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diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
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+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,69 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
+
+* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt.  -i disables the display of implementation
+  specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
+  of types.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
+  that extra switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
+  debug sections.
+
+* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
+  "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
+
+* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
+  conscious.  This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
+  code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt.  The old PLT
+  and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
+
+* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
+  for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
+
+* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
+
+* Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
+  when disassembling VAX binaries.
+
+* Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
+  to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
+
+Changes in 2.16:
+
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups.
+
+* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
+  --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
+  matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
+  retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations.
+
+* readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections.  This
+  happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered.  The
+  command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display
+  the contents of the .debug_range section.
+
+* nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of
+  symbols which the target considers to be special.  By default these symbols
+  are no longer displayed.  Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping
+  symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and
+  between ARM and THUMB code.
+
+* dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional
+  import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them.
+
+Changes in 2.15:
+
+* objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the
+  disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some
+  pseudo instruction name.  I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move",
+  "sll" instead of "nop", etc.
+
+* objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on
+  the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them.
+
 * readelf can now parse archives.
 
 * objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a
@@ -13,7 +77,7 @@
 
 * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
   section into a (presumably stripped) executable.  This allows the debug
-  information for the file to be held in a seperate file.
+  information for the file to be held in a separate file.
   
 * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
   single-character representation.  This can be checked by running nm