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 *** Changes since GDB 6.7
 
+* Change in command line behavior -- corefiles vs. process ids.
+
+  When the '-p NUMBER' or '--pid NUMBER' options are used, and
+  attaching to process NUMBER fails, GDB no longer attempts to open a
+  core file named NUMBER.  Attaching to a program using the -c option
+  is no longer supported.  Instead, use the '-p' or '--pid' options.
+
+* New commands
+
+set print frame-arguments (all|scalars|none)
+show print frame-arguments
+  The value of this variable can be changed to control which argument
+  values should be printed by the debugger when displaying a frame.
+
+* GDB can now be built as a native debugger for debugging Windows x86
+(mingw32) Portable Executable (PE) programs.
+
 * Pending breakpoints no longer change their number when their address
-  is resolved.
+is resolved.
 
 * GDB now supports breakpoints with multiple locations,
-  including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates,
-  and in inlined functions.
+including breakpoints on C++ constructors, inside C++ templates,
+and in inlined functions.
 
-*** Changes in GDB 6.6
+* GDB's ability to debug optimized code has been improved.  GDB more
+accurately identifies function bodies and lexical blocks that occupy
+more than one contiguous range of addresses.
+
+* Target descriptions can now describe registers for PowerPC.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports the AltiVec and SPE
+registers on PowerPC targets.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports thread debugging on GNU/Linux
+targets even when the libthread_db library is not available.
+
+* The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports the new file transfer
+commands (remote put, remote get, and remote delete).
+
+* hppa*64*-*-hpux11* target broken
+  The debugger is unable to start a program and fails with the following
+  error: "Error trying to get information about dynamic linker".
+  The gdb-6.7 release is also affected.
+
+* GDB now supports the --enable-targets= configure option to allow
+building a single GDB executable that supports multiple remote
+target architectures.
+
+* New commands
+
+remote put
+remote get
+remote delete
+  Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files.
+
+* New MI commands
+
+-target-file-put
+-target-file-get
+-target-file-delete
+  Transfer files to and from a remote target, and delete remote files.
+
+* New remote packets
+
+vFile:open:
+vFile:close:
+vFile:pread:
+vFile:pwrite:
+vFile:unlink:
+  Open, close, read, write, and delete files on the remote system.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 6.7
 
 * Resolved 101 resource leaks, null pointer dereferences, etc. in gdb, 
 bfd, libiberty and opcodes, as revealed by static analysis donated by
@@ -45,7 +109,7 @@ as strings.
 
 * Target descriptions can now describe target-specific registers,
 for architectures which have implemented the support (currently
-only ARM and MIPS).
+only ARM, M68K, and MIPS).
 
 * GDB and the GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now support the XScale
 iWMMXt coprocessor.