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+* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will
+  strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except
+  for its symbol table.  Files containing just symbols can be useful
+  to some OSes.
+
+* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
+
+* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt.  -i disables the display of implementation
+  specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
+  of types.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
+  that extra switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
+  debug sections.
+
+* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
+  "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
+
 * powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
   conscious.  This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
   code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt.  The old PLT