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@@ -3,6 +3,20 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 7.12
 
+* GDB now supports access to the PKU register on GNU/Linux. The register is
+  added by the Memory Protection Keys for Userspace feature which will be
+  available in future Intel CPUs.
+
+* GDB now supports C++11 rvalue references.
+
+* Python Scripting
+
+  ** New functions to start, stop and access a running btrace recording.
+  ** Rvalue references are now supported in gdb.Type.
+
+* GDB now supports recording and replaying rdrand and rdseed Intel 64
+  instructions.
+
 * Building GDB and GDBserver now requires a C++11 compiler.
 
   For example, GCC 4.8 or later.
@@ -47,9 +61,53 @@
      end
    end
 
+* Target descriptions can now describe registers for sparc32 and sparc64.
+
+* GDB now supports DWARF version 5 (debug information format).
+  Its .debug_names index is not yet supported.
+
+* New native configurations
+
+FreeBSD/mips                   mips*-*-freebsd
+
+
 * New targets
 
 Synopsys ARC                   arc*-*-elf32
+FreeBSD/mips                   mips*-*-freebsd
+
+* New commands
+
+flash-erase
+  Erases all the flash memory regions reported by the target.
+
+* New MI commands
+
+-target-flash-erase
+  Erases all the flash memory regions reported by the target.  This is
+  equivalent to the CLI command flash-erase.
+
+-file-list-shared-libraries
+  List the shared libraries in the program.  This is
+  equivalent to the CLI command "info shared".
+
+* New commands
+
+set disassembler-options
+show disassembler-options
+  Controls the passing of target specific information to the disassembler.
+  If it is necessary to specify more than one disassembler option then
+  multiple options can be placed together into a comma separated list.
+  The default value is the empty string.  Currently, the only supported
+  targets are ARM, PowerPC and S/390.
+
+maint print arc arc-instruction address
+  Print internal disassembler information about instruction at a given address.
+
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+Alpha running FreeBSD         alpha*-*-freebsd*
+Alpha running GNU/kFreeBSD    alpha*-*-kfreebsd*-gnu
 
 *** Changes in GDB 7.12
 
@@ -80,6 +138,13 @@ Synopsys ARC                        arc*-*-elf32
 * Fortran: Support structures with fields of dynamic types and 
   arrays of dynamic types.
 
+* The symbol dumping maintenance commands have new syntax.
+maint print symbols [-pc address] [--] [filename]
+maint print symbols [-objfile objfile] [-source source] [--] [filename]
+maint print psymbols [-objfile objfile] [-pc address] [--] [filename]
+maint print psymbols [-objfile objfile] [-source source] [--] [filename]
+maint print msymbols [-objfile objfile] [--] [filename]
+
 * GDB now supports multibit bitfields and enums in target register
   descriptions.