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 -*- text -*-
+* Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence
+  of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command line option.
+
+* The gprof program has been given a new command line option:
+  --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified
+  file.
+
+* The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects
+  used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats.
+
+* The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format
+  for objcopy.
+
+* Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment,
+  --stack and --subsystem command line options to objcopy, which will
+  set PE optional header.
+
+* Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w.
+
+* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
+  symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the
+  latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
+  entry of one of the libraries already linked.
+
+* Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to
+  add absolute paths for -S.
+
+* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall-
+  back to old import table generation with null element prefix.
+
+* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to 
+  report an error when the import library is associated with
+  multiple DLLs.
+
+* Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the
+  name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>.
+
+* Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed.  The assembler no
+  longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts
+  -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64.  Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used.
+
+Changes in 2.19:
+
+* Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line.
+
 * Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to
   object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a
   flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been