From: GDB Administrator Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:37:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Announce the GDB 7.10 release. X-Git-Url: https://www.sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=372abbb829a1746e6da340ff6068f45e130e68cf;p=gdb-htdocs.git Announce the GDB 7.10 release. --- diff --git a/download/ANNOUNCEMENT b/download/ANNOUNCEMENT index d5e53a6..5537212 100644 --- a/download/ANNOUNCEMENT +++ b/download/ANNOUNCEMENT @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - GDB 7.9.1 released! + GDB 7.10 released! -Release 7.9.1 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous +Release 7.10 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ You can download GDB from the GNU FTP server in the directory: The vital stats: Size md5sum Name - 18MiB 35374c77a70884eb430c97061053a36e gdb-7.9.1.tar.xz - 32MiB f3b97de919a9dba84490b2e076ec4cb0 gdb-7.9.1.tar.gz + 18MiB 2a35bac41fa8e10bf04f3a0dd7f7f363 gdb-7.10.tar.xz + 32MiB fa6827ad0fd2be1daa418abb11a54d86 gdb-7.10.tar.gz There is a web page for GDB at: @@ -30,73 +30,49 @@ the net. We will put errata notes and host-specific tips for this release on-line as any problems come up. All mailing lists archives are also browsable via the web. -GDB 7.9.1 brings the following fixes and enhancements over GDB 7.9: +GDB 7.10 brings new targets, features and improvements, including: - * PR build/18033 (C++ style comment used in gdb/iq2000-tdep.c and - gdb/compile/compile-*.c) - * PR build/18298 ("compile" command cannot find compiler if tools - configured with triplet instead of quadruplet) - * PR tui/18311 (Random SEGV when displaying registers in TUI mode) - * PR python/18299 (exception when registering a global pretty-printer - in verbose mode) - * PR python/18066 (argument "word" seems broken in Command.complete - (text, word)) - * PR pascal/17815 (Fix pascal behavior for class fields with testcase) - * PR python/18285 (ptype expr-with-xmethod causes SEGV) + * Improved support for accessing shared libraries directly from + the target system when debugging remotely. -GDB 7.9 brings new targets, features and improvements, including: + * Various Guile and Python scripting improvements, including (but not + limited to): - * Many improvements in GDB's Python scripting API. + ** Support for auto-loading Python/Guile scripts contained + in a special section named `.debug_gdb_scripts'. - * Compilation and injection of source code into the inferior - (requires GCC 5.0 or higher built with libcc1.so). + ** Support for writing a frame unwinder in Python. - * 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. + * Support for record-replay and reverse debugging on Aarch64 Linux. - * 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. + * GDB now has support for fork events on extended-remote Linux targets + (Linux kernels 2.5.60 and later). - * Hardware watchpoint support on x86 GNU Hurd. + * Support for DTrace USDT (Userland Static Defined Tracing) probes + on x86_64 GNU/Linux targets. - * New target + * Vector ABI support on S/390 GNU/Linux targets. - ** MIPS SDE mips*-sde*-elf* + * GDB now reads the GDBHISTSIZE environment variable rather than + HISTSIZE to determine the size of GDB's command history. - * New commands + * Support for setting the parity when connecting to the target + using a serial interface. - ** add-auto-load-scripts-directory directory - ** compile code [-r|-raw] [--] [source code] - ** compile file [-r|-raw] filename - ** demangle [-l language] [--] name - ** maint print user-registers - ** queue-signal signal-name-or-number + * It is now possible to limit the number of candidates to be + considered during completion. - * New options + * Support for Sun's version of the "stabs" debug file format + has been removed. - ** set debug symbol-lookup - ** show debug symbol-lookup + * Support for the following targets and native configurations has + been removed: - * MI changes + ** HP/PA running HP-UX (hppa*-*-hpux*) + ** Itanium running HP-UX (ia64-*-hpux*) - ** New exit-code field in -list-thread-groups command output - - * Support for these obsolete configurations has been removed. - - ** Alpha running OSF/1 (or Tru64) alpha*-*-osf* - ** SGI Irix-5.x mips-*-irix5* - ** SGI Irix-6.x mips-*-irix6* - ** VAX running (4.2 - 4.3 Reno) BSD vax-*-bsd* - ** VAX running Ultrix vax-*-ultrix* - - * The "dll-symbols" command, and its two aliases ("add-shared-symbol-files" - and "assf"), have been removed. Use the "sharedlibrary" command, or - its alias "share", instead. + Support for the "-xdb" command-line switch (HP-UX XDB compatibility + mode) has also been removed. For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the gdb/NEWS file. diff --git a/download/index.html b/download/index.html index eaac5dd..8f26238 100644 --- a/download/index.html +++ b/download/index.html @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Fish]" /> -

The most recent release (GDB 7.9.1):

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The most recent release (GDB 7.10):

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GDB version 7.9.1

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GDB version 7.10

-Version 7.9.1 of GDB, the GNU +Version 7.10 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available for download. See the ANNOUNCEMENT for details @@ -100,6 +100,39 @@ better. --> +
August 28th, 2015: GDB 7.10 Released!
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The latest version of GDB, version 7.10, is available for download. +

+Changes in this release include: +

+ +See the NEWS file for a more complete and detailed list of what this +release includes. +

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August 28th, 2015: GDB 7.10 Released!
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