1* gold and dwp now support zstd compressed debug sections. 2 3* The new option --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses debug sections with 4 zstd. 5 6* Remove support for -z bndplt (MPX prefix instructions). 7 8Changes in 1.16: 9 10* Improve warning messages for relocations that refer to discarded sections. 11 12* Add --debug=plugin option for easier debugging of plugin-related problems. 13 14* Add -z keep_text_section_prefix option. 15 16* Add support for R_AARCH64_TLSLE_LDST8_TPREL_LO12, etc., relocations 17 (Aarch64 only). 18 19* Update configuration to enable plugins and threads automatically. 20 21* Add support for .note.gnu.property sections (from Linux ABI extensions). 22 23* Add support for Intel Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) and Shadow Stack 24 (x86-64 only). 25 26Changes in 1.15: 27 28* Add support for .MIPS.options sections (MIPS only). 29 30* Add support for compound relocations (MIPS only). 31 32* Add --emit-stub-syms, --no-tls-optimize, --tls-get-addr-optimize options 33 (PowerPC only). 34 35* Add -z text-unlikely-segment option. 36 37* Add plugin support for adding new input files (LDPT_REGISTER_NEW_INPUT_HOOK). 38 39Changes in 1.14: 40 41* Add -z bndplt option (x86-64 only) to support Intel MPX. 42 43* Add --orphan-handling option. 44 45* Add --stub-group-multi option (PowerPC only). 46 47* Add --target1-rel, --target1-abs, --target2 options (Arm only). 48 49* Add -z stack-size option. 50 51* Add --be8 option (Arm only). 52 53* Add HIDDEN support in linker scripts. 54 55* Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY support in linker scripts. 56 57Changes in 1.12: 58 59* Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should 60 be enabled by default. Default to yes. 61 62* Add support for s390, MIPS, AArch64, and TILE-Gx architectures. 63 64* Add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. 65 66* Add support for incremental linking (--incremental). 67 68Changes in 1.11: 69 70[FIXME: Add major changes.] 71 72Changes in 1.10: 73 74[FIXME: Add major changes.] 75 76Changes in 1.9: 77 78[FIXME: Add major changes.] 79 80Changes in 1.8: 81 82[FIXME: Add major changes.] 83 84Changes in 1.7: 85 86[FIXME: Add major changes.] 87 88Changes in 1.6: 89 90[FIXME: Add major changes.] 91 92Changes in 1.5: 93 94[FIXME: Add major changes.] 95 96Changes in 1.4: 97 98[FIXME: Add major changes.] 99 100Changes in 1.3: 101 102* gold added to GNU binutils. 103 104Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 105 106Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 107are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 108notice and this notice are preserved. 109 110Local variables: 111fill-column: 79 112End: 113