Add markers for release 2.26

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / NEWS

diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 32b95ae729421b6c899663447c4c36e8fc33a18f..3146bd6043ffb1114a86b89c50066c0f23fef452 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+Changes in 2.26:
+
+* Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file:
+  --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>]
+
+* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
+
+* Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support
+  --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF
+  targets.
+
+* Add --update-section option to objcopy.
+
+* Add --output-separator option to strings.
+
 Changes in 2.25:
 
 * Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized
@@ -108,7 +123,7 @@ Changes in 2.20:
 * 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 
+* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to
   report an error when the import library is associated with
   multiple DLLs.
 
@@ -127,7 +142,7 @@ Changes in 2.19:
   object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a
   flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been
   added to the archive.
-  
+
 * Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly.
 
 * Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index.
@@ -192,9 +207,9 @@ Changes in 2.17:
 
 * Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
   to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
-  
+
 * gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for
-  several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint.  
+  several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint.
 
 Changes in 2.16:
 
@@ -243,7 +258,7 @@ Changes in 2.15:
 * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
   section into a (presumably stripped) executable.  This allows the debug
   information for the file to be held in a separate file.
-  
+
 * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
   single-character representation.  This can be checked by running nm
   with the -a switch.