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+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,100 @@
 		What has changed in GDB?
 	     (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 8.0
+*** Changes since GDB 8.1
+
+* The 'symbol-file' command now accepts an '-o' option to add a relative
+  offset to all sections.
+
+* Similarly, the 'add-symbol-file' command also accepts an '-o' option to add
+  a relative offset to all sections, but it allows to override the load
+  address of individual sections using '-s'.
+
+* The 'add-symbol-file' command no longer requires the second argument
+  (address of the text section).
+
+* The endianness used with the 'set endian auto' mode in the absence of
+  an executable selected for debugging is now the last endianness chosen
+  either by one of the 'set endian big' and 'set endian little' commands
+  or by inferring from the last executable used, rather than the startup
+  default.
+
+* The pager now allows a "c" response, meaning to disable the pager
+  for the rest of the current command.
+
+* The commands 'info variables/functions/types' now show the source line
+  numbers of symbol definitions when available.
+
+* 'info proc' now works on running processes on FreeBSD systems and core
+  files created on FreeBSD systems.
+
+* C expressions can now use _Alignof, and C++ expressions can now use
+  alignof.
+
+* New commands
+
+set debug fbsd-nat
+show debug fbsd-nat
+  Control display of debugging info regarding the FreeBSD native target.
+
+set|show varsize-limit
+  This new setting allows the user to control the maximum size of Ada
+  objects being printed when those objects have a variable type,
+  instead of that maximum size being hardcoded to 65536 bytes.
+
+set|show record btrace cpu
+  Controls the processor to be used for enabling errata workarounds for
+  branch trace decode.
+
+maint check libthread-db
+  Run integrity checks on the current inferior's thread debugging
+  library
+
+maint set check-libthread-db (on|off)
+maint show check-libthread-db
+  Control whether to run integrity checks on inferior specific thread
+  debugging libraries as they are loaded.  The default is not to
+  perform such checks.
+
+* Python API
+
+  ** Type alignment is now exposed via the "align" attribute of a gdb.Type.
+
+  ** The commands attached to a breakpoint can be set by assigning to
+     the breakpoint's "commands" field.
+
+  ** gdb.execute can now execute multi-line gdb commands.
+
+  ** The new functions gdb.convenience_variable and
+     gdb.set_convenience_variable can be used to get and set the value
+     of convenience variables.
+
+  ** A gdb.Parameter will no longer print the "set" help text on an
+     ordinary "set"; instead by default a "set" will be silent unless
+     the get_set_string method returns a non-empty string.
+
+* New targets
+
+RiscV ELF			riscv*-*-elf
+
+* Removed targets and native configurations
+
+m88k running OpenBSD  		m88*-*-openbsd*
+SH-5/SH64 ELF			sh64-*-elf*, SH-5/SH64 support in sh*
+SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux	SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-linux*
+SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD 	SH-5/SH64 support in sh*-*-openbsd*
+
+* Aarch64/Linux hardware watchpoints improvements
+
+  Hardware watchpoints on unaligned addresses are now properly
+  supported when running Linux kernel 4.10 or higher: read and access
+  watchpoints are no longer spuriously missed, and all watchpoints
+  lengths between 1 and 8 bytes are supported.  On older kernels,
+  watchpoints set on unaligned addresses are no longer missed, with
+  the tradeoff that there is a possibility of false hits being
+  reported.
+
+*** Changes in GDB 8.1
 
 * GDB now supports dynamically creating arbitrary register groups specified
   in XML target descriptions.  This allows for finer grain grouping of
@@ -120,9 +213,9 @@
      gdb.new_thread are emitted.  See the manual for further
      description of these.
 
-  ** A new command, "rbreak" has been added to the Python API.  This
-     command allows the setting of a large number of breakpoints via a
-     regex pattern in Python.  See the manual for further details.
+  ** A new function, "gdb.rbreak" has been added to the Python API.
+     This function allows the setting of a large number of breakpoints
+     via a regex pattern in Python.  See the manual for further details.
 
   ** Python breakpoints can now accept explicit locations.  See the
      manual for a further description of this feature.
@@ -372,6 +465,10 @@ show disassembler-options
   List the shared libraries in the program.  This is
   equivalent to the CLI command "info shared".
 
+-catch-handlers
+  Catchpoints stopping the program when Ada exceptions are
+  handled.  This is equivalent to the CLI command "catch handlers".
+
 *** Changes in GDB 7.12
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now build with a C++ compiler by default.
@@ -669,6 +766,9 @@ show max-value-size
 * Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
   whose memory is addressable in units of any integral multiple of 8 bits.
 
+catch handlers
+  Allows to break when an Ada exception is handled.
+
 * New remote packets
 
 exec stop reason