2008-04-10 Andreas Krebbel <krebbel1@de.ibm.com>

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+* New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE
+  instructions with VEX prefix.
+
+* Add Intel XSAVE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target.
+
+* New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU,
+  -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg,
+  -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets.
+
+* Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new
+  pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64.
+
+* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
+
+Changes in 2.18:
+
+* The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3.
+
+* Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added.
+
+* Added gas .reloc pseudo.  This is a low-level interface for creating
+  relocations.
+
 * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target.
 
 * Add support for Score target.
 
+Changes in 2.17:
+
 * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
 
 * Support for ms2 architecture has been added.