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@@ -1,7 +1,58 @@
                What has changed in GDB?
             (Organized release by release)
 
-*** Changes since GDB 7.7
+*** Changes since GDB 7.8
+
+* GDB now supports hardware watchpoints on x86 GNU Hurd.
+
+* Python Scripting
+
+  ** You can now access frame registers from Python scripts.
+  ** New attribute 'producer' for gdb.Symtab objects.
+
+* New Python-based convenience functions:
+
+  ** $_caller_is(name [, number_of_frames])
+  ** $_caller_matches(regexp [, number_of_frames])
+  ** $_any_caller_is(name [, number_of_frames])
+  ** $_any_caller_matches(regexp [, number_of_frames])
+
+* New commands
+
+queue-signal signal-name-or-number
+  Queue a signal to be delivered to the thread when it is resumed.
+
+* On resume, GDB now always passes the signal the program had stopped
+  for to the thread the signal was sent to, even if the user changed
+  threads before resuming.  Previously GDB would often (but not
+  always) deliver the signal to the thread that happens to be current
+  at resume time.
+
+* Conversely, the "signal" command now consistently delivers the
+  requested signal to the current thread.  GDB now asks for
+  confirmation if the program had stopped for a signal and the user
+  switched threads meanwhile.
+
+* "breakpoint always-inserted" modes "off" and "auto" merged.
+
+  Now, when 'breakpoint always-inserted mode' is set to "off", GDB
+  won't remove breakpoints from the target until all threads stop,
+  even in non-stop mode.  The "auto" mode has been removed, and "off"
+  is now the default mode.
+
+* MI changes
+
+  ** The -list-thread-groups command outputs an exit-code field for
+     inferiors that have exited.
+
+* Removed targets
+
+Support for these obsolete configurations has been removed.
+
+mips-sgi-irix5*
+mips-sgi-irix6*
+
+*** Changes in GDB 7.8
 
 * New command line options
 
@@ -142,6 +193,12 @@ show mi-async
   can be used to launch native programs even when "set
   auto-connect-native-target" is set to off.
 
+* GDB now supports access to Intel(R) MPX registers on GNU/Linux.
+
+* Support for Intel(R) AVX-512 registers on GNU/Linux.
+  Support displaying and modifying Intel(R) AVX-512 registers
+  $zmm0 - $zmm31 and $k0 - $k7 on GNU/Linux.
+
 * New remote packets
 
 qXfer:btrace:read's annex
@@ -5768,10 +5825,3 @@ GDB now handles cross debugging.  If you are remotely debugging between
 two different machines, type ``./configure host -target=targ''.
 Host is the machine where GDB will run; targ is the machine
 where the program that you are debugging will run.
-
- *  GDB now supports access to Intel(R) MPX registers on GNU/Linux.
-
- *  Support for Intel(R) AVX-512 registers on GNU/Linux.
-
-Support displaying and modifying Intel(R) AVX-512 registers $zmm0 - $zmm31 and
-$k0 - $k7 on GNU/Linux.