September 20th, 2019: GDB 8.3.1 Released!
This is a minor corrective release over GDB 8.3, fixing the following
issues:
* 20020 (GDB segfault on printing objects)
* 24454 (nat/x86-linux-dregs.c:146: internal-error: void
x86_linux_update_debug_registers(lwp_info*): Assertion `lwp_is_stopped
(lwp)' failed)
* 24541 (Incorrect evaluation of systemtap probes due to
register being signed and probe expression assuming unsigned)
* 24545 (Symbol loading performance regression with cc1)
* 24592 (amd64->i386 linux syscall restart problem)
* 25009 (terminate called after throwing an instance of
'srchilite::ParserException')
* 25010 (Calls to error () can cause SIGTTOU to send gdb to the
background)
* 25011 (Breakpoints on file reloads broken for PIE
binaries)
This corrective release also brings the following testsuite fixes and
enhancements:
* 25005 (gdb-caching-proc.exp takes a lot of time on
skip_opencl_tests)
* 25016 (Test-case failures for -pie)
May 11th, 2019: GDB 8.3 Released!
This version of GDB includes the following changes and enhancements:
* Support for new native configurations (also available as a target
configuration):
- RISC-V GNU/Linux (riscv*-*-linux*)
- RISC-V FreeBSD (riscv*-*-freebsd*)
* Support for new target configurations:
- CSKY ELF (csky*-*-elf)
- CSKY GNU/Linux (csky*-*-linux)
- NXP S12Z ELF (s12z-*-elf)
- OpenRISC GNU/Linux (or1k*-*-linux*)
* Native Windows debugging is only supported on Windows XP or later.
* The Python API in GDB now requires Python 2.6 or later.
* GDB now supports terminal styling for the CLI and TUI. Source
highlighting is also supported by building GDB with GNU Highlight.
* Experimental support for compilation and injection of C++ source code
into the inferior (requires GCC 7.1 or higher, built with libcp1.so).
* GDB and GDBserver now support IPv6 connections.
* Target description support on RISC-V targets.
* Various enhancements to several commands:
- "frame", "select-frame" and "info frame" commands
- "info functions", "info types", "info variables"
- "info thread"
- "info proc"
- System call alias catchpoint support on FreeBSD
- "target remote" support for Unix Domain sockets.
* Support for displaying all files opened by a process
* DWARF index cache: GDB can now automatically save indices of DWARF
symbols on disk to speed up further loading of the same binaries.
* Various GDB/MI enhancements.
* GDBserver on PowerPC GNU/Linux now supports access to the PPR, DSCR,
TAR, EBB/PMU, and HTM registers.
* Ada task switching support when debugging programs built with the
Ravenscar profile added to aarch64-elf.
* GDB in batch mode now exits with status 1 if the last executed command
failed.
* Support for building GDB with GCC's Undefined Behavior Sanitizer.
See the NEWS file for a more complete and detailed list of what this
release includes.
December 23rd, 2018: GDB 8.2.1 Released!
This is a minor corrective release over GDB 8.2, fixing the following
issues:
* 23516 (gdb build error under msys+mingw: strip can't handle
gdb-add-index.exe)
* 23623 (install-strip fails)
* 23626 (gdb crashes in upstream rust nil-enum test)
* 23650 (rust field name access error mentions "foo")
* 23663 (gdb 8.1.1: undefined rpl_stat function with musl
toolchains)
* 23669 (gdb.execute("show commands") doesn't work)
* 23714 (Command repetition stops working after gdb.execute)
* 23838 (8.2 regression for invalid -data-directory)
* 23974 ("info os" crash when specifying invalid object)
* 23999 (SYMBOL_LANGUAGE assertion failure on AIX)
* 24003 (Error when binary searching CUs for a specific DIE when
using DWZ)
September 5th, 2018: GDB 8.2 Released!
This version of GDB includes the following changes and enhancements:
* Support for the following target has been added:
- RiscV ELF (riscv*-*-elf)
* Support for following targets and native configurations has been
removed:
- m88k running OpenBSD (m88*-*-openbsd*)
- SH-5/SH64 ELF (sh64-*-elf*)
- SH-5/SH64 (sh*)
- SH-5/SH64 running GNU/Linux (sh*-*-linux*)
- SH-5/SH64 running OpenBSD (sh*-*-openbsd*)
* Various Python API enhancements
* Aarch64/Linux enhancements:
- SVE support.
- Hardware watchpoints improvements for entities stored at unaligned
addresses.
- New "c" response to disable the pager for the rest of the
current command.
- C expressions can now use _Alignof, and C++ expressions can now
use alignof.
- Improved flexibility for loading symbol files.
- The 'info proc' command nows works on running processes on
FreeBSD systems as well as core files created on FreeBSD
systems.
- A new --enable-codesign=CERT configure option to automatically
codesign GDB after build (useful on MacOS X).
See the NEWS file for a more complete and detailed list of what
this release includes.
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