_info_t.quant_info`) and
output (`odp_ml_output_info_t.quant_info`) info. Implementation may optionally
provide these parameters, if they are available for a given model.

#### Pool
* Add `ODP_POOL_EVENT_VECTOR` pool type for allocating event vectors.

#### Queue
* Clarify that `odp_queue_sched_type()`, `odp_queue_sched_prio()`,
`odp_queue_sched_group()`, and `odp_queue_lock_count()` functions can be used
only with queues of `ODP_QUEUE_TYPE_SCHED` type.
* Add event aggregators that are associated with queues and have the same life
time. Event aggregators are queues which try to aggregate multiple events into
event vectors, which are then enqueued to the underlying queue. Event
aggregators are configured through queue parameters
(`odp_queue_param_t.num_aggr` and `odp_queue_param_t.aggr`) and the related
capabilities are advertised using `odp_event_aggr_capability_t` struct. Event
aggregators cannot be used simultaneously with the existing packet vector config
in the same ODP application.
* Add `ODP_QUEUE_TYPE_AGGR` queue type.
* Add `odp_queue_aggr()` function for getting a queue handle of an event
aggregator associated with a queue.
* Add `odp_aggr_enq_param_init()` function for initializing event aggregator
enqueuing parameters.
* Add `odp_queue_enq_aggr()` function that can be used for passing hints to an
event aggregator.

#### Scheduler
* Add `odp_schedule_group_param_init()` function for initializing schedule group
parameters.
* Add `odp_schedule_group_create_2()` function, which is otherwise like
`odp_schedule_group_create()`, but additionally accepts a set of parameters
(`odp_schedule_group_param_t`). Parameters for predefined scheduling groups can
be configured in `odp_schedule_config()`.
* Add possibility to configure cache stashing
(`odp_schedule_group_param_t.cache_stash_hints`) at schedule group and/or
priority levels. Stashing data of to-be-scheduled events and queues may improve
performance in some workloads.

#### Timer
* Add new timer pool parameter `odp_timer_pool_param_t.priority` and related
capabilities. Timers allocated from pools with a higher priority value are
served with higher priority than timers allocated from pools with a lower
priority value.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add `odp_tm_node_stats()` function for reading TM node specific statistics
counters. The supported counters are advertised in
`odp_tm_level_capabilities_t.node_stats` capability.

### ABI changes
* Increase `ODP_SHM_NAME_LEN` default value to 64.

### Helper (1.7.1)

#### Backward compatible changes
* Add `ODPH_DIV_ROUNDUP()` macro for dividing two numbers and rounding up the
result to the closest integer.
* Add `ODPH_ROUNDUP_MULTIPLE()` macro for rounding up a value to a multiple of
another value.

### Implementation
* Disable basic scheduler implementation's ordered queue reorder stash config
file option (`sched_basic:order_stash_size`) by default.
* Simplify `odp_version_impl_str()` output and include commit hash (if
available) in it.
* Optimize `odp_packet_free_sp()` and `odp_event_free_sp()` implementations.

### Performance Tests
#### stress
* Add new `-t` option for selecting timer mode (shared/private).

#### timer_accuracy
* Add a new "concurrency" mode (`-m 4`) that performs timer starts and cancels
across multiple threads. This mode aims to uncover concurrency issues in the
timer implementation, particularly with a short period, where timer expirations,
starts, and cancels frequently occur close to each other.

#### timer_stress
* Add new tool for benchmarking timer handling performance in different
scenarios. Tester currently supports modes for single-shot (with and without
cancelling) and periodic timers.

## OpenDataPlane (1.46.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Change the default crypto op type written by `odp_crypto_session_param_init()`
to `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_BASIC`.
* Deprecate old default crypto op type `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_LEGACY`.

#### Packet IO
* Modify certain details of IP and TCP Large Send Offload (LSO), specify missing
details, add restrictions, and clarify the API in general.
* Deprecate `ODP_PACKET_TX_COMPL_ALL` define. Use `ODP_PACKET_TX_COMPL_EVENT`
instead.
* Deprecate `odp_pktio_capability_t.tx_compl.mode_all` field. Use `mode_event`
instead.
* Deprecate `odp_pktout_config_opt_t.bit.tx_compl_ena` field. Use
`odp_pktio_config_t.mode_event` instead.

#### Timer
* Deprecate `odp_timer_pool_start()` function. Use
`odp_timer_pool_start_multi()` instead.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Event
* Clarify `odp_event_free()` documentation by stating that it frees also the
packets stored inside packet vectors.

#### Init
* Add printf format check to `odp_override_log()` and `odp_log_func_t`
declarations.
* Add `odp_log_fn_get()` function, which returns the current log function.
* Add `odp_abort_fn_get()` function, which returns the abort function.

#### Packet IO
* Add a new custom LSO operation (`ODP_LSO_WRITE_BITS`) for setting and clearing
selected bits in first/middle/last segment when segmentation occurs.
* Specify that all segments, except the last one, have the maximum payload
length with the custom LSO protocol (`ODP_LSO_PROTO_CUSTOM`).

### Remove deprecated APIs
#### Timer
* Remove deprecated `odp_timeout_fresh()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_timer_set_t` type.

### Helper (1.7.0)

#### Backward incompatible changes
* Deprecate `odph_linux_pthread_create()` and `odph_linux_pthread_join()`
functions which have been replaced by generic `odph_thread_create()` and
`odph_thread_join()` functions.
* Deprecate `odph_linux_process_fork()`, `odph_linux_process_fork_n()`,
and `odph_linux_process_wait_n()` functions which have been replaced by
generic `odph_thread_create()` and `odph_thread_join()` functions.

#### Backward compatible API changes
* Explicitly state that ODP must be initialized before calling helper functions
and document exceptions to this rule individually.
* Improve debug macro documentation.

### Implementation
* Remove scalable scheduler implementation.
* Remove `system:cpu_id_static` config file option.
* Add support for DPDK v23.11 packet IO.

### Example Applications
* Remove `odp_l2fwd_simple` application.

### Performance Tests
#### crypto
* Use the basic crypto operation type instead of now deprecated legacy operation
type.
* Remove explicit encrypt in-place operation option (`-n`).

#### l2fwd_perf
* New minimal performance optimized L2 forwarding benchmark application. Aim is
to keep the tester as simple as possible in order to provide a stable
benchmarking utility with comparable results across releases.

#### ml_perf
* New machine learning (ML) performance test application. The application
measures nanoseconds used for various ML operations, such as creating and
destroying a model, loading and unloading a model, and inferencing.

#### packet_gen
* Add new option (`-X`) for L4 checksum offloading.
* Add new option (`-T`) for transmitting packets with LSO.

#### queue_perf
* Add possibility to export test results into a .csv file by using
`--test-common-export` option or `TEST_COMMON_EXPORT` environment variable.
* Add new option (`-p`) for using private queues per worker.
* Add pair test mode (`-m 1`) where events are moved between queue pairs
connecting two or more workers.

## OpenDataPlane (1.45.1.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Atomic
* Add new `odp_atomic_fetch_min_u32()` and `odp_atomic_fetch_min_u64()`
functions for fetching and updating minimum values of atomic `uint32_t` or
`uint64_t` variables.
* Add new `odp_atomic_fetch_max_u32()` and `odp_atomic_fetch_max_u64()`
functions for fetching and updating maximum values of atomic `uint32_t` or
`uint64_t` variables.
* Add functions for atomically setting and clearing bits in 32-bit atomic
variables: `odp_atomic_bit_set_u32()`, `odp_atomic_bit_fetch_set_u32()`,
`odp_atomic_bit_clr_u32()`, `odp_atomic_bit_fetch_clr_u32()`,
`odp_atomic_bit_set_rel_u32()`, `odp_atomic_bit_clr_rel_u32()`
* Add functions for atomically setting and clearing bits in 64-bit atomic
variables:  `odp_atomic_bit_set_u64()`, `odp_atomic_bit_fetch_set_u64()`,
`odp_atomic_bit_clr_u64()`, `odp_atomic_bit_fetch_clr_u64()`,
`odp_atomic_bit_set_rel_u64()`, `odp_atomic_bit_clr_rel_u64()`
* Add flags for the new atomic functions into `odp_atomic_op_t`.

#### CPU
* Add instruction prefetch function `odp_prefetch_l1i()`.

#### DMA
* Add debug function `odp_dma_transfer_id_to_u64()` for getting a printable
value for a DMA transfer identifier.

#### Init
* Add debug function `odp_instance_to_u64()` for getting a printable value for
an ODP instance handle.

#### ML
* Add functions for supporting quantization of `int16_t` and `uint16_t` data
types: `odp_ml_fp32_to_uint16()`, `odp_ml_fp32_from_uint16()`,
`odp_ml_fp32_to_int16()`, `odp_ml_fp32_from_int16()`

#### Packet
* Add debug function `odp_packet_tx_compl_to_u64()` for getting a printable
value for a Tx completion handle.
* Clarify `odp_packet_reset_max_len()` documentation to state that the returned
length may be less than the current packet data length if data length has been
increased by utilizing head- or tailroom.

#### Scheduler
* Add debug function `odp_schedule_group_to_u64()` for getting a printable
value for a schedule group handle.

#### Std
* Clarify `odp_bool_t` documentation by stating how the data type can by used
with standard C booleans and what is considered true/false.
* Add a field of type `\__uint128_t` in the union in `odp_u128_t` when the
type is available, so that users that use `__uint128_t` or a compatible type do
not need to type pun.

### ABI changes
* Change ABI type for `odp_bool_t` from `int` to `bool` to comply with the
clarified API documentation.

### Implementation
* Add new config file option `system:cpu_id_static` for selecting whether the
implementation reads CPU identifier value from OS during every `odp_cpu_id()`
call or only once during thread initialization (default).
* Enable the `-fno-strict-aliasing` compiler option. Some sections of code in
ODP deliberately access the same data via pointers to different types, which is
undefined behavior in C. The `-fno-strict-aliasing` option prevents the compiler
from making assumptions about aliasing in these instances.

### Example Applications
#### ml_run
* Add new example application, which loads a given ML model file, runs inference
using a given input file and compares the output to a given reference file.

### Performance Tests
* Add the possibility to export test results into a .csv file by using
`--test-common-export` option or `TEST_COMMON_EXPORT` environment variable.
Exporting results is supported by the following applications: `atomic_perf`,
`bench_buffer`, `bench_misc`, `bench_timer`, `bench_packet`, `bench_pktio_sp`,
`dma_perf`, `lock_perf`, `pool_perf`, `sched_latency`, `sched_perf`,
`stash_perf`, `timer_accuracy`

#### bench_packet
* Add tests for new `odp_packet_reset_meta()` and `odp_packet_reset_max_len()`
functions.
* Add tests for event API fast path functions on packets.

#### icache_perf
* Add new performance test application to measure CPU performance when
application code size exceeds L1 instruction cache size.

#### packet_gen
* Add new `-U` option to define custom L3 headers.
* Add new `none` selection to the L4 protocol -N option.

## OpenDataPlane (1.45.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Increase size of `all_bits` fields of `odp_crypto_cipher_algos_t` and
`odp_crypto_auth_algos_t` algorithm capability unions.

#### Packet
* Change `odp_packet_reset()` specification to use new
`odp_packet_reset_max_len()` function for maximum packet data length value.

#### Protocol Stats
* Limit length of `odp_proto_stats_create()` object name parameter to a new
`ODP_PROTO_STATS_NAME_LEN` define.

#### Traffic Manager
* Limit lengths of traffic manager object names to a new `ODP_TM_NAME_LEN`
define.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Common
* Make mentions of maximum string lengths clear and consistent and always state
that the null character is included.

#### CPU
* Add more specific data prefetch variants: `odp_prefetch_l1()`,
`odp_prefetch_l2()`, and `odp_prefetch_l3()`.
* Add more specific data prefetch variants for store: `odp_prefetch_store_l1()`,
`odp_prefetch_store_l2()`, and `odp_prefetch_store_l3()`.
* Add streaming prefetch functions `odp_prefetch_strm_l1()` and
`odp_prefetch_store_strm_l1()`.

#### Crypto
* Add SHA-3 based cryptographic hash functions and HMACs based on them.
* Add SNOW-V cipher algorithm and SNOW-V-GCM AEAD algorithm.
* Add SM3 cryptographic hash function and a HMAC based on it.
* Add SM4 cipher in ECB, CBC, CTR, GCM, CCM and GMAC modes.

#### Event
* Add `odp_event_user_flag_set()` function for setting/clearing event's user
flag value.

#### Packet
* Clarify `odp_packet_buf_len()` specification to state that total packet buffer
length includes also headroom and tailroom lengths.
* Clarify `odp_packet_reset()` specification to state that packet data start is
adjusted according to pool parameters, user area content is maintained, and
packet data persistence is not guaranteed.
* Add `odp_packet_reset_meta()` function for resetting only packet metadata
without modifying packet data.

#### Pool
* Clarify in `odp_pool_param_t.buf.size` specification that the actual buffer
size may be rounded up by the implementation. Also, remove the limitation that
an application will never store more than 'size' bytes in each buffer, which
conflicted with `odp_buffer_size()` API.

### Helper (1.6.0)
#### Backward incompatible changes
* Remove unused cuckoo table API.
* Remove unused hash table API.
* Remove unused linear table API.
* Remove unused IP lookup table API.
* Remove unused table interface API.

#### Backward compatible changes
##### Stress
* Add CPU stress functions (`odph_stress_pow2_u32()`, `odph_stress_log2_u32()`,
`odph_stress_sqrt_u32()`, `odph_stress_sqrt_f32()`) which may be used in test
applications to create dummy CPU load. Functions are not highly optimized but
try to stress various parts of CPU instruction set.

##### String
* Add `odph_strcpy()` function, which guarantees termination of the destination
string.

##### Thread
* Add `odph_thread_join_result()` function which is similar to the existing
`odph_thread_join()` but outputs results of joined threads.
* Clarify in `odph_thread_create()` specification that the output thread table
elements must not be modified during the lifetime of the threads if
`odph_thread_join()` is used to wait for thread exit.

### Example Applications
* Remove `odp_generator` application which has been made redundant by
`odp_packet_gen`.
* Remove `odp_timer_test` application which has been made redundant by
`odp_timer_accuracy`.

### Miscellaneous Tests
#### dyn_workers
* Add a simple dynamic worker tester that can be used to verify the ability of
an ODP implementation to dynamically add and remove workers from one ODP
application to another.

### Performance Tests
#### l2fwd
* Add `-O, --output_map` option for changing the default output port mappings
for interfaces.
* Add `-C, --tx_compl` option for configuring packet transmit completion.
* Add `-X, --flow_control` option for enabling reception and/or transmission of
Ethernet pause frames.

#### packet_gen
* Enable running the application with only RX or TX threads.
* Add support for transmitting TCP packets (`-N, --proto`). The application
doesn't implement actual TCP protocol, but simply transmits packets with valid
TCP headers at a selected rate.

#### pool_latency
* Enable running the application indefinitely with special round count (`-r`)
value `0`.

#### sched_perf
* Add `-S, --stress` option for selecting stress function(s) to be used on event
data. Functions add various amount of CPU load to each event to simulate
application data processing.
* Rename `-a` option (`--fairness`) to `-F` for better match of short and long
option names.

#### stress
* Add simple memory copy loop and square root calculation test modes
(`-m, --mode`) to generate CPU load.

## OpenDataPlane (1.44.0.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### ML
* Add new API module for Machine Learning offload.

### Implementation
#### ML
* Implement the API using ONNX Runtime. A non-standard ONNX install path can be
passed with `--with-ort-path` configure option. See `DEPENDENCIES` for
additional information.

### Example Applications
#### debug
* Print packet IO link information.
* Add packet IO interface name option (`-i`).

#### packet_dump
* Add support for measuring packet input delay.

### Performance Tests
#### l2fwd
* Add packet input timestamping option (`-T`).
* Add packet data prefetch option (`-F`).
* Add packet data read option (`-R`).
* Add packet print option (`-V`).

#### pool_latency
* New pool latency tester application for profiling pool allocation and free
latencies under different load patterns.

#### sched_perf
* Add options to read (`-u`) and modify (`-U`) event user area contents per
event reception.
* Run application indefinitely when the number of events to schedule option
(`-s`) is set to zero.

## OpenDataPlane (1.43.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Add new `odp_cls_capability_t.max_pmr` and
`odp_cls_capability_t.max_pmr_per_cos` packet matching rule capabilities.
* Rename `odp_cls_capability_t.max_pmr_terms` field to
`odp_cls_capability_t.max_terms_per_pmr`.

#### Time
* Change local/global time specification to allow timestamp values to start from
an implementation defined value, instead of always starting from zero.

#### Timer
* Deprecate `odp_timer_set_t` type. Use `odp_timer_retval_t` instead.
* Deprecate `odp_timer_pool_start()` function in comments. Will be properly
deprecated in an upcoming release. Use `odp_timer_pool_start_multi()` instead.
* Deprecate `odp_timeout_fresh()` function.
* Change `odp_timer_free()` specification to remove the possibility to free a
timer that is running.
* Change `odp_timer_pool_create()` specification to state that timer pool
handles must not be used by other APIs, except `odp_timer_pool_to_u64()`,
 before being started.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Event
* Add `odp_event_pool()` function, which returns a handle to the pool where the
event was allocated from.

#### Hints
* Fix a type conversion issue in `odp_unlikely()` implementation.

#### Packet
* Clarify that `ODP_PACKET_FREE_CTRL_DONT_FREE` option does not affect direct
packet free calls.
* Clarify that packet IO time is specific to the packet IO interface.

#### Pool
* Clarify that disabled/unused per thread statistics counters will not
necessarily be zeroed by `odp_pool_stats()`.

#### Scheduler
* Clarify event ordering in ordered scheduling contexts.

#### Thread
* Add new functions `odp_thread_control_count_max()` and
`odp_thread_worker_count_max()` for reading the maximum number of control and
worker threads.
* Add new functions `odp_thread_control_count()` and `odp_thread_worker_count()`
for reading the current number of control and worker threads.

#### Time
* Add `odp_time_add_ns()` function for adding nanoseconds into a time value.
* Add `odp_time_startup()` function for requesting ODP instance startup time.
* Clarify `odp_time_sum()` specification by adding a notification that resulting
timestamp may wrap around if large timestamp values are summed up.

#### Timer
* Add `odp_timer_pool_start_multi()` function for starting timer pools, which
takes the to-be-started pool handles as arguments.
* Clarify that timer ticks and related nanosecond values are specific to a timer
pool. Also, state explicitly that those may not start from zero.

### Remove deprecated APIs
#### Classifier
* Remove deprecated `odp_cls_drop_t` enum.
* Remove deprecated `odp_cos_drop_set()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_cos_drop()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_cos_with_l2_priority()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_cos_with_l3_qos()` function.

#### Crypto
* Remove deprecated `ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_NONE`,
`ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_ENOMEM`, `ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_INV_CIPHER`, and
`ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_INV_AUTH` defines.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_alg_err_t.ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_KEY_SIZE` and
`odp_crypto_alg_err_t.ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_IV_INVALID` enums.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_hw_err_t` enum.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_packet_result_t.ok` field.

#### Scheduler
* Remove deprecated `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_HIGHEST`, `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_NORMAL`,
`ODP_SCHED_PRIO_LOWEST`, and `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_DEFAULT` defines.

#### Timer
* Remove deprecated `ODP_CLOCK_CPU` and `ODP_CLOCK_EXT` defines.
* Remove deprecated `ODP_TIMER_TOOEARLY`, `ODP_TIMER_TOOLATE` and
`ODP_TIMER_NOEVENT` defines.
* Remove deprecated `odp_timer_set_abs()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_timer_set_rel()` function.

### Helper (1.5.0)
#### Backward incompatible changes
* Remove deprecated `odph_odpthread_t` and `odph_odpthread_params_t` types.
* Remove deprecated `odph_thread_param_t.instance` field.
* Remove deprecated `odph_odpthreads_create()` and `odph_odpthreads_join()`
functions.

### Implementation
#### Ticketlock
* Add WFE based aarch64 ticketlock implementation (`--enable-wfe-locks`) for
power saving.

### Performance Tests
#### dma_perf
* Add option for using software memory copy in addition to DMA transfers.
* Add options for using sparse packets and memory as the transfer segment type.

## OpenDataPlane (1.42.1.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Add new `odp_cls_pmr_create_multi()` function for creating multiple packet
matching rules with a single call.
* Add new `odp_cls_pmr_destroy_multi()` function for destroying multiple PMRs
with a single call.
* Add new `odp_cls_cos_create_multi()` function for creating multiple class-of-
services with a single call.
* Add new `odp_cos_destroy_multi()` function for destroying multiple CoSes with
a single call.

#### Crypto
* Clarify packet ordering of async crypto ops (`odp_crypto_op_enq()`).
* Add `odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.null_crypto` parameter that tells that a
packet should be processed as if the configured algorithms were null cipher and
null auth algorithm.
* Add `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_BASIC_AND_OOP` crypto operation type that allows both
basic and out-of-place operations in the same session.

#### Packet IO
* Add new API define `ODP_PKTIO_MAX_INDEX` for maximum packet IO interface
index.

#### Queue
* Add new `odp_queue_create_multi()` function for creating multiple queues with
a single call.
* Add new `odp_queue_destroy_multi()` function for destroying multiple queues
with a single call.
* Clarify `odp_queue_param_t` default value specification.

#### System
* Add enumerations for ARM ISA versions ARMv8.8-A, ARMv8.9-A, and ARMv9.3-A.

#### Timer
* Change `odp_timer_pool_param_t.num_timers` description to allow applications
to attempt to allocate more timers than there are in a timer pool.
* Add new `odp_timeout_alloc_multi()` function for allocating multiple timeouts
with a single call.
* Add new `odp_timeout_free_multi()` function for freeing multiple timeouts with
a single call.

### Helper (1.4.0)
#### Backward incompatible changes
##### Protocols
* Rename `ODP_GTP_HLEN` define to `ODPH_GTP_HLEN`.
* Rename `ODP_IGMP_HLEN` define to `ODPH_IGMP_HLEN`.
* Remove unused ICMP defines and add missing `ODPH_` prefix to the remaining
ones.

#### Backward compatible changes
##### Macros
* Add new `ODPH_MIN()` and `ODPH_MAX()` helper macros for comparison operations.
* Add new `ODPH_ARRAY_SIZE()` helper macro for calculating array size.
* Add new `ODPH_ABS()` helper macro for calculating the absolute value of a
signed variable.

### Implementation
#### CPU
* Optimize `odp_cpu_cycles()` performance on aarch64 by implementing the
function using `cntvct_el0` virtual counter register.

#### Packet IO
* Transmitting packet vectors is not supported by the current API, so remove
the code from the implementation. This may improve performance when transmitting
packets through event queues.
* Add support for packet transmit completion check through polling
(`ODP_PACKET_TX_COMPL_POLL`).

### Example Applications
#### sysinfo
* Add prints for various missing capabilities (e.g. pool, packet IO, timer).

#### timer_accuracy
* Add new (`-c, --count`) option to set the CPU count.
* Add new (`-t, --queue_type`) option to set the queue sync type.
* Add new (`-q, --num_queue`) option to set the number of queues.
* Add new (`-G, --sched_groups`) option to use a dedicated schedule group for
each queue.

### Performance Tests
#### bench_pktio_sp
* Add new `odp_bench_pktio_sp` application for measuring delays of ODP packet IO
slow path functions.

#### dmafwd
* Add new `odp_dmafwd` application for comparing packet forwarding throughput
when received packets are first copied either with software memory copy
or with DMA offload and then echoed back to sender(s).

#### packet_gen
* Add new (`-m, --tx_mode`) option for selecting how packets are transmitted.

#### stash_perf
* Add new `odp_stash_perf` application for measuring ODP stash fast path API
performance.

#### timer_perf
* Add new mode (`-m 2`) for measuring `odp_schedule()` overhead while
continuously restarting expiring timers.

## OpenDataPlane (1.42.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Add `odp_crypto_session_param_t.cipher_range_in_bits` and
`odp_crypto_session_param_t.auth_range_in_bits` session parameters that control
whether cipher/auth range is given in bits or bytes.
* Change `odp_crypto_cipher_capability_t.bit_mode` cipher/auth capability flag
to indicate whether bit mode is supported in addition to byte mode that is
always supported.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Barrier
* Add memory barriers (`odp_mb_sync()`, `odp_mb_sync_load()`,
`odp_mb_sync_store()`) which ensure that load/store instructions started before
the barrier are complete, before load/store instructions after the barrier are
started.

#### Crypto
* Allow non-zero-length cipher and auth ranges
(`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.cipher_range/auth_range`) for the null cipher and
auth algorithms in the OOP operation type.

#### DMA
* Add new `odp_dma_pool_capability_t.uarea_persistence` pool capability to
signal if implementation is able to maintain the content of pool user areas
across frees and allocations.
* Add new `odp_dma_pool_param_t.uarea_init` pool parameters `init_fn` and
`args` that can be used to initialize event user areas of a pool at pool
creation time.
* Move `odp_dma_seg_t` structure fields so that `addr/packet` field is directly
followed by `len` and `offset` fields. After this change all commonly used
fields are located in the first 16 bytes of the structure.

#### Event
* Add new `odp_event_types_multi()` function for reading event types and
subtypes (optional) from all given events.
* Add new `odp_event_user_area_and_flag()` function for reading both event
user area pointer and user flag value.

#### Init
* Add new `ODP_LOG_WARN` log level to `odp_log_level_t`.

#### Packet
* Change `odp_packet_user_flag()` and `odp_packet_vector_user_flag()`
documentations to specify that the return values are positive if user flag is
set.

#### Pool
* Add new `uarea_persistence` pool capability to signal if implementation is
able to maintain the content of pool user areas across frees and allocations.
* Add new `uarea_init` pool parameters `init_fn` and `args` that can be used to
initialize event user areas of a pool at pool creation time.

#### Timer
* Add new `odp_timeout_from_event_multi()` function for converting multiple
events of type `ODP_EVENT_TIMEOUT` to timeout handles.
* Clarify `odp_timer_alloc()` and `odp_timer_restart()` documentation.

### Implementation
#### Time
* Refactor time codebase to enable more optimized architecture specific
implementations. x86 and aarch64 architectures are assumed to always have
support for HW time and fallback to POSIX time functions has been removed for
improved performance.

## OpenDataPlane (1.41.1.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### DMA
* Add `odp_dma_compl_user_area()` function which returns pointer to the user
area configured with DMA completion event pool parameters.
* Clarify that DMA session names don't need to be unique.

#### Event
* Add `odp_event_user_area()` function which returns a pointer to the user area
associated with the event.

#### Init
* Add `odp_term_abnormal()` function that can be used to abnormally terminate
an ODP application after a non-recoverable error. Depending on the
implementation, this function may attempt to dump stack and other memory areas,
clean up and stop HW operations and/or perform other actions helpful in
postmortem analysis.

#### Packet
* Extend packet transmit completion (`odp_packet_tx_compl_request()`) with poll
mode. When enabled, packet transmit completion status can be checked with
`odp_packet_tx_compl_done()`.
* Add `odp_packet_free_ctrl_set()` function for controlling packet output
interface to not free a packet after transmitting it.
* Add `odp_packet_free_ctrl()` function for reading packet's free control
option value.

#### Pool
* Relax `odp_pool_stats()` specification to allow implementations to have some
delay until pool statistics are updated.
* Add new function `odp_pool_stats_selected()` for reading only selected pool
statistic(s).

#### Timer
* Split `odp_timer_cancel()` failure reason into timing related and other
failures.
* Rename `odp_timer_set_t` to `odp_timer_retval_t` as it is used now for start,
restart, and cancel operations. `odp_timer_set_t` remains as a typedef for
backward compatibility.
* Add `odp_timer_sample_ticks()` function that samples tick value of multiple
timer pools simultaneously.
* Allow implementation to place the first timer as close as it can to one period
when starting a periodic timer with `first_tick` set to 0.
* Clarify that periodic timer base frequency uses fractional numbers the same
way as timer tick info (`odp_timer_tick_info_t`). Integer part specifies full
hertz and fractional part specifies parts of a hertz.
* Clarify that `odp_timer_periodic_capability()` call does not overwrite the
base frequency value when 1 is returned.
* Clarify that some implementations may support only certain periodic timer base
frequencies and those depend on source clock frequency.

### Performance Tests
#### bench_timer
* Add new test application for measuring call latency of small functions in the
timer API.

#### dma_perf
* Refactor DMA test application to support multiple worker threads. The number
of in-flight transfers can be configured and workers will always try to keep
that many transfers active through single or per-worker DMA session.

#### ipsecfwd
* Add support for running the application in process mode.

## OpenDataPlane (1.41.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Require that PMRs must be destroyed before the CoS they refer to is destroyed.

#### Crypto
* Deprecate the old session creation error names
(`ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_NONE`, `ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_ENOMEM`,
`ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_INV_CIPHER`, `ODP_CRYPTO_SES_CREATE_ERR_INV_AUTH`)
that have been replaced by shorter error names.
* Change return value of `odp_crypto_result()` to indicate crypto operation
success/failure.
* Deprecate `odp_crypto_packet_result_t.ok` field. Replaced by
`odp_crypto_result()` return value.
* Specify that the status fields of `odp_crypto_packet_result_t` are valid
only when the operation failed (`odp_crypto_result()` returned -1).
* Deprecate `odp_crypto_hw_err_t` type and `odp_crypto_op_status_t.hw_err`
field. All errors are now reported through `alg_err` field.
* Deprecate `ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_KEY_SIZE` and `ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_IV_INVALID`
error codes.
* Require that cipher range (`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.cipher_range`) and
auth range (`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.auth_range`) have zero offset and zero
length when used with null cipher and null auth algorithm, respectively, with
the out-of-place operation type.

#### Errno
* Remove mention about errno values specified in the API spec. Setting errno has
been removed from all ODP APIs outside errno module.

#### Packet IO
* Remove legacy reference to errno from `odp_pktio_open()` function.

#### Stash
* Remove special meaning of `odp_stash_capability_t.max_num_obj` value zero.

#### Timer
* Remove legacy references to errno from `odp_timer_pool_create()` and
`odp_timer_alloc()` functions.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Clarify that the CoS to be destroyed with `odp_cos_destroy()` must not be in
use.
* Clarify that `odp_cos_queue()` returns `ODP_QUEUE_INVALID` if the queue is not
set.
* Allow CoS pool (`odp_cls_cos_param_t.pool`) to be set to `ODP_POOL_INVALID`,
in which case the originating pktin pool is used.
* Clarify when CoS queue may and may not be invalid.

#### Crypto
* Change IV (`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.cipher_iv_ptr`,
`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.auth_iv_ptr`) and AAD (
`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.aad_ptr`) pointers to pointers to constants.
* Clarify that algorithm order (`odp_crypto_session_param_t.auth_cipher_text`)
is ignored with null algorithms.
* Clarify when cipher (`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.cipher_range`) and auth
(`odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t.auth_range`) ranges are ignored.
* Allow the result pointer for `odp_crypto_result()` to be null, making filling
the result structure optional.
* Clarify the description of `ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_DATA_SIZE`.
* Add a new crypto operation error `ODP_CRYPTO_ALG_ERR_OTHER` to cover cases
for which the other errors do not fit.
* Clarify that null cipher and auth algorithms ignore key length, IV length,
digest length, etc. session parameters.
* Clarify that crypto operations do not affect parse flags in packet metadata
and thus `odp_packet_has_error()` cannot be used for checking operation result.

#### Packet IO
* Allow the default CoS to be removed by passing `ODP_COS_INVALID` to
`odp_pktio_default_cos_set()`.

#### Pool
* Clarify that the pool to be destroyed with `odp_pool_destroy()` must not be in
use.
* Clarify that `odp_pool_capability_t.max_pools` is used for all pool types
defined in `odp_pool_type_t`.

#### Stash
* Add new stash create parameter `odp_stash_param_t.strict_size` for performance
optimization. The new option is disabled by default and the total object count
limitation is removed from stash put functions.
* Add new capabilities for maximum number of object handles per stash for
each object size (`odp_stash_capability_t.max_num`).

#### Timer
* Clarify that zero `odp_timer_periodic_start_t.first_tick` means that the first
expiration time is one period after the current time, not at the current time.

### Remove deprecated APIs
#### Crypto
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_t` crypto completion event.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_op_param_t` type.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_op_result_t` type.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_session_param_t.pref_mode` field.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_from_event()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_to_event()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_free()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_operation()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_result()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_to_u64()` function.

#### Event
* Remove deprecated `ODP_EVENT_CRYPTO_COMPL` event type.

### Implementation
#### Packet IO
* Remove netmap pktio device.
* Change recommended DPDK version for DPDK pktio device to v22.11.

#### Stash
* Change implementation to use overflow safe MPMC rings by default. Previous
strict size ring-based implementation can be used by enabling
`odp_stash_param_t.strict_size` parameter.

## OpenDataPlane (1.40.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Packet
* Specify which packet metadata flags cannot be set simultaneously using
`odp_packet_has_XX_set()` functions.

#### Timer
* Use `ODP_DEPRECATE()` macro for `odp_timer_set_abs()` and
`odp_timer_set_rel()` functions. Previously, the deprecation was only mentioned
in the function documentation.
* Deprecate old timer pool clock sources `ODP_CLOCK_CPU` and `ODP_CLOCK_EXT`,
which have been replaced by `ODP_CLOCK_DEFAULT` and `ODP_CLOCK_SRC_1`.
* Deprecate old timer set return values `ODP_TIMER_TOOEARLY`,
`ODP_TIMER_TOOLATE`, and `ODP_TIMER_NOEVENT`, which have been replaced by
`ODP_TIMER_TOO_NEAR`, `ODP_TIMER_TOO_FAR`, and `ODP_TIMER_FAIL`.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Add new operation type session parameter
(`odp_crypto_session_param_t.op_type`) that controls how crypto operations
interpret their parameters and handle output packets. Defaults to backward
compatible `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_LEGACY` mode.
* Add `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_BASIC` operation type with simplified interface
compared to `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_LEGACY`.
* Add `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_OOP` operation type that writes the output of the
crypto operation into a caller provided output packet and does not consume the
input packet.
* Clarify that `odp_crypto_op()` copies all packet data and metadata from the
input packet to the output packet in `ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_LEGACY` and
`ODP_CRYPTO_OP_TYPE_BASIC` modes.
* Require that `odp_crypto_result()` is called before packet data of
asynchronously processed packets can be assumed to be valid in non-legacy modes.
* Fix EIA2 IV length in API documentation. EIA2 uses 64-bit IV, not 128-bit as
previously mentioned in the API text.

#### Packet
* Clarify `odp_packet_has_vlan()` and `odp_packet_has_vlan_qinq()`
specifications.

### Remove deprecated APIs
#### Crypto
* Remove deprecated per-session IV configuration.

#### Packet IO
* Remove deprecated `in_unknown_protos` field from `odp_pktio_stats_t`.
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktin_ts_res()` function.
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktin_ts_from_ns()` function.

#### Shared Memory
* Remove deprecated `ODP_SHM_SW_ONLY` define.

#### Traffic Manager
* Remove deprecated `odp_tm_capabilities()` function.
* Remove deprecated `commit_bps` field from `odp_tm_shaper_params_t`.
* Remove deprecated `peak_bps` field from `odp_tm_shaper_params_t`.

### Implementation
#### Crypto
* Add Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec library (Arm optimized) based crypto
implementation. See `DEPENDENCIES` for additional information.

#### Debug
* Add support for runtime event validation (buffer endmark checking). Event
validation can be enabled during configure with
`--enable-event-validation [warn/abort]` or  with `--enabled-debug=full`. See
`README` for additional information.

## OpenDataPlane (1.39.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Deprecate `odp_cos_with_l2_priority()` function. Use `ODP_PMR_VLAN_PCP_0`
instead.
* Deprecate packet drop policy option (`odp_cls_cos_param_t.drop_policy`) and
related functions `odp_cos_drop()` and `odp_cos_drop_set()`.

#### Shared Memory
* Change `odp_shm_info()` specification to disallow usage of invalid SHM
handles.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Buffer
* Add multi variants of event conversion functions
(`odp_buffer_from_event_multi()` and `odp_buffer_to_event_multi()`).

#### Classifier
* Add PFC priority level (`odp_bp_param_t.pfc_level`) to back pressure
parameters.
* Clarify PMR specification to state that in case of multiple PMRs matching
within a CoS, it is implementation specific which PMR is selected.

#### Crypto
* Fix a stale reference to the renamed `hash_result_not_in_auth_range`
session parameter to use the correct name (`hash_result_in_auth_range`)
in the comment text of `hash_result_offset`.

#### Packet
* Add support for additional L3 and L4 protocol types.

#### Packet IO
* Add `ODP_PKTIN_MAX_QUEUES` define for maximum number of packet input queues.
* Add new packet input queue size configuration option
`odp_pktin_queue_param_t.queue_size` and matching capabilities
`odp_pktio_capability_t.min_input_queue_size` and
`odp_pktio_capability_t.max_input_queue_size`.
* Add missing documentation to `odp_pktio_link_status_t`,
`odp_pktio_link_duplex_t`, and `odp_pktio_link_pause_t` enumerations.
* Add `ODP_PKTIO_LINK_PFC_ON` enumeration for PFC flow control mode.
* Add capabilities (`odp_pktio_capability_t.flow_control`) and configuration
parameters to control reception (`odp_pktio_config_t.flow_control.pause_rx`) and
transmission (`odp_pktio_config_t.flow_control.pause_tx`) of Ethernet pause
frames.

#### Shared Memory
* Add `odp_shm_segment_info()` function for retrieving information about each
memory segment of an SHM block.
* Clarified `odp_shm_reserve()` operation with the default options (no flags).

#### System
* Add `odp_system_meminfo()` function for retrieving information about ODP
memory usage.

## OpenDataPlane (1.38.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Pool
* Change `odp_pool_capability_t.pkt.max_uarea_size` specification to state
that the value of zero means user area is not supported.
* Specify that the default value of `odp_pool_param_t.pkt.uarea_size` is zero
and implementation may round up the given value.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Buffer
* Add `odp_buffer_user_area()` function which returns pointer to the user area
configured with pool create parameters.

#### Crypto
* Add experimental ZUC-256 support.

#### Packet
* Add `odp_packet_vector_user_area()` function which returns pointer to the user
area configured with pool create parameters.
* Add new user flag metadata to packets (`odp_packet_user_flag()`,
`odp_packet_user_flag_set()`) and packet vectors
(`odp_packet_vector_user_flag()`, `odp_packet_vector_user_flag_set()`).

#### Pool
* Add user area size capability and parameter into buffer, timeout, and vector
event pools.

#### Stash
* Add batch variants of all put/get functions and capabilities for maximum
supported batch sizes.

#### Thread
* Clarify `odp_thread_id()` specification to state that thread IDs are assigned
sequentially starting from 0 in the order threads call `odp_init_local()`.

#### Timer
* Add `odp_timeout_user_area()` function which returns pointer to the user area
configured with pool create parameters.

## OpenDataPlane (1.37.2.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### CPU Mask
* Allow usage of NULL pointer with `odp_cpumask_default_worker()` and
`odp_cpumask_default_control()` calls. This enables applications to check the
number of worker/control CPUs without allocating a temporary mask.
* Clarify `odp_cpumask_default_worker()` and `odp_cpumask_default_control()`
specifications to mention that system may allow usage of other CPUs as well.

#### Packet IO
* Specify that interfaces that support promiscuous mode set operation have
promiscuous mode disabled by default.

#### Pool
* Add new statistics counters (`odp_pool_stats_t.thread.cache_available`) for
reading per thread pool cache usage.

#### Stash
* Add `odp_stash_print()` function for printing implementation specific debug
information to the ODP log.
* Add statistics counters to stash API. Counter support is defined by stash
capabilities (`odp_stash_capability_t.stats`). Supported counters can be enabled
in `odp_stash_create()` and read with `odp_stash_stats()`.

## OpenDataPlane (1.37.1.0)

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Packet IO
* Clarify that `odp_pktout_send_lso()` can be used also for packets that have
payload less than `max_payload_len` bytes.

#### Stash
* Change 32-bit and 64-bit specific get/put functions' parameter names to avoid
name conflicts.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add option to do rate limiting instead of rate shaping in TM nodes and queues.

## OpenDataPlane (1.37.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Deprecate `odp_cos_with_l3_qos()` function. Use new `ODP_PMR_IP_DSCP` PMR
term instead.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Add new PMR term enumeration `ODP_PMR_IP_DSCP` for Differentiated Services
Code Point (DSCP) bits in IP header.
* Add new PMR term enumeration `ODP_PMR_VLAN_PCP_0` for Priority Code Point
(PCP) bits in VLAN header.
* Clarify `ODP_PMR_ETHTYPE_0`, `ODP_PMR_VLAN_ID_0`, and `ODP_PMR_VLAN_ID_X`
PMR term specifications.
* Remove unused `odp_cos_hdr_flow_fields_t` enumeration.

#### Scheduler
* Add new `odp_schedule_order_wait()` function which waits until the currently
held scheduling context is the first in order.

### Implementation
#### Packet IO
* Add new experimental AF_XDP socket based packet IO device.

## OpenDataPlane (1.36.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes

#### Classifier
* Add an action parameter `odp_cos_action_t` to CoS parameters
(`odp_cls_cos_param_t`). Action may be to enqueue or drop the packet classified
to the CoS. The old methods of creating a drop CoS have been replaced by the
new drop action.

#### Crypto
* Deprecate `odp_crypto_operation()`, the associated data structures, and the
completion event. Use `odp_crypto_op()` or `odp_crypto_op_enq()` instead.

#### Traffic Manager
* Split `odp_tm_capabilities_t.tm_queue_threshold` capability into byte and
packet modes.
* Split `odp_tm_level_capabilities_t.tm_node_threshold` capability into byte and
packet modes.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Add CoS specific statistics counters (`odp_cls_cos_stats_t`) and
matching capabilities (`odp_cls_stats_capability_t`). Statistics counters can be
read with `odp_cls_cos_stats()`.

#### Common
* Convert `unsigned int` types to `uint32_t`.

#### Traffic Manager
* Remove unused TM shaper color enum `odp_tm_shaper_color_t` and
`ODP_NUM_SHAPER_COLORS` define.

## OpenDataPlane (1.35.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes

#### Scheduler
* Deprecate scheduling priority level defines `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_HIGHEST`,
`ODP_SCHED_PRIO_NORMAL`, `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_LOWEST`, and `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_DEFAULT`.
These defines have been replaced by matching functions.

#### Traffic Manager
* Change meaning of `odp_tm_enq_multi()` return value of zero from failure code
to part of normal operation.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Packet
* Remove references to deprecated `odp_pktin_ts_res()` and
`odp_pktin_ts_from_ns()` functions.

#### Packet IO
* Add `ODP_PKTOUT_MAX_QUEUES` define for the maximum number of packet output
queues.
* Add new packet output queue size configuration option
`odp_pktout_queue_param_t.queue_size` and matching capabilities
`odp_pktio_capability_t.min_output_queue_size` and
`odp_pktio_capability_t.max_output_queue_size`.
* Clarify `odp_pktio_config()` usage in the interface setup sequence.
* Allow large send offload (LSO) usage with traffic manager
(`odp_pktio_config_t.enable_lso`).

#### Timer
* Clarify timer tick properties and especially that it may run with a higher
frequency than the requested timer pool resolution.
* Add new timer pool parameter (`odp_timer_pool_param_t.exp_mode`), which
application can use to select if timer expiration may happen before or only
after the specified time.
* Add new `odp_timer_start()` and `odp_timer_restart()` functions.
* Add support for periodic timers. New capabilities, parameters, and functions
are added to create/start/ack periodic timers.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add `odp_tm_enq_multi_lso()` function which does also LSO as part of the TM
output operation.

### Remove deprecated APIs
#### Classifier
* Remove deprecated `ODP_PMR_INVAL` define.

#### Crypto
* Remove deprecated old style cipher algorithm enumerations
`ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES128_CBC` and `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES128_GCM`.
* Remove deprecated old style authentication algorithm enumerations
`ODP_AUTH_ALG_MD5_96`, `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA256_128`, and `ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES128_GCM`.
* Remove deprecated fields `aes128_cbc` and `aes128_gcm` from
`odp_crypto_cipher_algos_t`.
* Remove deprecated fields `md5_96`, `sha256_128`, and `aes128_gcm` from
`odp_crypto_auth_algos_t`.
* Remove deprecated data range specifier `odp_crypto_data_range_t`.
* Remove deprecated `iv` field from `odp_crypto_session_param_t`.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_session_params_t` type.
* Remove deprecated `override_iv_ptr` field from `odp_crypto_op_param_t`.
* Remove deprecated `override_iv_ptr` field from `odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t`.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_op_params_t` type.
* Remove deprecated `odp_crypto_compl_status_t` type.

#### Packet IO
* Remove deprecated parser layer defines (`ODP_PKTIO_PARSER_LAYER_*`).
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktio_capability_t.loop_supported` capability.
* Remove deprecated `odp_pktio_mtu()` function.

#### Queue
* Remove deprecated scheduled queue capabilities from `odp_queue_capability_t`.

#### Miscellaneous
* Remove deprecated `odp.h` header file which has been replaced by `odp_api.h`.

## OpenDataPlane (1.34.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Specify that hash result field is not cleared in hash generation in encode
sessions. Applications can do the clearing if needed if the hash result lies
within the authenticated range.
* Specify that the hash result field is left to an undefined value after
verification.
* Add a new session parameter
`odp_crypto_session_param_t.hash_result_in_auth_range` to indicate if the hash
result location may overlap the authenticated range. Leaving the flag unset may
enable optimizations in the implementation.
* Define new fields for cipher and auth IV lengths in the session parameter
structure `odp_crypto_session_param_t`. Deprecated the old fields for cipher and
auth IV lengths.
* Deprecate the mechanism of configuring initialization vectors in sessions
since reusing the same IV with the same key is almost always wrong. Require that
IV is provided for each packet in the operation parameters.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add capabilities to `odp_tm_level_capabilities_t` for platforms to express
shaper rate and burst min and max limits.
* Remove support for min and max shaper rate via platform defined macros
`ODP_TM_MIN_SHAPER_BW` and `ODP_TM_MAX_SHAPER_BW`. Min and Max shaper bandwidths
can be read from TM per level capabilities (`odp_tm_level_capabilities_t`).

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Crypto
* Clarify that in case of AEAD algorithms the `odp_crypto_op_param_t.auth_range`
parameter is not used, except with AES-GMAC.
* Clarify `ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_GMAC` API text to not sound as if ODP did not use
AAD as defined in the GMAC algorithm specification.
* Make the names of session creation errors (`odp_crypto_ses_create_err_t`) a
bit shorter but retain the old names for backward compatibility.
* Add crypto session creation error codes (`odp_crypto_ses_create_err_t`) for
cases where the requested combination of algorithms, order of algorithms or
other combination of creation parameters is not supported.

#### Random
* Explicitly state that the same series of `odp_random_test_data()` calls is
required to generate the same data.

#### Traffic Manager
* Clarify that peak rate and peak burst are ignored when dual rate is set to
false in `odp_tm_shaper_params_t`, indicating that the single rate is commit
rate.
* Define the default values for many parameters to be set by various init
functions.

### ABI changes
* Removed mips64 architecture support. MIPS devices may still use ODP by
utilizing the generic default architecture.

## OpenDataPlane (1.33.0.0)

### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Shared Memory
* Added a bit mask capability `odp_shm_capability_t.flags` for ODP_SHM_* flags

#### Timer
* Added initialization function `odp_timer_pool_param_init()` for timer pool
parameters. Application must use it to initialize parameters to their
default values.

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Added missing default values for `odp_cls_cos_param_t.num_queue`,
`odp_cls_cos_param_t.red.enable`, `odp_cls_cos_param_t.bp.enable`, and
`odp_pmr_param_t.range_term`.

#### Crypto
* Clarified that `odp_crypto_session_create()` parameters, including the key and
IV data, can be freed after session creation.

#### DMA
* Added new DMA module which enables applications to offload memory transfers
(copies) to DMA hardware. See `include/odp/api/spec/dma.h` for more information.

#### IPsec
* Added possibility to request completed packets as packet vector events
instead of packet events. Packet vector capabilities are provided by
`odp_ipsec_capability_t.vector` and the configuration is done using
`odp_ipsec_config_t.vector`.
* Clarified that `odp_ipsec_sa_create()` parameters, including the various
memory buffers pointed to by the parameters, can be freed after SA creation.

#### Packet IO
* Clarified `odp_pktin_vector_config_t.enable` documentation to state that when
packet vectors are enabled, packets may be delivered both as packet vector
events and packet events. Packet vectors are disabled by default.
* Clarified that the type of input queues (scheduled versus plain) is deduced
from the pktio input mode in `odp_pktin_queue_config()`, and that the default
queue type value and the queue type value passed in
`odp_pktin_queue_param_t.queue_param` are ignored.

### Pool
* Added new pool type for DMA completion event pools. These pools are created
with `odp_dma_pool_create()` and pool capability is included in
`odp_dma_capability_t`. Otherwise, pool APIs are used normally for these pools.

#### Shared Memory
* Added `ODP_SHM_NO_HP` flag which can be used to prevent the implementation
from allocating the shared memory block from huge pages

#### Std
* Added DMA flag to `odp_feature_t`

## OpenDataPlane (1.32.1.0)
### Backward compatible API changes
#### Init
* Added `odp_instance()` function for reading the current ODP instance handle

#### IPsec
* Clarified bit field unions' `all` member intended usage

#### Packet
* Clarified `odp_proto_chksums_t.all_chksum` intended usage

#### Packet IO
* Clarified `odp_pktin_hash_proto_t.all_bits` intended usage

#### Pool
* Added `odp_pool_print_all()` function for printing implementation defined
information about all created pools to the ODP log
* Clarified `odp_pool_param_t.pkt.seg_len` documentation

#### Stash
* Added 32-bit only `odp_stash_put_u32()` and `odp_stash_get_u32()` functions
* Added 64-bit only `odp_stash_put_u64()` and `odp_stash_get_u64()` functions
* Added pointer only `odp_stash_put_ptr()` and `odp_stash_get_ptr()` functions

### Helper (1.3.0)
#### Backward incompatible changes
##### CLI
* Removed unused `instance` parameter from `odph_cli_init()`

##### Deprecation Framework
Added a deprecation framework to enable controlled API deprecation.

When a helper API is deprecated, validation tests will be updated to use the
replacement API. By default, attempts to compile code with deprecated helper
APIs will fail. To make moving to a new API version easier, helper library
supports `--enable-helper-deprecated` `configure` option, which makes the
deprecated APIs visible again.

##### Linux
* Deprecated `odph_odpthreads_create()` function. Use `odph_thread_create()`
instead.
* Deprecated `odph_odpthreads_join()` function. Use `odph_thread_join()`
instead.
* Deprecated unused `odph_thread_param_t.instance` struct member
* Deprecated `odph_odpthread_t` and `odph_odpthread_params_t` types

## OpenDataPlane (1.32.0.0)
### Backward incompatible API changes
#### IPsec
* Added destination queue capabilities `odp_ipsec_capability_t.queue_type_sched`
and `odp_ipsec_capability_t.queue_type_plain`
* Modified specification to not promise the original packet back after all error
cases

### Backward compatible API changes
#### IPsec
* Added original ESP/AH packet length into IPsec packet result
(`odp_ipsec_packet_result_t.orig_ip_len`)

#### Packet
* Added `odp_packet_reass_info()` function for reading completed reassembly
details

#### Std
* Moved all contents of support and feature modules into ODP Std module

### Helper (1.2.0)
#### Backward incompatible changes
##### CLI
* Replaced `odph_cli_start()` function with `odph_cli_run()`, which doesn't
automatically create a separate thread for running the CLI server.

##### Linux
* Deprecated `odph_odpthread_t` and `odph_odpthread_params_t` types
* Added `odph_thread_param_init()` function for initializing thread parameters
* Added `odph_thread_common_param_init()` function for initializing thread
common parameters

#### Backward compatible changes
##### CLI
* Added `odph_cli_param_t.hostname` parameter for providing a custom CLI prompt
hostname
* Added `odph_cli_log_va()` function for user defined CLI commands

##### Linux
* Added `odph_thread_param_t.stack_size` parameter for configuring minimum
thread stack size
* Added `odph_thread_common_param_t.sync_timeout` parameter for configuring
synchronized thread creation timeout

### Implementation
#### Crypto
* AES-EEA2 and AES-EIA2 crypto algorithms that operate in bit mode interpret the
crypto/auth offset now as bits as specified in the ODP API. This correction
requires corresponding changes in applications that have relied on the old,
incorrect behavior that interpreted the offset in bytes.

## OpenDataPlane (1.31.0.0)
### Backward incompatible API changes
#### Traffic Manager
* Added new TM feature capabilities and an egress specific capability function
`odp_tm_egress_capabilities()`
* Deprecated `odp_tm_capabilities()` function which is replaced by
`odp_tm_egress_capabilities()`
* Added `odp_tm_capabilities_t.max_schedulers_per_node` capability to express
the maximum number of schedulers per TM node
* Added support for non-global packet priority mode

### Backward compatible API changes
#### Classifier
* Added queue specific statistics counters (`odp_cls_queue_stats()`)

#### IPsec
* Added ICV length into SA configuration parameters
(`odp_ipsec_crypto_param_t.icv_len`)

#### Packet
* Moved packet type definitions into a separate `packet_types.h` header to
enable easier function inlining
* Added `odp_packet_disassemble()`, `odp_packet_reassemble()`, and other new
functions for packets allocated from external memory pools
* Added packet protocol statistics functions `odp_packet_proto_stats_request()`
and `odp_packet_proto_stats()`

#### Packet IO
* Added `odp_pktout_config_opt_t.bit.proto_stats_ena` option for enabling packet
protocol statistics updates

#### Pool
* Added new concept of external memory pools, which are populated with
application provided memory
* Added new `odp_pool_type_t` enumeration
* Moved pool type definitions into a separate `pool_types.h` header to enable
easier function inlining

#### Protocol Stats
* Added new generic protocol statistics framework

#### Queue
* Moved queue type definitions into a separate `queue_types.h` header to enable
easier function inlining

#### Std
* Renamed std_clib module std and moved all generic ODP data types and functions
there

#### Traffic Manager
* Increased scheduling weight parameter size (`uint8_t` to `uint32_t`)
* Added queue specific statistics counters (`odp_tm_queue_stats()`)
* Added `odp_tm_enq_multi()` function for enqueueing multiple packets at a time
* Added `odp_tm_queue_params_t.ordered_enqueue` option which can be used to
control if ordering is enabled

### Helper (1.1.1)
* Added `odph_ipsec_auth_icv_len_default()` function for returning the default
ICV length of an algorithm
* Added support for `AES-CMAC` into `odph_ipsec_alg_check()`
* Added default ICV length check into `odph_ipsec_alg_check()`

## OpenDataPlane (1.30.1.0)
### API
#### Packet IO
* Modified `odp_pktio_stats_t.in_octets/out_octets` definitions to not include
CRC (4 bytes)
* Added `odp_pktio_stats_capability_t` struct to `odp_pktio_capability_t` to
inform about supported statistics counters
* Added new statistics counters and related capabilities for
received/transmitted multicast and broadcast Ethernet packets (`in_mcast_pkts`,
`in_bcast_pkts`, `out_mcast_pkts`, `out_bcast_pkts`)
* Added new pktio input/output queue specific statistics counters
(`odp_pktin_queue_stats_t` and `odp_pktout_queue_stats_t`) and related
functions and capabilities
* Added new functions for reading and printing ODP implementation specific
custom packet IO statistics counters: `odp_pktio_extra_stat_info()`,
`odp_pktio_extra_stats()`, `odp_pktio_extra_stats_print()`
* Specified that the default value of `odp_pktio_config_t.enable_loop` option is
false

#### IPsec
* Specified that the default values of the IPsec specific reassembly enables
are false

#### Scheduler
* Added `odp_schedule_print()` function for printing debug information about
scheduler status into the ODP log

#### Standard Types
* Added `odp_fract_u64_t` type which can be used to define fractional numbers
accurately
* Added `odp_fract_u64_to_dbl()` function for converting `odp_fract_u64_t`
fractional numbers into doubles

#### Timer
* Added timer tick info as part of `odp_timer_pool_info_t`. This enables timer
implementation to specify tick frequency and duration very accurately.

## OpenDataPlane (1.30.0.0)
### API
#### IPsec
* New success bytes field in stats (`odp_ipsec_stats_t.success_bytes`)

#### Packet IO
* Specify explicitly that an application may enqueue to packet input side event
queues, and cannot dequeue from output side event queues

#### Time
* Added time stamp read functions which read time stamp value more strictly
in the program order: `odp_time_local_strict()`, `odp_time_local_strict_ns()`,
`odp_time_global_strict()`, `odp_time_global_strict_ns()`

#### Timer
* Added new default clock source enumeration `ODP_CLOCK_DEFAULT`
(=`ODP_CLOCK_SRC_0`) and support for multiple clock sources (`ODP_CLOCK_SRC_1`,
`ODP_CLOCK_SRC_2`...). The old `ODP_CLOCK_CPU` and `ODP_CLOCK_EXT` enumerations
will be deprecated in the future.
* Renamed set operation return codes (`odp_timer_set_t`) to better document
expiration time position to current time:
`ODP_TIMER_TOOEARLY` -> `ODP_TIMER_TOO_NEAR`, `ODP_TIMER_TOOLATE` ->
`ODP_TIMER_TOO_FAR`
* Renamed set operation failure code (`odp_timer_set_t`) to cover all error
cases: `ODP_TIMER_NOEVENT` -> `ODP_TIMER_FAIL`

#### Traffic Manager
* Added option to enable packet mode shaper (packets per second as opposed to
bits per second)
* Added new mandatory `odp_tm_start()` and `odp_tm_stop()` calls for starting and
stopping traffic manager system
* Added capabilities (`odp_tm_capabilities_t`) for supported dynamic
configuration updates
* Deprecated shaper commit information rate bps
(`odp_tm_shaper_params_t.commit_bps`) and peak information rate bps
(`odp_tm_shaper_params_t.peak_bps`) fields. `odp_tm_shaper_params_t.commit_rate`
and `odp_tm_shaper_params_t.peak_rate` fields should be used instead.

### Helper (1.1.0)
* Added new mandatory `odph_cli_init()` and `odph_cli_term()` functions for
initializing and terminating the CLI helper
* Added `odph_cli_register_command()` function for registering user defined CLI
commands

## OpenDataPlane (1.29.0.0)
### API
#### Packet IO
* Modified statistics counters (`odp_pktio_stats_t`) definitions
* Deprecated statistics counter `odp_pktio_stats_t.in_unknown_protos`
* New `odp_pktio_stats_t.in_packets` and `odp_pktio_stats_t.out_packets`
statistics counters
* New APIs for packet input inline IP reassembly offload

#### Packet
* New `odp_packet_reass_status()` function added for checking packet reassembly
status
* New `odp_packet_reass_partial_state()` function added for reading packet
partial reassembly state

#### IPsec
* New APIs for inline IP reassembly offload

#### Init
* New `odp_log_thread_fn_set()` function added for setting a thread specific log
function

### Implementation
* ABI compatibility default value has been changed to disabled. User can enable
ABI compatibility with `--enable-abi-compat` configure option.

## OpenDataPlane (1.28.0.0)
### API
#### Crypto
* New crypto capabilities for defining if a queue type (scheduled/plain) can be
used as a crypto completion event destination

#### Event
* New packet TX completion event type and related functions

#### Packet
* New packet APIs for requesting packet TX completion events
* New packet APIs for requesting packet TX drop based on packet age

#### Classifier
* New `odp_cls_print_all()` function for printing implementation specific
debug information about all classifier rules

#### System
* New enumerations for ARMv8.7-A, ARMv9.0-A, ARMv9.1-A, and ARMv9.2-A ISA
versions

## OpenDataPlane (1.24.0.0)
### Summary of Changes

This release introduces a new stash API module. The other main API additions are
pool buffer caching configuration and packet IO link information. The release
also includes several smaller API improvements and clarifications.

### API
#### Common
* Added missing const qualifiers

Some API calls missed const qualifiers on read-only data pointers.

* Improved Doxygen module descriptions
* Use param_init functions for parameter defaults

When available, parameter init functions must be used to initialize parameters
into their default values.

### Align
* Added `ODP_CACHE_LINE_ROUNDUP` macro

Added macro for rounding up a value to the next multiple of cache line size.
This round up is needed e.g. when selecting buffer sizes so that false sharing
is avoided.

#### CPU
* Make supporting CPU frequency and cycle counter optional

CPU frequencies or CPU cycle counter may not be available on all HW/SW
platforms. Zero is returned if those cannot be read.

#### Feature
* Added feature bits `stash` and `compress` into `odp_feature_t`.

#### Packet
* Clarify packet length function argument definitions

Modify documentations of functions, which decrease packet length, to clearly
state what are the allowed values for length argument. This is done to avoid
creating zero length packets which are not allowed by the packet API.

* Added `odp_packet_input_set()` function

An application may use this for testing or other purposes, when perception of
the packet input interface need to be changed.

#### Packet I/O
* Added `odp_pktio_link_info()` function for reading link status information
** Autonegotiation mode (unknown/enabled/disabled)
** Duplex mode (unknown/half duplex/full duplex)
** Flow control (unknown/on/off)
** Link status (unknown/up/down)
** Media (media type as string)
** Speed (unknown/Mbps)

* Modified `odp_pktio_link_status()` to return `odp_pktio_link_status_t` enum
(backward compatible values)

#### Pool
* Added `cache_size` parameters to `odp_pool_capability_t` and `odp_pool_param_t`

Added thread local cache size parameter and capability. This allows application
to control thread local caching and prepare large enough pool when
implementation caches events per thread. The default value is implementation
specific for backwards compatibility.

* Removed default value of packet `max_len` from `odp_pool_param_t`

The default value is implementation specific and may not be equal to the maximum
capability.

* Added packet data `align` parameter to `odp_pool_param_t`

Added packet pool parameter to request minimum data alignment for user allocated
packets. When user allocates a new packet and fills in protocol headers, it's
convenient that data alignment does not need to be checked (and tuned) on each
allocated packet.

#### Queue
* Unify `max_size capa` specification for all plain queue types

Specify queue maximum size capability the same way for all non-blocking levels
(`ODP_BLOCKING`, `ODP_NONBLOCKING_LF` and `ODP_NONBLOCKING_WF`). Max_size value
of zero means that there is no size limit.

* Clarify that queue operations include memory barriers

Clarify that queue enqueue operations include memory barrier of release
semantics and queue dequeue operations include acquire semantics.

#### Random
* Clarify how much data `odp_random_data()` and `odp_random_test_data()` output on success.

It may not be possible for random generator functions to return requested number
of bytes. Clarify that implementation is not required to loop until `len` bytes
are available. Instead application should contain such logic.

#### Scheduler
* Clarify synchronization of store operations during atomic context

Stores performed while holding an atomic scheduling context are seen correctly
by other thread when they hold the same context later on. This is guaranteed
also when queue enqueue is not used in between.

* Clarify that schedule operations include memory barriers

Clarify that event schedule operations include memory barrier of acquire
semantics.

#### Shared Memory
* Add `ODP_SHM_HW_ACCESS` flag

This can be used to memory allocations where both CPUs and HW accelerators
access the same memory area. These HW accelerators may be programmed outside of
ODP APIs, but the memory is reserved and shared normally inside/between ODP
applications.

#### Stash
* Added new stash API module

Application needs often store object handles for later usage. From current APIs,
e.g. buffers and queues could be used to store these handles, but buffers
consume more memory than is necessary and event queues are not needed for this
simple use case. This new API maybe implemented e.g. as a ring of object handles
in memory, or with a HW buffer manager.

#### Time
* Added `odp_time_local_ns()` and `odp_time_global_ns()` functions for acquiring
current time stamp in nanoseconds

Added functions to get the current local/global
time stamp directly in nanoseconds. For example, `odp_time_local_ns()` is
equivalent of calling `odp_time_to_ns(odp_time_local())`. This simplifies use
cases where time will be always converted to nanoseconds. However, when time API
performance is important conversions to nanoseconds should be avoided or
minimized.

#### Timer
* Clarify that `odp_timeout_tick()` returns original expiration time

Specification was open if returned expiration time is the original or actual
expiration time. HW based implementations will not likely modify timeout event
with actual expiration time. Also original expiration time is more valuable to
an application as it can be used to calculate e.g. the next period.

* Add resolution in hertz parameter `res_hz` into `odp_timer_pool_param_t`

Added option to specify timer pool resolution in hertz. High resolution values
in nanoseconds result small numbers and thus poor granularity. Hertz offers
better granularity with high resolution values. User gives resolution either in
nanoseconds or hertz, and sets the other parameter to zero.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add missing handle debug functions

Traffic Manager API defines all types as platform specific, yet unit tests
expect to be able to print them. Therefore introduce u64 debug print conversion
functions for all TM types: `odp_tm_to_u64()`, `odp_tm_queue_to_u64()`,
`odp_tm_node_to_u64()`, `odp_tm_shaper_to_u64()`, `odp_tm_sched_to_u64()`,
`odp_tm_threshold_to_u64()`, `odp_tm_wred_to_u64()`

* Info structures are written only on success

Clarify that info structures (`odp_tm_node_info_t`, `odp_tm_node_fanin_info_t`,
`odp_tm_queue_info_t`, `odp_tm_query_info_t`) are written only on success.

#### Version
* Added `ODP_VERSION_API` define and `ODP_VERSION_API_NUM` macro

Added a macro and version number defines for easier comparison of API version
numbers.

### Validation Tests
#### Buffer
* Rewrote buffer tests for improved coverage
* Allow allocated buffer size to be larger than requested

#### Classification
* Fix duplicate global variable definition
* Use `odp_schedule_wait_time()` correctly

#### Crypto
* Fix var len array scope

#### Init
* Add tests for new `compress` and `stash` feature bits
* Improved log prints

#### IPSec
* Fixed invalid allocation of zero length test packet
* Fixed invalid test for user pointer value

#### Packet
* Add max pools test
* Add packet alloc align test
* Fix max_num expectations
* Prevent test trying to allocate zero length packets
* Remove pools from suite init
* Remove reset test packet from suite init
* Rename default pool
* Use common pool capability

#### Packet I/O
* Check parser flags on receive
* Check pktio index
* Decrease timeout in `odp_pktin_recv_tmo()` test
* Make `pktio_check_start_stop()` test conditional
* Remove unnecessary test start-up input flushes
* Test `odp_packet_input_set()`
* Test user pointer on receive
* Do no attempt to continue with invalid queue handle

#### Pool
* Add pool cache size tests
* Add test for packet pool seg_len parameter

#### Queue
* Lockfree queue max_size may be zero

#### Scheduler
* Add new stress test
* Fix plain+sched test
* Test `odp_schedule_group_create()` with non-zero mask

#### Shared Memory
* Add reserve flag tests
* Fix printf format types for pointers

#### Stash
* Add tests for the new API

#### System
* Add test for `ODP_CACHE_LINE_ROUNDUP`
* Add version macro test
* Call version string functions
* Cpu cycle counter may not be supported
* Make `odp_cpu_hz_max()` tests conditional

#### Timer
* Timeout tick equals requested tick
* Always initialize `odp_timer_pool_param_t` contents

#### Traffic Manager
* Fix shaper profile parameter check
* Init structs between tests

### Example Applications
#### Bench_packet
* Added tests for missing packet functions

#### Hello
* Removed `-c` command line option

#### L2fwd
* Added number of packets option `-n`
* Added packet copy option `-p`
* Added pool per interface option `-y`

#### Packet_dump
* Added VLAN support

#### Packet_gen
* Added new simple packet generator test application

#### Sched_latency
* Added option for selecting event forwarding mode `-f`
* Increased the number of warm-up and scheduling rounds

#### Sched_perf
* Added data touch options `-n` and `-m`
* Added queue context data touch options `-k` and `-l`
* Improved test reliability

#### Switch
* Added 5 minute aging time to MAC table entries
* Added signal handler for SIGINT
* Added support for detecting invalid and broadcast ethernet addresses
* Improved packet drop statistics printing

#### Timer_accuracy
* Added burst gap option `-g`
* Added mode option `-m`
* Added option `-e` to retry on too early error
* Added output file option `-o`
* Added timer burst option `-b`

### Implementation Improvements
#### GCC 10 support
Fixed issues reported by GCC 10. The code base builds now with GCC 10
also when LTO is enabled.

#### Add configure option for setting path to the default config file
Added `--with-config-file=FILE` configuration option for setting path to the
default configuration file. The default configuration file has to include  all
configuration options.

### Bug Fixes
#### Numbered Bugs / Issues
* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/796[Issue 796]
seg[0].data MUST return to its initial value on odp_packet_reset

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/826[Issue 826]
max_size requires clarification for ODP_NONBLOCKING_LF and ODP_NONBLOCKING_WF

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/915[Issue 915]
SIGSEGV: example/sysinfo (raspberry Pi 3B+, arm7, odp-linux, gcc 8.2.0)

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/930[Issue 930]
Build failing with GCC 9.2

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/959[Issue 959]
ODP build fails with GCC 10.1

#### Unnumbered Bugs / Issues
* Fixed: crypto: fix session allocation when out of sessions
* Fixed: dpdk: DPDK renamed protocol structs
* Fixed: dpdk: fix rx/tx checksum offload
* Fixed: fix print failures on 32-bit systems
* Fixed: pool: fix overflow when creating a huge packet pool
* Fixed: pool: rename pool global variable
* Fixed: sched scalable: fix pktio ingress queue polling dead lock
* Fixed: test: fix global variables that are defined multiple times
* Fixed: timer: fix timer pool create sync with inline timer scan

## OpenDataPlane (1.23.0.0)
### Summary of Changes
The ODP API changes in this release are related to the classifier module.

The implementation changes include bug fixes (classifier, socket pktio),
configurability improvements (inline timer), new packet segmentation
implementation, and performance improvements (pool).

### API
#### Classifier
The PMR term documentation was not explicit about endianness of value and mask
fields. Most terms assumed CPU endian, but terms with larger data sizes assumed
big endian (MAC, IPv6 address and custom).

Term specification was harmonized so that all terms expect value/mask data to be
in big-endian format, have fixed size, and allow free memory alignment. Packet
length term is an exception to this as it does not represent a field in a
packet.

Added new `ODP_PMR_CUSTOM_L3` term to match custom layer 3 protocol fields. PMR
offset refers to the start of layer 3 in the packet. Other PMR rules (e.g. L2
classification rules) may precede custom L3 rules.

### Helper
Duplicate `ODPH_UNUSED` macro has been removed. `ODP_UNUSED` should be used
instead.

### Validation Tests
#### Common
Improved test result output when some tests are inactive (skipped due to missing
capability). Now inactive tests are listed by default in the test suite results.

#### Classifier
Cleaned up validation test code. Classifier implementation missed reporting some
capabilities, tests didn't check those capabilities and they were tested. Source
IPv4 term test was missing.

Added serial PMR test, which tests series of PMR and CoS:

* From default CoS to dest IPv4 CoS
* From dest IPv4 CoS to dest UDP CoS

Added parallel PMR test, which test serial and parallel PMR and CoS:

* From default CoS to dest IPv4 CoS
* From dest IPv4 CoS to a parallel UDP CoS per destination port number

#### Scheduler
Added new validation tests to verify that packet order is maintained when events
are enqueued and dequeued to/from a plain queue while maintaining atomic/ordered
scheduling context.

#### Timer
Added private timer pool test, which creates a timer pool with the `priv` flag
set. The same thread calls schedule / queue_deq that created the pool.

### Example Applications
#### timer_perf
Added new test application to measure schedule call CPU cycle consumption with
various timer pool parameter combinations. This measurement is mostly
interesting with software-based timer implementations, where timers may be
polled from the schedule call.

#### New odp_ping application
This application replies to IPv4 ping requests. It can be used to test
connectivity with standard ping utility. ARP table needs to be setup manually on
the sender side as the application does not reply to ARP requests.

#### odp_classifier
Added source CoS name into the parameter list of `-p` option. This enables
linking classification rules together. When a source CoS is not defined, the
default CoS is used as the source CoS.

Option `-p` parameter list format is now:

    <term>:<xxx>:<yyy>:<src_cos>:<dst_cos>

Where `<src_cos>` is optional and number of "xxx", "yyy", etc. parameters is
term depend.

Added `-v` option which prints received packet with CoS queue
name. This can be used for debugging classification rules.

Added support for `ODP_PMR_VLAN_ID_0`, `ODP_PMR_ETHTYPE_0`, `ODP_PMR_CUSTOM_L3`,
`ODP_PMR_ETHTYPE_X`, `ODP_PMR_VLAN_ID_X`, `ODP_PMR_UDP_DPORT`,
`ODP_PMR_UDP_SPORT`, `ODP_PMR_TCP_DPORT`, and `ODP_PMR_TCP_SPORT` rules.

#### timer_accuracy
Fix bug in timer start offset calculation. Test results were offset by current
local time value.

Added delay and extra schedule calls to ensure that (software) timer
implementation has passed its initial state before setting up timers.

Added `-f` option to control offset to the first timer. This can be used e.g. to
avoid best/worst case synchronization of timers to timer tick boundaries /
resolution.

#### packet_dump
Added ICMP support. Print ICMP offset and ICMPv4 type/code. This helps to verify
that ping requests are received.

#### bench_packet
Added missing tests for the following packet functions:

* `odp_packet_data_seg_len()`
* `odp_packet_free_sp()`
* `odp_packet_from_event_multi()`
* `odp_packet_to_event_multi()`
* `odp_packet_subtype()`
* `odp_packet_parse()`
* `odp_packet_parse_multi()`

### Implementation
#### Classifier
Cleaned up implementation. Fixed endianness.

#### Inline Timer
Cleaned up code. Fixed accuracy issue with high resolution (<100us) timer pools.
Added configuration option `inline_poll_interval_nsec` to select default poll
interval in nsec.

Added configure file option for inline timer (`inline_thread_type`) to select if
control threads poll shared timer pools or not. Control threads still poll their
private pools. With this user can configure control and worker threads to use
separate timer pools.

#### Packet I/O
Enable explicit pktio type definition. The pktio type is selected by adding
pktio_type prefix in front of device name separated by a colon
(<pktio_type>:<if_name>).

The socket mmsg pktio implementation has been refactored and performance has
been improved.

The IPC pktio implementation has been modified to use standard ODP internal
`ring_ptr_t` rings to implement IPC rings. This enables removing the duplicate
`_ring_t` implementation.

#### Pool
Packet segmentation has been reimplemented using a linked list. The new
implementation is simpler and has the added benefit of greatly reducing
packet and buffer header sizes.

### Bug Fixes
#### Unnumbered Bugs / Issues
* Fixed socket mmap pktio throughput collapse under heavy traffic

* Fixed missing config header in install directory

* Include only ODP defines in autogenerated header files

* Fixed GCC 9 `address-of-packed-member` warnings

* Disable building static test applications without static ODP lib

* Fixed a segfault in `odp_pktin_recv_mq_tmo()` implementation

* Fixed classifier vlan match bugs and tests

* Fixed classifier matching of parallel PMRs


## OpenDataPlane (1.22.0.0)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.22.0.0 adds several smaller API changes mainly related to API
clarification.

### API Changes
#### Added `odp_queue_order_t` parameter to `odp_queue_param_t`
Added a parameter to control if a destination queue does not require event
re-ordering. By default, event order is maintained for all destination queues as
before. Application may use `ODP_QUEUE_ORDER_IGNORE` for those queues that are
used under ordered queue context, but do not require re-ordering and/or do need
to avoid extra re-ordering delays.

#### Added `ODP_SHM_HP` flag for `odp_shm_reserve()`
When set, this flag guarantees that the memory reserved by `odp_shm_reserve()`
is allocated from huge pages. If enough huge page memory is not available the
call will fail.

#### Improved initialization and termination specification
Improve specification of initialization and termination steps. Explicitly list
those functions that may be used before global init (those that are needed for
setting up parameters). No changes to functionality.

#### Improved queue context specification
Highlight that queue context default value is NULL. This was defined already in
`odp_queue_param_t` specification.

#### New Crypto Algorithm Support
Support for new crypto algorithms is added by defining symbols for:

* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_3DES_ECB`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_ECB`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CFB128`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_XTS`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_EEA2`

Support for new crypto authentication algorithms is added by defining symbols
for:

* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA224_HMAC`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_EIA2`

Added enumeration for digest (unkeyed) algorithms. They are added as auth
algorithms with empty key required.

* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_MD5`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA1`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA224`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA256`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA384`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA512`

#### Crypto specification improvements / fixes
Correct documentation for `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SNOW3G_UIA2` to reference 128-EIA1
instead of 128-EEA1.

Clarify IV data format and point to proper documents for 3GPP algorithms.

#### Timer specification clarification
Timer API intention has always been to allow any event type to be used as
timeout events. Application should use `ODP_EVENT_TIMEOUT` type events
(`odp_timeout_t`) by default, but also other event types may be used. Also,
clarified timer set/reset functionality of `odp_timer_set_abs()` and
`odp_timer_set_rel()` functions.

API functionality not changed, just wording updated.

#### Added timer resolution capability
Typically, timer implementation needs to trade-off between highest resolution
and longest timeout. Add new capability information
(`odp_timer_res_capability_t`) and function to check limits between resolution
and maximum timeout length.

`odp_timer_res_capability()`::
This function fills in capability limits for timer pool resolution and min/max
timeout values, based on either resolution or maximum timeout.

#### Added defines for minute and hour
Defines for a minute and an hour are useful e.g. when setting timers for a bit
longer (background, session lifetime, etc.) timeouts.

* `ODP_TIME_MIN_IN_NS`
* `ODP_TIME_HOUR_IN_NS`

### Helper Changes
#### Added helper library version
Added helper library version defines, so that application can track helper
version independent of ODP API version:

* `ODPH_VERSION_GENERATION`
* `ODPH_VERSION_MAJOR`
* `ODPH_VERSION_MINOR`

Also, added a function for generating easy printout of the versions number.

`odph_version_str()`::
The version string defines the helper library version the following format:
 `<generation>.<major>.<minor>`

#### Added new thread create and join functions
Defined new versions of thread create and join calls. The new calls explicitly
support thread create and join in multiple steps. Also, per thread
(`odph_thread_param_t`) and common parameters (`odph_thread_common_param_t`)
have been improved.

`odph_thread_create()`::
Create and pin threads (as Linux pthreads or processes)

`odph_thread_join()`::
Wait previously launched threads to exit

Old functions `odph_odpthreads_create()` and `odph_odpthreads_join()`
have been deprecated.

#### Added helper debug defines
Added debug defines/macros into helper API and configure options to
enable/disable helper debugging. These defines may be used both in helper and
application code:

* `ODPH_DEBUG` is 1 when helper debugging is enabled (`--enable-helper-debug`)
* `ODPH_DEBUG_PRINT` is 1 when helper debug printing is enabled (`--enable-helper-debug-print`)
* `ODPH_ASSERT()` generates assertion code when helper debugging is enabled

### Validation Test Improvements
#### Timer Test Improvements
Enables passing tests on high core count devices.

Test min/max timeouts with the highest resolution and longest timeout
parameters.

#### Scheduler Test Fixes
The group test would fail if `odp_schedule(ODP_SCHED_NO_WAIT)` wouldn't return
any events on the first call.

`scheduler_test_pause_resume()` would get stuck if all events were not
successfully enqueued.

Fixed a number of synchronization problems revealed by a scheduler
implementation doing pre-scheduling. Makes sure scheduling context is always
properly released.

#### Classification Test Fixes
Some of the test array elements may have not been set if the number of supported
scheduling priorities was low.

#### Pktio Test Improvements
Added more debug information on magic number misses.

#### Initialization Test Improvements / Fixes
Added missing local init/term calls to all test cases.

Added test case to set num_worker and num_control parameters.

Added test case to set not used features flags in init parameters.

#### Buffer Test Fixes
Test suite missed to output the return value of `odp_cunit_run()`.

#### Queue Test Improvements
Check that queue context pointer value is NULL by default.

#### IPsec Test Fixes
Check pktio level inline IPsec support before running tests.

#### Crypto Test Improvements
Added support for AES-194-GMAC and AES-256-GMAC algorithms.

Added more AES-CBC and AES-CTR test vectors.

### Example Changes
#### Added new pipeline example application
The application receives packets from one interface and passes them through 0-N
worker stages before outputting them from a second network interface. The RX,
worker, and TX stages are connected using plain queues and each stage is run on
a separate CPU thread. Optionally, the worker stages calculate CRC-32C over
packet data.

#### Time example fixes
Fix single worker deadlock and run the application as part of `make check`.

#### IPsec example fixes
Fixed a number of issues in IPsec example applications and run them during
`make check`.

#### New command line options
##### l2fwd
* added `-b` option to control maximum packet receive burst size

##### pool_perf
* added `-n` option to allocate multiple event bursts before freeing those
* added `-t` option to select between buffer or packet pool types
* added `-s` option to select data size

##### sched_perf

* added `-w` option to simulate application work
* added `-g` and `-j` options to test scheduling with a number of schedule groups

### Implementation Improvements
#### Pool Implementation Improvements
Refactor local buffer caching into separate functions and optimize
implementation by caching buffer header pointers instead of indices.

New configuration options have been added for local cache
(`pool:local_cache_size`) and burst sizes (`pool:burst_size`).

Pool implementation has been modified to store buffer headers instead of
indices to reduce type conversion overhead.

#### Timer Implementation Improvements
Added warm up period into POSIX timer pool startup to avoid the first timeout
to slip. Otherwise, timer pthread receives the first signal after about 15ms and
first timeout of the pool slips.

#### DPDK Packet I/O Improvements
The zero-copy DPDK pktio implementation has been cleaned up resulting a small
performance improvement. Linking to DPDK library has also been simplified.

### Miscellaneous
* ODP project has been moved from Linaro to OpenFastPath Foundation. Project
documentation and domain addresses have been updated to reflect this change.

* Added `--without-pcap` configuration option to explicitly build ODP without
PCAP pktio regardless of if the library is available on the build host.

* Added `--enable-lto` configuration option to build ODP with link time
optimization (`-flto` flag).

* Travis default distribution is updated to Ubuntu Xenial.

* Added `-O3`, `-O0`, and LTO build tests to Travis

* Supported Netmap version has been bumped to v13.0

### Bug Fixes
#### Numbered Bugs / Issues
* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/827[Issue 827]
API doc links are not working

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/817[Issue 817]
ODP fails to compile with latest OpenSSL

* Fixed: https://github.com/OpenDataPlane/odp/issues/784[Issue 784]
Bus error

#### Unnumbered Bugs / Issues
* Fixed build problems on Debian 8

* Fixed AES-GMAC with OpenSSL 1.1.1b and later

* Fixed out-of-tree build

* Fixed pcapng pipe read permissions and made possible to capture traffic from
multiple interfaces

## OpenDataPlane (1.21.0.0)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.21.0.0 adds two new API families as well as several small improvements.

#### APIs
##### Compression Support
A new family of APIs is added that provides for session-oriented support for
packet data compression and decompression. Compression sessions define the
parameters used to control compression operations and their associated
integrity hashes.  Once created, sessions are input parameters to the new
`odp_comp_op()` and `odp_comp_op_enq()` APIs that provide access to
synchronous and asynchronous compression services on packets.

Associated with the completion of asynchronous compression operations, a new
packet subtype, `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_COMP` is defined. This subtype indicates
that the packet includes additional metadata (retrievable via
`odp_comp_result()`) that provides the result of the requested operation.

A number of different compression and associated hash algorithms are defined,
which are communicated with three new capability APIs:

`odp_comp_capability()`::
Provides information about general compression related capabilities
offered by this implementation

`odp_comp_alg_capability()`::
Provides details about the capabilities of individual compression algorithms
supported.

`odp_comp_hash_alg_capability()`::
Provides details about the capabilities of individual hash algorithms
supported for use with compression.

##### Flow Aware Scheduler Support
A new capability for flow aware scheduling is added. As part of this, the
scheduler now supports capabilities and configurability. As a result, the
initialization sequence for applications that make use of the ODP scheduler
has changed slightly. The new API call sequence is:
[source,c]
-----
odp_schedule_capability()
odp_schedule_config_init()
odp_schedule_config()
odp_schedule()
-----
It is a programming error to call `odp_schedule()` (or its variants) without
having first initialized the scheduler with an `odp_schedule_config()` call.
This call may only be issued once per ODP instance as scheduler configuration
is global.

By default the scheduler operates as before. When configured to operate in
flow aware mode, the scheduler will now respect event flow ids (managed by the
new `odp_event_flow_id()` and `odp_event_flow_id_set()` APIs) when making
scheduling decisions. This means that flow identification is a combination of
event flow id and queue id. For example, when operating in flow aware mode the
scheduler may dispatch events from an atomic queue to multiple threads
concurrently, as long as those events have different flow ids. For
applications that process large numbers of lightweight flows that have limited
context needs, this can lead to throughput improvements as well as reduced
implementation memory footprint.

#### DPDK v18.11 Support
The latest LTS release of DPDK (v18.11) is now supported by ODP. Support for
the previous LTS release (v17.11) is retained. Prior versions of DPDK are
no longer supported.

#### Queue Capabilities Moved to Scheduler
As part of the introduction of flow-aware scheduling, capabilities associated
with `SCHED` queues have been moved from the `odp_queue_capabilities_t` struct
returned by `odp_queue_capabilities()` to the new `odp_sched_capabilities_t`
struct returned by `odp_sched_capabilities()`.

Capabilities moved include `max_ordered_locks`, `max_sched_groups`, and
`sched_prios`. The `max_sched_groups` capability is renamed `max_groups`. In
addition, `max_queues`, `max_queue_size`, and the support capabilities for
lock free and wait free non blocking queues is now part of the scheduler
capabilities.

In support of flow aware scheduling mode, the `max_flows` scheduler capability
is renamed `max_flow_id`. A value of 0 indicates that flow aware mode
scheduling is not available in this ODP implementation.

### Test/Validation Improvements
#### Travis readability improvement
The "BUILD_ONLY` environment variable has been renamed `CHECK` for improved
output readability.

#### Flow aware scheduler testing
As part of flow aware mode, scheduler validation tests will now test this mode
if `odp_schedule_capability()` indicates that flow-aware mode is supported.

### Bug Fixes
#### Unnumbered Bugs/Issues

* Latest version of netmap `nm_ring_empty()` implementation has changed.
PktIO netmap support updated to support this as well as previous releases.

* Improved compatibility of PktIO socket support with latest versions
of the clang compiler.

* Add match pattern for missing DPDK PMD drivers for improved compatibility.

## OpenDataPlane (1.20.0.0)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.20.0.0 is a refresh of ODP, incorporating significant configurability
and performance improvements as well as new APIs and API restructures.

#### APIs
##### Symbol `ODP_SHM_NULL` Removed.
An invalid `odp_shm_t` has the value `ODP_SHM_INVALID`, consistent with other
ODP types. The legacy synonym `ODP_SHM_NULL` is now removed for consistency.

##### New 3GPP Crypto Algorithm Support
New support for 3GPP crypto algorithms is added by defining symbols for

* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_KASUMI_F8`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_SNOW3G_UEA2`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_ZUC_EEA3`

In addition new authentication algorithm symbols are defined for

* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_KASUMI_F9`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SNOW3G_UIA2`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_ZUC_EIA3`

These values are returned as ODP capabilities as well as being accepted in
crypto session creation for implementations that indicate support for them.

##### Crypto Capability for Bitwise Operation
The new `bit_mode` capability Boolean is added to the
`odp_crypto_cipher_capability_t` struct to indicate that an implementation
supports operating in bit mode. When operating in bit
mode, field offsets and lengths are expressed in terms of bits rather than
bytes. However, such lengths must always be specified in multiples of 8.

##### Improved Crypto Spec Documentation
The ODP crypto API specification is tightened to specify default values for
cipher and authentication algorithms. Also documented when key and IV
parameters need to be set.

##### IPsec Extensions
IPsec requires "salt" (extra keying material) when the GMAC authentication
algorithm is used. To accommodate this the `auth_key_extra` field is added to
the `odp_ipsec_crypto_param_t` struct and documentation is added clarifying
when this field is needed and how it should be used.

##### Classifier Type Rename
The `odp_pmr_t` type name for an invalid value is renamed from `ODP_PMR_INVAL`
to `ODP_PMR_INVALID` for consistency with the rest of ODP type names. The old
symbol is still available when ODP is configured with
`--enable-deprecated`.

##### New API for Packet Event Subtypes
The `odp_packet_subtype()` API is added that returns the subtype of a packet
event directly.

##### Streamlined Packet Parsing Results
The `odp_packet_parse_result()` API is added that returns the result of
packet parsing as a single `odp_packet_parse_result_t` struct. This can
offer efficiency improvements for applications that need all parse results
rather than making individual parse result calls.

##### PktIO Extensions to Support per-Queue Configuration
PktIO interfaces support multiple input queues to enable increased parallelism
in I/O processing. Previously, all of these input queues were required to
belong to the same scheduler group. The `odp_pktin_queue_param_t` struct is
now extended with an optional `odp_pktin_queue_param_ovr_t` struct that
permits individual pktin queues to be assigned to separate scheduler groups.
This may permit improved performance for advanced application use cases.

##### Timer Pool Capabilities
The `odp_timer_capability_t` struct is extended to return three additional
pieces of information:

`max_pools_combined`::
The total number of timer pools that can be created combining different
clock sources

`max_pools`::
The maximum number of timer pools for a given clock source.

`max_timers`::
The maximum number of timers in a single pool. A zero value means number is
limited only by available memory.

##### Add Scheduler mix/max/default Priority Functions
Three new APIs: `odp_schedule_max_prio()`, `odp_schedule_min_prio()`, and
`odp_schedule_default_prio()` are added that return the min, max, and default
values specified for the `prio` field in the `odp_schedule_param_t` struct.

With the introduction of these scheduling priority functions the previously
defined macros (`ODP_SCHED_PRIO_HIGHEST`, `ODP_SCHED_PRIO_NORMAL`, and
`ODP_SCHED_PRIO_LOWEST`) are now deprecated and should no longer be used.

##### Specification of `odp_schedule_prio_t` as an `int`
Previously, the `odp_schedule_prio_t` type definition was left to each
implementation. With the addition of explicit schedule priority ranges, this
type is now specified to be an `int` to permit efficient implementation
(including inlining) of these functions.

###### New Scheduler APIs
The new scheduler APIs `odp_schedule_multi_wait()` and
`odp_schedule_multi_no_wait()` are added to provide more efficiently
implementable versions of these functions. The existing scheduler APIs remain
unchanged. These new APIs can simply provide a fastpath for some
applications/implementations as an alternative to specifying a parameter on
`odp_schedule_multi()`.

##### Memory Model in `odp_init_global()`
The `odp_init_t` parameter passed to `odp_init_global()` is extended to
add the `mem_model` field. This field is defined by the new `odp_mem_model_t`
struct and is used to specify whether the application will be using a
thread (`ODP_MEM_MODEL_THREAD`) or process (`ODP_MEM_MODEL_PROCESS`)
memory model. The default is a thread model is used for compatibility with
previous levels of ODP.

#### ABI Changes
A number of changes to the ODP ABI have also been made in this release to
improve application binary portability.

##### Strong Typing for Timer Pools
The `odp_timer_pool_t` is now strongly typed.

##### Consistent Initialization
The values of the various `ODP_xxx_INVALID` symbols for ODP abstract types in
the `odp-linux` reference implementation are now consistently zeros. This
reduces errors and improves portability.

### Implementation Improvements
#### Configuration File
A new configuration file mechanism is introduced that makes use of
https://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig_manual.html[libconfig] to
enable various runtime ODP parameters to be specified dynamically.

Default configuration values for the `odp-linux` reference implementation are
contained in the `config/odp-linux-generic.conf` file. Users may override
these default values by supplying their own configuration file. At
`odp_init_global()` time, if the `ODP_CONFIG_FILE` environment variable is set,
this is used to locate the path to the override configuration file.

#### Process Mode Support
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now supports applications that run in
process mode (`mem_model` = `ODP_MEM_MODEL_PROCESS`) as well as the default
thread mode. This support only applies within a single ODP instance, so any
`fork()` calls must be done only _after_ `odp_init_global()` has been called
to initialize ODP on a root process.

#### Removal of `iQuery` Scheduler
The `iQuery` scheduler is removed from the `odp-linux` reference
implementation, as it offers no performance advantages and has not seen
application use.

#### Number of CPUs
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now supports up to 256 CPUs by
default (increased from 128).

#### Support for Large Burst Sizes
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now supports large burst sizes for
both I/O and non-I/O scheduled events. Large bursts (when available) are
received directly to the application without any stashing for improved
throughput. Burst sizes are configurable via the new configuration file
mechanism, as described above.

#### `--without-openssl` Warnings
When building `odp-linux` using `--without-openssl` a warning will be issued
cautioning that strong cryptography will not be available.

#### Inline Queue Enq/Deq APIs
The various enq/deq APIs are now subject to inlining when `odp-linux` is
built with `--disable-abi-compat`.

#### Configurable Timer Controls
Inline timers are now controlled via a config file option. Timer polling
frequency is similarly controlled via the config file.

#### Huge Page Configuration
The config file is now used to specify the huge page usage limit.

#### Single and Multi-Consumer/Producer Rings
The queue implementation in `odp-linux` now automatically makes use of
optimized single and multi-consumer/producer rings to significantly speed
up enq/deq processing.

#### `odp_shm_print_all()` Improvements
The output from `odp_shm_print_all()` is reworked to provide more useful
and comprehensive shared memory usage information in `odp-linux`.

#### IPsec Improvements
SA lifetime checking is now more scalable to multiple threads. This
significantly reduces overhead for multithreaded IPsec applications.

#### Native Builds
When running in non-ABI compatibility mode, `odp-linux` now enables
native machine-specific optimizations for the CPU architecture of the
local machine.

### Validation Test Improvements
#### SCTP Test Packets
SCTP test packets are now used in parser testing. SCTP headers are added to
ODP and ODP helpers and SCTP checksums are now inserted and verified as part
of validation testing.

#### `odp_packet_reset()` Test
The packet validation test suite now properly tests `odp_packet_reset()`.

### Helper Changes
In support of process mode, ODP helper functions have been changed to
better match these new capabilities

#### New `enum`
The `odph_linux_thread_type_t enum` has been replaced with the new
`odp_mem_model_t` type.

#### Helper Options
The new `odph_options()` getter function is added that returns
applicable options in effect via the new `odph_helper_options_t` struct.
This currently includes the memory model (thread or process) that is in use.

#### SCTP Helpers
The new helper APIs `odph_sctp_chksum_set()` and `odph_sctp_chksum_verify()`
are added to facilitate working with SCTP packet checksums.

### Performance Test Improvements
#### Pool Performance
A new `odp_pool_perf` test has been added that stress-tests ODP pool
functions in a multithreaded environment to generate performance statistics.

#### Scheduler Performance
A new `odp_sched_perf` test has been added that stress-tests the scheduler
in a multithreaded environment.

#### CPU Performance
A new `odp_cpu_bench` performance test has been added that runs
compute-intensive packet operations in a multithreaded environment and prints
the observed maximum throughput for each thread.

### Example Improvements
#### Classifier Example changes
The `odp_classifier` example program now uses a reduced number of threads by
default to reduce elapsed run time. `ODP_THREAD_COUNT_MAX` is also now used as
the max worker count.

#### Generator Improvements
The `odp_generator` example has numerous cleanups and performance improvements.

#### IPsec Example
The `odp_ipsec` example now properly stops and closes pktio devices on exit.

#### Packet Dumping
A new `odp_packet_dump` example is added that prints received packets to the
terminal. This is useful for debugging packet I/O interfaces.

#### Sysinfo Example
A new `odp_sysinfo` example is provided that prints system information. Useful
for checking the ODP environment during debugging. This includes providing
detailed information about the various crypto facilities supported, as well
as the feature flags used at build time (_e.g.,_ if the binary was built with
ARMv8.0 or ARMv8.1 instructions).

#### Traffic Manager Example
The traffic manager example now properly destroys all TM queues it creates
for improved reliability. It also now always prints a proper termination
summary message.

### Bug Fixes
#### Numbered Bugs/Issues
##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983[Bug 3983]
Compile fails on OpenSuSE 42.2 Leap with error: negative width in bit field
'__error_if_negative'

##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3989[Bug 3989]
odp_system_info_init() issues

##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3999[Bug 3999]
IPsec antireplay check drops packets when sequence number jumps.

##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4002[Bug 4002]
IPsec SA creation must fail for ESN-enabled SAs

##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4013[Bug 4013]
Per-SA IPv4 ID allocation may cause duplicate IDs.

##### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4017[Bug 4017]
Unexpected IP ID causes IPsec API validation to fail

##### https://github.com/Linaro/odp/issues/662[Issue 662]
rte_mempool_ops_alloc() is not dpdk api

#### Unnumbered Bugs/Issues
* Fixed enq/deq issues encountered on architectures with weak memory ordering.
* Return 0 from `odp_sys_huge_page_size_all()` if hugepages are not
supported/detected. Tests modified to not treat this as an error.
* Set `ODP_CACHE_LINE_SIZE` to 128 on ppc64le systems.
* iplookuptable fix putting values into table
* DPDK pktio support now works properly across multiple ODP instances.
* Zero timer pool memory on reserve (fixes timer failures due to uninitialized
variables).
* `-march=native` disabled for `clang`. This fixes a known issue with recent
levels of clang.

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998[Bug 3998]
IPsec extended sequence number support is missing

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4014[Bug 4014]
Separate IP ID allocation for transport and tunnel mode SAs may cause
duplicate IDs

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4018[Bug 4018]
Unexpected IV causes IPsec API validation to fail

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4040[Bug 4040]
Clang build fails on Ubuntu 18.04

## OpenDataPlane (1.19.0.2)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.19.0.2 is the second service update for the Tiger Moth release. It
incorporates a number of corrections and enhancements that further improve the
quality and testability of ODP.

#### APIs
There are no API changes in this release.

#### DPDK Service Release Sync
ODP is now paired with DPDK 17.11.3 for its DPDK-related support. This is the
current service level for the DPDK 17.11 LTS package used by ODP Tiger Moth.

### Implementation Improvements
This release incorporates several improvements in the `odp-linux` reference
implementation of ODP.

#### Enhanced Inlining
ODP supports inlining of functions in embedded environments when ABI
compatibility is not needed. ODP itself now makes use of inlined functions for
all relevant internal use of its APIs, leading to improved performance.

#### Completion of CRC API Implementation
The `odp_hash_crc_gen64()` API is now properly implemented and appropriate
validation tests added to support it.

In addition, a streamlined table-based implementation of the basic CRC
functions eliminates the previous dependency on `zlib`.

#### PktIO-Specific Parsing
To better integrate with DPDK parsing capabilities, ODP packet parsing has
been restructured to operate at the PktIO level. This permits DPDK PktIO types
to exploit the native DPDK packet parser and checksum facilities, leading
to better integration.

#### PktIO Internal Cleanup and Restructure
The PktIO functions have been streamlined and refactored in a number of ways
to provide better long-term maintainability of these functions. This includes
moving per-PktIO data into individual files rather than sharing a common file,
as well as better placement for I/O statistics.

#### Checksum Validation Support
Loop PktIO interfaces now add the capability to validate packet L3 and L4
checksums as part of receive processing. The existing `odp_pktio_capability()`
API now reports that checksum validation is available for these interfaces.

#### Single Producer / Single Consumer Queue Performance Optimizations
When defining lock free queues that have only a single producer and consumer,
a streamlined implementation offers significant speedup.

#### Fast PCAPng Packet Capture
Fast pcap capture is now provided in `odp-linux` to capture packets on any
interface. This is enabled via the `--enable-pcapng-support` configuration
option. Once enabled, packets can be captured using a sequence such as:
-----
sudo mkdir /var/run/odp/
start ODP application that reads/writes to the interface of interest
start the ODP application
sudo dd if=/var/run/odp/<pid>-<ifname>-flow-<queue#> of=~/test.pcap

cntrl^c to end capture
wireshark ~/test.pcap to view capture
-----

Interfaces of interest are identified by a string consisting of the
application process ID, the interface name, and the queue number of interest,
if the interface supports multiple queues.

#### Removal of GPL M4 Macros
A number of autotools/autoconf M4 macros used in configuring `odp-linux` have
been rewritten to avoid potential GPL licensing concerns. These macros are
used only during ODP configuration processing and have no role in ODP
or ODP application use.

### Validation Test Improvements
#### Queue Pair Validation Tests
The validation test suite for queue API testing is enhanced to now test
operation on queue pairs properly. This enables the various enqueue/dequeue
modes defined by the ODP specification to be more fully exercised, leading
to improved API conformance.

#### Scheduling Test Improvements
The scheduling validation tests now better use the various capability APIs to
ensure that implementations are only tested for advertised capabilities.

### Crypto Test Improvements
The crypto validation tests now better use the various capability APIs to
ensure that implementations are tested across advertised crypto capabilities.

### Performance Test Improvements
#### New Performance Test
A new `odp_queue_perf` test has been added to test plain (non-scheduled)
queue performance in various modes.

### Helper Changes
* The `getopt` library calls are no longer used to avoid packaging conflicts
that can arise with this use. There are no changes to helper functionality.
This change simply improves packaging.

### Examples Improvements
* The `odp_generator` example adds UDP port range support.

#### CI Improvements
Numerous changes to Travis integration are added to improve the quality and
reliability of Continuous Integration (CI) testing.

### Bug Fixes
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3787[Bug 3787]
Timeout accuracy breaks down with odd resolution requests

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3867[Bug 3867]
timer validation test fails when using 1GB huge pages

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3879[Bug 3879]
example/l2fwd_simple fails on some systems when using 1GB huge pages

### Unnumbered Bug Fixes
* Corrected the handling of timeout events in the scalable scheduler.
* Fixed IPsec link order to streamline builds.
* Fixed scaling issues with scheduler support for large core count systems.

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3774[Bug 3774]
Shmem validation test runs indefinitely with 1GB huge pages

#### Running ODP on Systems with more than 64 Cores
There are several issues that seem to arise when running ODP applications on
platforms with more than 64 cores. While the most critical of these, which
affected the scheduler, have been fixed in this release, there are others
that are still under investigation. These will be addressed in the next
release of ODP.

## OpenDataPlane (1.19.0.1)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.19.0.1 is the first service update for the Tiger Moth release. It
incorporates a number of corrections and enhancements that improve the quality
and testability of ODP.

#### APIs
There are no API changes in this release.

#### DPDK Service Release Sync
ODP is now paired with DPDK 17.11.2 for it's DPDK-related support. This is the
current service level for the DPDK 17.11 LTS package used by ODP Tiger Moth
and incorporates a number of important bug fixes.

### Implementation Improvements
The ODP reference implementation has been improved in a number of areas.

#### GCC 8 Support
The GCC 8 series of compilers provides additional warnings about possible
string truncation. A few ODP modules were changed to avoid misleading
warnings when compiling with this level of GCC.

#### Linking with `libnuma`
The `libnuma` library is used for DPDK pktios to provide proper memory
allocation on NUMA-aware systems. Linking with this library is improved to
avoid extraneous error messages at build time.

#### Packet metadata reorganization
Packet metadata is reorganized to reduce the cache footprint used by the ODP
reference implementation, resulting in performance improvements.

#### Random split from crypto module
The `odp_random_xxx()` family of APIs was moved to a separate module
(`odp_random.c`) for modularity and better isolation from planned crypto
enhancements.

#### Shmem improvements
Unnecessary locking is removed from the `odp_fdserver` module, streamlining
operations on shared memory.

#### Timer pools
The default number of timer pools supported by the ODP reference
implementation has been reduced from 255 to 32. This lower number remains
generously adequate for most applications and meaningfully reduces memory
footprint, giving better performance.

#### Timer resolution
During initialization ODP normally measures timer resolution to set the
reported `highest_res_ns`. When such measurement is not able to be performed,
this is not limited to 500ns to avoid bounds errors with overly precise
resolutions.

### Validation Improvements
The ODP validation test suite has been improved in a number of areas.

#### Crypto validation test
The validation test now correctly handles corner cases when the implementation
under test fails to process any test packets. It also includes the
previously missing `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CTR` name.

Additionally, since individual implementations indicate which crypto/hash
algorithms are supported via the `odp_crypto_capability()` API, the crypto
validation test now properly uses this information and only tests those
algorithms that the implementation reports as supported. The list of
unsupported algorithms is also reported as part of the test results.

#### `odp_sched_pktio` test improvements
The number of input/output queues used by this test can now be specified,
providing additional controls for test flexibility. In addition, pktout
queues are now selected based on input queue rather than worker id, thus
ensuring packet order flow is maintained.

Finally, an inactivity timer is added that allows the test to report when
packets were handled due to timeout rather than I/O activity.

#### Timer validation test
The validation test for the ODP timer APIs has been reorganized to better
characterize an implementation's conformance to the ODP Timer API
specification.  Since implementations can have widely differing timer accuracy
levels, particularly when running in virtualized environments, the test also
relaxes its bounds checking and enforcement somewhat to better avoid false
negative test results.

Additionally, a timer pool create/destroy test was added as this area was
not adequately covered previously.

### Documentation Improvements
The `EXTRA_ASCIIDOC_FLAGS` environment variable may now be used to supply
additional build flags for Asciidoctor, which can be used to override
icons and/or fonts for distribution or other needs.

### Bug Fixes
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3657[Bug 3657]
PktIO does not work with Mellanox Interfaces

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3685[Bug 3685]
RX UDP checksum offload drops valid UDP packets with Niantic

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3686[Bug 3686]
IP header checksum not inserted if L4 offset not set

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3690[Bug 3690]
fdserver process interferes with signal handling

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3763[Bug 3763]
tests should fail if odp_crypto_op/op_enq process 0 packets

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3764[Bug 3764]
IPsec code can occasionally damage packets

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3772[Bug 3772]
Timer segfaults when creating and destroying multiple timer pools

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3788[Bug 3788]
linux-gen: ipc test fails to reserve memory

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3774[Bug 3774]
Shmem validation test runs indefinitely with 1GB huge pages

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3787[Bug 3787]
Timeout accuracy breaks down with odd resolution requests


## OpenDataPlane (1.19.0.0)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.19.0.0 is the official Tiger Moth final release. It incorporates final
implementation changes and bug fixes and completes the Tiger Moth ODP
development cycle.

#### APIs
No functional changes for this release. The Tiger Moth API was frozen in ODP
v1.18.0.0.

##### API Documentation Update
The specification for the `odp_packet_l4_chksum_status()` API has been
clarified to reflect that in IPv4 UDP checksums are optional. As a result, a
zero (nonexistent) checksum will be reported as `ODP_PACKET_CHKSUM_OK`.

#### C++ Test Improvements
The {cpp} test included in the ODP validation suite now uses `cout` instead
of `printf()` to ensure that {cpp} is being used to compile it.

#### Queue and Scheduler Configuration
For the ODP Reference Implementation, The `config/odp-linux-generic.conf` file
is extended with sections to control the default and maximum sizes for basic
queues, and the priority spread used by the scheduler for scheduled queues.

The configuration file is a template named `platform/odp-$platform.conf` so
this can be easily inherited by other ODP implementations.

#### Runtime Default `config` File Read Order Improvements
For the ODP Reference Implementation, the default values of the
application-provided `config` file (if used) override the values provided by
the built-in `config/odp-linux-generic.conf` file.

### Implementation Improvements
The `odp-linux` reference implementation is improved in a number of areas:

#### Netmap Ring Configuration for VALE
PktIO netmap support now uses the ODP config file to allow rings used for VALE
processing to be specified. The supplied defaults provide optimal performance
in typical settings.

#### AES-XCBC-MAC and SHA384-HMAC
These crypto/authentication algorithms are now implemented.

#### Packet Checksum Validation and Insertion
Proper packet checksum validation and insertion, in conformance with the
relevant ODP APIs, is now provided.

### Dependency Changes

#### DPDK 17.11 Support
The Tiger Moth LTS release is synchronized with the most recent DPDK LTS
release for DPDK pktio support.

#### Removal of dependency on `xxd` package.
This dependency is removed. The Reference Implementation build tools now use
the standard `od` tool rather than the optional `xxd` package.

### Performance Tests

#### `odp_sched_pktio`
A new test has been added to test the performance of PktIO operations in
scheduled mode. Scheduled PktIO is inherently more scalable and simpler from
an application standpoint than direct (polled) I/O, but depending on the
efficiency of the scheduler implementation can incur additional levels of
overhead. This test can give insight into a given platform's scheduler
efficiency. For the `odp-linux` reference implementation, this test has shown
scheduled I/O to be within 10% of rates achievable via direct I/O, meaning
that for many applications the simplicity and scalability of the event model
is preferable.

#### `odp_ipsec`
A new test has been added that measures outbound (TX) IPsec performance with
a variety of cipher and authentication algorithms.

### Example Changes

#### `l2fwd` Example
The `README` file associated with this example has been clarified to explain
that this example is a throughput test and as a result does not preserve
packet order under all conditions.

### Bug Fixes
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611[Bug 3611]
ODP linux-generic fails on AArch64 in non-ABI-compat mode.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3657[Bug 3657]
PktIO does not work with Mellanox Interfaces

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3685[Bug 3685]
RX UDP checksum offload drops valid UDP packets with Niantic

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3686[Bug 3686]
IP header checksum not inserted if L4 offset not set

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3690[Bug 3690]
fdserver process interferes with signal handling

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3736[Bug 3736]
return value not checked for some fdserver interface functions

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2988[Bug 2988]
ODP exposes symbols outside of odp*/_odp* namespace

## OpenDataPlane (1.18.0.1)
### Summary of Changes
ODP v1.18.0.1 is a fix level for Tiger Moth Release Candidate 2 (RC 2).
It incorporates fixes and performance / serviceability enhancements but no
API changes.

#### APIs
No changes for this release.

#### Corrected Crypto Functionality
This release corrects a merge issue with crypto functionality that resulted in
incorrect crypto operation for certain cipher suites.

#### Runtime Configuration
Introduces a runtime configuration file that can be used by applications to
set selected ODP configuration parameters dynamically at runtime rather than
at `configure` time. At present this is used to configure parameters needed
by DPDK PMDs when using PktIO interfaces in the DPDK class. The intention is
to expand the use of this file over time to allow more dynamic control
of other aspect of ODP runtime configuration.

For the ODP Reference Implementation, a template configuration file is
provided in `config/odp-linux.conf`. Introduction of this support generates
an additional dependency on the `libconfig` package, which must be present to
build ODP.

#### IPsec Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) Corrections
A few missing implementation features associated with TFC packet generation
have been added in this fix level. This support is now functionally complete in
the ODP Reference Implementation.

#### Debug Print Improvements
The information provided in debug builds of the Reference Implementation is
improved to print the interface name on open, start, stop, and close calls.
The driver name and number of queues are also printed to ease verification of
correct configuration.

#### Default Scheduler Performance Improvements
The performance of the default scheduler in the Reference Implementation is
significantly improved in providing scheduled access to PktIO queues. Scheduled
I/O now operates within 10% of the performance achievable using Direct I/O,
while providing incomparably better scalability in multicore environments.

#### `.so` Numbering Changes
In preparation for the Tiger Moth official release, ODP has adopted a
simplified `.so` naming scheme, which is introduced here. ODP `.so` numbers
are now tied to the ODP release number since ODP does not promise backward
compatibility across release boundaries.

## OpenDataPlane (1.18.0.0)
### New Features
ODP v1.18.0.0 is Tiger Moth Release Candidate 2 (RC 2). It completes the new
APIs that are part of the Tiger Moth Long Term Support (LTS) release of ODP
as well as various performance refinements and bug fixes. As of RC2 the ODP
API is now frozen for the Tiger Moth development series.

#### APIs
The following new and changed APIs are included in this release:

##### Addition of Shared Memory (SHM) Initialization Parameters
The `odp_init_t` struct used as the argument to the `odp_init_global()` API
has been expanded to include a `max_memory` field that specifies the maximum
amount of shared memory (shm) that the application will use. This is to
better enable ODP implementations to optimize their use of shared memory in
support of the application. If left as (or defaulted) to 0, the implementation
may choose a default limit for the application.

##### Crypto Changes
A number of crypto refinements are included in this release:

* The single initialization vector (`iv`) in the `odp_crypto_session_param_t`
is replaced by a separate `cipher_iv` and `auth_iv` fields.

* The single initialization vector (`override_iv_ptr`) in the
`odp_crypto_op_param_t` is replaced by a separate `cipher_iv_ptr` and
`auth_iv_ptr` fields.

* The special nature of GCM and GMAC authenticated encryption modes is
clarified in that these ciphers always combine ciphering with authentication
and hence require both to be specified when used. This is simply a
documentation change as this requirement has always existed.

* Enumerations for AES_CCM (`ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CCM` and
`ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_CCM`) authenticated encryption modes are added.

* Enumeration for the AES_CMAC authenticated encryption mode
(`ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_CMAC`) is added.

* Enumerations for the ChaCha20-Poly1305 (`ODP_CIPHER_ALG_CHACHA20_POLY1305`
and `ODP_AUTH_ALG_CHACHA20_POLY1305`) authenticated encryption modes are
added.

* Enumeration for the SHA-384 authentication algorithm
(`ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA384_HMAC`) is added.

* Enumeration for the AES-XCBC-MAC authentication algorithm
(`ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_XCBC_MAC`) is added.

##### Lock-free and block-free queues
The `odp_nonblocking_t` enums introduced in ODP v1.17.0.0 are now returned
as separate `odp_queue_capability()` limits for plain and scheduled queues. The
ODP reference implementations now support `ODP_NONBLOCKING_LF` queues.

##### User pointer initialized to NULL
The specification for `odp_packet_user_ptr()` is clarified that unless
overridden by `odp_packet_user_ptr_set()` the value of NULL will be returned.

##### Removal of `ODP_PKTIN_WAIT` option
The `ODP_PKTIN_WAIT` option on `odp_pktin_recv_tmo()` and
`odp_pktin_recv_mq_tmo()` is removed. Timeout options now consist of
`ODP_PKTIN_NO_WAIT` and a user-supplied timeout value. Since this timeout
value can be specified to be arbitrarily long, there is no need for an
indefinite wait capability as provision of such a capability proved
problematic for some ODP implementations.

##### Addition of packet protocol APIs
The APIs `odp_packet_l2_type()`, `odp_packet_l3_type()`, and
`odp_packet_l4_type()` are added to return the Layer 2, 3, and 4 protocols,
respectively, associated with packets that have been parsed to the
corresponding layer. If the packet was not parsed to the associated layer
these return `ODP_PROTO_Ln_TYPE_NONE`.

##### Packet addressability improvements
The documentation of `odp_packet_data()` is clarified to indicated when this
shortcut may be used safely and a new API, `odp_packet_data_seg_len()`, is
added that returns both the address of the start of packet data as well
as the number of bytes addressable from that pointer.

##### Asynchronous ordered locks
Two new APIs, `odp_schedule_order_lock_start()` and
`odp_schedule_order_lock_wait()` are added to allow for asynchronous
ordered lock acquisition in addition to the existing synchronous
`odp_schedule_order_lock()` API. In some implementations and applications,
there may be a performance advantage to indicating the intent to acquire an
ordered lock to allow the implementation to prepare for this while the
application continues parallel processing and then enter the critical section
protected by the ordered lock at a later time. In this case ordered lock
protection is not guaranteed until the `odp_schedule_order_lock_wait()` call
returns.

##### IPsec API miscellaneous changes and enhancements
IPsec support is further enhanced with the following:

* The `odp_ipsec_ipv4_param_t` and `odp_ipsec_ipv6_param_t` structures
are added to formalize the specification of IPv4 and IPv6 options in the
`odp_ipsec_tunnel_param_t` configuration.

* The `mode` field of the `odp_ipsec_out_t` is renamed to `frag_mode` for
better clarity. In addition the `flag.frag-mode` option bit in the
`odp_ipsec_out_opt_t` struct is defined to hold per-operation options for
the `odp_ipsec_out_param_t` struct.

* The `odp_ipsec_capability_t` struct returned by the `odp_ipsec_capability()`
API is expanded to include the `odp_proto_chksums_t` available on inbound
IPsec traffic. This indicates whether and how inbound packet checksums may
be validated for decrypted IPsec traffic.

##### IPsec Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) support
Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) allows applications to defend against
traffic analysis attacks by inserting dummy packets as well as add pad bytes
to packets traversing IPsec flows.

Dummy packets have an L3 type of `ODP_PROTO_L3_TYPE_NONE` in tunnel mode and
`ODP_PROTO_L4_TYPE_NO_NEXT` in transport mode. Padded packets have additional
data suffixed to them that extends beyond the L3 or L4 packet lengths.

For RX processing, inline dummy packets may or may not be dropped from the
inbound packet stream. For lookaside processing they are always visible. For TX
processing, the `odp_ipsec_out_opt_t` struct specifies the `tfc_pad` bit if
the packet is to be padded or the `tfc_dummy` bit if a dummy packet is to
be inserted. The dummy packet length is specified by the `tfc_pad_len` option.

### Streamlined ABI Support
ABI support has been reorganized to make it more modular and to omit headers
and related ABI files when configure to disable this support.

### Reference Implementation Fixes and Improvements
The ODP Reference Implementation corporates a number of improvements that
result in better code organization as well as improved processing efficiency.

#### Pktio null device support
In the LNG Reference Implementations of ODP, the `odp_pktio_open()` API may now
specify devices of class `null` to indicate the PktIO is treated as a dummy
device. Null devices behave just like Linux `/dev/null` in that they never
receive packets and simply discard any packets sent to them.

Note that not all ODP implementations may support this device class. The
specific device classes supported by each ODP implementation may vary and are
listed in their own documentation.

#### Runtime Scheduler Selection
The ODP Reference Implementation offers both a default and a number of
alternate scheduler implementations. Previously these were selectable only at
`configure` time. They can now be dynamically selected at runtime by the use
of the `ODP_SCHEDULER` environment variable. If this environment variable is
not set, the default (basic) scheduler is used. It can be set to select
alternate schedulers:

* `ODP_SCHEDULER=basic` Explicitly selects the default scheduler
* `ODP_SCHEDULER=sp` Selects the strict priority scheduler
* `ODP_SCHEDULER=iquery` Selects the iQuery scheduler
* `ODP_SCHEDULER=scalable` Selects the scalable scheduler

#### Streamlined Queue Implementation
The ODP Reference Implementation now uses a ring model for implementing
ODP queues. This results in greatly improved efficiency for queue operations.
The default maximum queue depth used is 4096 elements, and this information is
returned via the `odp_queue_capability()` API.

#### Validation Test Simplification
The tests that are part of the validation test suite are reorganized and
simplified by having a single test file for each API rather than separate
CUnit driver files and test files.

### Test/Example Improvements

#### Crypto Test Improvements
The `crypto` validation test suite now offers better information on which
crypto algorithms were skipped because they are not available. Testing of
full HMAC lengths is now added

#### ODP Generator Improvements
The `odp_generator` example now offers configurable RX burst size, selectable
packet handling (Direct I/O or Scheduled I/O), as well as streamlined packet
processing.

#### `l2fwd` Example Improvements
The `l2fwd` example offers improved efficiency via better cache usage.

### Bug Fixes

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3517[Bug 3517]
timer test might fail

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3572[Bug 3572]
time_main test fails if run under heavy load

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3576[Bug 3576]
classification: CoS queues in invalid table index

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3577[Bug 3577]
classification: multiqueue CoS will always fail

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3578[Bug 3578]
classification: requested number of queues is ignored in multiqueue CoS

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3579[Bug 3579]
cls: capability to return max hash queues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3581[Bug 3581]
classification: invalid memory access in RSS hash

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3582[Bug 3582]
classification: incorrect IPv6 RSS hash

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3594[Bug 3594]
IPsec SA may be used before fully initialized

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3595[Bug 3595]
IPsec SA lookup may leave extra SAs locked

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3597[Bug 3597]
new generator test assumes that null:0 pktio is always present

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3613[Bug 3613]
packet_main test can fail

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3618[Bug 3618]
DPDK pktio stops receiving packets if all configured RX queues are not used

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3628[Bug 3628]
Another timer_main failure

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3632[Bug 3632]
Creating a pool with total size over 4.29GB (UINT32_MAX) leads to
undefined behavior

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2988[Bug 2988]
ODP exposes symbols outside of odp*/_odp* namespace

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3611[Bug 3611]
ODP linux-generic fails on AArch64 in non-ABI-compat mode

## OpenDataPlane (1.17.0.0)
### New Features
ODP v1.17.0.0 is Tiger Moth Release Candidate 1 (RC 1). It introduces
significant new API support as well as functional refinements that expand
ODP offload support to cover IPsec, as well as other improvements.

#### APIs
The following new and changed APIs are included in this release:

##### Event Extensions
The ODP event model has been expanded to include new types as well as event
subtypes. Subtypes are used to qualify an event by indicating that the event
carries additional metadata relating to specific usage or operations.

New event `ODP_EVENT_IPSEC_STATUS` (to be discussed
below) is added. The initial subtypes defined are: `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_BASIC`,
`ODP_EVENT_PACKET_CRYPTO`, `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_IPSEC`, and
`ODP_EVENT_NO_SUBTYPE`, which are also discussed below.

Associated with this support, new event APIs are added:

* `odp_event_subtype()` extracts the `odp_event_subtype_t` from an
`odp_event_t`.

* `odp_event_types()` returns the `odp_event_type_t` and `odp_event_subtype_t`
of an `odp_event_t` in a single call.

* `odp_event_type_multi()` scans a list of `odp_event_t` objects and returns
the number that share the same indicated `odp_event_type_t`. This allows
multiple events to be processed by groups of the same event type.

* `odp_event_filter_packet()` scans a list of `odp_event_t` objects and
partitions them into a returned array of `odp_packet_t` objects and a remaining
array of non-packet events.

* `odp_event_free_multi()` frees multiple events in a single call.

* `odp_event_free_sp()` frees multiple events originating from the same
pool in a single call. The caller must assure that the input events are from
the same pool.

##### IPsec support
ODP Tiger Moth introduces comprehensive protocol offload support for IPsec,
allowing applications to leverage the IPsec acceleration capabilities of many
SoCs. Support includes APIs for Security Association (SA) creation and
lifecycle management, as well as IPsec packet operations for inbound (RX) and
outbound (TX) processing. Packet operations are further divided into lookaside
and inline support.

###### Lookaside Support
Lookaside processing enables IPsec packets to be decrypted into plain packets
or plain packets to be encrypted into IPsec packets in a single operation under
explicit application control. This is useful for packets that need pre- or
post-processing, or to better fit with existing application design.

Two forms of lookaside processing are provided: the `odp_ipsec_in()` and
`odp_ipsec_out()` APIs provide synchronous decrypt and encrypt support,
respectively. The corresponding `odp_ipsec_in_enq()` and `odp_ipsec_out_enq()`
APIs provide these same services in asynchronous form where operations can be
launched and completed later.

###### Inline Support
In contrast to lookaside support, IPsec inline support permits applications to
fully leverage the offload capabilities found in many SoCs by allowing inbound
IPsec packets to be recognized and decrypted automatically before they are
presented to the application for processing. This is done by configuring a
Security Association (SA) and its associated PktIO to operate in inline mode.

Similarly, following output SA and PktIO configuration, the
`odp_ipsec_out_inline()` API permits a packet to be encrypted into an IPsec
packet and automatically scheduled for TX processing in a single
operation. Such "fire and forget" processing enables applications to leverage
IPsec HW support for such processing in a portable manner.

Applications using IPsec inline support need only "touch" a packet once
compared to three times when using lookaside processing, leading to greater
processing efficiency.

###### IPsec Events
New event types and subtypes are introduced to provide support for IPsec
processing. The `ODP_EVENT_PACKET` type has a new subtype:
`ODP_EVENT_PACKET_IPSEC` that provides extended metadata associated with
IPsec packets that have been processed. The new `ODP_EVENT_IPSEC_STATUS`
event, in turn, is used to report IPsec status events such as completion
notifications associated with `odp_ipsec_sa_disable()` calls.

The `odp_ipsec_result()` API is used to obtain IPsec result metadata from
a packet that has event subtype `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_IPSEC`, while the
`odp_ipsec_status()` API is used to obtain IPsec status metadata from an
`ODP_EVENT_IPSEC_STATUS` event.

##### Parser APIs
Packet parsing has been overhauled with the introduction of two new APIs:

* `odp_packet_parse()`
* `odp_packet_parse_multi()`

These use an `odp_packet_parse_param_t` struct to control the type and depth
of parsing to be performed. These routines are intended to be used to
process packets that have been decapsulated following IPsec decryption or other
tunneling or on IP fragments after they have been reassembled.

Associated with this improved parse support, the `odp_parser_layer_t` struct
is deprecated and replaced with a more general `odp_proto_layer_t` struct that
is used both in PktIO configuration as well as the new parser APIs.

##### Crypto AES-CTR and AES-GMAC Support
The ODP crypto APIs are extended to provide support for AES-CTR cipher and
AES-GMAC authentication modes, reflecting the growing availability of
accelerated support for these.

##### Crypto removal of DES-CBC
DES-CBC is no longer considered secure and support for it is removed in ODP.

##### Crypto move AAD length to sessions
The Additional Authentication Data (AAD) length is now part of the
`odp_crypto_session_t` rather than individual crypto operations. This provides
better compatibility with DPDK, which made a similar API adjustment in it's
17.08 release.

##### Crypto Packet APIs
While the `odp_crypto_operation()` API is retained for compatibility,
new packet-oriented variants are introduced that provide additional
capabilities and flexibility. These APIs are:

* `odp_crypto_op()` Performs synchronous crypto operations on one or more
input packets under the control of an associated `odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t`
struct.

* `odp_crypto_op_enq()` Performs asynchronous crypto operations on or or more
input packets under the control of an associated `odp_crypto_packet_op_param_t`
struct.

While `odp_crypto_operation()` calls result in `ODP_EVENT_CRYPTO_COMPL` events
for compatibility, the new packet-oriented APIs result in `ODP_EVENT_PACKET`
events that carry the new event subtype `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_CRYPTO`. These
packets contain additional metadata associated with the crypto operation.
New APIs added for manipulating this metadata include:

* `odp_crypto_packet_from_event()` converts an `odp_event_t` of type
`ODP_EVENT_PACKET` and subtype `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_CRYPTO` to an `odp_packet_t`.

* `odp_crypto_packet_to_event()` converts an `odp_packet_t` crypto packet
back into an `odp_event_t`.

* `odp_crypto_result()` extracts the `odp_crypto_packet_result_t` struct that
contains the crypto metadata associated with an `odp_packet_t` of event
subtype `ODP_EVENT_PACKET_CRYPTO`. This struct provides a summary bit that
says whether the operation completed successfully as well as
`odp_crypto_op_status_t` fields for the `cipher_status` and `auth_status` if a
problem was detected.

##### Classification Random Early Detection (RED) Support
Random Early Detection (RED) provides a means for input HW to ensure that
traffic is treated fairly under conditions of temporary resource overload due
to excessive inbound traffic. ODP RED support provides the ability to measure
and respond to resource pressure on either pools or queues, and only provides
flexibility in how such conditions are to be processed. They can result in
input packet drops or backpressure being indicated by transmitting pause
frames, depending on the underlying platform capabilities.

The `odp_cls_capability_t` struct returned by the `odp_cls_capability()` API
has been expanded to cover this support.

##### Time difference in nanoseconds
The new `odp_time_diff_ns()` API permits the delta between two `odp_time_t`
values to be computed in a single call.

##### PktIO API Changes
###### PktIO Maximum Frame Lengths
The `odp_pktio_mtu()` API is deprecated and replaced by two new APIs:
`odp_pktin_maxlen()` and `odp_pktout_maxlen()`. These return the maximum
sized packets that are supported for RX and TX processing,
respectively, on a given `odp_pktio_t`.

###### PktIO settable MAC address
The `odp_pktio_mac_addr_set()` API is added to allow setting of the MAC
address associated with an `odp_pktio_t`. The `odp_pktio_set_op_t` field of
the `odp_pktio_capability_t` returned by the `odp_pktio_capability()` API now
includes the `mac_addr`` field to indicate that this `odp_ptkio_t` supports
setting its MAC address.

###### Multiple loop devices
The reserved device name `loop` is now extended to `loopX` where X == integer
(_e.g.,_ `loop1`, `loop2`, etc.). For compatibility, `loop` is a synonym for
`loop0`.

##### Pool API Changes
###### Pool extent info
The `odp_pool_info()` API is extended to return the `min_data_addr` and
`max_data_addr` fields. These provide information about the minimum and maximum
application-visible addresses that may be seen in objects allocated from a
particular `odp_pool_t`. Some applications use this information to enable them
to store buffer addresses in compressed format. For example, if the
"span" of valid addresses is less than 4GB this allows a 64-bit buffer address
to be stored as a 32-bit offset.

Since this is purely informational, ODP implementations are under no constraint
as to what addresses may be returned for these fields. 0 and `UNINTPTR_MAX`
may be used if there are no limits on pool extents.

###### Pool subparameter support
The `odp_pool_param_t` structure has been expanded to provide more flexibility
to support platforms that are able to offer multiple segment sizes within a
single pool. This can lead to greater storage efficiency. These are called
subparameters and implementations supporting up to 7 of these are accommodated
with these extensions.

The `odp_pool_capability_t` structure is expanded to return the number of
subparameters supported by this implementation. The application, in turn,
specifies its expected packet size and number distribution in the
`odp_pool_pkt_subparam_t` structure that is part of the `odp_pool_param_t`
used to define the characteristics of `ODP_POOL_PACKET` pools.

This is fully compatible with previous packet pool support since ODP
implementations are under no obligation to support pool subparameters and
these, when present, are advisory in nature. They simply serve to allow the
application to better communicate its expected packet distribution within a
pool so that the ODP implementation may better optimize storage use in the
pool.

##### Checksum support
Checksum processing support has been formalized with the addition of APIs for
determining packet checksum status, controlling packet checksum processing,
retrieving partially computed checksums on packets, and computing checksum
partial sums for memory areas.

###### Checksum status
The APIs `odp_packet_l3_chksum_status()` and `odp_packet_l4_status()` are
added to allow the results of packet input checksum processing to be
queried. These APIs return an `odp_packet_chksum_status_t` enum that indicates
whether checksum validation processing was performed and if so whether the
layer 3 or 4 checksum was found to be valid. This is applicable to both
normal packet input as well as those processed via IPsec.

###### Checksum insertion
PktIOs output checksum processing is configured as part of the
`odp_pktout_config_opt_t` struct used as input to `odp_pktio_config()` API.
These control whether L3 and/or L4 checksums are to be inserted by default
as part of packet TX processing.

Individual packets may override these defaults via the new
`odp_packet_l3_chksum_insert()` and `odp_packet_l4_chksum_insert()` APIs. These
take precedence over the PktIO default, allowing checksums to be inserted
when the PktIO default is to not insert checksums or to suppress checksum
insertion if when the PktIO default is to insert checksums.

###### One's complement sums
Two new APIs: `odp_packet_ones_comp()` and `odp_chksum_ones_comp16()` are
added to assist in application-managed checksum processing. If an
implementation has computed a partial checksum as part of the receive
processing for an IP fragment, for example, then `odp_packet_ones_comp()` can
be used to retrieve this computed value, as well as the byte range over which
it was computed. The `odp_chksum_ones_comp16()` API, by contrast, allows the
application to perform a 16-bit ones-complement sum over a range of in-memory
bytes. Together these can be used to calculate IPv4, TCP, and UDP checksums.

##### Packet multi-event conversion and single pool support
New packet APIs have been added to streamline packet processing:

* `odp_packet_free_sp()` is the same as `odp_packet_free_multi()` except that
the application guarantees that all packets come from the same pool.

* `odp_packet_from_event_multi()` allows multiple events to be converted
from `odp_event_t` to `odp_packet_t` objects in a single call. The caller
guarantees that all input `odp_event_t` objects are of type `ODP_EVENT_PACKET`.

* `odp_packet_to_event_multi()` converts multiple `odp_packet_t` objects to
corresponding `odp_event_t` objects in a single call.

##### Shared Memory API changes
Several changes have been made to the ODP shared memory APIs:

* The `name` field used as input to `odp_shm_reserve()` is now optional.
If specified as `NULL` the shared memory area is anonymous and cannot be
looked up with `odp_shm_lookup()`. There is also no requirement that names be
unique. Duplicate names result in indeterminate output from `odp_shm_lookup()`.

* The `odp_shm_info_t` now includes the `page_size` of the shared memory block
and it's (optional) name.

* `odp_shm_print()` API is added to print implementation-defined information
associated with the `odp_shm_t` to the ODP log for diagnostic purposes.

##### Add support for non-blocking Queues
New queue attributes are introduced to characterize queue behavior as
blocking or non-blocking. A blocking queue may stall other threads if a thread
is interrupted or suspending during an enqueue or dequeue operation.
Nonblocking queues may be either lock free or wait free and provide
progress and fairness guarantees to all threads regardless of
interruptions or stalls on the part of threads performing queue operations.

The various `odp_nonblocking_t` attributes available are returned by the
`odp_queue_capability()` API for both plain and scheduled queues and are in
turn requested as part of the `odp_queue_param_t` struct passed to the
`odp_queue_create()` API. The intent is to allow applications that have
realtime response requirements to better express these needs and utilize
platform-specific capabilities in this area.

##### Scheduler ordered lock API changes
The following changes have been made to the scheduler APIs:

* Documentation clarifies that an ordered context may only hold one ordered
lock at a time. Results are undefined if a second ordered lock is attempted to
be acquired while already holding one.

* The `odp_schedule_order_unlock_lock()` API is added to permit an ordered
context to switch from one ordered lock to another in a single operation.

##### Timer Capabilities
The `odp_timer_capability()` API is added to return an `odp_timer_capability_t`
struct that details platform-specific timer capabilities for application use.
The only capability currently defined is `highest_res_ns`, which indicates the
highest supported resolution supported by a timer. This is the minimum valid
value for the `res_ns` timer pool parameter.

### Scalable Scheduler
The `odp-linux` reference implementation adds a new _scalable scheduler_ to
the existing default, strict priority, and iquery schedulers. This is enabled
by:

`./configure --enable-schedule-scalable`

The scalable scheduler is designed to offer superior scalability in many core
environments, especially on AArch64 platforms.

### Miscellaneous Fixes and Improvements
The following miscellaneous improvements have been made to the `linux-generic`
reference implementation of ODP.

#### Additional packet inline functions
When compiling with `--enable-abi-compat=no` the following additional packet
functions are inlined:

* `odp_packet_l2_offset()`
* `odp_packet_l2_ptr()`
* `odp_packet_l3_offset()`
* `odp_packet_l3_ptr()`
* `odp_packet_l4_offset()`
* `odp_packet_l4_ptr()`

#### Dependencies
The ODP test suite now automatically skips C++ tests if no C++ compiler
is available.

The odp_pktio_ordered tests are only performed if PCAP is available.

The DEPENDENCIES file has been updated to reflect build/test requirements for
running under Red Hat Linux distributions.

#### DPDK 17.08 Support
PktIO DPDK support has been upgraded to DPDK 17.08.

### Test/Example improvements
### l2fwd Example
A verbose option is added to provide more detail on test runs.

### ODP generator
Numerous performance improvements have been made that results in significantly
better I/O rates. This includes a configuration option to control checksum
usage.

### Bug Fixes
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3465[Bug 3465]
CID 1461688: odp_pool_create: Dereference before null check

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466[Bug 3466]
CID 1396968: buggy check

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3491[Bug 3491]
l2fwd segfaults on api-next with dpdk checksum insertion override

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3210[Bug 3210]
packet header parsing routines should verify header checksums

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3517[Bug 3517]
timer test might fail

## OpenDataPlane (1.16.0.0)
### New Features
ODP v1.16.0.0 is the final preview release before the official release of
Tiger Moth. It introduces new APIs and extensions, as well as bug fixes and
functional improvements.

#### APIs
The following new and changed APIs are included in this release:

##### Initialization Changes
The new `odp_feature_t` type is introduced that defines various feature bits
for ODP components. This is used in an expanded `odp_init_t` argument to
`odp_init_global()` to specify which ODP features are unused by the
application. For example, if the application knows it will not be making use
of crypto features or the classifier, this may permit the ODP implementation
to configure itself more efficiently. Results are undefined if an application
asserts that it will not be using a feature and it attempts to do so
afterwards.

Associated with this new support the `odp_init_param_init()` API is added
to initialize the `odp_init_t` struct to default values.

##### Packet API Changes

* The `odp_packet_unshared_len()` API is removed. Testing showed that this
API was non-essential and conflicted with the goal of implementation
efficiency.
* The `odp_print_packet_data()` API is added. This permits packet data to
be logged along with platform-defined metadata for debugging or diagnostic
purposes.

##### PktIO API Changes

* The `loop_supported` attribute of the `odp_pktio_capability_t` struct is
deprecated since this is redundant. The `enable_loop` field of the
`odp_pktio_config_t` struct (which is returned as part of the
`odp_packet_capability_t` struct) is the proper way to determine whether a
PktIO supports loopback mode.

##### System Info API Changes

* The documentation for the `odp_sys_huge_page_size()` API is updated to
clarify that a 0 return code indicates that huge pages are not supported by
this platform.
* The `odp_sys_huge_page_size_all()` API is added to return all
huge page sizes supported by this platform.

##### Timer API Changes

* The documentation for the various parameters contained in the
`odp_timer_pool_param_t` struct are expanded and clarified.

### Miscellaneous Fixes and Improvements

#### Default Packet Headroom
The default packet headroom in `odp-linux` has been increased from 66 to
128 bytes for better compatibility with `odp-dpdk`.

#### Zero-copy Packet References
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now fully supports zero-copy
packet references. Previously these APIs were implemented via packet copies,
which while functionally correct, were not how these APIs are intended to
operate.

#### DPDK Zero-copy I/O support
The `--enable-dpdk-zero-copy` `configure` option is added to allow DPDK PktIO
devices to avoid data copies, leading to improved performance.

#### DPDK Checksum offload support
DPDK PktIO now makes use of RX and TX IP/UDP/TCP checksum offload.

#### Shared memory stored in /dev/shm
In the `odp-linux` reference implementation, shared memory is now backed to
`/dev/shm` rather than `/tmp` for better reliability and robustness. This may
be overridden as part of ODP build-time customization if desired.

#### IPC Improvements
PktIO IPC support has received improvements in both performance and
reliability and is now suitable for development use.

#### Netmap Improvements
The thread ID is now used to create unique vdev MAC addresses to avoid
conflicts with multiple ODP processes running on the same host system.

#### `drv` directory removed
The `include/odp/drv` directory and related files have been removed. Driver
support is moved to a follow-on ODP release, so removing these files avoids
confusion as they are still incomplete.

### Dependency Changes

#### Dependency on autoconf-archive removed
Since some build environments do not supply autoconf-archive, this dependency
is removed.

#### DPDK support upgraded to 17.08 release
The ODP DPDK Packet I/O support has been upgraded to work with the DPDK 17.08
release.

#### Added support for OpenSSL 1.1.x releases
ODP use of OpenSSL for crypto processing has been upgraded to allow use of
OpenSSL 1.1.x.

### Build System Restructure
The ODP build system has been overhauled to support more comprehensive and
efficient automated testing under Travis CI. Greater use of Autoconf is now
made to control ODP configuration and build options, permitting greater
environmental flexibility. This includes an expanded range of test coverage,
including cross-compilation support for ARMv8, MIPS,and Power architectures,
as well as testing under the latest levels of GCC and clang.

### Arm Architecture Support Improvements

* ARMv8 generic timer support is now included
* Improved time efficiency and accuracy by using native ARMv8 time/clock
instructions.

#### Test Improvements
The `test` directory has been reorganized and streamlined. Platform-specific
tests are moved from `test/linux-generic` to
`platform/linux-generic/test/`.  As a result, the `test/common_plat`
directory is deleted so that `test/validation`, `test/performance`, etc. are
now used for all platform-independent tests.

#### Examples Improvements

##### IPv4 Fragmentation Reassembly Example
The `ipfragreass` example program has been added to demonstrate IPv4 fragment
reassembly.

##### ODP Generator Improvements
The `odp_generator` example program now uses packet references for improved
performance in UDP and ICMP traffic. The program also now makes use of HW
checksum offload support, when available.

### Documentation Improvements

* The ODP Users Guide has clarified usage information about the ODP time
APIs for better portability.
* A section has been added to the ODP Users Guide on API specification
principles. This clarifies expected behavior of ODP applications and
implementations and makes explicit what the specification means by "undefined
behavior".
* All Doxygen used in ODP is upgraded to conform to the stricter documentation
requirements introduced by Doxygen 1.8.13.

### Bug Fixes

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2254[Bug 2254]
check-odp: valgrind generates "No rule to make target"

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407[Bug 2407]
test odp_l2fwd_run.sh contains todo items

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2812[Bug 2812]
Helper/test/process fails on a single core system

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2861[Bug 2861]
Remove redundant loop_support parameter in pktio capability

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2938[Bug 2938]
Make file deps failure

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2976[Bug 2976]
IP headers checksum functions are incorrect

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3024[Bug 3024]
odp_traffic_mngr example is broken

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3026[Bug 3026]
pktio_ipc_run test can fail due to segfault

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3043[Bug 3043]
User guide error (packet diagram fix)

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3052[Bug 3052]
api-next out of tree build broken

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3066[Bug 3066]
Cross compile broken for ARMv8

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3126[Bug 3126]
IPC pktio test fails with taskset -c 1-2

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3177[Bug 3177]
Test case for classification enable

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3182[Bug 3182]
Memory allocation checks (in traffic manager)

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3216[Bug 3216]
Adding --enable-helper-linux configure flag breaks build

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3238[Bug 3238]
Doxygen warnings on helper header files

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241[Bug 3241]
codecov: _odp_packet_cmp_data is not covered

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3242[Bug 3242]
setup_pktio_entry missing unlock

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3249[Bug 3249]
odp_cpu_hz() does not work on all Linux distros

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3262[Bug 3262]
Missing doxygen detected by Travis

####  https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3289[Bug 3289]
'num_queues' isn't ignored when "classifier_enable" is enabled

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3300[Bug 3300]
Validation tests cannot be disabled after commit b4d17b1

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3411[Bug 3411]
wrong openssl_lock pointer type

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3245[Bug 3245]
Cannot run l2fwd application on Cavium ThunderX platform

## OpenDataPlane (1.15.0.0)
### New Features
ODP v1.15.0.0 continues the preview of Tiger Moth, introducing new APIs and
extensions, as well as numerous bug fixes and functional improvements.

#### Deprecation Framework
To permit smoother evolution of the ODP API specification, a deprecation
framework is introduced to permit controlled deprecation.

When an ODP API or defined struct parameter is deprecated, ODP validation
tests will be updated to no longer use that API and instead use the
replacement API. By default, attempts to compile with the older API/feature
will fail and applications wishing to move to the new ODP release should be
updated to use the replacement API. To permit evaluation of new ODP
releases in advance of such updating, however, ODP supports the `configure`
option `--enable-deprecated`, which makes the obsolete APIs visible again.

This feature will be used on a case-by-case basis and documented in the
release notes for each release that introduces replacement API(s). In general
the deprecated forms will not be maintained for more than a single release
cycle. After that they will no longer be present in the API specification and
the replacement forms must be used to compile with that level of the API
specification.

#### APIs
A number of new and refined APIs are introduced in crypto, packet parsing,
and queue configuration:

##### Crypto Enhancements
The ODP crypto APIs receive several enhancements in this release:

###### New Authentication Algorithms
Additional enumerations added for HMAC-SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA-512 authentication.

###### Deprecated Cipher/Authentication Algorithms
The following cipher/authentication algorithms have been deprecated in favor
of newer replacement algorithms:

* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES128_CBC` is replaced by `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_CBC`
* `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES128_GCM` is replaced by `ODP_CIPHER_ALG_AES_GCM`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_MD5_96` is replaced by `ODP_AUTH_ALG_MD5_HMAC`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA256_128` is replaced by `ODP_AUTH_ALG_SHA256_HMAC`
* `ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES128_GCM1 is replaced by `ODP_AUTH_ALG_AES_GCM`

###### Deprecated Name for Crypto Parameter struct
`odp_crypto_op_params_t` is deprecated in favor of `odp_crypto_op_param_t`
for consistency with other ODP `param` structs.

###### Digest Length Session Parameter
`odp_crypto_session_param_t` adds the field `auth_digest_len` to permit
specification of the authentication digest length to be used for this
session. The `odp_crypto_auth_capability()` API returns the list of
supported digest lengths.

###### Additional Authentication Data (AAD)
The `odp_crypto_op_param_t` struct adds an optional pointer and length for
AAD information. This allows applications to specify AAD information from
the list of supported lengths provided by `odp_crypto_auth_capability()`.

##### Packet Range Data
The former `odp_crypto_data_range_t` type is deprecated and renamed to
`odp_packet_data_range_t` since it can be used to specify ranges for other
than crypto purposes.

##### Parser Configuration
Applications may now specify the maximum packet layer of interest. For
example, a router may not care about anything beyond ISO Layer 3 in packets.
This can be used by ODP implementations to control the depth of packet
parsing needed by the application and may allow greater efficiency,
especially in software implementations.

This is controlled by a new `odp_pktio_parser_layer_t` enum that is
part of the new `odp_pktio_parser_config_t` struct that is added to the
`odp_pktio_config_t` struct used by the `odp_pktio_config()` API. The
supported parser layers are also returned in this struct as part of the
`odp_pktio_capability_t` struct returned by the `odp_pktio_capability()` API.

##### Queue Size Parameter
The `odp_queue_capability_t` struct returned by the `odp_queue_capability()`
API is enhanced as follows:
* The `max_queues` field is now defined to return the maximum number of event
queues of any type.
* New sub-structs (`plain` and `sched`) are added that detail the `max_num` of
queues of that type supported as well as the new field `max_size` that
specifies the maximum number of elements that each queue of this type can
store. A value of zero for `max_num` indicates no fixed limit.

In addition, the `odp_queue_param_t` passed to `odp_queue_create()` now adds
a `size` field to allow applications to specify the minimum number of events
that this queue should be able to store. A value of zero specified requests that
the implementation default limits be used.

The ODP examples have been updated to show this configuration, for example,
the `l2fwd_simple` example does Layer 2 forwarding and hence doesn't need
packets to be parsed beyond Layer 2. So prior to opening an interface via
`odp_pktio_open()` the configuration processing now includes code of the form:
[source,c]
-----
odp_pktio_config_init(&config);
config.parser.layer = ODP_PKTIO_PARSER_LAYER_L2;
odp_pktio_config(pktio, &config);
-----
This serves as a hint to the ODP implementation that parsing beyond Layer 2
is not required on this interface.

##### Removal of `odp_time_to_u64()` API
The `odp_time_to_u64()` API is removed without deprecation in this release.
This is redundant since the `odp_time_to_ns()` API already returns a `uint64_t`
value for `odp_time_t` and can be used for the same purpose.

##### New `odp_sys_info_print()` API
For debugging / diagnostic use, the `odp_sys_info_print()` API is added.
This prints implementation defined information about the system and ODP
environment and may contain information about CPUs, memory, and other
hardware configuration.

### Helpers
#### Linux Helpers
ODP helper functions fall into two categories: system-independent, and those
that rely on Linux. For backwards compatibility, these have been
reorganized into a new `helper/linux` directory that is installed only when
the `--enable-helper-linux` `configure` option is specified.

### `odp-linux` Performance
#### Scheduler Improvements
The default scheduler is streamlined by using precomputed weight tables and
separated priority queues for different scheduling groups. This improves
both latency and scalability.

Also included in this change, the default number of scheduling groups is
lowered from 256 to 32, which experience has shown is sufficient for most
applications.

The scheduler fairness checks are also enhanced to avoid low priority event
starvation if `CONFIG_BURST_SIZE` is set to 1.

### `odp_linux` Crypto Improvements
* Errors in implicit packet copy operations performed during crypto operation
are now handled properly.
* If `odp_crypto_session_create()` fails, proper cleanup is now performed to
avoid memory leaks.
* The auth digest len is now used when calculating HMACs, and full-length
digests are now added to supported SHA capabilities.
* Numerous crypto functions have been rewritten to use the OpenSSL `EVP_`
functions for improved efficiency and accuracy.

### `odp-linux` Packet Improvements
* The packet parser now recognizes ICMPv6 packets in addition to ICMPv4.

### `odp-linux` PktIO Improvements
* The `ethtool` and `socket` drivers add additional initializations to avoid
valgrind warnings.
* The `dpdk` driver is upgraded to DPDK 17.02 and is now also built with the
`--whole-archive` option, which means that PMDs no longer need to be linked
individually but are automatically included in builds that make use of DPDK
pktio support.

### `odp-linux` Time Improvements
* The ODP Time APIs are now more efficiently handled by replacing the previous
Linux timespec with simple nanoseconds (ns) and using native hardware time
counters in x86 and ARM environments, when available.

### `odp-linux` Traffic Manager Improvements
* Weighting is now handled properly when weight=1 is specified. Previously
this caused an overflow that distorted packet priorities.

### Miscellaneous Fixes and Improvements
#### Native Clang build on ARMv8
ARMv8 compilation now works properly when using the clang compiler.

#### Test Improvements
* The `odp_scheduling` performance test now handles dequeueing from
potentially concurrent queues properly.
* The traffic manager and time tests are now invoked via scripts to better
account for load-sensitivity when running regressions in CI environments.
* The l2fwd test now supports an additional parameter to specify the number
of scheduling groups to use in the test.
* The `odp_sched_latency` performance test now handles queue draining in
a robust manner.
* The crypto validation tests now properly check and validate message digests,
and include negative tests to verify that incorrect digests are properly
flagged. Note that this may expose omissions in other ODP implementations that
had previously passed this validation test.
* The crypto validation test now adds an explicit test for the NULL cipher,
as well as HMAC-SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA-512.
* The pktio_ipc test now properly cleans up only its own temp files.

#### Examples Improvements
* The `odp_generator` example now properly honors stop criteria based on
number of packets sent.
* The `odp_generator` example now properly flushes output messages
* The `odp_generator` example now supports port configuration.

### Bug Fixes
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2416[Bug 2416]
example/generator/odp_generator.c contains todo items

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2779[Bug 2779]
Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN)

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2826[Bug 2826]
Unchecked return in pool.c

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2831[Bug 2831]
Unchecked return in mmap_unmap_sock()

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2852[Bug 2852]
ODP_STATIC_ASSERT() fails when used by C++

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2872[Bug 2872]
odp_pktio_ordered_run.sh: line 34: integer expression expected

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2881[Bug 2881]
load sensitive tests fail on CI

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2895[Bug 2895]
The `odp_crypto_operation()` routine does not work with multi-segment packets.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2908[Bug 2908]
Packet validation test fails if implementation does not limit packet length

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2910[Bug 2910]
odph_iplookup_table_put_value() uses overlapping pointer addresses

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2933[Bug 2933]
Miss to call unlock if there are some errors happen in loopback_send() function

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2940[Bug 2940]
`odp_packet_seg_t` fails ABI compatibility between odp-linux and odp-dpdk

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2942[Bug 2942]
Compilation fails using clang 4.0.0

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2952[Bug 2952]
doxygen errors and travis does not catch them

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2969[Bug 2969]
TM validation test does find traffic_mngr_main

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2974[Bug 2974]
`odp_rwlock_read_trylock()` fails if lock is already held for read access

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3002[Bug 3002]
Packet order lost when enqueuing to pktout queue

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3003[Bug 3003]
AES-GCM returns 'valid' tag when checking invalid tag

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3013[Bug 3013]
Various failures if CONFIG_PACKET_MAX_SEGS is set to 1

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3017[Bug 3017]
Travis: time main test out of boundaries

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3027[Bug 3027]
Compilation failures using GCC 7 series

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3039[Bug 3039]
Socket pktio recv fails on large number of packet

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3024[Bug 3024]
odp_traffic_mngr example is broken

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3026[Bug 3026]
pktio_ips_run test can fail due to segfault

## OpenDataPlane (1.14.0.0)
### New Features
#### APIs
ODP v1.14.0.0 represents another preview of the Tiger Moth release series and
introduces new APIs and extensions.

##### Packet References
Packet references are a lightweight mechanism to allow applications to create
and manipulate different "views" of packets. These views consist of shared
bytes common to all references created on the same `odp_packet_t`, possibly
prefixed with unique headers that are private to each reference. Five new APIs
are introduced to enable this feature:

`odp_packet_ref_static()`::
Static references allow a single packet to have multiple "aliases", all of
which must be treated as read only. This is useful, for example, to retain
a reference to a packet being transmitted to support retransmit processing,
since the actual storage represented by a packet is not released until all
references to it have been freed via `odp_packet_free()` calls.

`odp_packet_ref()`::
Dynamic references differ from static references is that they permit the
individual `odp_packet_t` handles to have unique prefixes created via
`odp_packet_push_head()` or `odp_packet_extend_head()` calls. This can be
used, for example, to support multicasting packets to different destinations
by creating packets that consist of unique headers followed by a common shared
payload.

`odp_packet_ref_pkt()`::
Similar to `odp_packet_ref()`, but creates a dynamic reference by prepending a
preexisting header onto another packet.

`odp_packet_has_ref()`::
Returns a boolean indicator of whether a given `odp_packet_t` has other
references that share bytes with this packet.

`odp_packet_unshared_len()`::
Returns the number of unshared bytes accessible through a given `odp_packet_t`
handle. These are the only bytes that should be changed. All other bytes
in the packet should be treated as read only as they are shared with other
`odp_packet_t` handles.

Note that while the packet reference APIs and associated validation tests are
present in this release, the `odp-linux` reference implementation currently
implements references via packet copying. A zero-copy implementation of packet
references is planned to be part of the ODP v1.15.0.0 release.

#### ABI Specification
ODP has supported an Application Binary Interface (ABI) that permits
applications to be generated that are binary portable between select ODP
implementations. This is now formalized with the addition of structures that
permit ABI specifications to be defined that are shared between ODP
implementations. ODP provides a default ABI specification that is the same as
was provided before. This change means that additional ABIs may be defined
that are optimized to collections of platforms that share an Instruction Set
Architecture (ISA) and subscribe to them.

ABI specifications live in the `include/odp/arch/...` directory.

#### Instance Query (iQuery) Scheduler
Adding to the range of scheduler implementations supported by `odp-linux`, a
new scheduler, the instance query scheduler, is available by specifying
`--enable-schedule-iquery` at `configure` time.

This scheduler uses sparse bitmaps and offers scalability advantages when
dealing with large numbers of schedule queues. It otherwise offers performance
comparable to the default ODP scheduler implementation.

### Helpers
Helpers have been reorganized to provide better independence from odp-linux
and to make them more useful with other ODP implementations. These
reorganizations are functionally transparent to ODP users but should
simplifying packaging and porting to other ODP implementations. This includes
adding the "umbrella" include file `odph_api.h` which can be used to include
all helper API definitions in an application.

### Classifier Improvements
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now supports Pattern Matching Rules
(PMRs) for IPv6 addresses, inner and outer VLAN IDs, and inner and outer
Ethernet types.

### Performance

#### Improved inlining for embedded applications
The `odp-linux` reference implementation now offers improved inlining support
for ODP APIs for applications compiled against ODP configured with the
`--enable-abi-compat=no` option, meaning they wish to forego binary
compatibility in exchange for improved performance. These applications remain
source portable to other ODP implementations.

#### Native `odp_cpu_pause()` for ARM processors
A native implementation of the `odp_cpu_pause()` API has been added for ARMv7
and ARMv8 processors.

#### New Microbenchmark
The `odp_packet_bench` microbenchmark application has been added to the
test performance directory to allow implementations to measure and calibrate
the performance of individual ODP packet APIs.

#### Ordered PktIO Test
The `odp_pktio_ordered` application has been added to the test performance
directory to provide stress-testing of packet ordering features of ODP.

### Documentation
In addition to expanded documentation related to the new packet reference APIs,
a section on application portability has been added that discusses the types
of portability offered by ODP and the tradeoffs that application writers should
consider when using ODP.

### Bug Fixes

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2806[Bug 2806]
The `hello.c` application can now run properly if Core 0 is not
available (any available core will be used).

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827[Bug 2827]
Provide proper return code checking within _ishm.c

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2829[Bug 2829]
Remove unused variables in iplookuptable helper routine.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2830[Bug 2830]
Avoid memory leaks on error paths in the cuckoo table helper functions.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834[Bug 2834]
Fixes a race condition in shared memory allocation.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2842[Bug 2842]
Provide proper fallback for shared memory when hugepages are not available.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2862[Bug 2862]
Avoid null pointer dereference in the iplookuptable helper routine.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2865[Bug 2865]
Missing doxygen documentation for helper table functions are added.

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2852[Bug 2852]
C++ programs fail to compile if they attempt to include the ODP helper APIs.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2895[Bug 2895]
The `odp_crypto_operation()` routine does not work with multi-segment packets.

## OpenDataPlane (1.13.0.0)

### New Features

#### APIs
ODP v1.13.0.0 represents the initial preview of the Tiger Moth release series
and as such introduces new APIs and extensions that will be built on as this
release matures.

##### Crypto Parameter Normalization
Many ODP APIs take parameter structs of type `odp_xxx_param_t`. The crypto APIs,
for historical reasons, failed to follow this convention, using instead structs
of type `odp_crypto_params_t`, etc. These pluralized names are now deprecated
and their singular forms are introduced as the preferred names for these
structs. The old names are retained (for now) to ease migration, however
applications should convert to the new forms at their convenience as these
deprecated forms will be removed in the final Tiger Moth release.

The changes introduced for this include:

* `odp_crypto_op_params_t` => `odp_crypto_op_param_t`
* `odp_crypto_session_params_t` => `odp_crypto_session_param_t`

##### Crypto Decouple Key Length from Algorithm Specification
To provide a more flexible programming for handling all possible
key/digest/iv length combinations, the enums used for crypto specification
are split to decouple lengths from algorithm names. The only exception
is the SHA-2 family of hash routines, which have well-established naming
conventions that incorporate digest lengths (SHA-224, SHA-256, etc.)

Changes included with this restructure include:

* The `odp_crypto_capability_t` structure returned by the
`odp_crypto_capability()` API contains streamlined `odp_crypto_cipher_algos_t`
and `odp_crypto_auth_algos_t` substructures.
* A new `odp_crypto_cipher_capability()` API is added to return detailed
information about available cipher capabilities.
* A new `odp_crypto_auth_capability()` API is added to return detailed
information about available authentication capabilities.

##### `odp_crypto_session_param_init()` API
For completeness the `odp_crypto_session_param_init()` API is provided to
enable platform-independent initialization of the `odp_crypto_session_param_t`
structure used as input to `odp_crypto_session_create()`.

##### Bitfield and Byteorder Cleanup
The `ODP_BITFIELD_ORDER` define is added to the ODP specification to parallel
the existing `ODP_BYTEFIELD_ORDER` define. This will be set to the value
`ODP_BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD` or `ODP_LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD`. This also addresses
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2402[Bug 2402], however since fixing
this required a small API change this was deferred until an API release
boundary.

##### Improved Name Argument Definitions in `odp_xxx_create()` Functions
The use of name arguments to the various resource creation APIs has
been standardized and documentation improved to clarify that unique
names are not required and that these may be specified as NULL for
anonymous resource creation. When non-unique resource names are used, it is
unspecified which of these are returned by a corresponding lookup API.

##### Pool Parameters for Packet Pools
The `odp_pool_param_t` structure adds the new field `max_len` to be used in
packet pools to advise the implementation of the maximum sized packet that
the application will allocate with a single `odp_packet_alloc()` call. This
may enable storage pool optimization.

##### Packet Clarifications
API documentation for `odp_packet_concat()` and `odp_packet_copy_from_pkt()`
is clarified to specify that the source and destination packets supplied to
these APIs should not refer to the same packet.

##### Packet Allocation Length Clarification
API documentation for `odp_packet_alloc()` is clarified to specify that
the supplied length for requested packet allocation should be greater
than zero.

##### Random API Changes
The APIs provided for working with random data have been revised. The third
parameter to `odp_random_data()` is now of type `odp_random_kind_t`, which is
an `enum` that is used to specify the quality of random data required. The
kinds of random data defined are:

`ODP_RANDOM_BASIC`::
No specific quality guarantees. This is assumed to be pseudo-random data
generated by software where speed of generation is more important than the
quality of the results.This is the lowest kind of random.

`ODP_RANDOM_CRYPTO`::
Random data suitable for use in cryptographic operations.

`ODP_RANDOM_TRUE`::
True random data generated from a hardware entropy source. This is the
highest kind of random.

The `odp_random_max_kind()` API is provided that returns the highest kind of
data available on this implementation. Requests for higher kinds than can be
supplied will fail.

For testing purposes it is often desirable to generate "random" sequences that
are repeatable. To support this use case, the `odp_random_test_data()` API is
introduced. This always returns BASIC random data but uses a user-supplied
64-byte seed parameter that is update for each call and can be used to
repeat the same sequence as needed.

##### Shared Memory Improvements
The `odp_shm_reserve()` API adds two new additional flags to support external
memory.

* `ODP_SHM_SINGLE_VA` guarantees that all ODP threads sharing this memory
will see the block at the same virtual address regardless of whether threads
are implemented as pthreads or processes and when `fork()` calls are made to
create them.

* `ODP_SHM_EXPORT` allows the memory block to be visible to other ODP
instances. Other ODP instances can retrieve this block via the new
`odp_shm_import()` API.

##### Classification Clarifications
The relationship between classification and queue configuration in the
`odp_pktin_queue_param_t` structure is clarified to emphasize that
classification subsumes queue-based I/O processing. This is an API
documentation change only.

### Helpers
New helper APIs are introduced for IP table lookup support for longest prefix
matching as well as cuckoo hash tables. These are designed to provide analogs
to functions available in DPDK to assist applications being ported to ODP.

### Performance Improvements
The odp-linux reference implementation includes a number of improvements to
make it more suitable for production use on platforms that rely on software
implementations of key ODP APIs.

#### Ring-based Pool Implementation
Storage pools used for buffers and packets are now implemented via lockless
ring structures that support burst mode read/writes to local caches for
significantly improved multi-core scalability

#### Buffer/Packet Header Optimizations
The layout of the structs used to support buffers and packets has been
optimized to reduce cache footprint and minimize path lengths in packet
manipulation.

#### Ordered Queue Improvements
The implementation of ordered queues has been streamlined and made more
scalable in multi-core systems.

#### Packet Segmentation Improvements
The more advance segmentation capabilities present in the new ODP packet
implementation are used to streamline the implementation of APIs like
`odp_packet_concat()` and the head/tail extend/trunc APIs.

### Bug Fixes

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2405[Bug 2405]
A number of "todos" were removed from the packet validation test suite.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2472[Bug 2472]
The CPU affinity is now correctly read from the cpuset.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496[Bug 2496]
The PktIO validation test no longer uses invalid MAC addresses.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2512[Bug 2512]
The TCP checksum is now properly calculated for generated packets.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2798[Bug 2798]
The odp-linux reference implementation makes use of the OpenSSL library to
support the `odp_random_xxx()` APIs and some crypto operations. To support
OpenSSL versions prior to 1.1.0, which are not thread safe, support is added
for OpenSSL locking callbacks that use ODP ticketlocks to provide OpenSSL thread
safety.

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2812[Bug 2812]
Make check fails on a single core VM in the process mode helper test.

## OpenDataPlane (1.12.0.0)

### New Features

#### APIs
ODP v1.12.0.0 has no API changes from previous v1.11.0 Monarch LTS. Version
is increased in current development release to make room for Monarch updates
numbers.

#### Application Binary Interface (ABI) Support
Support is added to enable ODP applications to be binary compatible across
different implementations of ODP sharing the same Instruction Set Architecture
(ISA). This support introduces a new `configure` option:

`no abi disable option`::
This is the default and specifies that the ODP library is to be built to
support ABI compatibility mode. In this mode ODP APIs are never inlined. ABI
compatibility ensures maximum application portability in cloud environments.

`--disable-abi-compat`::
Specify this option to enable the inlining of ODP APIs. This may result in
improved performance at the cost of ABI compatibility and is suitable for
applications running in embedded environments.

Note that ODP applications retain source code portability between ODP
implementations regardless of the ABI mode chosen. To move to a different ODP
application running on a different ISA, code need simply be recompiled against
that target ODP implementation.

#### SCTP Parsing Support
The ODP classifier adds support for recognizing Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP) packets. The APIs for this were previously not implemented.

### Packaging and Implementation Refinements

#### Remove dependency on Linux headers
ODP no longer has a dependency on Linux headers. This will help make the
odp-linux reference implementation more easily portable to non-Linux
environments.

#### Remove dependency on helpers
The odp-linux implementation has been made independent of the helper library
to avoid circular dependency issues with packaging. Helper functions may use
ODP APIs, however ODP implementations should not use helper functions.

#### Reorganization of `test` directory
The `test` directory has been reorganized to better support a unified approach
to ODP component testing. API tests now live in
`test/common_plat/validation/api` instead of the former
`test/validation`. With this change performance and validation tests, as well
as common and platform-specific tests can all be part of a unified test
hierarchy.

The resulting test tree now looks like:

.New `test` directory hierarchy
-----
test
├── common_plat
│   ├── common
│   ├── m4
│   ├── miscellaneous
│   ├── performance
│   └── validation
│       └── api
│           ├── atomic
│           ├── barrier
│           ├── buffer
│           ├── classification
│           ├── cpumask
│           ├── crypto
│           ├── errno
│           ├── hash
│           ├── init
│           ├── lock
│           ├── packet
│           ├── pktio
│           ├── pool
│           ├── queue
│           ├── random
│           ├── scheduler
│           ├── shmem
│           ├── std_clib
│           ├── system
│           ├── thread
│           ├── time
│           ├── timer
│           └── traffic_mngr
├── linux-generic
│   ├── m4
│   ├── mmap_vlan_ins
│   ├── performance
│   ├── pktio_ipc
│   ├── ring
│   └── validation
│       └── api
│           ├── pktio
│           └── shmem
└── m4
-----

#### Pools
The maximum number of pools that may be created in the odp-linux reference
implementation has been raised from 16 to 64.

#### Upgrade to DPDK 16.07
The DPDK pktio support in odp-linux has been upgraded to work with DPDK 16.07.
A number of miscellaneous fixes and performance improvements in this support
are also present.

#### PktIO TAP Interface Classifier Support
Packet I/O interfaces operating in TAP mode now can feed packets to the ODP
classifier the same as other pktio modes can do.

### Performance Improvements

#### Burst-mode buffer allocation
The scheduler and pktio components have been reworked to use burst-mode
buffer allocation/deallocation, yielding a measurable performance gain in
almost all cases.

#### Burst-mode queue operations
ODP queues internally now attempt to use burst-mode enq/deq operations to
accelerate performance where applicable.

#### Ring-based Scheduler Priority Queues
The ODP scheduler has been enhanced to use ring-based priority queues, resulting
in significantly better scalability in many core environments.

#### GitHub Automation Support
ODP now supports the Travis framework needed to trigger CI automation in
conjunction with GitHub. This support is considered experimental for now.

### Examples

#### New `l3fwd` Example
A new example application is provided that illustrates use
of ODP for simple Layer 3 forwarding across multiple interfaces.

### Documentation

#### Pure API Documentation
ODP now generates "pure" (implementation independent) doxygen documentation in
addition to the specific documentation for the odp-linux implementation. The
pure version is applicable to any ODP implementation as it simply describes
the ODP API specification. Implementation-specific versions of this
documentation describe both the APIs as well as specifics concerning typedefs,
enums, etc. This should help clarify what aspects of ODP are platform
independent.

#### Clarify ODP Thread Definition
The definition of an ODP thread in odp-linux has been clarified to specify that
for this implementation ODP threads are Linux pthreads or Linux processes.
Currently threads as processes is considered experimental in odp-linux.

### Bug Fixes
Numerous refinements have been incorporated to make
validation tests more robust in API coverage as well as correcting corner
cases in the implementation of many ODP APIs. Notable fixes include:

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2316[Bug 2316]
`ODP_TIMEOUT_INVALID` is now defined consistently with other pool elements so
the restriction on using Pool 0 as a timer pool is removed.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2310[Bug 2310]
The `odp_packet_copy()` API now correctly handles user areas between pools that
are configured with different sized per-packet user area definitions.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2571[Bug 2571]
Corrects the implementation of AES GCM decryption in the ODP crypto API.

### Known Issues

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2309[Bug 2309]
The Timer validation test fails sporadically in environments with high core
counts.

## OpenDataPlane (1.11.0.0)
ODP v1.11.0 is the base tag and branch for the Monarch LTS (Long Term Support)
release of ODP.

### New Features
#### APIs
As part of the final Monarch LTS API set, a minor change to the
`odp_tm_egress_t` struct was made to better reflect the capabilities of
SoC platforms targeting Monarch support. This change adds the boolean
`egress_fcn_supported` that indicates whether TM  systems support an egress
function. In addition, each TM system is now associated with a PktIO rather
than a PktOUT queue. This struct is input to the `odp_tm_create()` API and
output from the `odp_tm_find()` API.

#### Strict Priority (SP) Scheduler
Building on the modular scheduler framework introduced in v1.10.1.0, An
alternate Strict Priority (SP) scheduler is now available. The SP scheduler
is selected when ODP is configured with the `--enable_schedule_sp` option.

The SP scheduler is designed to favor low-latency processing of high priority
work at the expense of throughput. This is considered experimental code at
this point and should be treated as such by those wishing to use it.

### Bug Fixes
#### Scheduler PktIO Cleanup
The scheduler now properly cleans up PktIOs operating in SCHEDULE mode following
`odp_pktio_close()` calls. This resolves
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2301[Bug 2301].

#### Chksum Routine C++ conformance
The odph_chksum() helper routine is now C++ conformant. This resolves
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2302[Bug 2302].

#### User Area Copying
The `odp_packet_copy()` API now copies the packet user area as part of its
processing and the packet validation test has been enhanced to verify that this
is done properly. This resolves
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2310[Bug 2310].

#### Use of Pool 0 as a Timeout Pool
The internal definition of `ODP_TIMEOUT_INVALID` was changed in `odp-linux` to
enable the use of Pool 0 as a timeout pool. This resolves
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2316[Bug 2316].

### Packaging
#### libodphelper
To facilitate API tracking, `libodphelper.so` has been split out from
`libodp.so`.

#### Helper dependencies
To avoid circular dependencies that cause issues when packaging ODP as a
shared library, the `odp-linux` implementation no longer makes and use of
the ODP helper library.

### Performance
Performance enhancements in the `odp-linux` reference implementation have been
made in PktIO routines and the packet classifier.

### General Cleanup
General cleanup throughout has resulted in adding proper termination calls to
ODP examples as well as miscellaneous Doxygen corrections.  Additionally, the
`odp-linux` code base has been cleaned up by removing "To Dos" as well as
extraneous `#includes` for extra C headers and dependencies on linux headers
for improved portability.

### Validation
#### Queue Capability Test
The Queue validation test now properly exercises the `odp_queue_capability()`
API and attempts to create the maximum reported number of supported queues.

#### Platform Tests
The platform-specific tests have been moved from `platform/linux-generic/test`
to `test/platform/linux-generc` so that all tests are now found under a
single `test` directory.

### Examples
The ODP `examples` directory has been cleaned up and numerous corrections to
existing examples have been made to add proper termination paths, etc. In
addition, a new "hello world" example (`odp_hello.c`) has been added that
illustrates the basic startup and shutdown steps needed for all ODP
applications. As a simple stand-alone application is is also a good initial
build tests for new ODP implementations.

### Documentation
#### Pure API Guide
The Doxygen API guide has been split so that both a "pure" version that is
platform-independent and retains unresolved ODP abstract types as well as
an implementation-specific version (for `odp-linux`) that shows
platform-specific `typedef` and `enum` values.

#### Implementation Guide Improvements
The _ODP Implementer's Guide_ has been enhanced with a section on
implementation considerations, including issues surrounding the definition of
Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs).

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2309[Bug 2309]
The timer validation tests have seen occasional failures when run on systems
containing a larger number of CPUs (typically 24 or more).

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2386[Bug 2386]
ODP cannot be compiled using the -m32 option to generate 32-bit code on a
64-bit platform when using GCC 4.9 (the default GCC found in Ubuntu 15.04).
This is due to a known bug in GCC 4.9 and is closed as a permanent restriction.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2402[Bug 2402]
Doxygen generates a warning for `ODP_BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD` when compiling on
little endian systems. A similar warning for `ODP_LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD` is
issued when compiling on big endian systems.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2444[Bug 2444]
The traffic manager cannot be used with two PktIOs simultaneously. That is,
`odp-linux` does not properly support applications that create more than one
TM system. This is a bug in the `odp-linux` implementation that will be
corrected. It is not a limit of the architecture or other ODP implementations.

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2449[Bug 2449]
Packet queue pool causes out-of-bounds accesses. This is closely related
to https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2444[Bug 2444] and reflects that
`odp-linux` does not properly support multiple TM systems. This is scheduled
for correction in the first maintenance update for this ODP implementation.

## OpenDataPlane (1.10.1.0)

### New Features

#### APIs
ODP v1.10.1.0 is a maintenance release and as such introduces no new APIs or
other changes that might result in application source incompatibility with
v1.10.0.0.

#### Modular Scheduler
The ODP scheduler included as part of the `odp-linux` reference implementation
has been modularized to support a "pluggable" architecture that will permit
the easy introduction of alternate scheduler implementations that permit
both easy experimentation as well as alternate scheduling models that are
tuned to specific application workloads (_i.e.,_ a strict priority scheduler
for latency-sensitive workloads). Included in this release is the just the
foundation and alternate schedulers are expected to be added in future ODP
releases.

### Packaging

#### Rename of `linux-generic` to `odp-linux`
While the platform name within the ODP git repository remains
`linux-generic`, the package name of this reference implementation has been
changed to `odp-linux` to better reflect that this is an implementation of
ODP that is dependent only on the Linux kernel and is intended to be runnable
on any Linux distribution. All ODP documentation has been changed to reflect
this name change.

### Helpers

#### Introduction of "agnostic" threading support
The current helper APIs for linux pthreads (`odph_linux_pthread_create()`, etc.)
and processes (`odph_linux_process_fork()`, etc.) have been augmented with a
new "agnostic" set of helper routines for general ODP thread management.

`odph_odpthreads_create()` and `odph_odpthreads_join()` are now the preferred
helpers to use for creating and joining threads that may be implemented as
_either_ pthreads or Linux processes. Although currently ODP threads in
Monarch are assumed to share the same (single) address space, this change is
to permit evolution towards multi-address space (_i.e.,_ process oriented)
threading models without requiring application and/or validation test changes.

The various ODP examples and validation tests that make use of threading have
all been changed to new these new helper APIs.

#### Thread affinity APIs
As part of the new "agnostic" threading support, two additional helper APIs
(`odph_odpthread_getaffinity()` and `odph_odpthread_setaffinity()`) have been
added to permit easy management of thread affinity.

The CUnit framework used by the ODP validation suite has been changed to set
the affinity of the initial thread to the first available control CPU. This
avoids inconsistencies in a number of timing tests.

### Bug Fixes
As a maintenance release, numerous bugs have been fixed in the `odp-linux`
reference implementation in areas such as platform support (particularly on
32-bit systems), compiler support (clang), C++ compatibility, and other
cleanup items. Highlights include:

#### 32-bit platform support
The `configure` utility now correctly identifies and sets variables needed for
proper compilation on 32-bit x86 systems. In addition the Traffic Manager
now executes properly on 32-bit systems.

#### Timer improvements
The `odp_timer_t` abstract type is now strongly typed for consistency with
other ODP types, and the `odp_timer_to_u64()` and `odp_timer_pool_to_u64()`
APIs are now properly implemented. In addition, an issue with compiling the
timer routines on 32-bit systems using clang was resolved.

#### Scheduler fairness
The default scheduler has been improved to avoid starvation and increase
fairness when running with a limited number of threads or CPUs.

#### 128-bit atomics
The `-mcx16` compiler option is now properly identified and used to support
128-bit atomics on systems that support these operations. This leads to
increased efficiency in the implementation of both timers as well as other
atomic operations.

#### Use of hugepages
In systems that support multiple hugepage sizes, the default hugepage size is
now reported properly by the `odp_sys_huge_page_size()` API.

#### Coverity and Valgrind issue cleanup
Numerous issues identified by the Coverity scan tool have been cleaned up
and resolved, leading to improved robustness in the `odp-linux` reference
implementation. In addition, several memory leaks identified by the valgrind
tool have been fixed.

#### Validation test resource checks
The Traffic Manager validation test has certain sub-tests that require a
minimum of 2 CPUs to operate properly. These tests are now skipped with a
warning when run on uniprocessor systems.

### Performance
Performance enhancements in the `odp-linux` reference implementation have been
made in packet processing, classification, and pktio, leading to increased
observed throughput and packet handling rates.

### Examples
A new `l2fwd_simple` example has been added that does simple Layer 2 forwarding.

### Documentation
#### Switch from AsciiDoc to AsciiDoctor
To get better formatting capabilities and future extensibility the ODP user
documentation system has been switched from http://asciidoc.org[AsciiDoc] to
http://asciidoctor.org[AsciiDoctor]. There are a handful of notable changes as
a result of this. Those submitting documentation patches should be aware of
the following:

* `monospace font` is now indicated by demarking the text with backticks (`)
rather than plus signs (+).

* Callouts are now indicated by C++-style double slash comments (// <1>)
instead of C-style comments (/* <1> */). So, for example writing
-----------------------------------------------
[source,c]
----
...some great code deserving a callout // \<1>
----
<1> This is an example of a callout
-----------------------------------------------
yields:
----
...some great code deserving a callout // <1>
----
<1> This is an example of a callout

Note that this change only affects user documentation. Code documentation
still uses http://doxygen.org[Doxygen].

#### Image Cleanup
The images in the user guide have been trimmed to fit the page better. In
addition, many new images have been added to better illustrate ODP API usage.

#### Additional User Documentation for Monarch APIs
The *ODP User's Guide* has been updated to include new sections documenting
the use of the full Monarch packet APIs as well as the Timer APIs. In
addition, the crypto, classification, and traffic manager API documentation
has been improved to cover all of the latest Monarch features, and an
introductory section on overall ODP packet flow architecture has been added.

#### Helper Documentation
The ODP Helper library now has its own document that describes these additional
functions of use to ODP applications and validation tests.

#### Other documentation
The Process Guide, FAQ, CONTRIBUTING, and CHANGELOG files have been reworked
for the new AsciiDoctor structure, leading to a more uniform method of
presenting ODP support documentation. In addition, an option for generating
both a "pure" ODP API document that defines the APIs in their
implementation-independent forms as well as their implementation-dependent
forms for the `odp-linux` reference implementation is now available.

### Known Issues
#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2301[Bug 2301]
The scheduler does not remove PKTIN queues following `odp_pktio_close()`

#### https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2309[Bug 2309]
The timer validation tests have seen occasional failures when run on systems
containing a larger number of CPUs (typically 24 or more).

## OpenDataPlane (1.10.0.0)

### New Features
#### General
* Move to capabilite structures: The classification, crypto, pktio, pool,
  queue, shared memory, and traffic manager areas all add new APIs to query
  implementation-specific capability limits for enhanced program portability.

#### Classification
* Addition of a structure that defines system level classification capability
* Addition of range PMRs to complement the existing value PMRs to permit
  application to specify classification rules over a range of values.

#### Cryptography
* Provides a way to get the available cipher and authentication algorithms.

#### Debug
* Adds the  ODP_STATIC_ASSERT() API to permit compile-time assertions.

#### Packet
* Rename and add new packet copy and move functionality.
* Add packet prefetch API for performance optimization.
* New APIs to permit packet headroom and tailroom to be extended to additional
  segments or truncated as needed.
* Align an area of packet data (e.g. IP/UDP headers) so that it is contiguous in
  memory and starts in a specified minimum alignment.
* Add packet time stamp metadata support.
* Add packet input index metadata support to allow application context to
  be anchored from the associated interface that received the packet.
* Deprecation and removal of segment-level buffer APIs that are now
  superseded by additional packet-level manipulation APIs discussed above.

#### Packet io
* Replaced config definition for maximum pktio entries with maximum packet IO
  index call
* Added the classify_enable bit to the odp_pktin_queue_param_t that allows
  applications to explicitly control which pktin queues are subject to full
  classifier support.
* Addition of pktin configuration options to control packet timestamping
  and checksum validation processing.
* Addition of pktout configuration options to control packet checksum
  offload processing.
* Add the ability to query (via capabilities) whether a pktio interface
  supports operating in loopback mode and if so to enable/disable this
  mode of operation.
* Round out the polling APIs be adding the ability to receive packets in
  poll mode from one or more pktin queues with timeout.
* Add the ability to set the pktio interface index for ease of setting up
  application context areas associated with each pktio.
* Add the ability to inqure the timestamp resolution associated with
  pktio interfaces that support packet timestamping.

#### Queue
* Add a queue capability API to query system-wide queue capabilities and limits.
* Extend queue context with an explicit data length parameter that serves
  as a performance hint for the amount of context to prefetch when the
  scheduler selects an event from a scheduled queue.

#### Scheduler
* Add the ability to query information about a defined scheduler group

#### Shared Memory
* Add a capability inquiry API to obtain implementation shared memory limits.

#### Traffic Manager
* Add a capability inquiry API to obtain implementation traffic mngr limits.
* Split TOS marking into two separate calls.
* Add new APIs to support VLAN, ECN, and drop precedence marking.
* Add destroy APIs for shapers, scheduler profiles, thresholds, WRED profiles,
  TM queues, and TM nodes for symmetry and completeness to allow applications
  to terminate gracefully without resource leakage.
* Add the ability to disconnect TM queues from their fanouts.
* Add TM node contexts to permit applications to anchor user context areas
  to TM nodes.
* Add the ability to query info about TM node fanins and TM queues.
* Deprecate and remove the odp_tm_periodic_update() API

#### Utilities/Helpers
* More complete and correct checksum implementation

### Known Issues

## OpenDataPlane (1.9.0.0)

### New Features

* A focus has been made on improving the packaging support of ODP for
  distributions such as Debian.
* Improved creation of source tar ball and packaging scenarios moved to
  https://git.linaro.org/lng/odp-packaging.git
* Renamed libodp to libodp-linux
* Removed all internal functions from leaking through the libodp-linux

### Known Issues

Time and Traffic Manager validation tests sometimes fail on heavy loaded
systems. This behaviour depends on time accuracy measurements, which depends
on system load.

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opendataplane (1.8.0.0)
   * API:
       - api headers moved to include/odp/api/spec/ and apps should use include/odp_api.h
         now instead of odp.h
       - api/linux-generic/example: classification: add pmr create api
       - api: move include/odp.h to include/odp_api.h
       - api: odp.h to ease transition period
       - api: packet: add bcast/mcast parse documentation
       - api: packet: add detailed packet error flags
       - api: packet: added multicast flags
       - api: pktio: add pktout event queue
       - api: pktio: added pktio info structure
       - api: pktio: added supported set operations bit mask to pktio capability
       - api: pktio: changed odp_pktio_mtu() return value to uint32_t
       - api: pktio: define default pktio modes
       - api: pktio: define default queue configuration
       - api: pktio: remove old single queue API
       - api: pktio: rename pktio_recv_queue to pktin_recv
       - api: pktio: rename pktio_send_queue to pktout_send
       - api: pktio: specify when queue config is called
       - api: queue: remove queue type pktin and pktout
       - api: sched: define default sched param values
       - api: time: fix typo for cmp function
       - api: tm: add tm API definitions
       - api: tm: replace pktio with pktout_queue in odp_tm_egress_struct
       - doc: users: migrate TM from API to users doc
       - drv: creation of the driver interface (drv)
   * ODP docs:
       - doc: depend the docs on the images
       - doc: descr of structure for new interfaces
       - doc: drop using output dir for guides
       - doc: glossary: defining ODP thread more precisely
       - doc: images: add traffic manager svg
       - doc: implementers-guide: adding drv interface
       - doc: removing invalid characters
       - doc: update to latest ax_prog_doxygen.m4
       - doc: use imagedir attribute for path
       - doc: user-guide documentation for classification
       - doc: user-guide: fixing other typos
       - doc: user-guide: shmem
       - doc: users: add TM example
       - doc: users: migrate TM from API to users doc
       - documentation: userguide: add images for packet processing
       - documentation: userguide: add packet processing description
   * Validation
       - linux-generic: version: added implementation name string
       - performance: crypto: add odp_crypto to .gitignore file
       - test: l2fwd: add event queue packet output
       - test: l2fwd: add option to give destination MAC
       - test: l2fwd: fix test getting stuck in DIRECT_RECV/POLL_QUEUE mode
       - test: l2fwd: utilize pktio param defaults
       - test: performance: crypto: measure crypto operation performance
       - test: pktio_perf: finalize port to use new pktio api
       - test: pktio_perf: port to use new pktio api
       - validation: packet: add tests for broadcast and multicast flags
       - validation: classification: add test case for odp_cos_drop() function
       - validation: classifier: port to use new pktio api
       - validation: packet: test if user area is properly set
       - validation: pktio: add output event queue tests
       - validation: pktio: assign MAC address if one loop pktio is used
       - validation: pktio: check if configuring promisc mode is supported before testing
       - validation: pktio: fix pktio_test_recv_queue() crash
       - validation: pktio: fix type on defining pktiout mode
       - validation: pktio: port to use new pktio api
       - validation: pktio: replace pktio_test_jumbo() with pktio_test_recv_mtu()
       - validation: pktio: set packet mac addresses and checksum in statistics test
       - validation: scheduler: increase delay tolerance
       - validation: tm: add cunit test for traffic mngr
       - validation: tm: fix arm compilation
       - validation: tm: miscellaneous cleanup and fixes for tm cunit tests
   * General:
       - linux-generic: Makefile: fix broken include path
       - linux-generic: pktio: initial dpdk pktio implementation
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add dpdk_setup_port()
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add functions for fetching packet input/output queues
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add get/set functions for mtu, promisc mode, and capability
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add odp_pktio_input_queues_config()
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add odp_pktio_link_status()
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add odp_pktio_output_queues_config()
       - linux-generic: dpdk: add rx/tx locking
       - linux-generic: dpdk: close resources in odp_pktio_close()
       - linux-generic: dpdk: handle ixgbe_pmd minimum burst size
       - linux-generic: drv: creation of the driver interface (drv)
       - linux-generic: fix usage of function strncpy
       - linux-generic: loop: avoid packet table overflow
       - linux-generic: move CPU info dummy data to generic default file
       - linux-generic: netmap: add support for VALE and pipe virtual ports
       - linux-generic: netmap: bump up link wait timeout to 10 secs
       - linux-generic: netmap: improve single RX queue performance
       - linux-generic: netmap: increase maximum descriptor count
       - linux-generic: netmap: support 'netmap:' interface name prefix
       - linux-generic: packet: implement broadcast and multicast metadata flags
       - linux-generic: packet: implement parser extensions for broadcast and multicast
       - linux-generic: pktio: add dpdk pktio build support
       - linux-generic: pktio: add link_status handler for loop interfaces
       - linux-generic: pktio: add separate functions for global and local init
       - linux-generic: pktio: allow num queues request on disabled pktio
       - linux-generic: pktio: allow recv on stopped interface
       - linux-generic: pktio: pktout event queues
       - linux-generic: pktio: set pktio capability supported set operations flags
       - linux-generic: pktio: simplify callback interface
       - linux-generic: pktio: use unique names for pktin event queues
       - linux-generic: pool: implement user area init support
       - linux-generic: queue: simplify NULL param handling
       - linux-generic: return error for unsupported pktio calls
       - linux-generic: separate MIPS ODP_CACHE_LINE_SIZE to its arch file
       - linux-generic: separate PowerPC ODP_CACHE_LINE_SIZE to its arch file
       - linux-generic: separate x86 ODP_CACHE_LINE_SIZE to its arch file
       - linux-generic: sysinfo clean up for ARM
       - linux-generic: systemcpu(): use input parameter instead of global data
       - linux-generic: test: add tm unit test to list of tests to run
       - linux-generic: tm: Add missing name table initialization call.
       - linux-generic: tm: fix numerous bugs in timer wheel and main tm implementation
       - linux-generic: tm: implement traffic manager
       - linux-generic: tm: remove not used includes of odp_api.h
       - linux-generic: tm: use intermediate casts to avoid strict warnings
       - linux-generic: tm: use odp_hash_crc32c() api to avoid arch issues
       - linux-generic: use one uniform call systemcpu()
       - linux-generic: validation: add netmap test
       - linux-generic: version: added implementation name string
   * Helper:
       - helper: eth: added mac address parse
       - helper: ip: added ipv4 address parse
       - helper: linux: correct cpumask usage
       - helper: linux: remove unnecessary cpumask copy
       - helper: remove odp_ definitions
       - helper: remove ring code
       - helpers: remove odp_ prefix for tests source files
       - tests: use parse mac and ip address helpers

opendataplane (1.7.0.0)
   * API:
       - api: atomic: add non-relaxed 64bit operations
       - api: atomic: added 32 bit acquire and release
       - api: atomic: added 32bit cas_rel and cas_acq_rel
       - api: atomic: added atomic min and max
       - api: atomic: added atomic_lock_free_u64
       - api: atomic: added cas operations
       - api: atomic: added relaxed exchange operation
       - api: atomic: init functions are not atomic
       - api: atomic: rename release ordering
       - api: classifier: align enum type naming
       - api: cpu: add new API to get CPU max frequency
       - api: cpu: add new API to get per-CPU current frequency
       - api: cpu: add new API to get per-CPU max frequency
       - api: cpu: add new API to get per-CPU model string
       - api: cpu: added pause call
       - api: cpu: make frequency API return 0 on failure
       - api: cpumask: add new API odp_cpumask_all_available()
       - api: cpumask: documented string format
       - api: define pktio statistics api
       - api: endian: rename endian types with odp_ prefix
       - api: errno: any odp function can set errno
       - api: init: align enum type naming
       - api: init: removed platform_init struct definition
       - api: pktio: added direct queue receive
       - api: pktio: added direct send to pktio output queue
       - api: pktio: added link status
       - api: pktio: added multiple pktio input queues
       - api: pktio: added multiple pktio output queues
       - api: pktio: added pktio capability struct
       - api: pktio: refine multiqueue API spec
       - api: pktio: remove unused ODP_PKTIO_ANY
       - api: pktio: rename pktio modes
       - api: pool: allow per-thread caching
       - api: queue: define queue type as enum
       - api: queue: moved queue type into queue parameters
       - api: queue: rename QUEUE_TYPE_POLL to _PLAIN
       - api: sched: rename SCHED_SYNC_NONE to _PARALLEL
       - api: schedule: clarify scheduler API documentation
       - api: stdlib: added odp_memcmp
       - api: sysinfo: move CPU Hz API to cpu.h
       - api: sysinfo: move CPU model API to cpu.h
       - api: thrmask: documented string format
       - api: pktio: rename single_user param
       - api: pktio: renames for compact type and func names
       - api: queue: add enq and deq mode params
   * ODP docs:
       - doc/users-guide: add time API section
       - doc/users-guide: add cryptographic services section
       - doc: userguide: add application programming section
       - doc: process-guide: add release process
       - doc: images: replace overview with editable svg src
       - doc: guides: embed icons and images in html
       - doc: re-organize doxygen doc for synchronizer
   * Validation
       - test/performance: pktio: perform an initial warmup run
       - test: change l2fwd pool size
       - test: l2fwd: added poll queue mode
       - test: l2fwd: re-organize functions
       - test: l2fwd: use multi-queue API for scheduled queues
       - test: l2fwd: use multi-queue pktio in direct mode
       - test: l2fwd: use multiple queues in sched mode
       - test: perf: l2fwd detect missing odp_generator
       - test: update CPU Hz calling functions
       - tests: harmonize posix extensions level defines
       - validation: atomic: added cas test
       - validation: atomic: added lock free op test
       - validation: atomic: added max and min tests
       - validation: atomic: added non-relaxed test
       - validation: atomic: added xchg test
       - validation: classification: add additional PMR term
       - validation: classification: adds Test case for ODP_PMR_DIP_ADDR
       - validation: classification: remove double frees
       - validation: cls: adopt for supported l3 PMR
       - validation: cls: assign default CoS before creating chain
       - validation: cls: use correct MAC addresses
       - validation: define ODP_TEST_INACTIVE and ODP_TEST_ACTIVE
       - validation: implement pktio statistics counters
       - validation: pktio: don't continue if packet with > MTU is sent
       - validation: pktio: fix check of pktio_stop() called twice
       - validation: pktio: fix typo on setting in_mode
       - validation: pktio: reduce stdout noise
       - validation: pktio: test batch receive
       - validation: pktio: use odp_time_ns() instead own function
       - validation: pktio check for number of interfaces
       - validation: pktio: add test for odp_pktio_recv_queue() and odp_pktio_send_queue()
       - validation: pktio: add test for odp_pktout_queue_config()
       - validation: pktio: add test for odp_pktin_queue_config()
       - validation: possibility to inactive preconded test
       - validation: queue: add test for odp_queue_to_u64()
       - validation: remove remaining references synchronizers
       - validation: removing synchronizers tests
       - validation: scheduler: add timing tests for scheduled queue types
       - validation: shmem: sync threads with barrier
       - validation: stdlib: add odp_memcmp test
       - validation: synchro tests split into 3 groups
       - validation: system: add validation for new CPU APIs
       - validation: system: add validation tests for odp_cpu_cycles_ calls
       - validation: system: fix return code for checks
       - validation: system: make odp_cpu_hz optional in validation test
       - validation: system: make odp_cpu_hz_id conditional
       - validation: test odp_pktio_link_status()
       - validation: time: increase limit to check to 2 res
       - validation: time: round up resolution
       - validation: time: store local and global resolution
       - validation: timer: fix delay after loop
       - validation: timer: handle early exhaustion of pool
   * General:
       - linux-generic: add packet_io_stats.h to Makefile.am
       - linux-generic: arch: renamed cpu arch files
       - linux-generic: atomic: 32bit cas_rel and cas_acq_rel
       - linux-generic: atomic: implemented exchange
       - linux-generic: atomic: non-relaxed 64bit operations
       - linux-generic: barrier: use API memory barrier
       - linux-generic: classification: implement verify_pmr_dmac
       - linux-generic: cpu: implemented pause
       - linux-generic: define posix extension level once
       - linux-generic: init: handle local/global init/term cleanly
       - linux-generic: locks: replace internal atomics
       - linux-generic: netmap: add functions for fetching pktio queues
       - linux-generic: netmap: add initial multi queue support
       - linux-generic: netmap: add netmap_close_descriptors() function
       - linux-generic: netmap: add netmap_link_status() function
       - linux-generic: netmap: add odp_pktio_capability()
       - linux-generic: netmap: add odp_pktio_link_status()
       - linux-generic: netmap: add odp_pktio_start()
       - linux-generic: netmap: add scheduler multi-queue support
       - linux-generic: netmap: add start()/stop() functionality
       - linux-generic: netmap: disable debug prints
       - linux-generic: netmap: fix MTU size
       - linux-generic: netmap: fix netmap_mtu_get()
       - linux-generic: netmap: implement pktio statistics
       - linux-generic: netmap: map rings in netmap_start
       - linux-generic: netmap: odp_pktio_recv() from all pktin queues
       - linux-generic: netmap: use select() instead of poll() in recv
       - linux-generic: packet: hide frame_len behind accessor
       - linux-generic: packet_io: expose pktio_tbl and is_free()
       - linux-generic: packet_io: fix array indexing in pktin_deq_multi()
       - linux-generic: packet_io: separate locks for RX/TX
       - linux-generic: pcap: implement pktio statistics counters
       - linux-generic: pktio loop: implement statistics counters
       - linux-generic: pktio: add RSS helper functions
       - linux-generic: pktio: added poll type input queue
       - linux-generic: pktio: added scheduler multi-queue support
       - linux-generic: pktio: dummy multi-queue pktio
       - linux-generic: pktio: enable using PKTIO_MAX_QUEUES in pktio implementations
       - linux-generic: pktio: implement odp_pktio_link_status()
       - linux-generic: pktio: print out the name of pktio used
       - linux-generic: pktio: re-organize queue config code
       - linux-generic: pktio: remove unwanted initialisation
       - linux-generic: pktio: use multiqueue recv internally
       - linux-generic: pool: accelerate buffer allocation marking
       - linux-generic: pool: catch duplicate free errors in debug builds
       - linux-generic: queue: check invalid handle in odp_queue_destroy
       - linux-generic: remove direct include of endian.h from byteorder.h
       - linux-generic: remove direct include of stdint.h by atomic.h
       - linux-generic: remove direct include of stdlib.h by timer.h
       - linux-generic: removed spin_internal
       - linux-generic: scheduler: improve pktio polling
       - linux-generic: sockets: implement pktio statistics
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: apply per-CPU implementation to MIPS
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: apply per-CPU implementation to PowerPC
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: make the cpu_hz per-CPU data
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: make the model_str per-CPU data
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: move ARM system info codes to default arch file
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: move MIPS system info codes to its platform file
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: move PowerPC system info codes to its platform file
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: move cpu_arch_str to odp_system_info_t
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: move x86 system info codes to its platform file
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: rename odp_cpu_hz_current with odp_ prefix
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: rename variable cpu_hz to cpu_hz_max
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: revise odp_cpu_hz() to return current frequency
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: set values for cpu_arch_str
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: update dummy function to pass validation
       - linux-generic: sysinfo: use uniform call odp_sysinfo_parser
       - linux-generic: timer use SIGEV_THREAD_ID
       - linux-generic: timer: limit notification about resolution incorrectness
       - linux-generic: timer use SIGEV_THREAD_ID
       - linux-generic: update CPU Hz calling functions

opendataplane (1.6.0.0)
   * API:
       - api: atomic: clean atomic API documentation
       - api: clib: added standard c library api
       - api: hash: Added crc32 and crc32c hash functions
       - api/linux-generic: classification: rename odp_drop_e to odp_cls_drop_t
       - api/validation/linux-generic: classification: implement class of service create api
       - api: time: add global time API
       - api: time: add resolution and wait API calls
       - api: time: make odp_local_time to be monotonic wall time
       - api: init: allow implementation to use private ways for its own configuration
       - api: classification: add odp_cls_cos_pool_set() api
       - api: doc: re-organize doxygen doc for synchronizer
       - api: rwlock_recursive: added recursive rwlock
       - api: spinlock_recursive: added recursive spinlock
       - api: crypto: Add AES128-GCM support
       - api: thread: added THREAD_COUNT_MAX define
       - api: thrmask: correct specification error
       - api: pktio: add odp_pktio_print() API
       - api: version: added implementation name str
       - api: sync: removed odp_sync_stores
       - api: barrier: added memory barriers
   * ODP docs:
       - doc/users-guide: add time API section
       - doc/users-guide: add cryptographic services section
       - doc: userguide: add application programming section
       - doc: process-guide: add release process
       - doc: images: replace overview with editable svg src
       - doc: guides: embed icons and images in html
       - doc: re-organize doxygen doc for synchronizer
   * Validation
       - api/validation/linux-generic: classification: implement class of service create api
       - api: hash: Added crc32 and crc32c hash functions
       - classification: add odp_cls_cos_pool_set() api
       - classification: adds additional ASSERTS for stability
       - classification: check return value of pktio stop
       - classification: start pktio after setting inq and stop it before removing it
       - classification: stronger checks to avoid SEGV on pktio failure
       - crypto: add test for AES128-GCM
       - crypto: allow custom auth/cipher range
       - crypto: support validating both cipher and auth at the same time
       - performance: pktio_perf: use odp_time_wait_ns() function instead of looping
       - performance: sched: use ODP time API instead of clock_gettime
       - performance: set a packet rate pass threshold for l2fwd
       - pktio : Fix UDP checksum computation
       - pktio: ability to wait for external network
       - pktio: add customizable out mode for pktios
       - pktio: add test for start when started and stop when stopped()
       - pktio: add tests for rrecv() on WONLY, and send on RONLY pktios
       - pktio: initialize mac addresses for all packets
       - pktio: refactor error handling during sequence check
       - pktio: remove unneeded stop as interface is stopped after open()
       - pktio: stop interfaces before removing the default inq
       - pktio: test odp_pktio_print()
       - queue: refactor test to avoid coverity issues
       - sched: improve scheduler validation test to check sched time correctly
       - scheduler: use fail timeout when waiting on events in chaos
       - std_clib: added validation tests
       - synchronizers: add missing rwlock read lock functional test
       - synchronizers: add recursive lock tests
       - test/example: use local time API as wall time
       - test: performance: pktio: don't use direct arithmetic operations with odp_time_t
       - time: add test convertsion on 0
       - time: add test for odp_time_local_res() and use resolution
       - time: add test for odp_time_wait_ns() and odp_time_wait_until()
       - time: don't assign int directly to odp_time_t
       - time: test time constants in ns
       - time: update to tes global time API
       - validation: time: align tests with current time API
   * General:
       - align with new wall time API
       - classification: add null check for pool assigned to CoS
       - classification: define pkt_addr as const
       - classification: implement class of service create api
       - classification: implements odp_cls_cos_pool_set() api
       - classification: rename odp_drop_e to odp_cls_drop_t
       - clib: added standard c library api
       - crypto: Add AES128-GCM support
       - fix tap compilation
       - hash: Added crc32 and crc32c hash functions
       - include netmap headers with -isystem
       - odp_time: don't use cpu cycle API to get time
       - packet: _odp_parse_common: arm build fix
       - pktio: add odp_pktio_print() API
       - pktio: add tap pktio type
       - pktio: add test for tap pktio
       - pktio: check for pktio_start when started and pktio_stop when stopped
       - pktio: check interface mode is compatible before receiving or sending
       - pktio: configuration functions check that interface is stopped
       - queue: fix memory corruption in reorder_enq()
       - rwlock_recursive: added recursive rwlock
       - schedule: set sched_local.pool correctly
       - schedule: use schedule time in ns
       - socket: set up __odp_errno on ioctl failures
       - spinlock_recursive: added recursive spinlock
       - thread: added THREAD_COUNT_MAX define
       - thread: removed internal max threads define
       - time: add global time API
       - time: add resolution and wait API calls
       - time: remove posix bleed through on odp_time_t
       - timer: include event_types instead of buffer_types
       - validation: pktio: report test as skipped when setup fails
       - validation: run config tests

opendataplane (1.5.0.0)
   * API:
       - api: buffer: add functions to alloc/free multiple buffers at once
       - api: cpu: change order of arguments for diff function
       - api: crypto: add AES128-CBC encrypt/decrypt methods
       - api: crypto: add HMAC-SHA-256-128 support
       - api: crypto: move enums from platform types to odp and rename to fit the API format
       - api: packet: add functions to alloc/free multiple packets at once
       - api: queue: add odp_queue_info() function to retrieve queue information
       - api: time: change order of arguments for diff function
       - api: time: unbind CPU cycles from time API
   * ODP docs:
       - userguide: add baseline overview to document
       - images: add additional user guide images
       - implementers-guide: convert to ODP standard layout
       - implementers-guide: fix broken doxygen build from tarball
       - users-guide: move EXTRA_DIST down to its makefile
       - Makefile: add docs to the tarball
       - improve asciidoc presentation
       - users-guide convert to asciidoc
       - images: add resource_management.msc for users-guide
       - images: add svg for user-guide
   * Validation
       - performance: odp_pktio_perf: fix potential overflow in wait loop
       - test/example: avoid "cycle" word usage
       - ability to specify test install directory
       - buffer: add tests for buffer alloc/free multi functions
       - crypto: add test for AES128 CBC
       - crypto: add test for HMAC-SHA-256-128
       - crypto: limit packet size to maximum supported by platform
       - packet: add tests for packet alloc/free multi functions
       - queue: api validation tests for odp_queue_info()
       - remove strict dependency on CUnit 2.1-3
       - scheduler: add missing ticketlock unlock
   * General:
       - rpm packaging support
       - linux-generic: config: increase ODP_CONFIG_SCHED_GRPS to 256
       - linux-generic: cpumask: warn that CPU0 is used by control and worker thread
       - linux-generic: packet: add implementation for packet alloc/free multi
       - linux-generic: pool: add buffer_alloc_multi function
       - linux-generic: pool: add implementation for buffer alloc/free multi
       - linux-generic: queue: add odp_queue_info() function
       - linux-generic: validation: add run-test script for post install testing
       - platform: move list of API files to Makefile.inc so it is common to all platforms

opendataplane (1.4.1.0)
   * Validation
       - pktio: test transmit error recovery
       - schedule: add chaos test
       - check return code from odp_queue_lock_count()
       - scheduler: test ordered queue reorder processing
       - pktio: initialize queue parameters correctly
       - pktio: test for transmit error handling
       - pktio: add support for direct receive
       - pktio: pass interface index rather than name
       - pktio: fix start_stop test
       - test: l2fwd: separate rx and tx drop counters
       - test: l2fwd: increase burst size
       - test: l2fwd: optimize statistics usage
       - test: l2fwd: optimize queue mode
       - test: l2fwd: start pktios after worker thread create
       - test: l2fwd: added option to disable error check
       - example/ipsec: Increase ip_data_len for Tunnel mode
       - example: ipsec: check push_tail return code
   * General:
       - linux-generic: pktio: handle transmit errors correctly
       - pktio socket_mmap: recover from transmit errors but 1890
       - pktio: increase MTU of loop interface
       - ordered queues: fix race condition during order release
         and out of order.
       - configure: move HAVE_PCAP AM_CONDITIONAL to configure.ac
   * ODP helper:
       - linux: checkpatch cleaning for helper/linux.c
       - linux: examine the cause for child process termination
       - linux: request SIGTERM if parent process dies

opendataplane (1.4.0.0)
   * API:
       - ** Classification **
       - odp_cos_set_queue() renamed to odp_cos_queue_set()
       - int odp_cos_set_drop renamed to odp_cos_drop_set()
       - new: odp_queue_t odp_cos_queue(odp_cos_t cos_id)
       - new: odp_drop_e odp_cos_drop(odp_cos_t cos_id)
       - ODP_PMR_CUSTOM_FRAME support in classification
       - odp_pmr_create() arguments passing change to use struct
       - odp_pmr_match_set_create() added id argument
       - ** Config **
       - new: odp_config_...() API introduced instead of ODP_CONFIG_ defines
       - ** Cpu, Threads and Scheduler **
       - new: uint64_t odp_cpu_cycles(void)
       - new: uint64_t odp_cpu_cycles_diff(uint64_t c1, uint64_t c2);
       - new: uint64_t odp_cpu_cycles_max(void);
       - new: uint64_t odp_cpu_cycles_resolution(void);
       - odp_cpumask_def_worker() renamed to odp_cpumask_default_worker()
       - odp_cpumask_def_control() renamed to odp_cpumask_default_control()
       - odp init extended with num worker and control threads
       - new: int odp_queue_lock_count(odp_queue_t queue);
       - refine api doc for scheduler and schedule ordered locks
       - argument of odp_schedule_order_lock() and odp_schedule_order_unlock changed to unsigned
       - new: int odp_thread_count_max(void)
       - ** Packet **
       - new: uint32_t odp_packet_flow_hash(odp_packet_t pkt)
       - new: void odp_packet_flow_hash_set(odp_packet_t pkt, uint32_t flow_hash)
       - new: int odp_packet_has_flow_hash(odp_packet_t pkt);
       - new: void odp_packet_has_flow_hash_clr(odp_packet_t pkt);
       - ** Pktio **
       - pktio can be configuread as receive or transmit only
       - pktio: refined api doc for start() and stop()
       - new: void odp_pktio_param_init(odp_pktio_param_t *param)
   * ODP docs:
       - implementers-guide: update names of test module libraries
       - implementers-guide: update section on skipping tests
   * Test framework
       - update README files
       - renaming module libs
       - add odp_cunit_update() to modify registered tests
       - add ability to mark tests inactive
   * Validation
       - ** Classification **
       - Add fix for classification tests
       - remove redundant pool lookup function
       - remove redundant sequence number check
       - use tcp data offset field to calculate data offset
       - move destroy_inq() to common file
       - add odp_pktio_param_init() API
       - added additional suite to test individual PMRs
       - use a structure instead of many args for odp_pmr_create
       - Add init calls for queue parameters
       - syntax correction for CU_ASSERT
       - Add init calls for pool parameters
       - queue and drop policy API name change
       - Queue parameter init calls
       - ** Cpu, Threads and Scheduler **
       - rename odp_cpumask_def to _default
       - schedule: revise definition of ordered locks
       - schedule: remove odp_schedule_order_lock_init() API
       - schedule: don't check schedule time on 0
       - synchronizers: support a single worker
       - init: fix test when debug-print is disabled
       - ** Packet **
       - packet: test flow hash
       - packet: test now handles pool that do not support segmentation
       - ** Pktio **
       - pktio: don't call APIs with an invalid pktio handle
       - ** Config **
       - config: removed ODP_CONFIG_MAX_THREADS
       - config: add CUnit tests for config APIs
   * Performance
       - l2fwd: add missing braces
       - l2fwd: add option to disable filling eth addresses
       - l2fwd: add support for using odd number of ports
       - l2fwd: fix crash when accuracy is set to 0
       - l2fwd: add option to select scheduler queue type
       - l2fwd: add option to change destination eth addresses
       - l2fwd: obey -t in queue mode
       - l2fwd: fill correct source ethernet address
       - sched: update scheduling test to use cycle counts
       - odp_pktio_perf: fix potential overflow for burst_gap
       - odp_pktio_perf: fix potential overflow for send_duration
   * general:
       - classification: implement ODP_PMR_CUSTOM_FRAME matching
       - classification: queue and drop policy API name change
       - cpu: created arch dependent cpu_cycles files
       - cpu: fix cycle lost while cycle counter overflow
       - cpu: implementation for cycle count API
       - cpu: rename time_cycles to cpu_cycles
       - pktio: implemented pcap pktio
       - pktio: implemented netmap pktio
       - pktio: close all pktio when term is called
       - pktio: enable classifier only when needed
       - pktio: factor state management into packet_io
       - pktio: fill in L2 parse results by default
       - pktio: implement odp_pktio_param_init() API
       - packet: implement flow hash support
       - schedule: fix odp_schedule_wait_time
       - queue: change lock_index from uint32_t to unsigned to match API
       - queue: direct internal enqueues to target queue
       - queue: fix pktout_enqueue() logic
       - queue: remove obsolete prototypes
       - use cycles_diff for time API also

opendataplane (1.3.0.0)
   * API:
       - codespell: correct spelling
       - event: change to odp_event_type_t
       - init: use const pointer types
       - packet_io: added odp_pktio_param_t
       - packet_io: added start and stop
       - packet_io: change word instance to interface
       - pktio: added output mode
       - pktio: rename pktio_input_mode enum
       - pool: add odp_pool_param_init prototype
       - pool: standardize description for odp_pool_param_init routine
       - queue: add odp_queue_param_init prototype
       - queue: clarify odp_queue_context_set() documentation
       - queue: rename queue context get/set for consistency
       - sched: added ordered context lock
       - sched: added release ordered
       - sched: added schedule group create and destroy
       - sched: added schedule prefetch
       - sched: added worker group
       - sched: add additional scheduler group APIs
       - sched: clarified synchronization context
       - sched: clarify usage of PRIO_DEFAULT
       - sched: moved scheduler types into new file
       - sched: removed GROUP_DEFAULT
       - sched: removed SYNC_DEFAULT
       - sched: rename order lock APIs and typedef
       - sched: schedule param
       - sched: config: add configuration for scheduler groups
       - schedule: fix comment typo
       - spelling fixes
       - style: init api: documentation clean up
   * ODP docs:
       - doc: implementers-guide: add validation description
       - doc: publish contributing text
   * ODP helper:
       - fix installation path for includes
       - linux: catch possible undefined
       - test: chksum: catch errors in scan_ip
   * test:
       * validation:
           - add test on unused retvals
           - use _CU_TEST_INFO() macro
           - system: fix uninitialised variable
           - schedule: add param init calls
           - schedule: test scheduler groups
           - test odp_pktio_start and odp_pktio_stop
           - fix build from tar source
           - kill odp_generator
           - removing current dir from -I
       * performance:
           - Makefile: add scripts to EXTRA_DIST
           - l2fwd: fix race condition between thread init and stat counter
           - l2fwd: capture test fails
           - odp_pktio_perf: use real MAC addresses while packet creation
           - odp_scheduling: remove redundant var inits
           - use odp_pool_param_init routine
           - use odp_queue_param_init routine
   * general:
       - Makefile.am: fix basename conflicts
       - Makefile: add all arch to the tarball
       - fix logic for calling pktio init and term functions
       - install missing headers
       - move default cpumask functions to separate file
       - move openssl checks inside linux-generic
       - move pthread checks inside linux-generic
       - add pktio_start and pktio_stop
       - pktio: add global init and term function for pktios
       - pktio: always test loop interface
       - pktio: handle segmented packet in socket mode
       - pktio: remove basic socket implementation
       - pktio: store errno correctly in setup
       - pool: add odp_pool_type_t enum
       - pool: implement odp_pool_param_init
       - queue: implement odp_queue_param_init routine
       - queue: implement ordered queues
       - remove linux-generic makefile generation from common configure.ac
       - schedule pktin_poll: account pktio stop state
       - schedule: implement scheduler groups
       - schedule: implement odp_schedule_prefetch()
       - schedule: implement ordered locks
       - Makefile.am: fix aclocal warning when building from tarball
       - m4: pthread: fix warning with Wextra
       - scripts/git_hash: change repo to CUSTOM_STR
       - scripts/git_hash: fix build from tar source
       - scripts: Makefile: add odp_version.sh to the tarball

opendataplane (1.2.0.0)
   * API:
       - docs: doxygen grouping clean up and remove excess references to ODP
       - pool: remove shm parameter from odp_pool_create()
       - packet_io: clarify what happens when not all packets are sent
       - cpumask: added default masks and cpumask_setall
       - thrmask: added thread mask
       - thread: added thread type
   * ODP helper:
       - helper: convert to a library
       - remove helper dependence on ODP internals
       - helper: linux: check pthread_join return code
       - test checksum
       - helpers: fix udp checksum computation
       - test: helper: add process and thread tests
       - deleted odph_linux_cpumask_default
   * test:
       * validation:
           - tests execution moved to platform side
           - test: pktio_perf: add missing atomic init
           - test: synchronizers: use thread_id instead of cpu_id to detect slow threa
           - validation: pktio: do not dequeue from scheduled queue
           - test: pktio_perf: fix pthread_t offset for tx threads
           - packet_io: release unsent packets after odp_pktio_send()
           - validation: new module errno
           - test: pktio_perf: add missing ns to cycle conversion for busy loop
           - validation: classification: fix ODP_PMR_IPPROTO capability check
           - validation: scheduler: fix race condition in pause test
           - test: do not use negative array index
           - thread and cpumask validation suites
           - example:ipsec: Fix for Polled queues
           - scheduler: use number of workers
           - example: classifier: fix string overflow
   * general:
           - linux-generic: put pktio types to separate files with common interface.
           - configure: use stricter warnings
           - linux-generic: timer: use timer handles as buffer handles
           - linux-generic: buffer: remove unneeded division/module when mapping within the first segment
           - linux-generic: pool: use ODP_CONFIG_PACKET_SEG_LEN_MIN correctly
           - queue: handle return value of odp_queue_enq()
           - linux-generic: classification: add support for ODP_PMR_IPSEC_SPI
           - add {EXEEXT} suffix to binaries
           - event: implement odp_event_free()
           - packet_socket: do not release packets in odp_pktio_send
           - linux-generic: packet: fix byte order in IPv6 header parsing
           - linux-generic: schedule: fix double free
           - linux-generic: buffers: correct segment length calculation for packets
           - linux-generic: timer: set timer queue to ODP_QUEUE_INVALID on init
           - linux-generic: buffer: reduce field size and reorder for better packing
           - linux-generic: crypto: eliminate buffer type hack for completions
           - linux-generic: pool: remove double init
           - linux-generic: pool: group and document pool statistics
           - platform: Makefile.inc: use `` instead of != for compatibility with older versions of Make
           - linux-generic: packet: Add lazy parsing support
           - linux-generic: buffer: init all the odp_buffer_bits_t struct to avoid valgrind warnings

opendataplane (1.1.0.0)
   * API:
       - style: moved pool type first in pool_param
       - style: pool_param doxygen comments
       - api: packet: removed odp_packet_user_u64
       - api: packet: rename user_data to user_area
       - api: pktio: Clarify doc on default pool usage on odp_pktio_open
       - timer: Add missing platform handles to u64 conversion functions
       - api/linux-generic/example/validation: remove odp_pmr_create_range() function definition
       - api: packet: relax return code to use non-zero for true
       - api: packet/pool: proposed APIs for packet user metadata

   * test:
       * validation:
           - validation: packet: add user metadata tests
           - test: pktio: add missing atomic init
           - test: use CU_ASSERT_FATAL in case odp_buffer_alloc failed to avoid segfaults
           - validation: pktio: fix polling tests
           - validation: tests for module odp_ver_abt_log_dbg
           - validation: rename executable to match modules
   * general:
       - linux-generic/odp_impl: add implementation version details
       - linux-generic: support running with restricted cpu set
       - linux-generic: packet: add user metadata support
       - linux-generic: pool: add user metadata support
       - linux-generic: buffer: restructure user mdatadata fields
       - linux-generic: use inttypes defines to print (u)int32_t values

opendataplane (1.0.4)

   * test:
       * validation:
           - synchronizers: fix init of custom barrier atomic
           - pktio: don't pass invalid handles
           - use PRIu32 instead of %u to print uint32_t variables
           - thread: add odp_thread sunnyday tests
           - classification: add missing init of atomic variable
           - api_test: remove odp_shm_test
       * performance:
           - pktio: fix check for pktio_tx
           - pktio: test return value of odp_pktio_close()
           - pktio: add throughput test
   * example:
           - ODP classifier example
   * bugs:
           - example: timer: clean up prescheduled events
   * general:
           - api: time: force time defines as ULL to avoid computation overflows on 32bits systems
           - linux-generic: packet_io: init l2 and l3 cos table spinlocks
           - linux-generic: pool: initialize atomics during odp_pool_init_global
           - linux-generic: pool: fix initialization of odp_buffer_hdr ref_count
           - doc: api_guide_lines: add guidance on ODP_DEPRECATED

opendataplane (1.0.3)

   * test:
       * validation:
           - validation: add new test l2fwd_run
           - validation: sched: add missing copyright
           - validation: move l2fwd from example to performance tests
           - validation: implement platform env
           - validation: crypto: combine sync and async tests
           - validation: crypto: handle synchronous operations in async test
           - test: enable valgrind check
           - test/README: explain what's the intention with test/validation
           - validation: classification: un-checked return
           - validation: pktio: support arbitrary length packets
           - validation: pktio: fix memory corruption
           - validation: common: catch odp_term_local/global failures
           - validation: common: print odp_init failures to stderr
           - validation: schedule: exit schedule loop
           - validation: schedule: added queue destroy test
   * bugs:
           - linux-generic: pool: fix missing increment of blkallocs stat
           - example: odp_generator: use odp_timer
           - configure.ac: include configure.m4 if platform explicitly selected
   * general:
           - doxygen cleanups
           - scheduler: restructured queue and pktio integration
           - linux-generic: schedule: terminate
           - linux-generic: debug_internal: assert prints condition
           - linux-generic: pool: check for NULL params before dereference
           - linux-generic: pktio: fix SEGV after odp_pktio_inq_remdef()
           - linux-generic: system_info: use global data struct
           - linux-generic: use arch optimisations
           - examples: odp_ipsec: runtime select multiple vs single deq
           - examples: odp_ipsec: runtime select scheduled vs poll queues
           - examples: odp_ipsec: handle alloc_pkt_ctx failure
           - scripts: odp_check: remove astyle
           - linux-generic: odp_linux: migrate helpers to helper dir

opendataplane (1.0.2)
   * API:
       - api files were touched with override patches but no api
         changes were actually made.
   * test:
       * validation:
           - fix memory allocation in odp_synchronizers
           - fixed memory leak in odp_cpumask.c
           - timer: use unused attribute
           - pktio: add support for VPATH builds
           - added odp_cpumask test
           - timer: free malloced memory
           - timer: use ODP_SHM_NULL
           - timer: added cancel test
           - pktio: prevent race when using veth pair
           - test: debug: replace example with test
           - test: debug: add unused attribute MACRO
           - performance: odp_atomic: move atomic test from api_test to performance
           - performance: scheduling: add support for VPATH builds
           - performance: scheduling: catch exit codes
   * general:
           - barrier: allow platform to override odp_barrier_t
           - ticketlock: allow platform to override odp_ticketlock_t
           - rwlock: allow platform to override odp_rwlock_t
           - spinlock: allow platform to override odp_spinlock_t
           - doc: move api guidelines to API doc
           - linux-generic: strongtypes: add dummy struct var to keep c++ happy
           - linux-generic: queue: fix potential queue leak
           - linux-generic: strongtypes: use named structs for C++
           - example: l2fwd print packets per second
           - linux-generic: linux: destroy used pthread attr
   * bugs:
           - validation: packet: use non-zero as true indication
           - linux-generic: pktio check for NULL entry
           - linux-generic: fix incorrect pmr_term_value update in odp_pmr_create_xxx() function
           - replace strtok_r with strtok and fix leaks
           - schedule: free queues and pool

opendataplane (1.0.1)

   * test:
       * validation:
           - pktio: disable arp on virtual interfaces
           - pktio check return code for pool_destroy
           - schedule: code clean up
           - odp_scheduling: limit worker thread count
           - odp_timer: cleanup for clean termination
           - common: prevent masking test failures
           - shm: abort on null pointer
           - crypto: add packet free to sync test
           - crypto: add common test cleanup
           - common: add support for test term
           - crypto: split crypto and random tests
           - add unit tests for strong type display functions
   * general:
           - linux-generic: only print errors to stderr
           - linux-generic: linux: remove explicit buffer cache flush
   * bugs:
           - linux-generic: odp_timer: set user_ptr for cancelled timeout
           - validation: odp_timer: cleanup for clean termination
           - example: odp_packet uncomment polling queues
           - linux-generic: mmap: jumbo frames support
           - linux-generic: thread: reuse thread ids
           - classification: destroy pktio default inqueue during teardown
           - classification: pktio skip value set to zero

opendataplane (1.0.0)

   * API:
       - crypto, cpumask, packet_io, random: replace ssize_t with int32_t
       - crypto: add session destroy function
       - crypto: add error code for invalid IV
       - classification: Add documentation for missing macros
       - hints: add printf format attribute
       - errno: add api to public api
       - init: add missing documentation
       - packet_io: remove specific errno value
   * test:
       * validation:
           - Makefile.am: restructure
           - pktio: free unexpected packets/events
           - pktio: destroy interface specific pools
           - pktio: destroy pktio input queues
           - pktio: fix odp_errno usage
           - buffer: split pool, buffer and packet tests
           - init: include stdlib.h for abort()
           - crypto: verify session_destroy
           - crypto: verify odp_crypto_operation() return code
           - queue: destroy created ODP resources
           - errno: add sunnyday test
       * miscellaneous:
           - Add CPP test
   * bugs:
       - odp_init_log: fix clang format string error
       - buffers: remove obsolete debugging code
       - classification: fix unchecked return value
       - classification: fix incorrect ipv4 checksum update
       - example: generator: add missing doxygen documentation
       - pools: switch to simple locks for buf/blk synchronization
       - performance: fix c99 warnings as errors
       - crypto: handle copy error
       - system: read hugepage size for all architectures
       - queue: fix PKTIN queue destroy
   * general:
       - add -std=c99 gcc flag by default, fix all warnings
       - handle copy error in odp_crypto_operation
       - fix all doxygen warnings
       - configured defines changed ODP_CONFIG_ and moved to config.h

opendataplane (0.11.0)

   * API:
       - update return descriptions
       - add strong types
       - thread, rename functions
       - cpu, rename functions
       - errno added
       - classification, remove pmr count
       - init, allow the abort function to be overridden
       - hints, add ODP_NORETURN
       - packet_flag, remove odp_packet_override_l4_checksum
   * validation:
       - init, add tests for override the abort function
   * bugs:
       - timer, avoid cunit warnings for late timeouts
       - version, fix odp_version_api_str (1194, 1207)
       - fix clang (1203, 1023)
       - validation: init: fix unitalized data in struct (1206)
       - linux-generic: setup_pktio_entry() null terminate pkio name (1055)
       - validation: odp_timer.c: (1048, 1056)

opendataplane (0.10.0)

   * API:
       - Allow init_global logging
       - Add events
       - Add Crypto Completion event
       - Classification API cleanup
       - Move header files out of linux-generic
   * validation:
       - Classification tests
   * bugs:
       - l2fwd: fix incorrect cpumask used when spawning threads
       - shared memory
   * general:
       - move headers into namespace the odp/helper

opendataplane (0.9.0)

  * Initial release
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