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 -*- text -*-
-* For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now forego processing any relocations
-  made against symbols of the STT_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
+
+* 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
+  the COFF format when generating executable images, by default.  The old
+  (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
+  new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option.  It is also enabled
+  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
+  entry of one of the libraries already linked.
+
+* Add a new command line option, -Ttext-segment ADDR, for ELF targets
+  to set the address of the first byte of the text segment.
+
+* Add support for Sunplus score architecture.
+
+* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to ld for PE targets to
+  allow fallback to old import table generation with null element prefix.
+
+* Windows PE systems now support a new --exclude-modules-for-implib option,
+  allowing users to partition object files and archive members between a DLL
+  and its associated import library as they are generated during linking.
+
+* Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.
+
 * Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries 
   for Embedded-PIC code) option.