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diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 4e821eab4c..1fefd81409 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
   architectures require kernel changes.  TLS is not yet supported for
   amd64 and i386 process core dumps.
 
-* Support for Pointer Authentication on AArch64 Linux.
+* Support for Pointer Authentication (PAC) on AArch64 Linux.  Return
+  addresses that required unmasking are shown in the backtrace with the
+  postfix [PAC].
 
 * Two new convenience functions $_cimag and $_creal that extract the
   imaginary and real parts respectively from complex numbers.
@@ -25,6 +27,13 @@
   provide the exitcode or exit status of the shell commands launched by
   GDB commands such as "shell", "pipe" and "make".
 
+* The RX port now supports XML target descriptions.
+
+* GDB now shows the Ada task names at more places, e.g. in task switching
+  messages.
+
+* GDB can now be compiled with Python 3 on Windows.
+
 * Python API
 
   ** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@@ -41,9 +50,15 @@
      there are no filters, or when the 'backtrace' '-no-filters' option
      is given.
 
+  ** The new function gdb.lookup_static_symbol can be used to look up
+     symbols with static linkage.
+
   ** gdb.Objfile has new methods 'lookup_global_symbol' and
      'lookup_static_symbol' to lookup a symbol from this objfile only.
 
+  ** gdb.Block now supports the dictionary syntax for accessing symbols in
+     this block (e.g. block['local_variable']).
+
 * New commands
 
 | [COMMAND] | SHELL_COMMAND
@@ -141,6 +156,12 @@ eval
   This allows to do formatted printing of strings without having
   a running inferior, or when debugging a core dump.
 
+info sources [-dirname | -basename] [--] [REGEXP]
+  This command has now optional arguments to only print the files
+  whose names match REGEXP.  The arguments -dirname and -basename
+  allow to restrict matching respectively to the dirname and basename
+  parts of the files.
+
 show style
   The "show style" and its subcommands are now styling
   a style name in their output using its own style, to help
@@ -222,6 +243,9 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
       -past-main [on|off]
       -past-entry [on|off]
 
+  ** The new "info sources" options -dirname and -basename options
+     are using the standard '-OPT' infrastructure.
+
    All options above can also be abbreviated.  The argument of boolean
    (on/off) options can be 0/1 too, and also the argument is assumed
    "on" if omitted.  This allows writing compact command invocations,
@@ -237,6 +261,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
      printing of some header information in a similar fashion to "info
      variables" and "info functions".
 
+  ** The "info variables", "info functions", and "whereis" commands
+     now take a '-n' flag that excludes non-debug symbols (symbols
+     from the symbol table, not from the debug info such as DWARF)
+     from the results.
+
 * Completion improvements
 
   ** GDB can now complete the options of the "thread apply all" and
@@ -270,6 +299,13 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   These can be used to catch C++ exceptions in a similar fashion to
   the CLI commands 'catch throw', 'catch rethrow', and 'catch catch'.
 
+* Other MI changes
+
+ ** Backtraces and frames include a new optional field addr_flags which is
+    given after the addr field.  On AArch64 this contains PAC if the address
+    has been masked in the frame.  On all other targets the field is not
+    present.
+
 * Testsuite
 
   The testsuite now creates the files gdb.cmd (containing the arguments
@@ -277,6 +313,20 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   GDB) in the output directory for each test script.  Multiple invocations
   are appended with .1, .2, .3 etc.
 
+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.82.
+
+  Using another implementation of the make program or an earlier version of
+  GNU make to build GDB or GDBserver is not supported.
+
+* Building GDB now requires GNU readline >= 7.0.
+
+  GDB now bundles GNU readline 8.0, but if you choose to use
+  --with-system-readline, only readline >= 7.0 can be used.
+
+* The TUI SingleKey keymap is now named "SingleKey".  This can be used
+  from .inputrc to bind keys in this keymap.  This feature is only
+  available when gdb is built against GNU readline 8.0 or later.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on