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 -*- text -*-
 
+* The ARC port of objdump now accepts a -M option to specify the extra
+  instruction class(es) that should be disassembled.
+
+* The --remove-section option for objcopy and strip now accepts section
+  patterns starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching
+  section.  A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections
+  matched by an earlier --remove-section pattern.
+
+* The --only-section option for objcopy now accepts section patterns
+  starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching section.
+  A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections matched by
+  an earlier --only-section pattern.
+
+* New --remove-relocations=SECTIONPATTERN option for objcopy and strip.
+  This option can be used to remove sections containing relocations.
+  The SECTIONPATTERN is the section to which the relocations apply, not
+  the relocation section itself.
+
+Changes in 2.27:
+
+* Add a configure option, --enable-64-bit-archive, to force use of a
+  64-bit format when creating an archive symbol index.
+
+* Add --elf-stt-common= option to objcopy for ELF targets to control
+  whether to convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type.
+
 Changes in 2.26:
 
 * Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file:
@@ -509,7 +535,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.1:
   and/or local symbols only.  They now also support long options.
 
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+Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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