Fix MI output for multi-location breakpoints

[external/binutils.git] / gdb / NEWS

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index eaef6aa..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
@@ -53,11 +55,6 @@
 * Removed support for old demangling styles arm, edg, gnu, hp and
   lucid.
 
-* New targets
-
-  NXP S12Z             s12z-*-elf
-  GNU/Linux/OpenRISC   or1k*-*-linux*
-
 * New commands
 
 set debug compile-cplus-types
@@ -141,7 +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
@@ -165,6 +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
@@ -174,6 +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*
@@ -185,9 +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.
 
@@ -202,6 +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