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 -*- text -*-
 
+* PE targets now support a GNU extension to allow the alignment of common
+  common symbols to be specified.  This support uses custom options in
+  the .drectve section, which will be disregarded by the native tools.
+
+* PE targets now add primitive support for ELF version scripts; symbols
+  are not versioned, but the local and global symbol visibility directives
+  are respected when filtering symbols in auto-export mode.
+
+* New option --no-export-dynamic to undo the effect of the -E and
+  --export-dynamic options.
+
+* ELF: --warn-alternate-em option to warn if an object has alternate
+  ELF machine code.
+
 * New script function REGION_ALIAS to add alias names to memory regions.
 
 * PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
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   automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB
   needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names.
 
+* For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now avoid processing any relocations
+  made against symbols of the STT_GNU_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
+  the resulting binary for processing by the loader.
+
 * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
   symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the
   latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED