Fix MI output for multi-location breakpoints

[external/binutils.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index c9e801c..53d1c6e 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 8.2
+*** Changes since GDB 8.3
+
+*** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on
   PowerPC GNU/Linux targets: PPR, DSCR, TAR, EBB/PMU registers, and
@@ -30,14 +32,6 @@
 * GDB in batch mode now exits with status 1 if the last command to be
   executed failed.
 
-* Changes to the "frame", "select-frame", and "info frame" CLI
-  commands.  These commands all now take a frame specification which
-  is either a frame level, or one of the keywords 'level', 'address',
-  'function', or 'view' followed by a parameter.  Selecting a frame by
-  address, or viewing a frame outside the current backtrace now
-  requires the use of a keyword.  Selecting a frame by level is
-  unchanged.  The MI comment "-stack-select-frame" is unchanged.
-
 * The RISC-V target now supports target descriptions.
 
 * System call catchpoints now support system call aliases on FreeBSD.
@@ -58,10 +52,8 @@
   source code snippets.  See the "set style" commands, below, for more
   information.
 
-* New targets
-
-  NXP S12Z             s12z-*-elf
-  GNU/Linux/OpenRISC   or1k*-*-linux*
+* Removed support for old demangling styles arm, edg, gnu, hp and
+  lucid.
 
 * New commands
 
@@ -103,6 +95,14 @@ info proc files
 
 * Changed commands
 
+Changes to the "frame", "select-frame", and "info frame" CLI commands.
+  These commands all now take a frame specification which
+  is either a frame level, or one of the keywords 'level', 'address',
+  'function', or 'view' followed by a parameter.  Selecting a frame by
+  address, or viewing a frame outside the current backtrace now
+  requires the use of a keyword.  Selecting a frame by level is
+  unchanged.  The MI comment "-stack-select-frame" is unchanged.
+
 target remote FILENAME
 target extended-remote FILENAME
   If FILENAME is a Unix domain socket, GDB will attempt to connect
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ show tui tab-width NCHARS
 set style enabled [on|off]
 show style enabled
   Enable or disable terminal styling.  Styling is enabled by default
-  on most hosts.
+  on most hosts, but disabled by default when in batch mode.
 
 set style filename foreground COLOR
 set style filename background COLOR
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ set style address intensity VALUE
 
 * MI changes
 
+  ** The default version of the MI interpreter is now 3 (-i=mi3).
+
   ** The '-data-disassemble' MI command now accepts an '-a' option to
      disassemble the whole function surrounding the given program
      counter value or function name.  Support for this feature can be
@@ -171,6 +173,18 @@ set style address intensity VALUE
   ** Command responses and notifications that include a frame now include
      the frame's architecture in a new "arch" attribute.
 
+  ** The output of information about multi-location breakpoints (which is
+     syntactically incorrect in MI 2) has changed in MI 3.  This affects
+     the following commands and events:
+
+       - -break-insert
+       - -break-info
+       - =breakpoint-created
+       - =breakpoint-modified
+
+     The -fix-multi-location-breakpoint-output command can be used to enable
+     this behavior with previous MI versions.
+
 * New native configurations
 
 GNU/Linux/RISC-V               riscv*-*-linux*
@@ -182,9 +196,18 @@ GNU/Linux/RISC-V           riscv*-*-linux*
 CSKY ELF                       csky*-*-elf
 CSKY GNU/LINUX                 csky*-*-linux
 FreeBSD/riscv                  riscv*-*-freebsd*
+NXP S12Z                       s12z-*-elf
+GNU/Linux/OpenRISC             or1k*-*-linux*
+
+* Removed targets
+
+GDB no longer supports native debugging on versions of MS-Windows
+before Windows XP.
 
 * Python API
 
+  ** GDB no longer supports Python versions less than 2.6.
+
   ** The gdb.Inferior type has a new 'progspace' property, which is the program
      space associated to that inferior.
 
@@ -199,6 +222,9 @@ FreeBSD/riscv                       riscv*-*-freebsd*
      gdb.SYMBOL_TYPES_DOMAIN are now deprecated.  These were never
      correct and did not work properly.
 
+  ** The gdb.Value type has a new constructor, which is used to construct a
+     gdb.Value from a Python buffer object and a gdb.Type.
+
 * Configure changes
 
 --enable-ubsan