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 -*- text -*-
 
+* Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov.
+
+Changes in 2.13:
+
+* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
+  and FR500 included.
+
+Changes in version 2.12:
+
+* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
+
+* size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only).
+
+* readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing
+  lines to fit into 80 columns.
+
+* strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings.  By Markus Kuhn.
+
+* objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names.
+
+* readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions.  Support added for
+  displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections.
+
+* New command line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as
+  global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols.
+  by Honda Hiroki.
+
+* Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg.
+
+* New command line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary
+  with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture
+  description.  Only supported for ELF targets.  By Alexandre Oliva.
+
+* New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets
+  the architecture of the output file to the given argument.  This option only
+  makes sense, if the input target is binary.  Otherwise it is ignored.
+  By Stefan Geuken.
+
+* Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.11:
+
+* Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM
+  extenstions.
+
+* Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy.
+  By Luciano Gemme.
+  
+* Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander.
+
+* Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
+
+* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
+
 Changes in binutils 2.10:
 
+* Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA.
+
 * New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the
   entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given
   file. 
@@ -22,14 +78,16 @@ Changes in binutils 2.10:
   equivalent to --change-section-address.  The other --adjust-* options are now
   renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work.
 
+* objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols.
+
+* objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified
+  sections.
+
 * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command.
 
 * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols,
   --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options.
 
-* objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified
-  sections.
-
 Changes in binutils 2.9:
 
 * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32